We want to do the same thing with Play services app compatibility that we did with the web installer.
The work on it hasn't started yet, but expect to be surprised by something that works far better than you could have imagined. I think we finally arrived at the right approach.
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I just hope some brain storming goes on notifications at least as an option. I know your reasons not to support it but I feel at least people should have an option to choose to receive few critical alerts from the apps they rely on.
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Notifications are fully supported on GrapheneOS already:
grapheneos.org/faq#notificati
No progress required on that front. It was always working fine. You're confusing apps only supporting background push via Google's FCM service with GrapheneOS not supporting notification / push.
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The tweet you're responding to is explaining that we have a nice plan for providing compatibility with Play services without invasive integration into the OS. We want to make it possible to install Play services in a sandbox within a specific profile with zero special privileges.
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I'm aware of it as you mentioned it before and totally looking forward for it. ✌️
Just requested a possibility to support FCM if the new plans can make it possible.
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To be clear the plan does not involve any kind of Play services reimplementation or compatibility layer for apps. FCM is part of Play services and would be available if you chose to install Play services. It doesn't require special access beyond a battery optimization exception.