yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Ultramanoid:
Neither the Play Store nor Play Services have been updated since the last minimal pack from BaNkS ( July 29 ) so there's no need for now to download all the extra bloat and then remove it or prevent it from installing.

Hopefully someone will be making another minimal package available in XDA. I'm considering it since I'm gonna have to do it myself anyway after the OP clearly states in the post above that this won't happen here.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] drewski_1:
it's a text file.

there's a post with details of what to put into on the first page of this thread.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] wardawgmalvicious:
I realize that, but I figured I should learn how to do it since he did state he would not be making a smaller package and would eventually have to learn.

I thought about asking someone else to maintain one, but I wasn't sure if that would be rude since this a different thread..

-wardawgmalvicious
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
This obsession with what's in the zip is your own. The only thing that matters in reality is what gets installed to your system, and there will be an after-the-fact Remover-based solution for this, likely over the weekend, and a comprehensive, preventative one in the coming weeks as [MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] readies the full shell script PA GApps, as we've both explained to you.

Since your question wasn't actually answered: Plain Linux text file. Your best bet is to write it on your device with a file manager app. That'll ensure the correct line endings.

Edit: I see drewski sniped it after all! ;)

Oh well, a bit more detail for you. :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] wardawgmalvicious:
Null

-wardawgmalvicious

---------- Post added at 09:45 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:42 AM ----------

Just a basic text file?

And I read the first page, I just was not entirely sure of what exactly to put in it to achieve what I was looking for.

-wardawgmalvicious

---------- Post added at 09:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:45 AM ----------

Thank you sir, that is what I was wondering. I appreciate your reply.

-wardawgmalvicious
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Ultramanoid:
You are free to make packages as you wish, and it is a hell of a lot of work to post them, update them and support them.

That said, downloading repeatedly 54 MB, in reality, is not the same as downloading 22 MB.

Installing something that won't remain in my system ( I only do this when needing to use the Play Store, but it does NOT stay in devices after use which may be a few hours or five minutes ) in reality, is not the same as installing + removing or having to remove what I do not want in the device at all from the zip before flashing.

In short, you'll do as you like, and many will thank you here for it, and I'll make my own zip which until now I didn't have to thanks to BaNkS. But don't start insulting or applying the word "obsession" to a different way of doing things.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] chewdaniel:
here... to make things easy for u :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] slogar25:
Again downloaded and installed are two completely different things. Have you actually checked after installation to see the size that was installed? And nobody is trying to insult anyone but maybe us PA gapps users feel insulted by everyone coming from BaNkS ripping these gapps down. Sorry but we will defend our developer here. Be patient in a short time you will be able to pick and choose which gapps you want installed at installation time in recovery...similar to aroma
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] wardawgmalvicious:
Thank you very much!

-wardawgmalvicious
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] solar666:
[MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION],

Thanks for providing the additional nano package. Coming the way over from banks :)

I have one problem with addon script as part of the nano package.

Just flashed the new update v132 by temasek and found myself with no calendar app installed that normally comes with the ROM.

Looking at the addon script shows me that it is deleted after the restore of the gapps package.

I think that this is not correct.

May you please check and provide an updated nano package fixing this issue?

Thanks upfront.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TDSJR:
[MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] Something tells me, you may be regretting your generous consideration already.

Sent from a long-time, APPRECIATIVE PA Gapps user.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] PunchUp:
I don't think that is anything unexpected. I'm sure he knew there was going to be some sort of commotion.. It will fizz out gradually.. And nobody is actually depreciating his efforts.. Just expressing individual opinion.. People still thanked him anyway.. So you're wrong about that.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Rickav:
This just in from OP's mind:

But seriously, GG [MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] for taking it upon himself to take a "nano" hit for the team and maintaining top form whilst picking up where [MENTION=2915683]BaNkS[/MENTION] left off.

10/10 would GApps again.

99.5/100: Mediocre work ~ IGN
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
I actually regret doing this about twice per week. :)

It's also one of the reasons that I don't have a donation link or request anything (but 'Thanks') in return for providing these GApps. I enjoy having the freedom to work as hard (or not work at all) in maintaining these GApps without any obligations. As long as it remains fun, I'll continue to do it. Once it stops being fun, I'll move on to something else.

