[FEATURE PROPOSAL] Add fake dependency for Android Auto in native build /e/OS

[Numidara]

Hello, everyone!
I’ve been using /e/OS on a Fairphone for a short while now, and I have to admit I’ve been a bit annoyed that I can’t use Android Auto without those pesky Google dependencies, which are completely useless to me…
So I searched and browsed quite a few forums and stumbled upon a gem:

mrz3t4 roms

This developer offers fake dependencies for Android Auto, and it works perfectly!
No bugs with Google Maps—it doesn’t show up at all—and no issues with TTS either; it just says the service isn’t available.
It works without Google, so I wanted to share this with you because I know many of us aren’t aware of this solution—I had a hard time finding it myself.
I think it would be great to integrate this directly into /e/OS, after, of course, a proper audit of the three dependencies.

I’m providing public links to the original .apk files, as well as the folders and .zip files for the decompiled dependencies:

AA Dependency

Best regards,
Numidara

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Bonjour tous le monde !
Je suis utilisatrice de /e/OS sur Fairphone depuis peu de temps et je vous avoue que j’ai été un peu aggacé de ne pas pouvoir utiliser Android Auto sans les fichues dépendance de Google, qui ne me servent à rien…
Alors j’ai cherché et parcouru pas mal de forum et je suis tombé sur une pépite :

mrz3t4 roms

Ce developpeur propose des fausses dépendance pour Android Auto, et ça fonctionne parfaitement !
Pas de bug du côté de Google Maps qui n’apparait pas du tout, pas de problème non plus du côté du TTS qui dis simplement que le service n’est pas disponible.
Ça fonctionne sans Google, donc voilà je voulais partager ça avec vous ça, car je sais que beaucoup d’entre nous ne connaisse pas cette solution, ayant eu moi-même du mal à la trouver.
Je trouve que ça serait formidable d’y intégré directement dans /e/OS, après bien entendu d’un audit en règles des 3 dépendance.

Je vous met en lien public les fichiers .apk originaux, ainsi que les dossiers et .zip des dependance décompiler :

AA Dependency

Cordialement,
Numidara

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[Numidara]

Hello! No reaction at all?

[tcecyk]

the /e/gitlab can yield developer feedback. You can use the email from the forum to register an account

[Burger01]

I’m not dependent on Android Auto, I’m perfectly happy to just run navigation on my phone and leave it in a holder/etc. But, it would be quite nice if it was integrated into the OS. I currently have it running via the installing the stubs method in this thread. Maps/Nav works ok, but I can’t use music apps, which is a bummer. I was just about to look into it when I saw this thread, so yeah - +1 upvote.

[Tentos]

There is also a feature proposal on GitLab: Android Auto - Official Support for Google apps stubs (#9118) · Issues · e / Backlog · GitLab
I am not sure whether the proposed stubs are the same as the ones linked by @Numidara , but I will add a link to this thread to the GitLab ticket.

[Numidara]

Same for app music, i use Qobuz app and this soft close if i tried to open to AA, music not stop in addition.

[marvin33]

Android auto and here we go perfectly functional, the top would be compatibility with murena maps.

[Guilom59]

Bonjour,

Je suis utilisateur malgré moi d’Android Auto pour le travail mais j’aimerais m’émanciper le plus possible de Google sans néanmoins rooter mon téléphone car j’ai besoin de mon application bancaire également mais aussi parce que cette démarche m’effraie quelque peu. J’ai donc tenté la démarche décrite ci-dessus depuis le téléphone (a priori via l’installateur d’e/os “programme installation kit”)) mais cela n’a pas marché (“l’application n’a pas été installée car le package est en conflit avec un package déjà présent”). Je précise que j’ai un Fairphone 6 avec e/os 4.2 A16 official.

Merci de vos contributions à ma dégooglisation intégrale!!

In english:

ello,

I’m an unwilling Android Auto user for work, but I’d like to free myself from Google as much as possible, without rooting my phone. I need to keep using my banking app, but also because the whole rooting process scares me a little.

I therefore tried the procedure described above directly from my phone (apparently using the e/OS “Program Installation Kit” installer), but it didn’t work: “The app wasn’t installed because the package conflicts with an existing package.”

For reference, I have a Fairphone 6 running e/OS 4.2 A16 Official.

Thanks everyone for your contributions to my complete de-Googling!!

[DJC]

Hello, I have a new car ready for pick up next week and excited to try and connect e/OS (official, FP6, e/OS 4.2) - to it. I will see if I can try the stubs and if it works, great, if not - then I will just need to makedo with Bluetooth connection for music. I’ll let you know how it goes!

[Diego2k]

Let me know if it works. I followed the old v2. 2 documentation and this did not work.