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Why are there no Open Source implementations of Google's API?

Except for that, most of their complaints don't hold water. No OS texting app? Go to f-droid and find them. No browser? Go to f-droid.

The only issue is the API, much of which actually depends on Google Data (for example, Geolocation would be a problem without Google's WiFi data)



There is one: https://microg.org

It's very much an alpha however.


Still works surprisingly well for most basic usage.


There are several alternatives to Google Apps, if that is what you are referring to, including TK Gapps and the MicroG project (as far as I know - I haven't used them myself).

> for example, Geolocation would be a problem without Google's WiFi data

UnifiedNlp[0] geolocation, when I looked into it a little while ago, could use various data sources including Mozilla's, Apple's, OpenWlanMap, and others.

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[0] https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp/


There is also an alternative for location APIs:

https://github.com/mapzen/lost




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