You can use Shizuku with Canta. You can pretty much uninstall any app that way (even system apps), but you of course can also brick your phone if you aren't careful. There are builtin warnings for critical system apps that will brick your phone.
this post was submitted on 07 Dec 2024
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+1 for canta!
Also not possible with developer options on, USB to PC, ADB or Universal Debloater? https://github.com/0x192/universal-android-debloater
Thanks :)
Can confirm, UAD (which is internally just adb) works fine for samsung crap.
If you want to gradually move away from closed and/or paid software, afaik, the only way is through unlocking the bootloader and uninstalling programs through there.
Alternatively, there is the nuclear option, to replace the whole system, and start from zero with a distro as close as possible from AOSP. Worth noting it also requires unlocking the bootloader.
This is what I would recommend. LineageOS is great.
But if you're aiming for 100% open source, you should account for stuff like radio firmware. You'll have to look at Pinephone or Fairphone. Android contains a lot of binary blobs.
You can disable the built-in apps.
They can't be removed as pre-installed apps are part of the OS image. It's a bit like the immutable distros now popular in Linux. Any update to the OS would just re-add them anyway.
These apps aren't exactly huge in disk size so disabling them is safe and effective. It will reduce battery and memory usage if you would ordinarily have them running in the background for some reason.