It's interesting that [MENTION=2915683]BaNkS[/MENTION] and I actually developed a friendship over the past year. We exchanged ideas, commiserated about our threads, and even had a few laughs along the way. While we had different philosophies regarding our GApps packages, neither of us thought the others' work was less relevant or valuable to the community. That said, I have read posts in his thread putting down PA GApps and referring to them as "bloatware". That term has been used here, today, as well. While much of the discussion today has been healthy, nobody likes to see their work referred to as "bloat".

Crap! You're exactly right! I definitely missed a few edits in the addon.d script. I'm going to pull them ASAP and release an update called 0904a. Thanks for the heads up!
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] mrcrah:
Hi, I would just like to say that most of us that have come over to PA from Banks are very grateful that you are trying to cater for us at all. I think people forget that if peeps like yourself say sod it I can't be bothered with it all, we would have to do the hard work ourselves. Yes there are people that can do it themselves but most can't so once again... Thanks :)

Sent from my GT-I8190N running SlimKat
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
PA GApps Update Announcement

I'm in a bit of a rush as I'm leaving for the night. However, I have pulled the 0904 builds of the Nano packages and replaced them with 0904a. The change was due to an issue in the addon.d backup script that removed the Calendar sync when restoring GApps. If you're using the Nano package, it would be best to flash this new package next time you update rather than letting the backup script do the work.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] :
We definitely developed a friendship there. :) We would always help each other out. People would always find the time to down other people's work. I really didn't like that, but that is the way xda is today. Some people just don't appreciate the hard work of others and always have something negative to say. I would say just ignore the negativity and just do it how you want to. :)
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Rickav:
[MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2915683]BaNkS[/MENTION]

[IMG="Now Kith"]http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2924871&stc=1&d=1409870792[/IMG]
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] chewdaniel:
yup. don't let one single individual calling your work "bloat" after almost 700 pages (and on the first day the nano was released too!) spoil all the fun :D
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Ultramanoid:
I consider things that I do not want to download, install, or need to remove, quite simply, bloat. I'm hardly the only one who thinks this way about Google's GApps but in many cases there's no escaping the need to at least use temporarily the Play Store.

I am lucky in the sense that I can provide for myself, many can't, and even though this is a developers' forum, obviously there are people who depend on packages made by others. ( And sure enough, I already said it, I will too if it saves me time. )

And because I give credit where credit is due, and have always tried to keep a constructive and civil discussion, I would like to be a selfish bastard now and quote myself from all my previous posts in the last few hours :

Thank you BaNkS, for saving me a lot of time lately, and thank you OP and contributors to this thread.

That said, can we agree to disagree on what 'bloat' is ? These days I consider Play Services very close to malware myself.

Me and my big mouth. Cheers, everyone.

Edit : If you read ( and have a good grasp of English, with people from so many places that is not always the case ) what I wrote comparing BaNkS' 20 odd MB pack to the nano's 50 odd MB, I literally said :

... no need to download the EXTRA bloat.

Which would mean I already consider BaNkS' pack... Bloat.

Am I insulting BaNkS ? How can I do that and yet profit from his work at the same time ?

I consider GApps bloat. The less of it I'm forced to deal with, the better.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] daniu:
Hi everyone,

Being the first to ask about a minimal package without Google search I almost regret having written that post since I feel like ending up in the box with the complaining people. I did not know that there is a way to remove parts of gapps. For me the problem is solved with that (hmmm - at least by the time I know how to do it - I guess there is enough documentation to find out without asking)

So - I would like to say: can we please stop this useless discussion? And we refugees of banks behave like thankful visitors for a while? (Maybe the way we all would like the refugees in the real world to behave?)

Sorry to all the old users for that interruption and thank you to the 2 developers for the hard work and probably even more for bearing with us.

Actually I am pretty sure someone will continue banks work or do something similar in the near future...

Regards
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] mythenmetz:
Thanks for the nano package! But I would also love to see the gapps package without Google search, that package was the main reason I switched to banks gapps.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Flo0fy:
Hello guys. I'm sure this was already pointed out/answered, I use the latest PA GAPPS and PA 4.6 BETA 1. Not sure with which is the problem but when I use Google Now with the option for Hotword detection on any screen after I say Ok Google the app crashes. If I don't have it enebled then it's okey. Is it for only me or just a broken apk ?

BTW Using a Samsung Galaxy S3

Keep up the good work :D
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Nick Nexus:
Youtube widget is missing from the pa_gapps-stock-4.4.4-20140901-signed. (I checked it with both google now launcher and nova launcher).

