Hello! I’m running GrapheneOS on my Pixel 7 with sandboxed play services, and use some apps that depends on play services like Satispay and my banking app. Today I tried, as an experiment, to deactivate the play service app, and see what happens. Well, they both opens and seem to work, except for a notification saying “Activate Play Services, this app will not work if you don’t” Is this notification lying? Or are some functionalitis not working without play services? If yes, which one?
Some obscure or secondary function might not work.
I had this app for example (can’t remember the name) that insisted on getting networking permissions. I kept refusing each time it asked at startup time but it was working fine. Then one day I realized it wanted it for its online help that I never read.
It really depends on the app.
Also, you have app developers that copy/paste sample code, adapt it a bit to their purpose and call it good enough, even of the sample code includes a lot of libs and permissions that aren’t actually used by that particular application.
My city’s parking app does this: “You must enable Google Play Services to use this app.” Works perfectly anyways
Yep, I get this sometimes on apps that work just fine.