Source.

Simple Mobile apps have been very popular among FOSS enthusiasts. I’ve personally been using the Gallery, Contacts and the Phone app since a few years now. It’s a shame that it has come to this, will be on the lookout for their forks.

  • Pantherina@feddit.de
    161·
    11 months ago

    So this just looks like the Community has to take care of the projects and/or find alternatives

    Alternatives

    File manager - Material Files

    That one doesnt have the security vulnerability and I think it is also better. But they are pretty much equal.

    Simple Gallery - Aves

    I prefer Simple Gallery though, it is pretty great

    Simple dialer - Welefon

    Very basic, I personally use ACR phone for call recording, with disabled internet permissions. The Dev asked on Reddit about opensourcing the App and got negative responses, so maybe unlikely.

    Simple Keyboard - Florisboard

    Currently unmaintained but awesome. I hope it gets revived.

    Simple Calculator

    My favourite: Mint Calculator

    Calculator

    yetCalc

    Unitto

    Simple SMS

    AOSP SMS/MMS, Quik Sms

    AOSP SMS is poorly hard to find. That would be great on F-Droid. It also uses old libraries.

    All these look way better and have unit transformations.

    Some Gems

    Some apps have no good replacement

    Simple Gallery

    Also in my opinion just the best. The Amaze Videoplayer and tools are great though.

    Simple Contacts SE

    That is the better version with some enhanced features.

    Simple Calendar

    I just got way better results than using Etar. The Widget is great too.

      • Pantherina@feddit.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        Dann that is nice!I It will probably be the replacement for people needing autocomplete!

        Testint it currently and I think it is the perfect replacement for iPhone people as the cursor thing is similar.

        I love the granular autocorrection as I would set only suggestions without correction if the language was new to me.

        I will stick with Florisboard though, I prefer the pitch black dark mode (and dont need anything else) and I love the internal clipboard, history, deletion etc. It is so much better for privacy.

        Also the text editing shortcuts are great and needed for the clipboard.

    • time_fo_that@lemmy.world
      1·
      11 months ago

      Thank you for the recommendations! Material Files seems to work well, I’ve been struggling to find a file manager that doesn’t reset the date modified metadata when transferring photos to the SMB shares on my NAS. Several folders of hundreds of photos now have completely incorrect dates attached to them because of a file manager I used previously :(

      So far from my testing Material Files does not do this!

      Edit: it’s extremely slow though lol, that’s weird. 250 small photos took several seconds each.