Lumo android app must not require google account
The Lumo AI app can't be used if the Android phone is not associated with a logged in Google account. This is quite bad for people that ditched Google in favor of Proton mail/calendar/drive/docs.
PS
shared this idea
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krik
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I installed Lumo through Aurora (3rd party app store that lets the user install apps from Google Play Store without Google account) only to realize that I _need_ to login into the Google Play Services just to run Lumo.
Why? The other Proton apps don't need that and Lumo also runs in a browser so it should be able to run without an active Google account on a phone.
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[Deleted User]
commented
We waited a long time for all the older protonapps to become
1. open-source => transparent, before it looked like "bad code quality, we can not show"
2. be downloadable without G-Play.Now Luma and Authenticator apps are launched and the same topic starts over. Either give your data to Big G to download the apps from G-Play (contra to why I use Proton) or download software from some shady websites and enter your mail credentials (nothing you want user to nudge to).
I would be realy thankful if non-G-Play users would be kept in mind for every new app.
PS: APKs attached to GitHub releases can be tracked much easier than "some HTML site".
PPS: Self-updating APKs are also a thing.
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Hunting.Targ
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While I am solidly for this, there's a catch: To get the app from the android store REQUIRES a Google Play account, and making such without a full Google account nowadays is nigh-infeasible.
Android is also suspicious by default of non-Play Store apps: Proton is no longer simply a humble privacy-focused e-mail service; it is a direct competitor to Google, and this conflict might not be able to be settled amicably on all sides.