Every owner of a smartphone or tablet running on the Android operating system has heard this term. We tell you what it is and why you need it.

Google Play is a service that provides access to many applications running on Android. In Russian, it is called "play market" or "google play".

When we buy a smartphone, when we turn it on for the first time, we see that some programs are already installed. Almost every user will not have enough of them - one needs a player, the second needs a navigator, the third needs games. All this and much more is available on Google Play - a catalog with a list of programs, utilities, games and other media products.

Calling this service a store would not be entirely correct, since most applications can be downloaded absolutely free. The service interface is simple and logical. As of today, the content is broken down into six major categories:

• Entertainment.
• Applications.
• Films.
• Music.
• Books.
• Press.

To facilitate the search, each category has subsections, for example, "New", "Top Sellers", etc. If you know the keyword or part of the name of the application you are interested in, just enter it in the search bar.

Features and Benefits of Google Play

Proven software. In the "Play Market" you can leave comments for all applications. Thanks to them, developers can fix errors that occurred when using the program, and users, after reading the reviews, understand whether it is necessary to install this software. The specialists of the “corporation of goodness” carefully monitor the posted content, so the likelihood of getting a frank virus on your gadget is extremely small. A service was created to ensure security.

Regular updates. After installing applications, Google Play prompts you to update them. Some users, in order to save Internet traffic and space in the smartphone's memory. It is undesirable to do this, since this process eliminates flaws and allows you to keep games and programs up to date.

The popularity of the proposed content. New films are being made regularly, new newspapers and interesting programs are being released, and previously unknown applications are rapidly gaining popularity. The owner of an Android smartphone can be sure that the products offered on Google Play meet the principles of relevance, modernity and popularity.

Payment Methods

It is not difficult to purchase paid products, there are enough payment methods:

• Credit and debit bank cards of well-known payment systems.
• Payment using a mobile operator: funds are debited from the subscriber's balance.
• Electronic payment system PayPal.

Security and Permissions

Most prefer free or shareware products, because the desire to save money is quite natural. Shareware programs are installed for free, but have limited functionality that can be expanded for an additional fee. In completely free applications, you need to be prepared for constantly running ads.

It is important to be careful with the list of permissions for a particular product. - this is the possibility of their access to the main functions of the phone. Some of them are quite reasonable, for example, an organizer with voice-based note-taking will definitely require access to a microphone. But if the video player asks for the ability to manage contacts or the camera, then this should alert. It is unlikely that secret agents are following you in this way - more often this is due to the creation of contextual advertising. Fortunately, in the latest versions of Android, there is an option to disable suspicious permissions.

Google Play is not the only source for finding apps. The installation file of a program can be obtained by the owner of the gadget on third-party sites, but you will have to spend time searching and. With this method, there is a risk of getting dangerous software in the form of a virus, while Google Play offers excellent selections of software products, automatically installs them on smartphones and monitors security.

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More and more often on various Internet resources we see a couple of logos side by side: AppStore and Google Play.

Irreconcilable competitors side by side in touching constancy. What is this very Google Play, and why did it appear so often on the pages of sites?

Supermarket for droid

Google is a more than serious corporation. And when she set about creating her own, she approached the matter in more than detail.

Not to be compared with various winkillers', in the development of which more people took part than subsequently used them.

On September 23, 2008, the first version of Android was officially presented, and on October 22, the Android Market began to work - a store where users of the fresh OS could download a variety of content:

• Applications;
• Music;
• Films;
• Books;
• Entertainment;
• Magazines.

A few years later, Google started a rebranding, as a result of which the service got its modern name - Google Play.

But what is it for anyway?

Depending on the manufacturer and model of the device, both the stock version of Android and proprietary firmware, for example, MIUI, which is used in large-scale gadgets, can be installed on it.

In both cases, pre-installed applications are provided to cover the basic user capabilities. For some, they are enough.

But, as a rule, the desires of the owner are not limited to the basic set of programs, he needs additional content, at least the same games. Google Play allows you to get such content almost safely, and, importantly, often for free.

Yes, there was a scandal in March 2011 when malware was found among the service's applications. But even the holy Apple is not immune from this: in the App Store, the “apple” analogue of Google Play, a similar case took place in 2015.

In general, store users are protected from having to download applications from dubious resources. In addition, they regularly receive a variety of information about new arrivals and updates.

Do not smile sarcastically - this is not always perceived as spam.

