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Bypass apps that require Google Play? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I used Avenza Maps in the past for offline navigation at various state parks. The park service provides maps and the app will let you navigate the trails. It's been a long time since I used it and I now have a new phone on which I never installed the Google Play services. The app is complaining that "check that Google play is enabled. .." and then quits.

All the sites I've searched show you how to install or enable Google play (which I don't want). I'm pretty sure that it's needed because the app allows for in app purchases, which i don't need. I don't think I rooted this phone. Are there any workarounds or shim/simulation apps that would allow the app to work without installing privacy violating Google services?

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[–] 3 points 2 years ago

In OpenStreetMap's, you can record tracks, so you could use a different phone temporarily to use the proprietary trail app and use a secondary device to record you hiking that and then put that on the map for the next person who goes to that area. Maybe install the trail app on your SO's device while you record the track in osmand on yours

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