March 2014

Mentor's Gapps: no set_metadata core Gapps working with ART for Android 4.4.x

If you wont sync your contacts and the calendar with google, if you believe that the gapps are for the most part bloatware and you want to use only the necessary part of Google's services then you can use these gapps for the CM11 and for any AOSP KitKat rom. Why anyone should want the gmail app if he can use the great native aosp email client? Why anyone would want the online Google Maps if he use an offline GPS navigation app? Why anyone should have installed Google Now if he does not like it? Why these useless apps should eat our resources? and why we should permit to google to spy we with its apps? In these gapps there are only the minimum core gapps with the Play Store: GoogleLoginService.apk GooglePartnerSetup.apk GoogleServicesFramework.apk Phonesky.apk PrebuiltGmsCore.apk...