I’m currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I’m currently out of ideas, so I’d like to heard if from you guys.
Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.
Obsidian.
Markor is a great open source markdown editor for android, but I wish we had some decent WYSIWYG options, like obsidian, typora, etc.
Logseq is pretty close
Joplin already does a great job for this, at least for notes.
I used Joplin extensively for ~2 years, but I was constantly put off by the desktop applications UI and how my notes was stored in SQLite. The move to obsidian felt natural and I felt more in ownership over my files in their existing structure. Granted, obsidian is closed source and could go rogue, but when that happens, I am prepared to jump ship without too much pain.
I used Joplin for up to 8 hours daily for half a year (university) before switching to Obsidian, too. As far as I know, Joplin lets you store the notes as files, too, but you need to set it up that way from the start.
Still, I found Obsidian to be much more pleasant and - ironically - easier to modify (by writing plugins) than Joplin.
IMO Obsidian is already a little rogue, in the sense that it only supports their sync. I know you can glue something together by syncing the folder itself, but that’s not convenient or the point. For now I’ll stick with Joplin because it works with nextcloud nicely.
There is at least plugins that enables sync by alternative ways. They’re not as elegant, but work.
Since everything, including settings, is stored in the same root folder as the notes - you can sync your settings along your notes through other tools too.
Oh, I’ll take a look at those plugins.
Nova launcher - there isn’t a good one for one FOSS replacement. Every launcher I tried from fdroid has at least one shortcoming (if not more).
Agreed. Yet to find a true replacement
I’m making do with pear launcher. Only thing I’m sad about off the top of my head is you can’t change the padding on widgets to fit whole screen.
Neo launcher does that
I really like Kvaesitso though I’ll admit I keep going back to Nova
It’s a little strange, but I’m enjoying Pie Launcher
Discord. I hate that premium costs so much and all the ads they put in place to sell useless junk features.
Google maps. So open street maps but with reviews like maps has. A few days ago people suggested apps, but they lack reviews. I disagree that they are useless.
Discord has an alternative called Revolt that is open source. It has all the premium features in discord for free, but is still in early stages I’d say.
Speaking of reviews, aren’t there special review websites in most of the countries?
It’s about a quick glance on a location and reading some reviews quickly. There is a workaround with open street maps integrating google reviews but it’s again relying on google at this point.
Well if openstreetmaps implemented the same thing it would be useless because there are not many people using it
It would grow. Just to have the ability would be nice. A lot of people also would start to write reviews to be the first etc. We got to start somewhere, same as with the Fediverse. We could even combine it.
Yea having the ability would be nice. I’m not sure it’s possible to implement without sacrificing privacy though
I use Mumble + XMPP with an IRC gateway to cover everything voice & chat related …but there are plenty of options to replace Discord, you just need to let folks know you don’t want an ad-filled proprietary experience & that you wish to be contacted in a manner where your privacy is a priority.
Google’s reviews have a lot of junk in them except the ones stating business closed/moved (OSM you can literally delete or move the POI, but less users). The integrated crowd-sourced images of establishments however is missing which makes it hard to understand POI in comparison—a picture is worth a thousand words.
One of those “smart” alarms that monitor and graph your sleep. E.g movement, sounds, snorings, sleep talking etc.
At a minimum one that wakes you up in the 30 minute window of your lightest sleep phase
I paid for AMdroid because I can set profiles, Geo fence, have math problems to turn off alarms, fade in music, turn on my flashlight… All the bells and whistles. I would love a FOSS version, but many try to be single feature. I like all the things.
My banking apps. They are the only reason I can’t fully de-google myself.
I can’t really think of anything now because Android FOSS apps ecosystem is really good. What I want to suggest is contributing to already existing projects sometimes. It’s faster and just another thing you can do to help open-source ecosystems
Yes, I don’t think I have another app but more features on some apps I use (Smartdock, Joplin, Librera, Rimusic) would be slightly life-changing.
Right now im looking for an alternative to the Google Maps Timeline. I know there is OwnTracks but I dont think that everything has to be hosted on a server somewhere (especially when all its saving is a timestamp and a coordinate, its not like that takes up alot of space)
Basically just your own location tracker and then the option to see your own history displayed in a map e.g. where you have been on the 02.july.2019 at 11:50.