And here you can also find reviews and recommendations of other users who have already downloaded and evaluated this or that application. Moreover, the reviews are real, and not custom-made, as often happens on less serious resources. The value of such an opportunity is difficult to exaggerate.

What you need to use Google Play

First of all, you need to have it, without which you simply won’t be able to download anything from the Google Play Market.

The corresponding service must also be installed on the smartphone. As a rule, it is pre-installed, however, some older models may not have it.

She especially sinned with this, who at one time had a stormy "romance" with. Instead of Google services, she installed them on her smartphones. fine soft» analogues, but users did not appreciate this policy.

Especially when you consider that it was very difficult to replace them with the usual Google ones - in some cases, the gadget had to be rooted.

In addition, sometimes for some reason this service can be removed from the device. In this case, you should download the latest version of the application from the site.

Where does the content come from

In 2015, the number of applications on Google Play exceeded one and a half million. Of course, they are not developed by Google itself.

To be able to sell your programs on this site, you need to get a special developer account, the opening of which costs $25.

There are geographic restrictions that prevent citizens of certain countries from distributing their applications through this service for free, or getting paid for their purchase.

The latter is available only to residents of three dozen countries, which, however, includes Russia.

In recent years, many media and social networks have acquired their own applications for Android. It is they who are invited to download to regular readers of a particular publication in order to be able to more quickly access fresh publications.

Google is quite sensitive about its reputation, therefore, before allowing any application to be downloaded, it is meticulously checked for malicious code.

And at the beginning of last year, the service acquired its own antivirus called Google Play Protect.

Conclusion

No matter what anyone says, Google Play on an Android smartphone is one of the must-have services.

Even if you are fundamentally not going to buy anything there, the amount of free content is more than enough to deserve the attention of any user.

And with the problems that take place, such as: lack of memory space, constant updates, network load, a competent setting will cope.

Google has quickly gone from a small search engine to a giant infrastructure that runs on our PCs, smartphones, tablets, and even TVs. Google relentlessly collects information about us, search queries are carefully logged, movements are tracked, and passwords, letters and contact information are stored for years to come. All this is an integral part of modernity, but we can quite change it.

Introduction

It's no secret that any Android device (at least the one certified by Google) contains not only components assembled from AOSP, but also an impressive amount of proprietary Google programs. These are the same Google Play, Gmail, Hangouts, Maps and a bunch of other applications, including a dialer and a camera (starting with KitKat).

For all these components, there is not only no source code, but in general there are no explanations about the principles of their work. Many of them were originally created to collect certain types of information and send them to Google's servers. So, for example, GoogleBackupTransport behaves, which is responsible for synchronizing the list of installed applications, passwords and other data, GoogleContactsSyncAdapter, which synchronizes the list of contacts, or ChromeBookmarksSyncAdapter, whose job is to synchronize browser bookmarks. Plus, collecting information about all queries in the search engine.

There's nothing wrong with the sync itself, of course, and it's a great mechanism that allows you to set up a new phone in minutes, and Google Now even manages to give us useful information based on our data (sometimes). The only problem is that all this destroys our privacy, because, as Snowden showed, under the hood of the NSA (and, most likely, a bunch of other services) is not only some kind of evil empire called Microsoft, but also Google, and as well as many other companies from the “we are not evil, but fluffy patrons” party.

In other words: Google will merge us all without any problems, and it’s not a fact that its employees, sitting in their offices with masseuses and dogs, do not laugh at the names from your contact book (everything is encrypted there, yes), drinking 15-year-old pu-erh from Yunnan province. Or maybe to hell with this Google? Let's take their Android, and let them go through the forest?

What is Google Apps

The latest KitKat-based custom firmware for my smartphone is 200 MB, however, to get the real experience from the smartphone, I also have to flash a gapps archive on top of it, which is 170 MB in size. Only after that I will get a system similar to the one preinstalled on the Nexus device, with all the goodies in the form of a desktop integrated with Google Now, a face-based screen lock, a camera with support for spherical shooting and a kilogram of Google software, from Google Play to Google Books.

I repeat once again: all this is closed software from Google, which in a good way cannot be distributed at all without their knowledge (therefore, it is not in custom firmware like CyanogenMod), but since it is quite simple to extract it from Nexus-device firmware, you can find it on the Web a huge number of such archives, including heavily curtailed ones. In order to release an Android smartphone with a set of gapps on board, the manufacturer must send it for certification to Google, which, having assessed the quality and performance of the smartphone, will either give the go-ahead or kick it off (but this does not stop the Chinese at all).

