mgeo i don't think that they use play services for nfc but for other stuff. For developers who are not that into foss etc. its easier to just use play services because its the default way in lot of guides/documentation. Check the official documentation for how to setup sanboxed play services. There are lot of other useful/interesting info about graphneneos as well. https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play

      Zoningg It's just too weird that neither the Curve or Lydia from Huawei store work on GrapheneOS. I thought their NFC pay function is "universal". For lydia could @Ganipote paste some screenshots on what you see, I sent them an email and asked them for the NFC pay function specifically for GrapheneOS.

        deeg05 how do you open an account? is it only for russia?

          7 days later

          @mgeo Yes, it will work only for payments inside of russia.
          Same applies to MirPay, SberPay, etc. These are all internal russian services.

          mgeo
          I am not running graphene but I had the same infinite loading issue. I was able to solve it by temporarily changing my phones region to Iceland, i am running a phone with play service tho but the app was installed from huawey app store, so it is kinda a mishmash. But the region thing may be the key

              14 days later

              NFC payments works, any bank / neobank app with their own independent NFC gateway will work, I have at least 3 bank apps that work with GrapheneOS.

              Problem with this approach is that is very country limited and you need to stick with that bank whether or not their card is the best for your personal needs.

              The only service to my knowledge that is close to a universal card gateway like Google Wallet is CurvePay. But they won't activate it for GrapheneOS unless we lobby them into realizing that there is a good niche business in supporting this OS.

                Cloaked has said that they plan to add the ability to have NFC payments on graphene.

                  I have used Garmin pay with my watch.

                  Audacity0780 But they won't activate it for GrapheneOS unless we lobby them into realizing that there is a good niche business in supporting this OS

                  And how do we do that?

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                      thequint I use 'Digitales Bezahlen' as mobile payment in Germany. Works with Sparda Bank.

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                          Audacity0780 which are these 3 banks? I'm looking all over for banks like this. I could get a number if it's that what they require

                              [deleted] what's that app? does sparda bank has also it's own? can you give more information? it works only for german cards or european cards or it's a specific bank?

                                  mgeo it wants the BIC code of german bank, you cannot proceed by entering something else. Plus it needs right to manage calls.