[Q&A] [GAPPS][2015-06-01] Open GApps for Android 5.1, 5.0, 4.4

Mehul.S · Jun 18, 2015

Which all apps do the packages have??

MastahF · Jun 18, 2015

Miladj said:
please add pico (uni) to list.

I will consider it, but currently the focus is on the multi-architecture builds.

bland.life said:
Is the Aroma version totally compatible with an existing non-Aroma installation?

Also can the Aroma version uninstall specific GApp, like just act like an selectable uninstaller of sorts?
I mean to modify an existing installation.

Yes, they are completely compatible with one another, because the AROMA is just a nice graphic interface of the regulare Open GApps stock package.

austinpinto · Jun 19, 2015

hi all.
i am new to android dev.
i created the gaps config in this config i dont want some google apps to be installed.
i also want the installer to replace stock apps in cm12.1 rom.
this is what my config file looks like.
can some1 suggest corrections?.
can some1 also tell me how can i remove apks from the gapps zip and how can i add new apk files like for example i dont want crome to be installed but want crome beta to be installed.
this are the contents of the .gapps-config file as i cannot upload .gapps-config files.

CameraGoogle CloudPrint* Docs* Drive* Earth* ExchangeGoogle* Fitness* GooglePlus* Hangouts* Keep* Movies* NewsStand* NewsWidget* Photos* Slides* Wallet* Browser* CalendarStock* CameraStock* CMFileManager* Email* ExchangeStock* FMRadio* KeyboardStock* MMS* PicoTTS* SimToolKit*

austinpinto · Jun 19, 2015

hi all i have moto g 2014 xt1068.
i did a clean flash of cm 12.1 nightly rom.
when i flash the open gapps 18june build i get an error command not found.
now i had included the .gappsconfig file but i dont know if it was made properly.
can some1 please create 1 file for me?
i want to do the following.
1. the following apps should not be installed.
CameraGoogle CloudPrint* Docs* Drive* Earth* ExchangeGoogle* Fitness* GooglePlus* Hangouts* Keep* Movies* NewsStand* NewsWidget* Photos* Slides* Wallet.
2. i want the gapps installer to replace the following stock apps.
Browser* CalendarStock* CameraStock* CMFileManager* Email* ExchangeStock* FMRadio* KeyboardStock* MMS* PicoTTS* SimToolKit.

my created config file looks like this.

CameraGoogle CloudPrint* Docs* Drive* Earth* ExchangeGoogle* Fitness* GooglePlus* Hangouts* Keep* Movies* NewsStand* NewsWidget* Photos* Slides* Wallet* Browser* CalendarStock* CameraStock* CMFileManager* Email* ExchangeStock* FMRadio* KeyboardStock* MMS* PicoTTS* SimToolKit*

is this ok?.

i also want to ask how often should we flash the latest gapps build?

lets say i dont want crome to install but i want crome beta to install can i just drop the apk of crome beta in the zip?

djalfy · Jun 19, 2015

MastahF said:
No, GoogleClock will be compatible with all ROMs. But because only 1 application can claim a certain permission, the GoogleClock can *only* function if there are zero traces of the AOSP Clock. That is why one needs to start with a clean /data partition if one wants to start using the Google Clock, because it is almost impossible not to have any traces of the app left if one has ever travelled to another timezone, or has used the alarm function. This also explains why many people face the "-505" error when downloading the Google Clock from the Play Store.

I am using cm 12.1 for samsung galaxy s2+ i9105p by andyxml. I clean flashed today the aroma open gapps and checked the aosp clock app for removal in the aroma installer but it didn't get removed and i cannot install the g clock from the play store. Do you have any suggestion on how to remove the aosp clock successfuly?

MastahF · Jun 20, 2015

djalfy said:
I am using cm 12.1 for samsung galaxy s2+ i9105p by andyxml. I clean flashed today the aroma open gapps and checked the aosp clock app for removal in the aroma installer but it didn't get removed and i cannot install the g clock from the play store. Do you have any suggestion on how to remove the aosp clock successfuly?

In the installer you used there was no Clock App removal yet. Only a LockClock removal (to remove the widget that puts a clock on the lockscreen). Maybe @raulx222 can check whether the description is not confusing for this removal keyword?
If you would check the download of TODAY (Sat Jun 20) you will find a proper Stock Clock Removal (clockstock) and adding Google Clock (clockgoogle). But notice that you have to wipe your data partition to be able to install the Google Clock

chewdaniel · Jun 21, 2015

not sure if this is a problem.... but i flashed my new updated ROM nightly and the Jun21 build of Gapps. As always i will wipe /system first... did my normal routine, only to find out that none of the gapps got installed, and now i need to wipe /data since keyboard/clock/camera were all removed but the google versions were not installed

and i also did the mistake of NoDebugLog since i wasn't expecting this to happen... tks

MastahF · Jun 24, 2015

Mehul.S said:
Which all apps do the packages have??

See https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Package-Comparison

austinpinto said:
hi all i have moto g 2014 xt1068.
i did a clean flash of cm 12.1 nightly rom.
when i flash the open gapps 18june build i get an error command not found.
now i had included the .gappsconfig file but i dont know if it was made properly.
can some1 please create 1 file for me?
i want to do the following.
1. the following apps should not be installed.
CameraGoogle CloudPrint* Docs* Drive* Earth* ExchangeGoogle* Fitness* GooglePlus* Hangouts* Keep* Movies* NewsStand* NewsWidget* Photos* Slides* Wallet.
2. i want the gapps installer to replace the following stock apps.
Browser* CalendarStock* CameraStock* CMFileManager* Email* ExchangeStock* FMRadio* KeyboardStock* MMS* PicoTTS* SimToolKit.

my created config file looks like this.

