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authorDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2022-03-02 21:27:57 -0500
committerDaniel Micay <danielmicay@gmail.com>2022-03-02 21:27:57 -0500
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app repository client is now bundled, etc.
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without Google Play rather than treating not using it as the exceptional
case.</p>
- <p>You can install the <a href="https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_external_Apps/blob/12/prebuilt/Apps.apk">alpha
- release of our app repository client</a> and then install the 3 core Google
+ <p>You can open our app repository client (Apps) and install the 3 core Google
Play apps mirrored in our repository. Our app repository client has support
for dependency installation so you can simply directly install the Play Store
and it will install GSF and then GMS as dependencies. In the near future, our
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currently the best way to mimic the initialization done by the stock OS setup
wizard.</p>
- <p>You can obtain updates to these apps from our repository. The Play Store
- app can also be used to update Google Play services and itself. Updates to the
- Google Services Framework (com.google.android.gsf) app are normally only
- distributed through OS updates so you need to get those from our
- repository.</p>
+ <p>You can obtain updates to these apps from our app repository client. Our
+ compatibility layer supports the Play Store updating itself and also Play
+ services but we've chosen to block it from being able to update them in order
+ to ship the updates through our repository after testing them. They use long
+ staged rollouts for these app updates and it results in confusion when users
+ can't install older versions in another user, which is resolved by us handling
+ the updates ourselves.</p>
<p>Our compatibility layer has support for Play Games Services which you can
obtain by installing Google Play Games from the Play Store. Many games on the