This is how Google Apps gets to the smartphone. Of the users, 99% either use pre-installed applications, or install them on their own on an absolutely clean and completely anonymous firmware. And then, from the moment you enter the username and password, synchronization and information merging begins.

To figure out how this happens, let's unpack the same archive with gapps and take a look inside. We are interested in the /system/app and /system/priv-app directories, during installation their contents are copied to the directories of the same name inside the smartphone. The second directory is a KitKat innovation, it hosts applications that use system APIs marked as "private" and not available to regular applications.

In the /system/app directory, we will find a large number of different Google applications, easily recognizable by the package name: Books.apk, Chrome.apk, Gmail2.apk and so on. Each of them will share information in their own way, but this is absolutely normal (yes, Google will know that you are reading Paulo Coelho through their app!). The greatest danger here is GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk, which is only responsible for sending a list of contacts to a remote server. We write down the name in a notebook and move on.

Most of the files in the /system/priv-app directory are the services and frameworks needed to run this whole synchronization and tracking thing:

• GoogleBackupTransport.apk - synchronizes data of installed applications, Wi-Fi passwords and some settings;
• GoogleLoginService.apk - connects the device with a Google account;
• GooglePartnerSetup.apk - allows third-party applications to access Google services;
• GoogleServicesFramwork.apk - a framework with various auxiliary functionality;
• Phonesky.apk - Play Store (oddly enough);
• PrebuiltGmsCore.apk - Google Services, as the name suggests, is the core of the entire gapps suite;
• Velvet.apk is a Google search that includes a desktop search bar and Google Now.

In essence, this is the part of Google Apps that is responsible for leaking our private information. Let's try to get rid of all this.

Method number 1. Disabling through the settings

The easiest way to untie a smartphone from Google is to use the standard system settings. The method is good in that it does not require root rights, nor the installation of custom firmware, nor custom recovery. Everything can be done in any stock firmware without losing access to your account and applications like Gmail (if necessary). However, no one will vouch for efficiency, since it is quite possible that some gapps components will continue to send data.

The main location of the sync settings is the menu "Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> [email protected]". Here you can turn off things like syncing contacts, app data, Gmail, Play Music, Google Keep, and more. All you need to do is just uncheck the boxes for the menu items you want. Next, go to the menu "Settings -\u003e Backup and reset" and remove the daws from the items "Data backup" and "Auto recovery".

Many sync settings are also handled by the Google Settings app, which is part of Google Services. With it, in particular, you can disable Google's access to the location ("Access to geodata -> Access to my geodata / Send geodata / Location history"), disable sending personal data to the search engine ("Search -> Personal data"), disable Google Now (“Search -> Google Now”) and disable remote management (“Remote management -> Remote device search / Remote lock and reset”).

In the same "Google Settings", by the way, you can disable any application that uses a Google account for authorization. This is not only about the software installed on the device, but in general about all applications ever used, including websites. For example, I found in this list a lot of sites that I had not visited for at least a couple of years.

In the event that you are not going to use Google services at all, it will be easier to disconnect your smartphone from your account completely, that is, simply delete it through the settings: “Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> [email protected]-> Menu Button -> Delete Account".

Most Google applications can be safely disabled through the settings: "Apps -> ALL -> the desired application -> Disable".

Google account settings Google settings

Method number 2. Cleaning the official firmware

In the event that the stock firmware has root rights, you can get rid of Google Apps by simply deleting them from your smartphone. As I said, they are all stored in the /system/app and /system/priv-app directories. For example, in the case of KitKat, the list of Google apps in the first directory would be:

• Books.apk - Google Books;
• CalendarGoogle.apk - Google Calendar;
• Chrome.apk - Google Chrome;
• CloudPrint.apk - cloud printing system;
• Drive.apk - Google Drive;
• GenieWidget.apk - news and weather widget;
• Gmail2.apk - Gmail;
• GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk - synchronization of contacts;
• GoogleEars.apk - Google Ears (similar to Shazam);
• GoogleEarth.apk - Google Earth;
• GoogleHome.apk - home screen with integrated Google Now;
• GoogleTTS.apk - speech synthesis system;
• Hangouts.apk - Google Hangouts;
• Keep.apk - Google Keep;
• LatinImeGoogle.apk - keyboard with gesture support;
• Magazines.apk - Google Magazines;
• Maps.apk - Google Maps;
• Music2.apk - Google Music;
• PlayGames.apk - Google PlayGames;
• PlusOne.apk - Google+;
• QuickOffice.apk - QuickOffice;
• Street.apk - Google Street;
• SunBeam.apk - live wallpaper SunBeam;
• Videos.apk - Google Movies;
• YouTube.apk - YouTube.

