GrapheneOS Google Services | Sandboxed Google Play | How to install

Do you need working notifications on GrapheneOS? The official Google Play releases can be installed and used in the regular app sandbox on GrapheneOS thanks to a compatibility layer. In contrast to circumventing the app sandbox and obtaining a vast amount of highly privileged access, Google Play receives no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS. The compatibility layer, on the other hand, teaches it how to work within the whole app sandbox. Because GrapheneOS doesn&use Google Play even when it&installed, it¬ used as a backend for the OS services as it would be elsewhere. Because Google Play apps are like regular apps on GrapheneOS, you have to install them in a specific user or work profile, and they&only available to that profile. It can only be used by apps in the same profile, and they must explicitly select to utilize it. It functions in the same way as any other software and has no unique features. It can&access data from other apps and requires specific user approval to access profile data or standard permissions, just like any other app. Apps in the same profile can communicate with mutual consent, and sandboxed Google Play is no exception. Since GrapheneOS largely simply has to coax these apps into continuing to run without being able to employ any of the normal invasive OS integration, the core functionality and APIs are virtually totally supported already. Support for dynamically downloaded/loaded modules is also given via a compatibility layer (dynamite...