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Android System Programming
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Android System Programming

by Roger Ye
May 2017
Beginner to intermediate
470 pages
10h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Opening GApps

Let's look at another famous open source update package, GApps. The GApps project provides Google Mobile Services (GMS) replacement using its update packages. There are many Android devices shipped without GMS. If the users of these devices want to use Google applications, GApps is one of the major choices for them. They can download a version of a GApps package suitable for their device and flash an update package using recovery.

The GApps packages can be downloaded at the following URL:

http://opengapps.org

There are many choices of GApps packages at their website based on platform, Android version, and variant of packages (super, stock, full, mini, micro, nano, or pico, and so on).

We will use a small size pico variant to ...

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ISBN: 9781787125360