The /system/priv-app directory, in addition to those listed earlier, also stores the following files:

• CalendarProvider.apk - stores calendar data;
• GoogleFeedback.apk - sends a report on the use of Google Play;
• GoogleOneTimeInitializer.apk - wizard for installing additional Google applications;
• SetupWizard.apk - setup wizard at the first start;
• Wallet.apk - Google Wallet;
• talkback.apk - voice notification about events on the device.

The Gapps kit for KitKat, among other things, also includes a proprietary camera with support for spherical shooting and a proprietary desktop with integrated Google Now.

But that is not all. Google Apps depends on several frameworks, which are located in the /system/framework directory. These are com.google.android.maps.jar, com.google.android.media.effects.jar and com.google.widevine.software.drm.jar. There are also many libraries in the /system/lib directory that are used exclusively by Google apps. You don't have to delete them, but you can. Just to clean up the garbage. You can find a list of them on the website ][.

In past (and in future) versions of the system, the content of Google Apps is different, so before deleting it, I recommend downloading gapps of the desired version from the goo.im/gapps website, unpacking it using WinRar and viewing the contents. You should also consider the dependence of some applications from the market on Google applications, I will talk more about this later.

This is only a part of the libraries included in the gapps package

Method number 3. Custom firmware without gapps

The previous method can be greatly simplified if you simply install custom firmware on your smartphone without Google Apps. In this case, the smartphone / tablet will be crystal clear without any reference to Google. The disadvantage of this method is the lack of Google Play, but you can either replace it with a third-party app store (more on that below), or use the following method, which includes installing a stripped-down version of Google Apps.

Method number 4. Google Play and nothing else

This way of partially unlinking from Google is a kind of compromise. It does not solve the problem of surveillance - at least without the settings from the first method - but it allows you not to litter the system with a bunch of useless software that will hang in the background and eat up memory. The essence is simple - we install custom firmware and fill it with a minimalistic version of gapps, which includes only Google Play.

There are many such minimal gapps builds on the Web, but I would recommend using the time-tested BaNkS Gapps, namely the “month-day GApps Core 4.4.2 signed.zip". They work on any smartphone, are compatible with ART, and include only the core gapps files listed in What is Gapps, framework files, and a few libraries. Basically, it's Google Play, sync tools and nothing else.

Change the search engine to DuckDuckGo

Even after completely disabling sync, the “built-in” Google search bar will remain on the home screen. In the stock firmware of some manufacturers (Samsung, for example), this is just a widget that can be easily removed from the screen. In pure Android and devices from many other manufacturers, it is "sewn" into the home screen, but it can be removed by disabling all search from Google (along with Google Now) using the menu "Settings -> Applications -> All -> Google search -> Disable" or by installing a third-party launcher. Next, just download DuckDuckGo from the market or another app store and add the widget of the same name to your home screen.

Third party market

The second and third methods involve completely getting rid of Google Apps, including Google Play and the ability to log in using a Google account, so we must find a way to install applications easily and conveniently, which would not force us to download them ourselves, and then transfer them to a memory card and set manually. One such way is to install a third-party market.

At the moment, there are three more or less viable alternatives to Google Play. These are Amazon Appstore , Yandex.Store and 1Mobile Market . Each of them has its own advantages and disadvantages, which mainly come down to the number of applications and payment methods:

• Amazon Appstore is the most famous app store after Google Play. Contains over 75,000 apps (compared to 800,000 on Google Play), each hand-checked for quality, just like iTunes for iOS. You can pay with a credit card or Amazon Coins, which are given as a gift for buying a Kindle Fire tablet or as a gift from another user. One of the most interesting features of the store is the daily giveaway of one of the paid applications.
• Yandex.Store - a store from Yandex. Contains more than 85 thousand applications, each of which is checked by Kaspersky Anti-Virus. It doesn’t stand out in particular, but it has a killer feature in the form of the ability to pay for purchases using the Yandex.Money service or a mobile phone account.
• 1Mobile Market is the largest third-party repository of Android apps, with over 500,000 apps. It differs from others in the presence of exclusively free applications (not to be confused with pirated ones), because of which it allows you not to go through the account registration stage and remain anonymous.

