PieFedWhat are the "app dock" apps on your phone? Are they FOSS?
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Go to your phone homescreen and look at the app dock (the bottom row that contains some apps and stays the same when you switch pages).
Which are yours? Any FOSS apps?
In my case, they are FDroid, Signal, Threema, Firefox and the defaul Samsung camera app. So, 80% FOSS..
IronFox (web browser)
Fossify Caller app
QUIK (SMS)
Molly (Signal)
Libretube (YouTube)
Thunder (Lemmy).
Oops, all FOSS! :)
The only proprietary apps that see regular use on my phone are my banking app and Spotify.
Why Molly? Doesn't being unofficial mean always being a step behind in security updates?
If I were having high-stakes conversations, I might agree, but any slight delays in updates is unlikely to affect me. I'm not a high-stakes target of any sort.
Well - Kind of.
- Snapchat (not FOSS at all afaik)
- Aliucord (Modded client for Discord, at least partially open source)
- Summit (FOSS)
- Signal (FOSS, I think)
Molly-FOSS is the fully FOSS, hardened fork of Signal that is available on Fdroid via their repo.
Here's a feature comparison on their github between Signal, Molly, and Molly-FOSS. Basically, the stock signal app relies on some google services, Molly-FOSS does not.
Didn't know Summit had gone FOSS! Thanks mate! 💙
I don't have an app dock, so... zero for both?
Well i do have one, i just like to have it empty
We are not the same
Using KISS launcher as my home launcher in minimal mode.
App dock has:
3/5 and as I was writing this I found out I might be able to get rid of the video recording shortcut because apparently a software update exposed the full video resolution to OpenCamera… although I still have to test that.
Yep, all except for two: Crumpet and our Bank app. We can be pretty sure of this as we run CalyxOS and we have too many apps to list otherwise as everything on our 'dock' is in folders.
I don't have a fixed bottom row.
I've got maximum two pages. Folder Cover mode is much more efficient. (I hope for an immersive (full screen) mode some day)
What's not foss? banking, gov broadcasters, arte, ard, zdf, german train app, magic earth, ebay, dict.cc, car sharing,
I think they should make ard, zdf and arte open source!
Yes! It's bonkers that they did not yet do it
I also think that they should work with the same backend and similar frontend. But they rather pay 5 people do to the same job
dict.cc is really great! And at least the German<>English dictionary used is FOSS: https://dict.zero-g.net/
Nice, I didn't know that.
Unfortunately, I have to use deepl/linguee in "a lot" of cases
I use CalyxOS so completely degoogled because everything passes through microG. I have the following;
I use Total Launcher, and don't have an "app dock".
On GrapheneOS:
- Orgzly (FOSS)
- Folder with personal communication theme:
- messages (FOSS)
- protonmail
- discord
- Signal
- Phone (FOSS)
- Contacts (FOSS)
- 5 other proprietary or rarely used messaging apps to stay in touch with specific people in specific circumstances.
- Folder with daily/common apps:
- Fossify Calendar (FOSS)
- Local transit app
- Settings (FOSS)
- Firefox (FOSS)
- HomeAssistant (FOSS)
- Clock (FOSS)
- Organic Maps (FOSS)
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Very nice work! That's a good idea.
here are my 4 non-Foss apps, out of 27 total on dock (yes on the dock, using folders)
🚫@voice aloud tts
🚫MS Swiftkey settings (true privacy threat i know, but Asian lang. support is essential & it runs w/o internet perm., w/o play services, and kept in incognito.)
Phone (proprietary); Beeper (partial-FOSS); DuckDuckGo (FOSS?); Mlem (FOSS)
Cromite, KeepassDX, Moshidon, Phone, K9
Signal ✅
Whatsapp (for those who don’t use signal i must contact) ❌
Firefox ✅ (Which essentially serves as a webapp for an institutional website i need to always visit)
Simplenote ✅
Fennec ✅ (Main browser)
I thought this was an easy one, but turns out it is not.
Free here means free-as-in-freedom. The free software definition and open source definition are almost identical, there are very few apps that are only one or the other.
Edited. Thx for pointing out.
Öffi has been a joy, it took some time, but I now like the idea of a special app for public transport a lot
The thing is, I keep them there as a "last resort", not as main use.
Vivaldi - FOSS
Weather - FOSS
FB Reader - not FOSS but soon to be replaced with Librera FD when I finish what I'm currently reading
Clock - FOSS
Camera - not FOSS
Vivaldi is not open source
Dang. I could have sworn it was. Thanks for the info.
Replaced FB Reader with librera this morning, and switched to open camera so now my dock is 100% FOSS!
Woohoo! Nice going. How are you liking Librera compared to FB Reader?
So far its a pretty solid replacement. Though searching network libraries could be better. As far as I can tell theres no actual search feature.
Phone, messengers/SMS, settings, browsers, and photo/video tools, in that order. Probably mostly because that's the default location and where I'm used to them being.
Default telephone, messages, settings, mixplorer, firefox
Well as I don't have a dock in Niagara Pro I just go on with the apps I pinned:
Telephone, standard dailer from android : ✔️
WhatsApp, eeeeh: ❌ ❌ ❌
Discord: ❌
Firefox: ✔️
Proton Mail: well not FOSS (at least the paid tiers) but OSS
Proton Calendar: same thing
Jerboa: ✔️
Tusky: ✔️
Grayjay: I guess yeah to both (with license) ✔️
M.A.L.P: check and check ✔️