Android (currently) is an open-source operating system. Just because you develop for it doesn’t mean your reliant on Google, or have to interact with them in any capacity.

Oh no!

Anyway…

Nice try. This is just trying to get us to lower our guard and become complacent!

Well, if you have the option you could set up a virtual network through the VPS and have a box with pfsense or something to route all traffic through. Take this with a grain of salt - I’ve seen this done but never done it fully myself.

Basically yeah, though I didn’t specify hardware because of how often virtualization is done now

I mean if you’re hosting anything publicly, you really should have a dedicated firewall