Applications in all three markets have original digital signatures of the application developers, which allows them to be used simultaneously. An application installed from one market can be updated from another without problems, and when deleted, it will disappear from the list of installed ones in all at once. However, you will have to buy separately.

Amazon App Store
Yandex Market 1Mobile market

Open Source Market

In addition to those described in the article, as well as many other lesser-known app stores, you can find a repository different from the rest on the Web. It is completely anonymous and contains only free software distributed under licenses approved by the FSF. There are only a thousand applications in F-Droid, but all of them are guaranteed to be free of backdoors and other systems for disclosing personal data. It is F-Droid that is used as the default market in the free Replicant Android firmware.

Solving the problem of application dependency on Google Apps

Despite the fact that gapps components are not part of the official Android API, some applications still expect to see them in the system, which can cause a number of problems - from the complete inoperability of the application to the loss of some of its functions. Some applications will refuse to install due to the lack of Google Maps API, others crash immediately after launch without finding it, others include direct links to Google Play, which can lead to crashes and incorrect work.

To address these issues, XDA user MaR-V-iN started the NOGAPPS project, which is developing a set of open source components to replace the original Google Apps functionality. There are currently three replacement components available:

• Network Location is a geolocation service based on Wi-Fi and GSM base stations. Based on Apple's IP address database and open database of base stations;
• Maps API - interface replacement for Google Maps based on OpenStreetMap;
• BlankStore is an open source alternative to the Play Store client. Allows you to install free applications from the Google store, but is not recommended for use due to possible sanctions from the search engine (this is prohibited by their rules).

Components are installed separately and in different ways. Network Location can be manually copied to the /system/app/ directory in Android 2.3–4.3 or to the /system/priv-app/ directory in KitKat (in this case, you should use the NetworkLocation-gms.apk file). The Maps API is installed by flashing the nogapps-maps.zip file through the recovery console. To install the market, you will have to not only copy the file, but also generate an Android ID on a large machine, but since this is not recommended, I will not talk about it and limit myself to a link to the instructions.

After all the manipulations, the software should work correctly.

findings

For Google, Android is useless without its own apps, so it's not surprising that the company puts the tastiest parts of the system into them and keeps the code private. However, in this article, I showed that there is life without gapps and it can be even easier and more convenient than with Google.

Do Android owners need to be explained what the Google Play web app is? The Android system itself was created by the IT giant Google. It is not surprising that all services are included not only in mobile gadgets, but also in browsers, are integrated into the main menu of the “OS” of a mobile device. True, there are several controversial points here, which few people pay attention to.

Android: first acquaintance

As a rule, when faced with the question of whether Google Play services can be uninstalled, you first have to figure out what this service itself is in general. As a rule, such a widget is mainly present in the main menu of any smartphone or tablet running Android OS.

Nothing wrong with that. The fact is that in order to popularize certain services, any “OS” from the Android family is initially configured to induce the user to use one or another function offered by Google services (Google+, Gmail, Play Games, Play Press, etc.).

Naturally, a registration account must be created for each user or, if you like, device. As a rule, first it concerns the creation of an account in the Google service itself with Gmail email confirmation. It's not worth removing it in the first place. You can do this later. At least, even to access Google services, you can enter the mail from a regular home computer, laptop or mobile device by entering the appropriate address in the Internet browser line.

But what if you do not want to create such a record? Here, the solution to the problem of whether it is possible to remove Google Play services on Android comes down only to obtaining so-called root rights or access in superuser mode.

Removing the service itself without having the above rights is almost impossible. Applications embedded in the Android interface are activated automatically, and, as studies of system processes show, they “hang” in the RAM of a smartphone or tablet all the time. Even if you remove everything absolutely, the “OS” itself will still transfer data to the servers of the corporation. Like it or not, such a transfer is carried out at the first attempt to connect to the Network.

Naturally, this must be fought. For example, if you have a problem with whether it is possible to remove Google Play services (implying fast battery consumption), you will not have to use standard mobile OS tools. Here you will need additional programs like CCleaner or an interesting application for methodically cleaning "hanging" programs DU Battery Saver.

Google Play

But that's not all. Asking the question of whether it is possible to remove Google Play services as unnecessary, we also need to dwell on special consequences. Those that may appear only after the uninstallation of any component of the shared service. Therefore, be careful.

What is most interesting, questions like "Can I remove Google Play services, remove fast battery consumption, or just save on charging?" solved quite simply. In any application responsible for the state of the battery of a tablet or smartphone (provided that one is installed), there is a special mode. After unloading all the programs hanging there unnecessarily, you can begin to remove some components.