CameraGoogle CloudPrint* Docs* Drive* Earth* ExchangeGoogle* Fitness* GooglePlus* Hangouts* Keep* Movies* NewsStand* NewsWidget* Photos* Slides* Wallet* Browser* CalendarStock* CameraStock* CMFileManager* Email* ExchangeStock* FMRadio* KeyboardStock* MMS* PicoTTS* SimToolKit*

is this ok?.

i also want to ask how often should we flash the latest gapps build?

lets say i dont want crome to install but i want crome beta to install can i just drop the apk of crome beta in the zip?

Just put those keyword on every new line and you should be fine. And no, you cannot drop in any replacement APKs, because their libraries are extracted and the zips are re-aligned. If you drop in another APK, it will very likely not work (large chance to be broken) and with 100% certainty it will work slower than it should.

chewdaniel said:
not sure if this is a problem.... but i flashed my new updated ROM nightly and the Jun21 build of Gapps. As always i will wipe /system first... did my normal routine, only to find out that none of the gapps got installed, and now i need to wipe /data since keyboard/clock/camera were all removed but the google versions were not installed

and i also did the mistake of NoDebugLog since i wasn't expecting this to happen... tks

You might have been hit by a small-chance bug in that build, I am not sure, do current daily versions work for you?

chewdaniel · Jun 25, 2015

Yup. They're ok now. Thanks...

MastahF said:
You might have been hit by a small-chance bug in that build, I am not sure, do current daily versions work for you?

DJAJSlye · Jul 4, 2015

PA Gaps too big

What happened that is making the stock image 855mb on 7/02/2015 and 875mb on 7/03/2015?
The stock image was only 552mb on 7/01/2015.

MastahF · Jul 4, 2015

DJAJSlye said:
What happened that is making the stock image 855mb on 7/02/2015 and 875mb on 7/03/2015?
The stock image was only 552mb on 7/01/2015.

Starting from the 2nd of July build a lot of packages are available in multiple device specific versions. The download size grew a lot, but installing the correct version of the apps will take up less space in /system and put less stress on lower-end devices, that before were forced to downscale high-res resources.
But are working now on some extra compression within the zip file itself (because ZIP itself is not so good in finding 'duplicate' information between the files). That is still work in progress, but it will reduce the downloadsize again below <500MiB when it is finished.

akirayjin · Jul 9, 2015

Can this be flashed in CM Recovery? Are automatic backup work in GT-I9100 CM 12.1 Nightly?

Bradl79 · Jul 9, 2015

i am having trouble downloading 5.1 aroma, everytime i try to download it gets to like 180mb and then failed network errors, it had done this on my phone through LTE, Wifi, Home internet, and Work Internet so its not my networks, can someone please help me with this or download a 5.1 aroma for me and i can download it from u, thank you

sliphacker · Jul 10, 2015

Later releases have LZMA compression

The later releases are about 50% smaller, the packages have ".xz" extension (LZMA) compression, but reboots TWRP...

GerardoHD · Jul 10, 2015

problems installing from 09/07/2015

i tried a lot of times to install OpenGapps with aroma and the latest two zips doesnt work, i have twrp 2.8.0.0. The Installer open, i select my apps but when change to the install screen, twrp restarts, i think that this start to happen when you chenge the apps to tar.zip.

Danchik_21 · Jul 11, 2015

Fix reboot twrp

You want to say that I fixed the bug with reboot TWRP?

marcdw · Jul 12, 2015

GerardoHD said:
i tried a lot of times to install OpenGapps with aroma and the latest two zips doesnt work, i have twrp 2.8.0.0. The Installer open, i select my apps but when change to the install screen, twrp restarts, i think that this start to happen when you chenge the apps to tar.zip.

It's a known issue covered in the main threads.
They're working on finding the cause.
It's said that the 7/05 build works, though.

Sent from my LG-D851 using Tapatalk

Bracket- · Jul 13, 2015

I can report that keyboard now works on clean install and that GApps persist after updating ROM, however keyboard breaks again after updating ROM.

Open GApps: open_gapps-arm-5.1-mini-20150712

MastahF · Jul 13, 2015

Bracket- said:
I can report that keyboard now works on clean install and that GApps persist after updating ROM, however keyboard breaks again after updating ROM.

Open GApps: open_gapps-arm-5.1-mini-20150712

Ok, that is very useful feedback. It would mean that the restore-scripts for the keyboard libs are broken. I will look into that!

UPDATE: could you maybe send me the contents of your /system/addon.d/70-gapps.sh ?

Bracket- · Jul 13, 2015

MastahF said:
Ok, that is very useful feedback. It would mean that the restore-scripts for the keyboard libs are broken. I will look into that!

UPDATE: could you maybe send me the contents of your /system/addon.d/70-gapps.sh ?

Sadly I already re-flashed my GApps (same GApps package), so I'm not sure if it will still be helpful: gist.github /anonymous/a6fe448e1b8358e3aa4b
I'm unable to post proper links or attachments since I have under 10 post count. It's worth noting that I built GApps without googleplus since mini was 177KB over my /system partition.

I'll flash the next CM12.1 nightly when it comes out to confirm AOSP keyboard breaks again. I'm guessing 70-gapps.sh is never modified after initial GApps installation, so I shouldn't need to re-post 70-gapps.sh?

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