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bilalq • today at 6:13 PM • 9 replies • view on HN

In practice, the Google Play Services dependencies and other walled-garden initiatives from Google will make this less useful than it could otherwise be. But still, this is really cool.


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mentalgear • today at 9:40 PM

MicroG of one of its wrappers takes care of it https://microg.cc/features/

Doohickey-d • today at 6:18 PM

I guess, in practice this can also be likely be made to run google services, the same as they can run on custom ROMs. And it already lists Aurora store as a solution.

So it's definitely something for more tinkerer people, but still quite cool.

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dawnerd • today at 7:35 PM

It's also pretty easy just to spin up bluestacks if you really need android apps on a mac.

kelvinjps10 • today at 7:54 PM

You can run it with microg

chaosharmonic • today at 6:37 PM

Optimist take: this will matter less over time as more developers start targeting Steam devices

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cyanydeez • today at 7:55 PM

figuring out how to get PWA working would be a much better goal.

bobsmooth • today at 6:24 PM

Can MicroG be ported?

direwolf20 • today at 8:25 PM

Is this your experience or are you repeating something you heard somewhere?

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