I clean install the ROM (omni-4.4.4-20140901-jflte-NIGHTLY, on galaxy s4) again, but the widget is still missing.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] scoobyjenkins:
I think they took the widget out of Youtube (Google)

Tapatalked that shiznit.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] chewdaniel:
youtube widget is part of the app, not part of the package. maybe google removed it
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sumit.roy:
I have a samsung galaxy tab 2. I flashed the stock gapps over it without worries. I jst flashed cm11 on my new Xiaomi Mi3, bt could not flash stock gapps package over it. even not mini package. whats wrong?? it giving me an error 'Insufficient storage space available in System partition' although i have formatted my device and then flashed cm11 rom. Where is the error. both my devices have 16gb of internal storage
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] chewdaniel:
read...........the............faq..........
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sumit.roy:
I have read. that's why I asked. the ans has not solved my issue as I have ample internal storage. 16gb internal should not cause issue, whereas tab 2 with same internal storage didn't faced any issue..
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] shawnbrennan55:
"Internal Storage" is not your problem. Your system partition is out of space.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sumit.roy:
how that can be? I have formatted the system using cm recovery
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] zadigre:
check the pa_gapps.log file... I'm sure you system partition size is "small" compared to your tab 2.

your only option is to install a smaller package... there's no arguing possible here...
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] chewdaniel:
like i said before... read the FAQ... particularly and especially point #3... read and understand it.... "Internal Storage" is not the system partition alone. system partition only has a fixed size maybe 1GB
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sumit.roy:
hahaha, not arguing..
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] shawnbrennan55:
Your other option is to find a smaller ROM. In my experience CM11 builds can be a bit large compared to some other ROMs.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] sumit.roy:
I even tried using unofficial slimkat rom which is relatively smaller , bt of no use..
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] chewdaniel:
are u really still refusing to look at the file mentioned in FAQ #3?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] tool_king:
Well, obviously he doesn't want any help. Strange. :silly:
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] JoeSyr:
Two questions:

1)What functionality of Google Search/Now is lost if Velvet.apk is not in /system/priv-app/? I have not used it in a long time and I had assumed I could always just grab it from the play store if I wanted to try it out again, but I also assume that when an apk is in priv-app there's some functionality that requires system permissions. I couldn't find any mention of what's lost by just having it in /data/app.

2)I'm a bit confused now about the various sync adapter apps that go in either /system/app or /system/priv-app/, and whether they can each support the AOSP/non-google or the Google versions of apps. Here's the things I see that conflict:

-CM11 and OmniROM for my device both include: Calendar.apk in /system/app/, and CalendarProvider.apk, Contacts.apk, and ContactsProvider.apk all in /priv-app/. There is no version of Google_____SyncAdapter.apk in either. I found a post in this thread by the OP from April which asserts that GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk is for the non-google Calendar, but that no longer seems to be the case if CM11 and OmniROM represent the norm.

-I've been using CM11's setup, minus their Calendar, plus the Play Store Calendar, and it syncs just fine. So it seems that CalendarProvider.apk works with any version, since it's packaged with a non-Google version and I'm using it with the Google version.

The Google_____SyncAdapter versions seem redundant across the board if the _____Provider.apk versions are bundled in ROMs and work with both the Google and AOSP/non-google versions of their apps. Are they just included because some ROMs don't have the _____Provider.apk versions?

For my part I'm going to keep using the Play Store version of Calendar, and I think I'll just delete the Google_____SyncAdapter.apk's from the nano package and keep using the ____Adapter.apk versions in my ROM.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
I'll take #1: Google Search, and Now and Launcher are all contained in Velvet. So you lose all of it.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] siealex:
Yes, it's one app. Even in task managers they all are "Google Search".
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] TKruzze:
Must be on your end. Works fine for me and haven't read any similar problems from others. Sounds like a Clean flash is in your future.

You'd have to ask Google about that. I don't make the apps, I just place them in the proper place on your device.

1) In addition to what @osm0sis said, it's my understanding that "Okay Google" only works when Google Search (now apparently called just 'Google') is installed in the system partition. While I haven't personally tried it, that functionality is removed or diminished if the app is installed ONLY in /data.

