What are the "app dock" apps on your phone? Are they FOSS?
What are the "app dock" apps on your phone? Are they FOSS?
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..
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IronFox (web browser)
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Fossify Caller app
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QUIK (SMS)
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Molly (Signal)
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Libretube (YouTube)
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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.
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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! 💙
Using KISS launcher as my home launcher in minimal mode.
App dock has:
- AOSP Android Dialer (I think), whatever grapheneOS ships
- Molly-FOSS (Signal app)
- Thunder for Lemmy
- IronFox hardened Firefox fork
- Logseq Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)
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
@drew_belloc @noodlejetski I don't have a dock either. I do have a favourites row though, and currently these are the pinned apps (arranged in no particular order):
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Chats (#Chatty) by Purism & GNOME - supports #SMS, #Matrix, #XMPP
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Contacts by GNOME
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GNOME Settings
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#Phosh Mobile Settings
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Tweaks by #postmarketOS
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#Tuba (client for #Mastodon / #Fediverse)
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#DeltaChat ( #openstandards-based, #securityaudited, fast #e2ee chats over bloody #email!)
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Files / #Nautilus by GNOME
All #FreeSoftware /Libre, #OpenSource #FOSS / #FLOSS : )
Note: The home screen and the app drawer / search / overview is all one and the same.
#FreedomTech #LibreTech #Librem5 #LibertyPhone #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #LinuxPhones #gnuLinux #softwarefreedom #BreakTheDuopoly
- Phone app, which is com.Android.dialer that seems kind of (F)OSS at least(?)
- Contacts app, same as phone app: com.android.contacts
- Telegram client Forkgram which is partly OSS but contains unfree stuff upstream + relies completely on non-free service (telegram server +client)
- Email: K9/thunderbird android full FOSS
- Browser: Iceraven which is a fork of Firefox Android. It comes with the MPL (Mozilla public license) but I think it also contains non-free binaries or assets, so mostly FOSS I would say?
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- Phone app, which is [com.Android.dialer](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Dialer/) that seems kind of (F)OSS at least(?) - Contacts app, same as phone app: [com.android.contacts]( https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Contacts) - Telegram client [Forkgram](https://github.com/forkgram/TelegramAndroid) which is partly OSS but contains unfree stuff upstream + relies completely on non-free service (telegram server +client) - Email: [K9/thunderbird android](https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android) full FOSS - Browser: [Iceraven](https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser) which is a fork of Firefox Android. It comes with the MPL (Mozilla public license) but I think it also contains non-free binaries or assets, so mostly FOSS I would say?
@LeFrog @lemmydividebyzero
⚠️You put the same link, Forkgram's, for K9/thunderbird android and Iceraven.
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)
90% foss of all apps.
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
- ❓Phone
- ❌Beeper (Messenger)
- ✔️ IronFox (Browser)
- ✔️Aves (Photos)
- ✔️OpenCamera
I use Total Launcher, and don't have an "app dock".
I use CalyxOS so completely degoogled because everything passes through microG. I have the following;
- Phone (CalyxOS)
- Quik (texting)
- Fennec (Firefox w security)
- Thunderbird
- Google Pixel Camera app, firewalled, and any services go through microG
I put all my apps on my home screen and I keep all non-FOSS apps in a single folder as a reminder to find replacements. The vast majority of my apps are FOSS at this point.
Very nice work! That's a good idea.
Phone (proprietary); Beeper (partial-FOSS); DuckDuckGo (FOSS?); Mlem (FOSS)
Cromite, KeepassDX, Moshidon, Phone, K9
- Super Productivity
- SchildiChat Next
- Open Camera (installed due to this post! replacing the default samsung camera app)
- Fennec
- SimpleX
- Fossify Phone
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
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)
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)
- ✅ Firefox Beta
- ❌ QuickPic Gallery
- ✅ Little File Explorer
- ❌ Google Drive
- ✅ Iacoblonut01's Gallery
- ✅ Molly, Signal fork: https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
- ✅ Feeder, RSS Reader: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
- ❌ Polar Flow (unfortunately Gadgetbridge doesn't support my device)
- ✅ Threema Libre, open source, free in context of FOSS, but paid: https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-android?tab=readme-ov-file
- ✅ Voyager, Lemmy client: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
- ✅ Oeffi, public transport: https://oeffi.schildbach.de/index.html
- ✅ FairEmail: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
- ✅ GOS camera: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
- ✅ StreetComplete, OSM surveyor app: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
- ✅ OSMAnd: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand
I thought this was an easy one, but turns out it is not.
open source, but not free
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.
- ✅ Molly-FOSS
- ✅ FairEmail
- ✅ Markor
- ✅ Brave
- ✅ Metro (music player)
@lemmydividebyzero
They are Fossify Phone, Fossify Voice Recorder, Fossify Camera, Fossify File Manager and Settings. So, 80% FOSS!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 ✔️
here are my 4 non-Foss apps, out of 27 total on dock (yes on the dock, using folders)
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🚫nordvpn
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🚫obsidian (sync disabled)
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🚫@voice aloud tts
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🚫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.)
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- ❌ Phone - com.samsung.android.dialer
- ❌ Messages - com.google.android.apps.messaging (Samsung)
- ❌ Chrome - com.android.chrome
- ❌ Camera - com.sec.android.app.camera (Samsung)
The thing is, I keep them there as a "last resort", not as main use.