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Okay serious questions - will it work with my play store apps? And what about my Gmail? Can I still use it? Because I don't have other email accounts and email is kind of important. Finally does android auto still work?
I'd love to de-google as much as possible, but some apps I unfortunately depend on day to day, mainly Niagra launched, and android auto.
The second part of your first post was answered in my original post. Auto apparently doesn't work.
Play store apps should still work sandboxed. Email, I'm not sure, but I'd assume so. It works out of the browser fine. I'm not familiar with Niagra launched so couldn't comment.
Out of curiosity, what do you use auto for?
Everything while I'm driving. Navigation, music, phone calls/texts. I don't ever even feel tempted to look at my phone when driving because of android auto, I can do just about everything with voice controls, and what I can't I can navigate quickly and easily like I would the radio while I'm stopped.
All apps work fine on grapheneos, besides above mentioned pay, some banking and auto.
Using sandboxed google play gmail and regular apps from play store work fine. :)
You can read more about sandboxed google play here. Here: https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play
I really recommend you read above link, it goes more in-depth.