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GrapheneOS – When an app is slow

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  1. negative_zero · · focus · HN ↗
    Odd. Google Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS here. OsmAnd works perfectly fine for me without disabling any exploit protection options.
    1. BlackRabbit1 · · focus · HN ↗
      CoMaps behaves very very weirdly on GrapheneOS. Same with OrganicMaps.

      Osmand and GMaps are working fine.

      Waze is almost melting the poor thing. Beside of that working fine.

      1. broodbucket · · focus · HN ↗
        Waze works perfectly fine for me
        1. DuncanCoffee · · focus · HN ↗
          Anyone writing about apps compatibility should specify if it's with or without the play services
          1. DaSHacka · · focus · HN ↗
            Can you even run Waze/GMaps without Play services?
            1. worldsavior · · focus · HN ↗
              Yes.
              1. Shared404 · · focus · HN ↗
                For more precision:

                Waze is fairly easy to run without play services. GMaps I haven't yet found a way to run, but also haven't looked in quite some time.

                1. grapheneos · · focus · HN ↗
                  Google Maps used to work without it but recently gained a hard dependency on Play services. We could add more shims to make more apps work without it installed but that hasn't been a focus yet.
                  1. Shared404 · · focus · HN ↗
                    Makes sense. Any idea if there's any interest in a shim to get notifications working sans Play services?

                    I haven't looked at anything shim related in quite a while and am not super familiar with the notification stack for Android, so if that's a stupid question I apologize.

              2. DaSHacka · · focus · HN ↗
                Neat, every day I inch closer to not needing Play Services anymore.

                <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plexus.techlore.tech&#x2F;apps?q=waze" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;plexus.techlore.tech&#x2F;apps?q=waze

            2. Nux · · focus · HN ↗
              Waze and Here Maps work well.
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