Another idea would be a e-book reader. I don’t like Librera, because it acts more like a image viewer and less like a eBook reader.
try koreader I’ve tried a few e-book readers this is the best one I found so far I think it’s available in fdroid
A mood tracking app. There’s no open-source alternatives that exist for the time-being (disregarding non-native apps).
I used pixy for a while and it’s pretty good and open source https://github.com/mrzmyr/pixy-mood-tracker-app
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I can’t find an equivalent replacement for Musicolet. There are plenty of open source music players out there for Android that just don’t have the little features that Musicolet does. Such as multiple queues, lyric editing, metadata editing, format conversions, stop after the track finishes, easily reorder songs and clear queues, etc.
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WhatsApp
What about signal?
The signal app does not let me send messages to WhatsApp users.
Use the web app version then
The web app version requires you to install the nonfree app. This is circular logic.
Oh I didn’t know it couldn’t work without the app. Nvm then
Yeah and not just once. Iirc if their proprietary, closed-source app doesnt call home to their mother ship at least every 2 weeks, then all your WhatsApp Web sessions get deauth’d.
We really need a way to use WhatsApp without using the original spyware app.
Well even if someone creates it, it will still act like a web session. It will just be a frontend. You can’t create a separate app with authentication and everything because it’s proprietary (so you can’t see how authentication works) and messages are E2EE
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Edit: someones already mentioned these below… nevermind!
If youre in the EU then EU parliament forced whatsapp to start developing cross-app communications with Signal, telegram etc. (Source). This was in 2022 and was due to be released in March 2024. Im not sure where it got to though since i dont use whatsapp, though i might start asking some friends to see if its rolled out.
Alternatively there are “matrix bridges”. Namely via Matrix which can link messaging apps through matrix accounts and send messages between
Telegram is pretty good, and has open-source clients.
Doesn’t let me talk to people on WhatsApp
It soon will
Deadline for that was a few months ago. I’m skeptical
Signal I suppose would be the closest analog
No, I’m not looking for an alternative. I’m looking for an open source client that let’s me talk to folks on WhatsApp.
I see, fair enough. I don’t know if you’ll have any luck with a FOSS third party client which does t violate their TOS. There was something on fdroid years ago, a wrapper that effectively allowed you to use WhatsApp Web on another phone (or perhaps even the same one), but it ultimately requried the use of the official clients
If you use one of those WhatsApp web apps, you still have to use the closed source app. It doesn’t solve the problem
Yes, I already aluded to this. Point being, I don’t think you’ll find a viable FOSS front end since it would violate their TOS.
Most people don’t care about violating ToS. Its not a risk to an open source project.
It is to
A: the continuity of said project (DMCA) and B: to the individual end users.
You can use FOSS clients for things like Discord or the Google play store but you still run the risk of getting banned.
Meme Generator
The only true answer
A video editor…
Is Kdenlive no good? Always heard good things, but I don’t use those kinds of software.
Kdenlive is a desktop app, not an android one, that the OP is asking for. Regardless, kdenlive crashes easily, has no hardware acceleration, and it doesn’t have good color grading tools (particularly in regards to film emulation, which is what most people want to do artistic videos – I used to shoot music videos). For basic videos, it’s ok.
NZB360
A nutrition tracker where you can enter what foods you eat into a small database. And then when you eat meals you can check those foods off in order to calculate all of the nutrition facts consumption per day. And it could be expanded even further by adding graphs and reports such as Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.
Could track Calories, Vitamins, Minerals, and other specific nutrition stats. Most nutrition apps I’ve seen only track Calories… Or don’t have accurate nutrition applied to specific foods as it is generic. Letting the user add the food as a item in a small database would give the user more control of how the stats and reports are calculated.
Could be helpful for some to see their intake and then figure out ways to change it to become healthier.
Isn’t this literally what Waistline is for Android? You create your own local food database (which you can automatically fetch info from Open Food Facts or USDA if desired, but not required) which lets you put in as many nutriments to track as you wish, all with graphs and information with different timelines.
No clue if there’s anything like this for desktop.
Sooo, an open source Cronometer.
… which is a really good app btw. Been using it for 10 years.
