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.

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] Linus_Torvalds@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

What about OpenBoard? It is maintained and a great keyboard

NVM, it is not maintained, but there is a very active fork: https://github.com/Helium314/openboard

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 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.

[–] jlow@beehaw.org 4 points 11 months ago

I recently found OpenBoard as an alternative to Florisboard.

[–] time_fo_that@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Weird, it is fast on my Pixel 4a that even struggles haaard with Opencamera

[–] time_fo_that@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Strange, I'll do some more testing. My S23 Ultra is not that old.

[–] merde@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

koler is much better then welefon

i tried wele after your comment, i'm keeping koler

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 11 months ago

Welefon is very basic, but if it works it aint shit