You can setup the sandboxed Island workspace, enable google play services just inside of it, and isolate there all the apps requiring thr GPS.
In practice, it ends up behaving like you would have 2 profiles (personal / work) inside the top level profiles (accounts).
Is it better than using the native private profile?
UX wise, 100%. Switching between the main profiles is more like restarting your phone in new profile, and then restarting it back.
With the Island, you just have 2 custom sets of apps (personal/work) accessible at your finger tips.
- can open both at once
- copy paste text from one to another
- share files/pictures in between them, ...
The setup and onboarding is little cumbersome, but afterwards, the UX is solid. *The file sharing kinda sucks until you get used to it and develop some system.
I pretty much have the work profile w/ GPS just for the Google Camera and the fiat banking apps.
One thing I'm unsure though, whether I'm getting any real privacy/security benefits like this vs having the GPS installed and enabled just for some of the necessary apps.
I didn't mean profiles. I'm talking about the private profile in Android, I think it's quite new. Works similar to yours but its shipped with the OS and probably more secure
Oh, I haven't heard about that yet. Thanks, will have to look more. If the similar function is supported natively, that should be better for security, UX, and especially the backups (hopefully)
