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Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases, and no user information is collected in Organic Maps. We have asked for an appeal.
As a temporary workaround you can install the upcoming Google Play update from this link: https://cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/OrganicMaps-24081605-GooglePlay.apk
This APK should work with Android Auto.
I hate the fact that there’s no simple, free, ad-free note-taking app either inbuilt or on the app store. Just something simple and local to take a quick shopping list or a name or something like that. Fdroid has me covered for that.
I just set up Obsidian with Syncthing like so many Lemmy users recommend and it is totally awesome! I also love that I can theme it differently on my phone, tablet, laptop, and computer.
Downloading from github defeats the whole point of getting free software. Fdroid builds are guaranteed to not include any non-free components. The same is not true for github builds.
It was shared on the fediverse 2 days ago. Now, we get this. I don’t want to assume malice, but something seems fishy.
Fortunately, it’s still available on fdroid. This is one of the reasons you should get your apps from fdroid instead of play store.
Absolutely. Fdroid is awesome.
I hate the fact that there’s no simple, free, ad-free note-taking app either inbuilt or on the app store. Just something simple and local to take a quick shopping list or a name or something like that. Fdroid has me covered for that.
I just checked a couple of the editors I use, and this has been the only one that’s offline first and no tracking - Markor:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.gsantner.markor
I haven’t used it a lot but it’s been fast and easy to use.
Use one of the markdown apps
I’ve been trying out Markor on Fdroid and I like it.
Google Keep?
I’d prefer local storage over cloud storage for quick silly things like that.
Google Keep is stored locally and synced with the cloud.
I use obsidian works very well very simple and can be very complicated depending on what you want to do
I just set up Obsidian with Syncthing like so many Lemmy users recommend and it is totally awesome! I also love that I can theme it differently on my phone, tablet, laptop, and computer.
? Google has Keep. It’s whacky but it definitely has one and I think it comes pre-installed with base Android.
Haven’t looked into good FOSS alternatives on F-Droid yet.
last I checked the aosp doesn’t include gapps
No one was talking about AOSP though?
i consider the aosp to be base android, sorry if i misinterpreted your comment
That’s like saying ungoogled Chromium is base Chrome. “Base Android” is what ships with Google’s Pixel phones, which comes with Google apps.
yes, but getting updates weeks later isn’t for everyone.
Yeah, updates can be a tad slow. For fast moving apps like newpipe its understandable. For regular apps it should be fine.
There’s sometimes third party repos that are updated faster. Or you can use obtainium and get updates straight from github.
Downloading from github defeats the whole point of getting free software. Fdroid builds are guaranteed to not include any non-free components. The same is not true for github builds.
It’s still a better option than using the Play store if you really need a newer build, but yeah, not my first choice.