60 million apps keep getting pushed on us, and everyone wants their own… Every restaurant, gorcery store, etc.

Would it not be feasible to install all of those Kroger, Gas Stations, bloat, bloat, bloat apps on an app Server that we just have a remote access to them like a thin client from our phone in a singular app of shortcuts (look like a folder, directory) So all the apps stay installed and don’t use resources on the phone. Which keeps storage requirements down on the local device and means when you go into another device you can just log in and have access to all the apps already signed in and how you left them.

Does anyone know if there is already such a setup?

It wouldn’t work well with things like streaming services, but it could still cover a lot of day to day apps I don’t really want to have to have on my device.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    2 months ago

    If you want to get deals for the grocery store you need their app

    That’s because they want to get their app on your phone so that they can perform data-mining using the data that the app can get from the phone environment.

    I mean, I don’t think that it’s worth bothering with trying to game the system. I’m not going to give them my data, and I don’t really care about the discount that they’re offering for it. But if you want to do so, you can probably run an Android environment on a server and use the equivalent of RDP or VNC or something to reach it remotely.

    grabs a random example

    https://waydro.id/

    A container-based approach to boot a full Android system on regular GNU/Linux systems running Wayland based desktop environments.

    Need to connect that up to VNC or RDP somehow if it doesn’t have native support.

    EDIT: I think that I’d take a hard look at how much it’s likely to save you relative to how much time and effort you’re going to spend on setting up and maintaining this, though.