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.
Terrible news. These apps are really great. Reminds me of what happened to Quick Pick and ES file explorer and u could also add Nova Launcher. More apps assigned to the graveyard. Hopefully they get forked quickly and updated when needed.
Is there something in the making with Nova Launcher? I love it and didn’t hear any bad news
https://www.androidpolice.com/nova-launcher-acquired-by-branch/
Kind of old article, but yea, they were sold.
Darnit… Thanks
The death of Quik Pic was when it was sold
I swapped the Simple after that, so this blows fucking ass.
Fucking hell now I need alternatives to my dialer, my gallery (this will be the hardest one to replace because the editing for simple gallery was amazing), contacts, and clock. Does anyone have any suggestions?
For Contacts and Clock, use YOU apps. I don’t think anything can replace the Gallery, I’ll continue using the current version for as long as there’s a new community-maintained fork. It’s quite stable really, doesn’t really need changing this very moment.
I’m not finding them. Link?
Thanks will check Aves out: https://f-droid.org/packages/deckers.thibault.aves.libre/
I’ve been using Material Files and am happy with it.
+1 for Material Files
Aves does not have any editing features
I think that functionality should be separate from a gallery app. Check out Image Toolbox for mobile photo editing.
Yeah, that’s true. But it’s not a problem for me because I rarely edit photos on mobile. When I have to, I just use the stock app.
Amaze can’t handle WebDAV :(
I guess I don’t need a gallery app…
It’s kind of a bad idea to not keep a file browser up to date. You don’t really want security flaws in a program that has access to all the files on your device.
It’s even worse idea to get an inevitable update that pushes ads through the file browser.
This is terrible news! I am going to struggle to find a replacement for the gallery app.
FFS just started using these apps
That’s the beauty of FOSS. Just download the existing app and blacklist it from updates. Someone will archive the existing code so it can be downloaded later.
Everyone has a price.
sad
Ah no, that sucks. I’ve been using a lot of those apps.
Nooooo
Wow I was never comfortable about the marketing vibe around those apps on f-droid, so I avoided them. I’m glad of that now. Still, someone can snag the source code for a fork if they want, and I’m sure there are alternatives.
When I migrated to GrapheneOS I chose to use all the system’s native applications (AOSP) for obvious reasons but I admit that this news makes me very worried, one less dev we will have on our side.
man, the gallery and calendar were great!