Hello, i wonder if there is any maps app that uses the Google Maps API but isn't Google Maps (as it's heavy and not battery friendly).
I use and like Here to drive, but it lack places to research as Google Maps is perfect on that.
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I'm rather new to Google Maps, but with my Kaiser having built in GPS it seems like a useful little app.
My question would be, can you download maps in advance rather than using your expensive GPRS?
I just wanted to know is it possible to make the brut navigation use the original google maps instead of the brut-google maps? I'm asking this because the brut version of google maps is old and the "Make available offline" feature of google maps which downloads the selected area in the map and stores it in the sd card is not available.
"Brut navigation" is a hack in Google Maps APK.
Obviously, you can't use the hack if you're installing a whole different, regular Google Maps APK. The hack isn't there, and there's nothing to use.
Does anyone know what is the latest version of Google Maps with no dependency, i.e., which is *not* dependent on Google Play Services? And if so, where can I get the APK?
Background: I have just switched to CyanogenMod 7, based on Android 2.3.7, on my trusty much-sat-on Galaxy Ace. The only Google app I can't bear to lose is Maps, partly because of its My Places feature. But Maps + Play + Play Services = over 50MB of the 180MB app space eaten up! That is ridiculous for one app. I don't mind not having the latest features of Google Maps, it's the Google Places database which is useful.
Hello there!
I've searched the internet for answers but have not been able to find a clear one, so I figured may as well ask it where the experts reside. Google doesn't stop tracking you no matter what privacy settings you have on your account, and google location services offer nothing except data to Google. When I have my GPS enabled my cell towers aren't going to be more accurate and there is no WiFi on the highway unless there is a guy in a van blasting it, or some modern cars with electronic breaks that will kill you when the power dies. I don't like having my GPS enabled constantly and I can't turn on WAZES or Google Maps without Google location services. Everywhere I look people just say to not use Google and certainly I know how to do that, except that the GPS solutions that don't require Google location services are quite frankly, from my experience, inferior.
Is there a way to force apps to not use Google location services, or to spoof Google location being enabled without it actually being enabled? Is there a way to just stop it from transmitting anything to Google (I understand that with Google maps some data will still have to be transmitter but I don't use Google maps often)? If not, can we at least stop it from enabling wifi scanning?
Thanks in advance for any time and thoughts you put into this problem.
Maybe the linked threads are able to provide a few answers. Our devices are absolute free of Google services and applications and working perfectly. For maps/navigation we use: OSMand+.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/gapps-free-samsung-galaxy-s3-lte-gt-t3553620
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/how-enhance-battery-duration-sgs-3-lte-t3478287
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-microg-gmscore-floss-play-services-t3217616
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-nanomod-5-0-20170405-microg-t3584928
https://forum.xda-developers.com/xposed/modules/xprivacylua6-0-android-privacy-manager-t3730663
is there any other map app that can completely replace Google Map?
(includes transportation information)
want my phone to be completely google-free.
i use "HERE WE GO" maps. is as good as google maps imho. good luck.