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Android 15 will free you from using Google Wallet as your default wallet app (www.androidauthority.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Android 15 is now adding the ability to set a default wallet app. So on Pixels, you can change from Google Wallet to a third-party app.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Does that mean you can use third party (dare I say FOSS) apps for NFC payments?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

I was under impression that the big issue would be adoption. Like my bank supports only Google Pay and Samsung Pay, but definitely not a “FOSS Pay”.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Are there any? (Searching Fdroid as we speak)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago

There are not, and probably will never be, as they require proprietary blobs (e.g. see this issue in Catima)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully it'll mean you can just have your bank's app installed to handle it so you won't have any third parties gleaming a look into your purchase history.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

That's already possible. My bank doesn't support GWallet and I could set it as my default payment provider just fine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Banks were able to create their own NFC payment app, which can be set as default payment provider.

I'm not sure what else Google Wallet is able to do, but I guess this might be about being able to have a default wallet with tickets for events and similar.

Hopefully there'll really be open-source wallets. With banking/nfc pay this isn't possible for service ands security reasons.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

15 Beta has broken NFC.... so, nothing works for now.