On the example of Sony Xperia smartphones, there are several highlights. First of all, even if the user has root access or is a superuser, in no case should you uninstall the Xperia Home application. In essence, this is a regular launcher that launches the display of the Android system in relation to a specific smartphone model.

Is it possible to remove Google Play services as such at all? Can. But this will require either obtaining the appropriate access rights, or a complete flashing of the mobile gadget. And then, after applying the new firmware, no one will guarantee that it will work stably, and even more so, it will perceive the removal of Google modules.

By the way, if anyone does not know, the question of whether Google Play services can be deleted is also solved through the accompanying software installed on the computer terminal to control the mobile gadget. So, for example, programs like My Phone Explorer or Mobogenie are quite popular, which are designed to work with smartphones or tablets, regardless of model or manufacturer. Naturally, you can find specialized utilities for a particular brand. Samsung Corporation is especially different in this, which creates mobile software for almost every new flagship model.

Google Chrome Browser: Virus Problem

Let's consider another important question. The solution to the problem of whether it is possible to remove Google Play services w3bsit3-dns.com may also be due to the presence of the Google Chrome browser itself on a mobile device or on a computer.

As practice shows, cases have recently become more frequent when there is a threat in a distribution downloaded even from the official website. In addition, the browser itself is designed in such a way that it can block the removal of one or another component of any service.

Registration

As already clear, registration is done by creating an account in the Gmail mail server. It was said above that you still have to create a registration for access to the same Play Store. However, sometimes it will be necessary to respond to the first incoming message in the mail to confirm the process. On the other hand, this is where it all ends. So the service itself can be deleted without problems.

Loading system resources

As for system resources, it should be noted that almost all Google applications in one form or another affect the system, loading it in the background to the point of impossibility. It is recommended to use at least some primitive programs to stop background services, not to mention removing them from a mobile gadget.

Play Store: Uninstall

Is it possible to uninstall Google Play Services on Android? Yes, you can. It all depends on the needs of the user. In principle, if someone does not need access to the storage of applications and games, the removal will not affect the system as a whole. Moreover, for many users, the headache associated with constant reminders that something new has come out (of course, if the notification functions have been enabled) will disappear.

To uninstall, you can use the usual drag and drop of the program to the top of the screen (in the mode when the display of all programs is enabled), where the "Delete" icon should appear. A widget (shortcut) is removed from the Desktop by dragging it down (to the Trash). Note that in this case only the link to the program is removed, not the application itself.

Memory and CPU usage

From the foregoing, it is clear that Google services, built into the standard set of Android OS, load the system quite heavily. If anyone used system utilities to clean up the same RAM, they probably noticed that the system uses more than half of the available resources. Not to mention the downloaded programs, in this case, Google services do not stop even during optimization. Everything is very simple. The device considers them system.

Removal of residual components

If you have root rights or Super User mode, you can delete almost everything. True, you should not use the standard uninstaller built into the Android OS itself, or apply the removal when accessing the same Google Play. Naturally, in this situation, it will be possible to remove only related services, and even then not always.

It’s better to “demolish” Google Play itself using the same CCleaner application. By the way, unlike the popular Clean Master program, which everyone is touting right and left, it removes absolutely everything that may be present in the system.

Don't believe? Try installing these two programs and compare their performance. At there is only a pseudo-removal (or termination of the process at a certain moment). Then it needs to be turned on again and again. But CCleaner, even when deciding whether it is possible to delete Google Play services, behaves a little differently, erasing even cache folders hidden from the user's eyes and left after running programs or visiting sites on the Internet.

If nothing helps

What to advise if none of the above methods helped? Let's say right away that the question of whether it is possible to remove Google Play services on Android should be decided with access to root rights. Of course, you should not overdo it, otherwise the user, who does not know what each specific service is responsible for, can create such a situation that the system will cease to function altogether.

In this case, you can be advised to update the system itself, the uninstaller program, or, in the end, re-set access to root rights. Perhaps, in addition to them, in some cases, the "Superuser" mode may be required.

Conclusion

It remains to be added that there is nothing wrong with removing the Google services built into the Android OS. Significantly, this will only affect the entire system for good, since RAM will not be used in such a loaded version. It will not affect the OS itself in any way. As a last resort, you can restore the system from a backup or download the Google Play application from an unofficial source, and then reinstall it.