In my testing most of the apps don't work without gapps so you can just install microg and Aurora in that case. But I use only FOSS apps now so idk if anything changed.

[–] SatyrSack@lemmy.one 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have definitely installed a handful of APKs over the years that did not work for me because they required Play Services, but that is far from being most of the APKs I've tried.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Well the apps I tried to install were mostly games because there are FOSS alternatives to almost everything that doesn't require Play Services and/or Play Integrity.

[–] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Well, I use WhatsApp and some other close source app. I have to go manually download APKs and install it.

[–] exu@feditown.com 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do you have a particular reason for not using Aurora Store?

[–] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I get rate limited.

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Wait WhatsApp works on degoogled phones? I heard they started banning custom ROM users recently and degoogled ROMs can't be spoofed to look exactly like stock ones so isn't that dangerous?

[–] sag@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I de-googled my device by removing GAPPS for user0.

[–] glorious_puffy@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Take a backup of whatsapp on working device and restore it on your degoogled device

[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Nah I'd better stay away from that piece of spyware but thanks for the advice

[–] sag@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Good for you. I only use it because of School.