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Android app dependency? (slrpnk.net)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by sgibson5150 to c/android@lemmy.world
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I have found the translation from camera source feature useful in Google Translate and I use it from time to time. Last night was one such occasion, yet when I attempted to enable camera mode, I received the message shown in the screenshot, "Please install the latest Google app in order to use camera translation". I currently have a Pixel phone and I have had the Google app disabled since shortly after I got it.

I left negative feedback on the Play Store after I discovered this new wrinkle as I feel Google thinks they have struck upon a way to prevent users from disabling or uninstalling the Google app. The developer responded that Translate camera is "now powered by Google Lens which is part of the Google app".

I have been struggling to remember another occasion where an app has been dependent on the presence of another app to function in either Android or iOS. Besides the obvious Google shittiness, I feel like introducing these sorts of application interdependencies opens the door to... idk, something bad.

Thoughts?

Edit: As I have noted in the comments, this is not a problem unique to the Google Pixel phone. If the Google app is disabled on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, the same behavior occurs.

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[–] Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Buying the Google Pixel and getting upset that it needs the Google App to fully function seems silly

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

many people buy oogle Pixel to use it with GrapheneOS. It doesn't sound silly at all

[–] Rustmilian@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago

You have to switch the ROM completely for that, this seems to be a stock pixel thing.

[–] evo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You and I have wildly different definitions of the word "many" lol

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

very few, compared to the current world population

happy now?

[–] sgibson5150 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I haven't had the opportunity to test on another brand phone but atm I'm assuming from the developer statement that this will be true of Google Translate on all Android phones. Thanks for your contribution, though.

Edit: If the Google app is disabled on the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip4, the same behavior occurs.