alt Hacker NewsBreak free from Android... by installing Android? I'm not sure it's really breaking free when the first task to do is intall Google Play Services so your banking app works.
Sounds like we can't actually breaking free from Android and iOS. Maybe with Linux like the Fedora Atomic for mobile devices? https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue Or PostmarketOS? https://postmarketos.org/
Even then banking would probably only work through the browser... Sad state of the world really.
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I tried Ubuntu Touch and Droidian
You're confused. GrapheneOS is not Android, it's an AOSP-based OS.
> I'm not sure it's really breaking free when the first task to do is intall Google Play Services so your banking app works.
sandboxed Google Play Services. It's an important difference.
And the 50% of banking apps still wont work because it wants an android signed by google.
And no tap to pay.
Hopefully the new EU banking system will work on Graphene and Ill switch back