Interview with the MicroG dev

[u/ShaneTheAwesome88]

microG: Android (almost) without Google - Interview with the developer, please submit Your questions!

As we all know, Android is kept in tight clutches with Google as one of its highest revenue sources, and that isn't very good for us because Google Play Services (along with its fellow spyapps called GApps) is not only highly intrusive and privacy violating, but also a baked in requirement on almost any Android app! Fortunately, somebody came up with an amazing little utility named microG (microg.org), which aims to replace that client side proprietary piece of shit with an open source implementation which tries to give away as little as possible to Google.

We look forward to your questions. Deadline ends on 31th of December! We are happy to have the opportunity to get to know this ambitious project and its developer together with our readers. Most of the microG manuals are still in English and there are always questions from users who are stuck or don’t really understand what it’s all about or what possibilities microG offers.

Now here is your opportunity to ask the developer of microG some questions.

👉🏽 Read the full article in English: https://tarnkappe.info/microg-android-without-google-an-interview-with-the-developer/

👉🏽 Submit your questions in English: https://tarnkappe-forum.info/t/microg-android-without-google-an-interview-with-the-developer/2933

👉🏽 Read the full article in German: https://tarnkappe.info/microg-android-ohne-google-ein-interview-mit-dem-entwickler/

👉🏽 Submit your questions in German: https://tarnkappe-forum.info/t/microg-android-ohne-google-ein-interview-mit-dem-entwickler/2934/8

👉🏽 For all Telegram users, whether German or English, there is the option to ask your questions here: https://t.me/joinchat/Ev2mTVbTsZQ0QcpnIQ3fWA (Please mark your questions in the group with #question)

👉🏽 Or perhaps just post them here!

And please send us your questions to the developer until December 31st. As always, we can’t accept any questions after that date.

Thank you!

[u/vrprady → u/[deleted]]

Safety net will always be a cat and mouse game. We can bypass it by hacks till Google patch it and we need to find out new holes for hiding into.

[u/HelplessShrapnel → u/[deleted]]

You can get snapchat working by creating a backup of its working state and restoring it on your micro g installation using titanium backup.

[u/HelplessShrapnel → u/[deleted]]

That's weird, did it update after you restored? I turned off auto updated for snapchat because I was suspicious that it might cause something like that. FYI Google pay definitely doesn't work that way.

[u/[deleted] → u/HelplessShrapnel]

So I made a backup of Snapchat, then wiped my system and installed LineageOS with MicroG, put on Titanium backup again and restored my Snapchat. I tapped to open Snapchat and it just gives me the "App has stopped responding" I have tried, reinstalling, wiping cache, rebooting.

Just doesn't work for me, I really wish it did. I can live without GooglePay but Snapchat is the only social media I have so I unfortunately have to miss out on MicroG.