lugerun No, they just add their own patches on top of the exact same upstream applications. The problem with using their applications is that all of the changes would have to be audited for security, and I promise you that they would require very substantial rewrite to make them comply with even very basic security requirements. In particular, a lot of the dialer changes are downright dangerous and allow their users to be tracked by 3rd party services for things like caller id lookup. Lineageos is for "features", not security.

    hdishs Probably because their programs are overly simple to the point where they are ineffective. In addition, every line of code would have to be audited for security before you could include them in a privileged way.

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      • Post #38

      I only use phone app 2-3 times per week and messages app the same number of times.
      Really I don't need much more than the included by stock GOS apps

      hdishs
      The Simple Mobile apps are hideous. Please don't use them as a base for anything.

          AlanZ The Simple Mobile apps are hideous.

          They're really not. I don't know why you keep saying this.

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            I think you need your eyes checked if you think Simple apps are ugly.
            And theres no better gallery app than Tibor's, which is an objective statement said by God himself.

              The only* default app that is really unusable is the AOSP Gallery app in my opinion. The others are basic but do the job fine.

              (* and Vanadium until it gets uBlock Origin ;) )

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              No, I most certainty don't. They are cartoonish, the colors are tacky, they are barely anything more than an exercise in mediocrity. You need to raise your standards. Otherwise, I think you are a cool cat : )

                  AlanZ then it must be your wallpaper ;)
                  They switched to Material You some month ago. I agree that the old orange-grey default does not look good.

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                    • Post #45

                    AlanZ I respectfully disagree. Maybe you dont like orange. You can change it in settings.

                      The apps except the gallery don't look that ugly or amateurish to me, it is the material design version 1 or 2, the same design that google used in their apps previously, now they use version 3, Plus i don't spend much time in such apps, i m more worried about some apps like sms targeting old an sdk

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                      Simpe Mobile Tools has been sold and now the apps are full of ads or overly expensive. However there is now fossify phone and contacts that are a fork of the old SMT apps. They are ad-free and seem to work fine. I especcially like the ability to move contacts from one address book to another. And in the call history I directly see how long a call lasted.