>If you are going to use an Android phone and you want to install any apps of any kind you have to have a gmail account.
False. You can allow your phone to install apps from F-Droid or APK Pure, or install Aurora and can install apps from Google Play store, without having a Google account, it will even update apps you installed when you did have a Google account or even if you never did.
Thanks. I haven’t been able to get around having an account. I will give it a try.