With Trump banning Huawei to use Google services and apps these are some useful tricks to keep your device up to date with latest apps, and app alternatives. Install F-Droid, foss app repository. With F-Droid you can install these apps:
Yalp store or Aurora store - used to download and update apps from Play Store
Newpipe - Youtube player, play videos even with screen off, import subscriptions etc.
OsmAnd+ - Google maps alternative
F-Droid link: https://f-droid.org/en/
Also, Google will disable Gmail for Huawei users, you can setup Gmail to redirect your e-mail to other e-mail address, you can find free (and paid) privacy respecting e-mail providers here: https://www.privacytools.io/providers/email/
If you don't want to abbandon your Gmail you can use K-9 mail available from F-Droid repository as client for managing your Gmail if you setup your Gmail to use IMAP. Link to app: K-9 Mail (Full-featured email client) - https://f-droid.org/app/com.fsck.k9
@mikegrace
People need to understand that there are other services than google, they have too much power.
@nikolal
Agreed. My guess is that most don't understand how much data Google has or they don't think that much data would be likely to negatively impact them.
@mikegrace
That, and fact that they don't care too much
@nikolal I've been pretty satisfied with Protonmail. I pretty much only have a Google account at this point in order to have a YouTube account.
@connorcreegan
You can go step further to manage all your subscriptions without google account, but it may not seem convenient at first.
@nikolal If I were only going to use YouTube for subscriptions, I would take that step, but I plan on using it to upload videos in the near future.
@nikolal
I just switched to runbox a few weeks ago and it's been going really well. Good pricing and support. Works well with K9.