[Android General] LighthammerX:
This might seem like a really weird topic to some but its becoming one that I feel will benefit many in discussing:

Since 2010, I've remained on the fence about Google and to a lesser degree Samsung and Apple. Some days I'd wake up and they would be the company I LOATH and HATE because of some thing they did that had bad optics (Hello Google's purchase of Boston Dynamics). Other days, I'd wake up and think they were the best company in the world because they did something that really pushed the envelope of technology or did something that had fantastic humanitarian potential or something that was just genuinely felt altruistic in nature.

As time went, those days of "evil" creped closer in to being the daily status quo and those altruistic events have been diminishing. 2016 marked the year where we saw a huge uptick in the unethical usage of data Google and companies who could claim close affiliation (either by direct partnerships or making use of their technology) began to absolutely abuse the information they've gathered on us over the last 10-20 years depending how early of an adopter you were.

Events such as PRISM, Harvard Analytical and Fusion GPS all illustrated the unethical use of data gathering techniques and has inspired the application of the Jellinik Curve and other addiction methodologies into applications.

It's been my goal in 2019 to get myself as much out of this "game" as possible. The big realization I had a number of years ago (which, I'm sure many others have had) is that if you aren't paying for something with money, you are paying for something through some other means; usually through information. This doesn't necessarily preclude that paying for something means they aren't ALSO doing stuff with your data too to some nefarious end (Hello False Dichotomy).

After all this background, my usecases are pretty simple:

- Any application I use on my phone has to be front someone or someplace (company) that, with some research, seems like they have ethical standing.

- My information going through their network needs to be encrypted in some way. Obviously the higher the better within operational tolerances (IE I doesn't bog down the equipment into unusable).

- It has to be cloud based with the same information being accessible across multiple devices.

- A mobile webapp is highly welcomed (it's harder to mess with your on phone data if you can use a webapp as opposed to an APK, but, of course that comes with usability and potentially security problems).

Insofar, I've tested/played with the following apps that are starting to become my daily drivers.

- Protomail to replace Gmail. (paying for yearly subs)

- Timetree to replace Google Calendar (Still not sold on this one)

- Cryphon to replace Hangouts/Messaging (kind of, sort of)

- Waze to replace Google Maps (Sure, Waze is owned by Google now, but its lacking some the issues --- I'm very open to another long term solution)

The one that's personally killing me is Google Voice. It's been my daily driver since 2008. I have 8 different Google Voice numbers I use for various things.

- 1 is for personal

- 1 is a "business personal"

- 5 are for business

- 1 is a spam line

I can't find any solution to Google Voice that allows for the number of phone lines without it costing an arm and a leg.

All this said, I'd like to see what the XDA community thinks about this topic in general and what app suggestions people may have.

At the end of this year, I'd like to be at a place where I can use an Android and have absolutely zero Google apps installed (including Play Services).