Facebook is prepared with a contingency plan should Google pull on its Android program from the Play Shop, based on a media report.

To start with, Facebook would duplicate most of the services that one gets through Google Play-enabled programs, like in- upgrades and program purchases.

It contemplated options to Google Maps for location information, and has also researched strategies to help people download its program outside of a shop, the report said, including that Facebook could have even gone so far as to examine Android users’ reliance on its program.

It is not known if Google was conscious of the fallback before now, but nevertheless, it wouldn’t be astonishing if the search giant had at least contemplated the option.

Facebook didn’t remark on the obvious leak.