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Setting up an Android phone with FOSS applications. (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 4 days ago by qyron@sopuli.xyz to c/android@lemmy.world

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My intention is to buy the cheapest smartphone I can reasonably get as I need to use a phone for professional reasons; the company uses Whatsapp and other applications I do not want to have occupying space in a smartphone I use for my personal life.

I've been loading my phones with FOSS applications from F-Droid for years now but I am aware the loop is tightening and continuing to do so is becoming more and more difficult.

Ideally, I would like to keep this phone as much as possible exempt from connecting with Google. This means I don't intend to load an account on the phone and instead load F-Droid and Aurora to get the software I want to use.

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[–] LeighWeighTacoma@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

My work provides me a phone. If yours doesn't and you need one, keeping 2 separate phones would be ideal. I'm not sure if your work requires any IT access on your phone but, I refuse to allow a company to have remote control of my personal phone.

My personal phone is a pixel 8 with Graphene OS. I use sandboxed Google play with an gmail specifically for my phone. In a private space I have my gmail that has my Google drive that I still need occasional access to. Otherwise almost everything else is FOSS.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Just the person I wanted to ask. Similar boat, pixel 10, but no graphene. Any issues with things like duo or bank apps or whatnot

[–] LeighWeighTacoma@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I have several bank accounts everywhere. 2 required you to go into settings and click a button to make them work, most work, PayPal does not work at all. If you're an android auto user, it's complicated to set up the first time but then you never have to do it again.

I think discover didn't work but, they just merged with capital one which does work.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tap to pay will not work

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Oh now that sucks

[–] imminent_nebula@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 days ago

I have a 9 with Graphene, and use a second profile for banking apps. This profile has a burner google account, and aurora store for banking apps which works fine, just no tap. My main profile is all f-droid/obtanium, though I run sandboxed google services for notifications.