App compatibility with GrapheneOS
Yes... on point with this:
EU-wide digital wallet: MEPs reach deal with Council
Parliament and Council negotiators reached a provisional agreement on Wednesday on the creation of a pan-European digital identity framework.
Key points:
- An EU wallet to authenticate and access public and private services, store, share and e-sign documents.
- A wallet to be used on a strictly voluntary basis.
- Privacy dashboard to give users full control over their data
Next Steps
The legislation will now have to be endorsed by both Parliament and Council before it becomes law. The Industry, Research and Energy Committee will hold a vote on the file on 28 November
Is there a list/resource where people contribute information about what apps seem to have issues? I see two banking apps listed off an earlier post in the PrivSec-dev github. I've got a Pixel 8 on the way and I wanted to start out with Graphene OS. I use apps that help me collaborate with others integrated with the Googleverse (Keep, Sheets), as well as home automation in connection with Google Wifi, and I am concerned what I'll be in for. I don't use Google Assistant from my phone, but I do set it up via the Home app for my.. home.
Maybe I'm overthinking this and the vast majority of things most users want to do will just work, meaning GOS doesn't need a big fancy database of app compatibility like Wine.
Thanks!
epistax Maybe I'm overthinking this and the vast majority of things most users want to do will just work
Sounds about right, I don't think you need to worry. You could search for the apps in question here on the forum and on matrix if you like, you may come across some reported experiences... or not, that could also indicate it just works.
Android Sytem Intelligence and pixel launcher requires system level permission without which it does not work and it looks like GOS devs are reluctant to support that via GMSCompat which is sad.
Is this soley for banking apps or for apps in general complaining about the env? The Marriott app now complains about Magisk being detected and is solved by #3 above.
akc3n 3.1 - Temporarily disable secure app spawning.
Setting ➔ Security ➔ Enable secure app spawning
3.2 - Restart device. Launch app to see if this GrapheneOS feature caused the compatibility issue. The app may be refusing to run if it detects a different spawning mechanism.
Significant security loss and directly affecting some privacy using Zygote
Disabling exec-based spawning reverts to using the traditional Zygote spawning model AOSP's app processes
Spawned as a clone of the Zygote
Each app process has the same random secrets for ASLR, SSP, memory tagging, pointer authentication, setjmp canaries, and heap randomization
Half of the userspace is made of app processes
Applies across all profiles
App in profile A and profile B have same random values, which they can see3.3 - Revert to secure spawning by enabling it again and restart device.
See step 3.1 above.
I suspect I wouldn't be the first person to suggest this, and I also wouldn't be surprised if the devs have already rejected the idea, but does anyone know if there's any consideration of adding, in the future, Per-app Secure Spawning?
I imagine this would work by following the normal Secure Spawning process for most apps, but somehow caching whatever's the default (insecure) Zygote spawn process. Then if an app does misbehave, the user can disable Secure Spawning for that app only, in which case that app will use the cached insecure process. No idea if this would work in practice, but it would be a real nice compatibility feature. I currently have Secure Spawning disabled because a single app (that I can't live without) crashes when it's enabled. It's a waste, and a big security hole.
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I'm having an issue where you can still interact with mull browser where you can still interact with it even when the app switcher is pulled up. You can see a screen recording in this issue, but I'm posting here because they suggested it's OS specific. Has anyone else seen this? https://gitlab.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix/-/issues/89
2WsF I've been trying to reproduce this and so far am unable to in both owner and secondary profiles.
Do you use the default launcher? What is your OS version (Settings > About Phone > Build number)?
Is this consistently reproducible for you?
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I encountered a few hurdles, and thanks to this comprehensive post, I got the necessary information. 💗
Thanks for these suggestions and although my banking app opens (Triodos) I am unable to set it up as it is wanting to scan a qr code located on my previous device. When I go through this process it ends up saying: Something went wrong,please try again or contact us if this error persists. I contacted the bank and they were clueless as to why this was the case. I have tried all the above and given the app all the permissions it wants but still the problem persists. Any pointers gratefully received. Many Thanks
Phospher I am unable to set it up as it is wanting to scan a qr code located on my previous device
Do you have Play Services installed and gave it permission to use the camera? Some banking apps use Play Services for QR code or invoice scanning.
TheGodfather that's great thanks it worked cheers
A general question about app compatibility when switching to GOS with sandboxed GPS: Are apps which have been working fine on an old phone with MicroG expected to work as well with sanboxed Google Play Services on GOS? I am asking this because I have read various times that compatibility with sandboxed GPS is far better than MicroG. So if I have e.g. banking apps that run perfectly with MicroG, are they likely to run on GOS, too?
