Does that mean you can use third party (dare I say FOSS) apps for NFC payments?
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”.
Are there any? (Searching Fdroid as we speak)
There are not, and probably will never be, as they require proprietary blobs (e.g. see this issue in Catima)
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.
That's already possible. My bank doesn't support GWallet and I could set it as my default payment provider just fine
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.
15 Beta has broken NFC.... so, nothing works for now.
Could you not already do that? My previous bank had their own nfc payments bullshit, but I've always been able to set that as my default.
Yes you could, I use my banks app for NFC because google wallet sucks (it stops working when play integrity fails, so on most non-rooted phone with unlocked bootloader)
Good. I've only had bad experience with Wallet. Tried to use it, added a card. Some time later I tried opening it and it was constantly crashing. It was like that for few weeks. I've tried upgrading, downgrading - the same. This is supposed to be a critical app. I've uninstalled and I'm never going to try it again.
That's odd. Has always been dependable for me and my family over the years.
Cool. Google wallet has always worked out good for me though
It does work fine, but it's yet another avenue of data collection for them and another reduction of choice by a monopoly.
I Didn't even know it was possible to use different wallets
It has a major flaw: it works from anywhere so long as the phone is unlocked.
I wish there was an option to set it that payments work only when I open the wallet app.
To avoid accidentaly triggering a payment, what I do now is manually turn NFC off after every payment
Do you think we will see alternative wallet apps pop up from Cashapp or PayPal or even directly from bank apps? Also, would they be able to support the other non-payment functions of electronic wallets with transportation/event tickets and such?
Not gonna lie if PayPal made a wallet for android i would use it over Google Wallet.
I want to set cake wallet or monerujo as default
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