Same app, fewer Google dependencies

Paralino now ships a de-googled Android build as a direct APK from the Download page. It is for phones and ROMs where you do not want to rely on Google Play Services.

Compared with the Play Store build, it swaps in MapLibre instead of Google Maps, OpenFreeMap tiles on the free tier, and optional MapTiler styles and satellite imagery for Premium.

Push notifications skip Firebase Cloud Messaging. The app keeps a background socket to Paralino (with modes from near real time to gentler periodic refresh), or you can use a UnifiedPush distributor if you already have one. Notifications are always empty pings; the app fetches and decrypts the real content locally so nothing is ever transmitted even with other push providers.

Location now comes from Android LocationManager instead of Google fused location, so quality follows your OS and backends (for example GrapheneOS with default location setup works great). Geofencing is not available in this variant becasue that is not a feature of the Android OS, so Places alerts may be less precise than on the default Google build.

Built in automatic app update checks allows you to keep the app up to date without having to manually download new APKs.

For more information on how all this works, see De-Googled Android App in the help center.