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=== Google Accounts on Android on the RP2 ===

The RP2 offers Android 6.0; with this you can link a Google account to the device for use with Google services like the Play Store. If you don't want to link your personal account, you are also free to use your RP2 without any linked accounts, or you can create a new, "dummy" account for the device. You could also use FLOSS/free/libre alternatives to get new apps and install them manually (a.k.a. "sideloading").

To do that you can use the [https://f-droid.org F-Droid] app catalogue for managing the FLOSS apps, like Moonlight or Retroarch (adding the [http://fdroid.libretro.com Retroarch repo] first; which normally is a version newer than the one available from the Play Store). You can also use [https://auroraoss.com/app_info.php?app_id=1 Aurora store](also in f-droid) a direct alternative to Play Store, to manage all the apps (like Steam Link).

Finally if you have any privacy concerns you can safely disable (in the Toolbox app) the google apps like:

* Google Play Store
* Google Play services (also '''GSF''' Google Services Framework)
* Google Contact Sync
* Browser (replace with Firefox/Fennec is recommended)
* Sound Recorder, Music, Video, Pictures

The default apps in the RP2 do not interact with the GSF.