Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
Oh yes please!
And since you’re at it, make it possible to pay without having to go through the EMVCo monopoly too (Visa, Mastercard).
I believe Wero is aiming for that. So, yes, please integrate #Wero into that somehow
This is so necessary and overdue, lets be honest. I hope it succeeds
This sounds promising, but I fear will need government enforcement.
For example, grapheneOS provides it’s own attestation, but few apps actually uses it, as it would require the developers to make some (minimal) changes to their code.
For card (mastercard) nfc payments I use Curve pay on LineageOS with microG
I use it with GrapheneOS too. Perfect.
They rejected my application to open an account with them…
Yeah, I had trouble too but persisted and now it works brilliantly. I’m in the UK and it worked in Singapore, Australia and Japan.
Does it need play and/or services?
Yes; but I’m not logged in to any Google accounts.
It also works with MicroG (although the GrapheneOS guys don’t recommended using that).
I appreciate the sentiment, but I also see this being very, very slow to gain traction in practice.
