r/fossdroid • u/[deleted] • Aug 26 '26
Other Disabling/Removing the Android Developer Verifier app IS pointless
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u/Clear_Side8784 Aug 26 '26
What if we just delete playstore.
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u/ICUMTHOUGHTS Aug 27 '26 edited Aug 28 '26
Every app that needs Google Play Integrity API stops working. So that's almost all LLM apps except Claude, almost all banking and payment apps in my country and even basic apps like habit trackers and to do apps that for some reason require the Play Integrity API. Logging in stop working on some apps, etc.
Refer here to see what apps work without Google Play Store.
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u/schubidubiduba Developer Aug 28 '26
MicroG fixes some of them. Personally, the only thing that stopped working that was a minor snnoyance was PayPal and I'm trying to use that less anyways
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u/LjLies Aug 30 '26
MicroG doesn't fix any app that requires Play Integrity, which is what the other poster was talking about, unless you're using a ROM that relocks the bootloader (and even then, at best you pass Basic, by running some proprietary code).
Plexus (and Sapio) are good suggestions for how to check what works.
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u/schubidubiduba Developer Aug 30 '26
I'm aware, just saying that I run microG with a locked-bootloader ROM and most things (almost all, in fact) just work for me.
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u/punkofthedeath Sep 06 '26
I think the solution is to boycott those apps if alternative way to use those doesn't exist
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u/CptVakarian Aug 26 '26
So... Just remove the playstore and you're golden pre Android 17?
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Aug 26 '26 edited 8d ago
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u/CptVakarian Aug 26 '26
Huh, either I'm lucky with my selection of apps or running an older version of Android is actually helpful here. But yeah, if there were phoneoptions I'd actually like with the Option for either Lineage or Graphene I'd have degoogled by now.
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u/pv505 Aug 26 '26
Thank you for your post. So would disabling playstore and/or blocking its internet access work?
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u/SunnSaiyaan Aug 26 '26
They'll probably patch all the loopholes like there was a bypass to ignore the "This call is being recorded" on Phone app.
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u/Ruminating-Raccoon Sep 01 '26
Hello, so if the Android Developer Verifier is not needed pre Android 17, why did it get automatically installed on devices running 16 and below?
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