F0SSIL you casuals are the problem. sandboxed google services were a mistake. the initial hardcore users were the real deal, people who made no compromises and were willing to suffer for their convictions.
now seriously I do just fine with aurora store but I get some people can't do without some g services dependent app so whatever works. still, at least a work profile for them would be a good ideea.
GrapheneOS App Communication Scopes
I can't wait to try it.
Does anyone know a rough eta on this feature? Sounds awesome
Same here. KISS no secondary profiles. It all depends on your desired use case and threat model. I am not that worried about Google Play Services privacy issues but I want that thing to be sandboxed and not have elevated privileges. I am worried about security issues more than privacy ones.
GrapheneOS what permissions should gps have?
[deleted] what permissions should gps have?
The web site has usage instructions. Are issues being encountered after following those?
de0u i meant more like nearby sharing and things of that sort. what can i feasibly turn off but have nothing break was my real question!
[deleted] i meant more like nearby sharing and things of that sort. what can i feasibly turn off but have nothing break was my real question!
I think the directions indicate that certain things (e.g., using Google's location service instead of satellite GPS) require more permissions.
I think anything that is turned off will cause some application to stop working. People who want different apps will need to decide which Play Services abilities they are comfortable enabling/disabling. Without a specific list of apps I don't think it's possible to suggest what is truly needed.
One way I find user profiles make a lot of sense, are for applications that you only need to use very occasionally, and you don't want running at all until you need them.
Putting an app like this in a separate profile is sort of the equivalent of leaving it disabled in the main profile, and enabling it quickly when needed on those rare occasions, then disabling it again.
It is also analogous to the "freeze" function in shelter.
Actually, just a thought, but a feature I would quite like, is a way to keep shortcuts for disabled apps on your home screen, and have them sort of greyed out like work profile apps are when your work profile is turned off.
And in the same way that, when you tap a work profile app, (while WP is turned off), ii pops up with a message asking if you'd like to turn on work profile. It could pop up with a message asking if you'd like to enable the particular app.
Then a way to quickly disable the app again could perhaps be to hold down on the app shortcut on your homescreen and there could be a "disable" button there.
I know this idea is probably way more work than is worth it for the GOS team to be thinking about when they have so much more important things to be working on, but thought I would just have a ramble.
At the moment, I am more than happy with using separate profiles for this, or using the Settings shortcut "App info" to quickly get to apps that I want to enable/disable.
Also I am so happy the GOS team has added things like sandboxed Play Store/Services and now Android Auto support as I have now finally managed to convince multiple family members to move to Graphene who would never have done so otherwise
de0u okay that makes sense. i appreciate it!
Do you need to allow network for all 3 apps? It says you need battery optimization exception for google play services, but doesn't specify network needs.
treenutz68 if you want to use Play Services to get notifications working for apps that need it, then you will need to enable network for Play Services. (And it makes sense to enable network for the other 2 apps as well if you are already enabling it for one of them)
Edit: sorry, were you talking about location, not notifications?
No you got it, I was talking about notifications. So it sounds like you should enable network for all 3 in that case?
treenutz68 yes :)
roamer4223 but this doesn't mean i have to login to a google account correct?
