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    <p>
        NikGapps project started with the goal to provide custom gapps
        packages that suits everyone's needs. A package that a user needs
        but cannot find and ends up setting up the device installing more
        apps and removing unwanted apps manually.
    </p>
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<ul class="nikgapps__features__list">
    <li>
        NikGapps is a gapps package built from my own device. As my device
        is always updated with latest version of Google Apps, every time I
        build a new package, I am on latest version of Google Apps.
    </li>
    <li>
        NikGapps is a bit different than other Gapps packages. It focuses
        on providing apps that most of the people uses but can't find it
        in other Gapps packages and ends up installing the apps manually.
    </li>
    <li>
        NikGapps doesn't have stock YouTube, instead it has YouTube
        vanced. It doesn't have Pixel Launcher, instead it has Lawnchair
        launcher
    </li>
    <li>
        It also allows optimizing Google Play Services (when you turn off
        Find My Device) so that you can sleep with peace without having to
        worry about Google play services eating your battery.
    </li>
    <li>
        Just like OpenGapps, it allows you to dirty flash it anytime you
        want. It also supports addon.d so you need not flash the package
        again and again after every nightly flash.
    </li>
    <li>
        NikGapps comes with nikgapps.config file (can be found at
        /sdcard/NikGapps folder) which allows you to configure your
        installation. Now you can control the installation the way you
        desire.
    </li>
    <li>
        NikGapps offers separate addon.d scripts for each package that it comes with. Easy to control which package
        you want to restore after dirty flash!
    </li>
    <li>
        NikGapps also comes with debloater.config file (can be found at
        /sdcard/NikGapps folder) which allows you to configure the apps/files
        you would like to debloat. The same is persistent across dirty flashes.
    </li>
</ul>