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Originally posted by starshipeleven
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Huh? Wtf does that even mean. If an app is disabled it is not started and won't be available even if called by others.
Try to run stuff that relies on Google Play services (mostly games I guess) and they will crash or throw errors, not start the disabled application.
As long as you select "show system applications" or similar you will see their contacts sync, calendar sync, location sync and package installer service, and a setup wizard (the application that runs when you first power up the phone), usually obvious enough as Google's.
They are "system apps" as most of other Google services, but they are all just apps and can be disabled.
Their full name (the apk name) can be found in the list here, you can get the "user-friendly name" by searching the apk name on the internet.
https://github.com/opengapps/opengap...shelper.sh#L65
It's a script of the OpenGapps project, which is a (opensource) system that generates a installer to install Google's binary applications and services on AOSP/LineageOS/whatever.
It is technically legal but almost always used to install Google stuff on devices running firmware that is not certified by Google, which is a breach of the Google services license.
It's a long while that this exists, and Google is mysteriously 100% ignoring it. How could it be I wonder.
You really need to understand that Google is not Microsoft (which is not changed significantly, regardless of all the PR it's throwing around), Google has a completely reversed approach. They want to lure you in, not lock you down.
The whole point of Android is to create a big fat bait for people to *WANT* to install Google services (as that's where most of the apps and Android ecosystem is, and 100% of Google's ) even on firmware that isn't certified. More on this below.
They fully know power users can just reflash the whole goddamn firmware with AOSP (that is provided by themselves), why would they even feel the need to be stealthy.
They are applying the same concept that makes software piracy more beneficial than harmful for a lot of common software (say Adobe stuff).
Keeping people on Android is still a good thing even if they don't use Google services, because this defuses a lot of the need for another "more free" platform.
Android is free enough for most power users to not need to find an alternative. Boom, job done. Google has killed most of the competition, at a very affordable price (the amount of $$ they make for each individual user is not terribly large).
That's one of the reasons I prefer Google as a benevolent overlord over Apple or Microsoft. They don't go power-tripping and leave power users remarkably free.
Try to run stuff that relies on Google Play services (mostly games I guess) and they will crash or throw errors, not start the disabled application.
As long as you select "show system applications" or similar you will see their contacts sync, calendar sync, location sync and package installer service, and a setup wizard (the application that runs when you first power up the phone), usually obvious enough as Google's.
They are "system apps" as most of other Google services, but they are all just apps and can be disabled.
Their full name (the apk name) can be found in the list here, you can get the "user-friendly name" by searching the apk name on the internet.
https://github.com/opengapps/opengap...shelper.sh#L65
It's a script of the OpenGapps project, which is a (opensource) system that generates a installer to install Google's binary applications and services on AOSP/LineageOS/whatever.
It is technically legal but almost always used to install Google stuff on devices running firmware that is not certified by Google, which is a breach of the Google services license.
It's a long while that this exists, and Google is mysteriously 100% ignoring it. How could it be I wonder.
You really need to understand that Google is not Microsoft (which is not changed significantly, regardless of all the PR it's throwing around), Google has a completely reversed approach. They want to lure you in, not lock you down.
The whole point of Android is to create a big fat bait for people to *WANT* to install Google services (as that's where most of the apps and Android ecosystem is, and 100% of Google's ) even on firmware that isn't certified. More on this below.
They fully know power users can just reflash the whole goddamn firmware with AOSP (that is provided by themselves), why would they even feel the need to be stealthy.
They are applying the same concept that makes software piracy more beneficial than harmful for a lot of common software (say Adobe stuff).
Keeping people on Android is still a good thing even if they don't use Google services, because this defuses a lot of the need for another "more free" platform.
Android is free enough for most power users to not need to find an alternative. Boom, job done. Google has killed most of the competition, at a very affordable price (the amount of $$ they make for each individual user is not terribly large).
That's one of the reasons I prefer Google as a benevolent overlord over Apple or Microsoft. They don't go power-tripping and leave power users remarkably free.
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