[kelnos]

I would really love to run GrapheneOS (or some other Android OS that can prevent a lot of Google's built-in spying), but broken Android Auto, Google Pay, and a bunch of other things would be a complete showstopper for me.

It makes me really sad that I've come to rely on a bunch of things that just aren't available at all through open software.

[strcat]

The official Android Auto app works on GrapheneOS as an extension to sandboxed Google Play. We don't have our own implementation yet and it's not planned in the near term but it is available. Google Pay doesn't allow alternate operating systems but it does work on GrapheneOS from a technical perspective, it just doesn't allow using it in practice without pretending to be the stock OS on a legacy Google-certified Android device without support for hardware attestation. Most banks have their own tap-to-pay implementation in Europe but that largely got phased out in the US.

[nani8ot]

Is there no bank with their own mobile payment app where you live?

[strcat]

In some regions, banks stopped supporting their own tap-to-pay systems or they never even got widely adopted in the first place. It's much better in the EU than the US, where most banks still have their own tap-to-pay.