Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!nntp-feed.chiark.greenend.org.uk!ewrotcd!.POSTED.chiark.greenend.org.uk!not-for-mail From: Theo Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS? Date: 01 Jan 2025 16:57:30 +0000 (GMT) Organization: University of Cambridge, England Message-ID: <24s*+Zv3z@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <34s*bEu3z@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk> Injection-Info: chiark.greenend.org.uk; posting-host="chiark.greenend.org.uk:93.93.131.173"; logging-data="30538"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@chiark.greenend.org.uk" User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (Linux/5.10.0-28-amd64 (x86_64)) Originator: theom@chiark.greenend.org.uk ([93.93.131.173]) Bytes: 1952 Lines: 17 Frank Slootweg wrote: > Theo wrote: > > To use a Fitbit, you need a Google account (unless you have a legacy Fitbit > > account from years ago). To use the Fitbit app you need to sign in with the > > Google account, which installs the Google account centrally on the phone, > > which means that account infests the rest of the OS and gets used for other > > stuff (eg Play Services/Store). > > Are you sure about that? Can't you just use a Google account to login > into the *app*, instead of into the *system*/OS? Many apps have such > functionality, i.e. an app-specific login, so I wouldn't know why the > Fitbit app would be any different. It shows under Settings -> Accounts, and the Play Store uses it without asking. There's no way to sign out of it apart from deleting it from the phone. If I do that the Fitbit app stops working and wants a sign in again. Theo