Hello /g/uys, I'm going around deleting accounts for shit I don't use, and I was wondering if theres a way to have my android phone work with no gmail.
could you help me out?
Don't login with your google account. Done.
>>58987771
but it asks you to right? like to use the store and youtube and shit
>>58987785
Yes, you need a google account to use google services - YouTube, Google Play, Play Music, Gmail, etc. But you can easily replace these. I would reccomend also removing gapps/google services to save on battery. Here are some replacements:
Play Store: Aptoide/apkmirror.com
YouTube: OGTube/OGYoutube/NewPipe
Gmail: AOSP email app from apkmirror
Play Music: Poweramp or any other music app
you'll most likely need to flash a custom rom which does not have gapps, like LineageOS, because it's near imossible and very very painfull to manully uninstall all of google ingration with android
>>58988536
>play store
f-droid
>youtube
use your browser
>gmail
use your browser, dont use gmail
>play music
vlc
>>58988616
This.
>>58987755
>install LineageOS
>you're done
Wew, that was really hard lad
>>58988650
In terms of browsers to replace Chrome, I advise mobile Icecat, it's a good alternative to Firefox
>>58987755
Don't install GAPPS
Play Store: F-Droid / Yalp Store (Literally downloads apk's from the Play store but without the GAPPS, and seems to have an update feature too. You need a throwaway google account tho)
YouTube: NewPipe + Flym (Get the RSS feed from your youtube account subscriptions and put it in flym for updates. Set See in Browser function to so newpipe. Works wonders)
GMail: K-9 Mail / AOSP Email / Browser
Music/Video: VLC (Works great and I can use it to stream from my NAS drive)
Maps: OsmAnd~
Facebook: Tinfoil for Facebook / SlimSocial / Browser (Tinfoil doesn't work with messages too well)
Install Xposed + XPrivacy for any apps that spy on you.
Thats about it.
>>58988650
>vlc
oh please god no
poweramp/black