I want to install the Gapps package as non system (ie user) apps so I can easily remove them whenever I need, instead of using titanium backup to make them user apps one by one and removing them. Is there any way to do this by editing the text files in the zip?
Also can I choose not to remove the cyan apps when gapps are installed?
(I'm posing here bec I'm not yet allowed in developer threads)
You can't. There are system files that are needed via a flash to make atleast the play store and play services work. Use the OpenGapps Pico Package and install all the other gapps from the play store
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Is there a way for anyone to create a flash able gapps package that just has the Google Play Store, and the apps that you can't just download later?
Since android automatically restores your apps when you install anyway.
This would prevent us from having to delete browser and/or move maps.apk from system apps so that it can be greenified.
GS4 CarbonROM
I found this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2012857
Not so clear as to what's in it, I'll report back.
GS4 CarbonROM
Try out my gapps package, link's in the sig
You can always open the package (just like any zip file) and delete the ".apk" files of those apps you don't want (usually inside the package in system/system/app)
Hi community,
is there any way to install only the google apps I need? Basically i only need google play, gmail, browser and gmaps.
However my attempt to install from zip or from apk the google play was not successful and the gapps I installed contain a lot of useless for me.
My goal is to have only what I need...
Thank you for your suggestions
kordellas said:
Hi community,
is there any way to install only the google apps I need? Basically i only need google play, gmail, browser and gmaps.
However my attempt to install from zip or from apk the google play was not successful and the gapps I installed contain a lot of useless for me.
My goal is to have only what I need...
Thank you for your suggestions
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Use Titanium Backup to uninstall the ones you don't want or a file browser and delete them from system/app
Sent from my GT-P7510
dave106 said:
Use Titanium Backup to uninstall the ones you don't want or a file browser and delete them from system/app
Sent from my GT-P7510
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This means that I have to install the gapps first, right?
kordellas said:
This means that I have to install the gapps first, right?
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There's also multiple gapps packages out there. You could find a much smaller one that only contains the bare essentials and then install what you want from the play store. The down side to this is that the downloaded apps will use up internal storage where as apps included with the gapps package will use up your system storage (seperate partition.. or at least it is for the N4, it may be different here).
kordellas said:
Hi community,
is there any way to install only the google apps I need? Basically i only need google play, gmail, browser and gmaps.
However my attempt to install from zip or from apk the google play was not successful and the gapps I installed contain a lot of useless for me.
My goal is to have only what I need...
Thank you for your suggestions
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Find the gapps package that you need for you're rom and download it on you're PC... then use 7zip or another like program to open the zip....only in archive.. only in archive... :good:...do not unzip/extract it... after you have it up on you're PC.. in a window with 7zip/ect...remove the apk's you don't want and close it... push it to the phone and flash away...
Just be careful what you delete... there is a minimal gapps package around... where you could see what you can delete and what you need..
I mean you could delete everything but the playstore stuff and be functional,but some apps will only work correctly if they are part of the system partition... you could then push them to system app w/rom tool box or a similar app...
Hi, I just transitioned to CyanogenMod 12.1 and I want to install the Google Play Store app but I'm not sure what are the advantages of flashing a minimal GApps package over simply sideloading the APK... or whether there even are any advantages at all. I know that the GApps package also includes some extra functionality, but what is that functionality and can I do without it?
Just the Play Store alone isn't enough. It's best to install a Gapps package because it will install the Google Services Framework, Play Store, and a couple more things needed to make it work. I find it best to flash an appropriate package and then just disable whatever you don't need after you boot. If you uninstall something important, it's more of a pain to install again vs just defreezing the app. You don't save any more usable space by deleting them anyway as they are stored in a different partition vs apps you load from the Play Store.
Hello, I want to modify the zip of Gapps because I do not want to install certain apps like google books or google docs and other apps that I do not use and I do not know how to modify the zip so that at the time of flashing do not install them!
SantiSlovack said:
Hello, I want to modify the zip of Gapps because I do not want to install certain apps like google books or google docs and other apps that I do not use and I do not know how to modify the zip so that at the time of flashing do not install them!
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Try opengapps aroma variant
http://opengapps.org/
And if I install GApps, will I be able to remove each app if I start to dislike it? Thanks. (I assume I can remove the apps installed manually on the Play Store)
Almeidowski said:
And if I install GApps, will I be able to remove each app if I start to dislike it? Thanks. (I assume I can remove the apps installed manually on the Play Store)
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With G apps,you can select and download the Aroma Package, you'll have the choice to install what you want. But once it's installed you can't remove the apps (unless you have root) because Gapps are installed as system apps.
On the playstore, the will be removable at any time.
I think that installing playstore manually will be buggy because, it installs apps automatically, something that other apps are forbidden to do.
Have a nice day.
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