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Is microG Services Proxy Framework even useful in 2025?
Important: C2DM was officially deprecated on June 26, 2012, and was shut down completely as of July 30, 2015. Existing C2DM developers are encouraged to migrate to Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM).
https://developers.google.com/android/c2dm
Why not archive the microG Services Proxy Framework repository and remove it from the wiki guides?
Google still include Google Service Framework on compliant phones, so even if C2DM is not used I think that the app should remains.
Google Service Framework isn't C2DM, C2DM was just a part of it (at least for the Google version of the app).
PS: There is a lot of wasted space in GmsCore but users are worried about GsfProxy (a 30KB app)?
Google still included Google Service Framework on compliant phones, so even if C2DM is not used I think that the app should remains.
Google Service Framework isn't C2DM, C2DM is just a part of it (at least for the Google version of the app).
PS: There is a lot of wasted space in GmsCore but users are worried about a 30KB app?
Doesn't the Google Services Framework (also?) do other things?
I'd wager almost no one uses 10+ year old apps that are dependent on C2DM support any more. Such apps cannot even be installed on modern android devices and they are probably full of issues/bugs/vulns anyway.
I think the main problem, for the support community I operate on Telegram, is everyone constantly asking why they cannot install this APK on modern android devices because of the target API block. So we have to constantly explain to them A) they probably don't need it anyway, and B) the only way they could even install it is by using special install tactics to bypass the API block.
It just creates a lot of unnecessary noise in places that have to support mainstream users. When people see that APK in download locations and in FAQs they think everything will be broken if they don't install it, even if they do not know what it does. ;-)
Google still included Google Service Framework on compliant phones, so even if C2DM is not used I think that the app should remains. Google Service Framework isn't C2DM, C2DM is just a part of it (at least for the Google version of the app). PS: There is a lot of wasted space in GmsCore but users are worried about a 30KB app?
Doesn't the Google Services Framework (also?) do other things?
i only seen apps on pixels calling it (tho i only have Pixel phone) and failing on microG like Pixel weather, on a stock rom does it get some config or else from there to operate.
