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Florisboard on FDroid.
And dont ever use any Stock Android, its all spyware. Thats simply the truth. At best its "only" Google. Samsung was the worst of the ones I tried, regarding bloatware, but Huawei and Xiami are also horrible and you dont need anything fancy but a keylogger keyboard.
If you go to the Florisboard git hub their is an easy route to install it via Google play, if you can't use fdroid or side load apps for any reason. It basically involves signing up to "beta test" the app which you then get in Google Play as normal.
This may be an important route on some parts of the world.
I think in these parts of the world you need the Huawei app gallery. And I hope all Androids allow sideloading?
Also reboots your device if you try and revoke permissions from Google Play Services
What device does this? I am not in knowledge of any such Android device. All that happens is apps that require GMS will overlay a dialog box saying "Enable Google Play Services", else app will close. Some apps even work if you ignore that.
I'm rooted using an FP3 (essentially stock, only a single preinstalled manufacturer app).
Revoking location permissions from Play Services reboots the device immediately (previously this didn't happen - the permissions would be revoked as expected, and things dependent on Google's location API would fail as expected) so I assume a GMS update was pushed via play store resulting in this reboot problem
I am starting to think that it might become harder to use 1 device for serious hardcore privacy, and Big Tech might be leading us to forcibly have 2 devices, one of them being the Big Tech Certified™. This is also happening with the TPM/Pluton/Hello requirements on computers.
It might be time for a new version of the smartphone guide...