Hello! I was looking on https://plexus.techlore.tech for my most used apps to understand what I’d miss if I degoogled my smartphone, and surprising Satispay seems to be completely unusable without play services or microG. It is very counter intuitive for me, as it has nothing to do with google. Any idea?

  • @Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I’m guess that’s the same issue for the LIDL app, they hardcoded the google maps library for the store search. Completely pointless as it would be perfectly usable without it.

    For the LIDL app they made a separate version without play services on the huawei store https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C102933829

    So, like for the LIDL app, Satispay has a version without play services on the Huawei Store: https://appgallery.huawei.com/#/app/C100868471

    I really wonder why they can’t just use mapbox and make a single app version that doesn’t require google services. It’s even cheaper to use mapbox instead of google maps…

    • tubbaduOPEnglish
      1•1 year ago

      this is very interesting! How can I install it on a non-huawei smartphone? do I need to install their store? It seems a bit of a counter sense to install another closed source app store…

      • @Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I installed their store in a VM (they freely allow install on any device), then I extract the apps

        IMHO they should have named it like “petal store”, because anyway it’s not operated by Huawei itself but by an European entity sockpuppet and then they might had some extra downloads from other devices

        • tubbaduOPEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          and how do you update? you have to manually check in the VM if a new version is available?