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CoMaps behaves very very weirdly on GrapheneOS. Same with OrganicMaps.

Osmand and GMaps are working fine.

Waze is almost melting the poor thing. Beside of that working fine.

CoMaps and Waze definitely work well on GrapheneOS. There's a known performance issue experienced by some users with the OsmAnd OpenGL renderer which can be worked around disabling hardened_malloc. We could likely provide a performance vs. security toggle for hardened_malloc to avoid it, but we also plan to continue optimizing the default high security mode.

Osmand and OrganicMaps work flawlessly for me. Waze on 6 (not pro), works better than on my 9 Pro.

I use Comaps daily on GrapheneOS on a Pixel 8 Pro and it works great.

Have had no noticable problems with organic maps.

Weirdly how? CoMaps seemingly works fine out of the box on my device

Waze works perfectly fine for me

Anyone writing about apps compatibility should specify if it's with or without the play services

Can you even run Waze/GMaps without Play services?

Yes.

For more precision:

Waze is fairly easy to run without play services. GMaps I haven't yet found a way to run, but also haven't looked in quite some time.

Google Maps used to work without it but recently gained a hard dependency on Play services. We could add more shims to make more apps work without it installed but that hasn't been a focus yet.

Makes sense. Any idea if there's any interest in a shim to get notifications working sans Play services?

I haven't looked at anything shim related in quite a while and am not super familiar with the notification stack for Android, so if that's a stupid question I apologize.

Neat, every day I inch closer to not needing Play Services anymore.

https://plexus.techlore.tech/apps?q=waze

Waze and Here Maps work well.

comaps and organic maps shares some of the same codebase right?

AFAIK CoMaps is a fork of OrganicMaps after OrganicMaps added some sort of ads or sponsoring. They both use OSM

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