2) Yes. Since you didn't provide any links or tell us the exact ROM's you're referring to, this is only speculation. CM (for the Nexus 5) does not include Calendar Provider, so you're likely not using a real CM ROM. CM is prohibited from including ANY Google apps in their ROM's as Google does not allow it. That's actually why we have GApps. While some devs will include the syncing apps, most have followed CM's lead and avoid this practice as doing so could potentially make them a legal target from Google.

Also, the entire purpose of the syncing apps is to allow the AOSP Browser and Calendar to sync with Google's servers. That's also the reason we don't include them in our Google Stock package as we remove the AOSP Browser and Calendar and replace them with Play Store versions which don't require the companion apps to properly sync.

EDIT: To better explain this. The name of the app as placed in the ROM or GApps is entirely meaningless. The real name you should be concerned about is the package name. That tells you from whence it came. For instance, CM's /system/priv-app/CalendarProvider.apk has a package name of "com.android.providers.calendar". From that you can tell it's the AOSP version of the app. The versions in these GApps are all "com.google.android.{whatever}". These are the Google versions that you won't find in CM, Omni, PA, or any other ROM that follows AOSP guidelines.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] Nick Nexus:
Do you have the widget?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] adizen_800:
PA-GApps insrtallation error!!!

Hi [MENTION=2777334]TKruzze[/MENTION] I have been looking for GApps for CM11-20140901-NIGHTLY-MB526.ZIP ROM and got to know that [MENTION=2915683]BaNkS[/MENTION] has closed working on GApps but he has given your reference for alternate GApps.

Now yesterday flashed the above ROM with [MENTION=2915683]BaNkS[/MENTION] GApps which I had earlier downloaded. They are flashing fine ( Clean state install Wipe-data,cache,dalvik,system) but at welcome screen I am not getting any Google sign-up process. Google processes keeps crashing and sign-in never completes. Tried his many packages from Standard to minimal with clean state flashing procedure but no avail.

After searching the thread for fixes, I got to know about your PA-GApps and thanks for creating a new package for us to seamlessly migrate to your GApps. :laugh: But in my case when I try a clean state flash with your GApps Micro and NANO both give me an insufficient memory error and cannot install GApps :crying: . Please fix this issue as I cannot use Goolge services which are a vital part of the mobile usage ecosystem.

As you asked I Am posting the contents of the LOG file below for you to have a look at it. This LOG is of NANO version of your GApps :-

# begin pa gapps properties

# This file contains information needed to flash PA GApps

current_gapps_version=none

current_gapps_type=none

installing_gapps_version=20140904a

installing_gapps_type=nano

total_system_size_kb=332946

used_system_size_kb=285082

free_system_size_kb=47864

free_space_reqd_kb=104479

total_gapps_size_kb=97788

install.chrome=false

install.faceunlock=false

install.camera=false

install.gallery=false

gallery.device=none

replace.launcher=false

replace.mms=false

replace.browser=false

replace.picotts=false

device.name=mb526

# end pa gapps properties

Please suggest me a way out as I need to fix this problem ASAP!!!

Thanks in advance....:laugh:

P.S. - My mobile handset is Motorola Defy Plus MB526
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] zadigre:
you will definitively have to look for an other rom or gapps package... the free space in your system partition is way to low to install any of the GApps package found in this thread...

look here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2515036&page=539

there's an other package available elsewhere that could help you...
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] JoeSyr:
Edit: Oops, ninja'd. I'll re-edit with a more appropriate response.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
The buffer on nano could probably be lowered a bit too, considering it's for super low-space devices. :good:

Edit: NM. Looked again; the buffer's already only like 7mb?
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] adizen_800:
Thanks for the prompt reply. Nothing can be done apart from looking for other GApps?

Also, I have navigated to a link for Slim GApps. Will these work fine as they have been tested on HTC and Samsung devices as stated in the link.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2265564

Thanks!!!! Appreciate the help. :D
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
If you look at your own numbers, you only have 48mb of free space. Good luck fitting almost anything in there. Your only hope is to get a smaller ROM so that you have more room for GApps in your /system partition.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] adizen_800:
Can GApps can be brough down to necessities only like syncing libs, google play framework and google play. and nothing else. Am I am missing any crucial component which will hinder basic working.
[General Paranoid Android Discussion] osm0sis:
I'm not exactly sure which libraries belong to which apks to say whether or not you could slim it down (by half!?) to fit in your extremely limited space..

It's possible that the shell GApps could allow you to customize enough to make it fit, but I can't guess when that'll be ready for you to try.