Alternatives to Google Wallet for Graphene OS

portuswebs

Hi there,

I did my transition to GrapheneOS, just to realize that the Google Wallet doesn't work on the OS.

This is a mayor issue for me. Google Wallet is one of the essential apps and one of the apps that I use the most on my phone.

I wonder if there are any alternatives to Google Wallet for GrapheneOS.

If there's none, I'll sadly get back to Android.

PS: I'm currently located in Australia, but I would need it to be working also in Europe.

matchboxbananasynergy

Hey. The reason for this is that it requires a Google certified OS, unfortunately.

I would recommend looking at this community maintained list:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos

I've previously heard that Curve when obtained from Huawei'd AppGallery does contactless payments which work on GrapheneOS, but I'm not sure if that's still the case. Same for Barclays in the UK and other options in countries like France etc.

There's nothing inherently broken about contactless payments on GrapheneOS, it's just that apps that require a Google certified OS won't work, which isn't specific to contactless payments or banking apps.

Apps could whitelist GrapheneOS if they wanted, and GrapheneOS provided a guide for them to do that:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

I hope this helps.