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.
Damn, SMT was great for filling in system tools on custom ROMs, anyone got any good alternative gallery apps with a similar feature set?
THANK YOU for this post, just replaced my dialer, contacts, gallery, and clock.
Ugh.
I migrated to Simple Gallery after QuickPic was similarly sold to a sketchy buyer. Been using it for so many years, supported the dev(s) by purchasing some of the apps and the “Thank You” app they have.
Time to look for yet another gallery app.
We can’t have this happening every time. There needs to be a better way to support and sustain such apps.
I’m in the exact same boat
Aves Libre is pretty nice.
Isn’t offline though and doesn’t have a feature-rich video editor like Simple Gallery had :(
Isn’t offline though […]
How do you mean? I was of the impression it was.
Ah sorry, I didn’t know there was a Libre flavor of Aves, had just checked the regular Aves on FDroid. Thanks for this!
Wait the Libre version also has full network access.
I mean, GPL guarantees code remains open and free. If they release an app based on the source code licensed under GPL, they have to give a source code along with essential build instructions to anyone who is using it, and then you can do anything with that code, including sharing, compiling, and distributing that app, provided it’s under GPL license.
Edit: I see it’s licensed under GPL 3.0, so no worries.
Yeah thankfully the code’s GPL 3.0, but I’d imagine there’s a good chunk of people using the app from the Play Store who may not be aware or may not want to compile the app themselves, who might be affected with whatever future updates come out.
Same shit company bought the pixel minimal watch face, and they’re now charging like 18$ PER WEEK for premium features.
I had already bought it thankfully and I kept my premium status but still. I was not happy
Could someone explain what’s the big problem? They’re open source, you can still use the existing apps just fine. And with time, someone should fork them, shouldn’t they?
Millions of auto-updating installs on unsuspecting users devices who thought they installed a privacy respecting app, but is now likely to harvest as much personal data as possible.
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FFS just started using these apps
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