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A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo) but you have to enable signature spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo) repo -> install µg [requires Android4.0 or later which is provided by Jolla devices]) but you have to enable signature spoofing spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo -> install µg [requires Android4.0 Android2.3 or later which is provided by Jolla devices]) but you have to enable signature spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).aliendalvik).
Another approach described here would be that one should implement similar services directly in aliendalvik but then you will have to redirect google api calls which will produce licensing/law issues...

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo -> install µg [requires Android2.3 or later which is provided by Jolla devices]) but you have to enable signature spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).
Another approach described here would be that one should implement similar services directly in aliendalvik but then you will have to redirect google api calls which will produce licensing/law issues...

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo -> install µg [requires Android2.3 or later which is provided by Jolla devices]) but you have to enable signature spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).
Another approach described here would be that one should implement similar services directly in aliendalvik but then you will have to redirect google api calls which will produce licensing/law issues...

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo -> install µg [requires Android2.3 or later which is provided by Jolla devices]) but you have to enable signature spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).
Another approach described here would be that one should implement similar services directly in aliendalvik but then you will have to redirect google api calls which will produce licensing/law issues...

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo -> install µg [requires Android2.3 or later which is provided by Jolla devices]) but you have to enable signature spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).
Another approach described here would be that one should implement similar services directly in aliendalvik but then you will have to redirect google api calls which will produce licensing/law issues...

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

edit 20171105: maybe look at new LineageOS for microG: "Moreover, to further strengthen the security of our ROM, we modified the signature spoofing permission so that only system privileged apps can obtain it, and no security threat is posed to our users."

A lot of apps for android are depending on google play services, so it would be a huge improvement in usability to provide an easy way to satisfy those. Microg claims to provide a free and open source solution.
Due to licensing issues it is understandable that it is not directly implemented in aliendalvik.
So it would be great to have an easy, user-friendly and almost secure way to install and enable microg. Installation works out of the box (install f-droid (jolla harbour/f-droid website) -> add microG F-Droid repo -> install µg [requires Android2.3 or later which is provided by Jolla devices]) but you have to enable signature spoofing to make services working¹. This is absolutely not recommended to be done in general for all apps. So aliendalvik has to be made aware of microG (signatures of µg are changing between versions, however, so one has to specify a supported version of microG for a particular version of aliendalvik).
Another approach described here would be that one should implement similar services directly in aliendalvik but then you will have to redirect google api calls which will produce licensing/law issues...

¹ using the debug version of µg is not the right way to work around...

edit 20171105: maybe look at new LineageOS for microG: "Moreover, to further strengthen the security of our ROM, we modified the signature spoofing permission so that only system privileged apps can obtain it, and no security threat is posed to our users."