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by NotPractical 39 days ago
It indeed runs on modified versions of Android, but this is not supported by Google and never has been.

When Apple says "Apple Pay is supported on iOS >= $VERSION" they don't explicitly mention that it won't work on jailbroken iPhones, because they don't expect you to make modifications to your device and then try and use their services as normal. This is unsupported and discouraged, just like trying to manually install Google Play services on an OS that didn't ship with it.

The only way to get Google Mobile Services officially is to buy an Android device with it pre-installed while leaving the stock OS untouched. And the only way for an OEM to ship GMS with their device is to certify it with Google. And one of the requirements for certification is to use device attestation keys signed by the Google Hardware Attestation Root certificate [1], thus Play Integrity will pass on all such devices.

[1] https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/security-...