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VZXvZXVBZon F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store

I want to love OsmAnd~ but the ux and search features are spectacularly terrible.

I was recently in Pomona, and searched for a Walgreens. The first result was for Livermore, with the next couple results being 100-200 miles away. 4th or 5th on the list was a store in Ontario, and the rest were 30+ miles away. I discovered there was a store in Pomona while driving to the store in Ontario.

For UX, several months ago my phone decided to display pot leaf icons for all the pot stores in Seattle. This only happens in Seattle, and I've spent at least 30 minutes searching through the app trying to figure out how to toggle off the pot stores. Mind you the pot stores stay up even along side the results for more recent searches.

VZXvZXVBZon F-Droid – alternative to Google Play store

as another poster mentioned, microg is the way to go on lineage. add in the aurora play store client (package available in fdroid), and you're able to install/run the majority of apps found on the play store

the biggest issue with this setup is that you need to manually install a location provider (like mozilla location service) for microg from f-droid, and importantly, adjust app permissions to allow the location provider to always run in the background. if you don't have the location provider installed and allowed to run in the background, a lot of apps like lyft, lime, uber, gig, etc will misbehave