some apps are available in the aurora store or fdroid, but don't work. Hust install them from your sandboxed google play and they work fine. Google maps and ADP both wouldn't work from Aurora, but did from google play. That was the only nuisance so far for me.
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I’ve heard as much. Not sure how inconvenient this will be day to day, but I’ll FAFO.
By the way, some closedsource(spyware) apps ask for Google Play ONLY on during the first setup, you can remove Google Play after. You should still avoid them. There are FOSS alternstives for Maps and everything.
nostr:npub1trfta8eq2dadwp6tq2pjsas32pl000f3830dkex7l8slch0jd5gs34d0e6 nostr:npub1clk6vc9xhjp8q5cws262wuf2eh4zuvwupft03hy4ttqqnm7e0jrq3upup9 nostr:npub12rrvutnfeu9677d4yjytypqccjn0njnm6zkx2j6xyn2uqfw02ldsrl8ty9 Our recent https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025052800 release worked around apps enabling a Play Store feature to disallow running their apps when not installed from the Play Store. That was only an issue with installing a small number of apps via Aurora Store or an APK mirror site (not recommended) enabling this.