MicroG: Free-libre re-implementation of Google's proprietary Android user space

I have never understood why people using MicroG can use apps like SNCF-Connect, while I cannot.

SNCF-connect is the largest online marchant in France. Since june, I cannot click the "pay" button anymore. It coincides with the new feature of Pay with Google.

So : is it because MicroG allows calls to Google services on e/OS devices, while my LineageOS refuses ? Or because MicroG implemented a try catch around this call, without any call to Google's servers ?

I guess this is submitted because of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50154624 ?

Why do the most recent commits all say "Merge commit from fork" without any description of what the changes do or what the fork is?

It's too bad you have to rely on signature spoofing to be able to use this as an alternative (but obviously I understand why). The spoofing looks narrowly scoped on LineageOS, but in general I imagine it creates some risk.

I use it on LineageOS, works a charm

MicroG is possible to run on GrapheneOS but isn't recommended since GOS has a sandboxing solution for running Google Play apps:

https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play

I dont get why some apps depend on Google Play functionality. Why can't I download Telegram on /e/OS

Is it too late to rename to "MindTheGapp"?

Go home! Goober!...

I mean Google!

My main device uses MicroG with LineageOS. It works really well, and I recommend it. It is a Murena phone from here: https://murena.com/