Typing this on my Poco F1, 6 may ROM and now upgrading to 13 may version. Battery is great (2,5 days), it is very stable and the speed is also good. Yesterday I've tested navigation by downloading Google Maps. Couldn't find places by typing. When I enabled advanced location via WiFi and Bluetooth it worked. Installed in November lineage manually with MicroG and had problems with finding location. Not anymore.
I also use Aurora store for the few apps that I'd like to use from play store such as banking. The sick thing about this combination is that it supports in app purchases as well.
Do you also get this annoying thing where the fingerprint sensor stops working sometimes and touch is too sensitive? The LineageOS beta worked great, the official version is buggy for me and is really annoying.
I also keep thinking about doing this on my Pocophone (F1) but how do I know what works and what doesn't? I really like the face unlock feature and I don't want to lose the good camera. It's not immediately obvious from their website what state everything is in.
I don't believe you can install the play store itself, but Spotify should work. You would have to manually side load it, or install the yalp store which will manage fetching and updating play store apps for you.
Yalp store has default credentials for Play, and it has difficulty loading "split" APKs. I have Chrome installed, and I use Yalp's manual download to get updates for it, then trigger the updates from my downloads folder. If I were using Webview instead, this wouldn't be required.
LineageOS really should find a way of making Webview available for people who do not load Play/gapps - MicroG is the only way to run an up to date webview if gapps is not present.
There are also two versions of the "Aurora Store" in F-Droid. These require your Google account at startup, and they supposedly handle the split APKs.
Yalp does warn that using your own credentials is a violation of Google's terms of service. Because of this, I have never given these credentials to Aurora.
Aurora does not require using your own credentials; there's an "anonymous" button on the login page. It does support split APKs, and has completely replaced Yalp for my uses.
> Does this mean I can use the Play store and apps such as Spotify without much issue?
Yes! (I used to have the Play Store installed on my phone with MicroG and it worked just as you would expect. As for Spotify, I use it on a daily basis.)
UPDATE: I should point out that I have since replaced the Play Store with Yalp/Aurora Store because the Play Store still needs to be installed as system-privileged app which I didn't like.
Does this mean I can use the Play store and apps such as Spotify without much issue?