In all my apps, I have added code to have my app verified on my web server. It's mostly for catching warez users.
I have noticed in the last few months several entries for some of my apps that originate from Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, USA. I figured they must have some staffers dedicated to validating apps for illegal content. I thought they'd use the Play Store to install the app in the first place.
I didn't think too much of it until a few days ago when I noticed that two of my paid apps were being used to access my web server yet the Play Store didn't register purchases for that time. This happened right after I published the apps (just a few minutes after).
I'm aware IPs can be spoofed but considering the apps were calling home even before the apps became available to all users (the Play Store has to propagane published apps around the world and that takes several hours), I have reasons to believe the apps were actually being sideloaded at Google.
Does anybody know anything about this? Google's terms mention nothing about Google being authrorized to sideload apps (much less paid apps).
I'm getting so frustrated with this app, *constantly* reinstalling itself for no good reason. It hogs internal memory and ram for things I don't use.
I don't bother with android siri, Google music, books, photos, tts... I literally use *none* of the things it powers. I use the store to download and update apps.... And that's it. Even within the apps, I don't feel the need to talk to it or find out what song a game uses or any other nonsense.
I don't even need notifications for crying out loud as I keep any possible app hibernated with greenify (which play services will *not*stay hibernated)
I'm using a 3rd party keyboard, and camera app
How can I remove this overall hog once and for all, or at *least*truly disable and be able to delete the large amounts of data for the damn thing and leave it sitting idle, unused and inactive, if Google insists it be on my device, technically....
I'm even rooted and removed all of the apps I mentioned (Google books, music, photos, etc), but yet this bugger insists. It's almost like spyware in the sense that I'm not using it at all and yet it remains on my phone taking up valuable space and resources.....
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not recommended to remove google play
it is very possible to remove google play, google services framework and gapps, however, they are still many apps and services that depend on it, for example, i couldnt use youtube anymore when i removed anything to do with the playstore.
im afraid you will just have to keep the setup you have as google play is an important part of the android operating system
You can disable system administration of google play services and then use and try with greenify...
run this script and disable at leat about 90 uneeded services .. if you use the extended script. if it helped. just thank the guy who made this..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2/general/guide-reducing-google-play-services-t3139032
gogzc123 said:
it is very possible to remove google play, google services framework and gapps, however, they are still many apps and services that depend on it, for example, i couldnt use youtube anymore when i removed anything to do with the playstore.
im afraid you will just have to keep the setup you have as google play is an important part of the android operating system
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To see what would happen, i froze the play store (well technically removed it with app master but kept it in my recycle bin), and then deleted the play services.... nothing has stopped working on my end. but the play store is probably all i honestly use. for youtube i ditched the app and just made a browser shortcut to the site on my home page. i dont have data so have never used maps or anything like that. i use gmail but didnt keep the app lol (dont use it enough to bother as its not my main account). its a bit of a pain having to restore it to download updates, but ive noticed even a difference in battery life since i started doing that about a week ago now.
the only gapp i use is the app to download other apps, lol.
You can use Servicely to disable all Google services. Alternatively, You can remove all Google services and try to replace them with this
Heya! I noticed my google play store looks a bit different on my Tab S3 then on my Nexus 6p.
They both have the same version of the play store, Play Store version: 8.9.24-all
These are screenshots from both:
Nexus 6P: https://i.imgur.com/ComZ6ln.jpg
Tab S3: https://i.imgur.com/kS4Y3oa.png
Notice how the S3 doesn't have the downloads/ratings (though seems to have the section for it) and the top section looks different and is missing the wishlist button? (though wishlist is in the 3 dot menu in the upper right when clicked).
Everything else outside of an apps individual info page looks Exactly the same.
And it also only seems to be different for apps and games. Movies, music and books all look like the Nexus picture.
I'm enrolled in the Google Play Services Beta, which I would immediately attribute to this if the phone which is also enrolled had the same change. Do they do partial test rollouts to random users/devices like they do with chrome dev?
Anyone else able to corroborate this?
Well, I don't know. But my guess would be the app detects what hardware it is running on and adjusts the UI. Why the Play store would need to do this is beyond my comprehension. It certainly would make sense for games. Maybe the developers working on the Play store are trying things out to see how they work out?
I have an app-driven board game (Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth) and would like to ensure that I will have access to the app when my son is old enough to play with me. I do not want to rely on the app being available on the play store for years to come. I am able to back up the apk file and install it on a different device, but then it does not include the dlc that I paid for. Is there a way to back up the app plus dlc so that I can access the complete game on any android device without the play store?
Hi! (new to this forum so I hope I'm not off-topic or in the wrong place)
So I've recently got a Matepad 11, running on HarmonyOS 2.0, knowing it would be kinda troublesome in some cases with the lack of GMS. But I've successfully installed the apps I wanted (APKPure, mostly) and managed to connect to my Google accounts for what I needed. However, now I'd like to download a game - Pokémon Masters EX - which relies on Google Play Games. I don't have any problems with other Google Apps (Drive for example) but this one is causing me trouble. I'm using GSpace to download it directly through the Play Store, launching it through GSpace, outside of GSpace, launching the game before Play Games etc etc... But the outcome is the same ; the game launches, but asks for GMS (other apps did that but they run well), so I try to connect to Play Games, which will either crash or stuck in an infinite loading.
So I wanted to know if it was useless to try, or if there is a way to make it work.
Thanks in advance and have a great day!