Simple Mobile Tools bought by ZipoApps

MoonshineMidnight

[deleted] And the Mozilla slogan is..... "Internet for people, not profit".

finitefutility

Crazy! That GitHub issue thread was also quite bizarre to read.. I only use the Simple Calendar Pro app right now, so should hopefully be good for a while. Also just now realised/remembered I'm on the APK released via GitHub anyway, so it won't auto-update via the Google Play Store which will be a good thing going forward.

Hopefully this will encourage a new foss calendar app to step up?

E24

I use contacts, gallery, and calendar from them. Does anyone have any good replacements until the fork is functional?

Aeon

E24

if you got them on google play, block them from updating :-)
if you got them from github you should still be fine. :-)

I am using Contacts, Clock, Message, Gallery, Calendar and downloaded them directly from github.

Once the fork has its first release I will replace them all with the apps from the fork :-)

E24

Aeon I got them from aurora store

BalooRJ

Aeon This is stupid advice. Just switch to Etar, the default SMS app in AOSP for text messages, Tasks.org for Tasks, and the default AOSP Calculator among others. Don't keep apps that aren't updated on your phone as it could be targeted for security flaws.

TranceSeven

Aeon if you got them on google play, block them from updating :-)

How? I've looked and looked and still can't see how to do this. (I've got secondary devices that don't use GOS where I need to do prevent updates).

Also, the fork has had a name change, they dropped the "X" suffix and added Org to match the newly registered domain name (fossify.org): https://github.com/FossifyOrg

Dumdum

BalooRJ Just switch to Etar... and the default AOSP Calculator among others.

Both of which have less than ideal appearances therefore having legitimate reasons not to use them. Not to mention, Etar doesn't seem to have proper import/export functions as far as I can tell.

Don't keep apps that aren't updated on your phone as it could be targeted for security flaws.

Guess its normal to just ignore parts of a comment now? Aeon clearly says they'll be switching to the forked apps. They absolutely weren't giving the "stupid advice" to use apps that aren't updated. The "blocking them from updating" is simply to prevent updating to ZipoApp versions of SMT specifically, which is equally is important as not using un-updated apps and is perfectly legitimate advice to give - certainly not "stupid advice" as you said.

[deleted]

BalooRJ SMS app in AOSP for text messages [...] and the default AOSP Calculator among others. Don't keep apps that aren't updated on your phone as it could be targeted for security flaws.

Those are never updated (upstream AOSP's fault of course). There aren't great options for replacing the SMS app, but OpenCalc is a great replacement for the calculator, and is actually updated.

DeletedUser301

BalooRJ "Don't keep apps that aren't updated on your phone as it could be targeted for security flaws."
What security flaws are you talking about for offline apps? Most AOSP apps (Gallery, Calculator, Clock) shipped with GrapheneOS were not updated for ages and that's totally fine given they are completely offline.

missing-root

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Yes and no. SMS sucks but if you are somewhere remote, at least in good old Germany SMS may be necessary. And then you would wish to have encrypted SMS like in Deku SMS. Or stuff like sending images without MMS, using "Image SMS".

The latter one is 5yo so not an option for GrapheneOS really.

[deleted]

Are you guys just look at the calculator or actually use it? Its the last app id give a fck about, looks-wise.
Same with the SMS. You wanna avoid SMS anyways because its unsafe, so if it looks shit maybe you will be even more disgusted by it.

[deleted]

TranceSeven How? I've looked and looked and still can't see how to do this.

Open the Play store app -> Click on "Manage apps and device" -> Click on "Manage" -> Click on the App you want to prevent from auto-updating -> Click on the three dots in upper right -> Disable "Enable auto-update".

[deleted]

[deleted] Open the Play store app -> Click on "Manage apps and device"

Edit: You have to click on your Google account profile picture, in order to click on "Manage apps and device".

Relaks

The only Simple app I haven't replaced is Gallery, as I find the editor decent and simple (no pun intended). But Aves is a better photo browser.

Eury

Relaks
"The only Simple app I haven't replaced is Gallery, as I find the editor decent and simple (no pun intended). But Aves is a better photo browser."

I have tried a number of times to get used to Aves. Sometimes the app that works best for me is one that is narrowly focused; for my needs for a Gallery app Aves is too feature-rich, and it seems like every app update for it brings a list of new features added.

A suggestion I recently came across that seems to be exactly what I am looking for is 'Gallery' by lacoblonut. As soon as in the github listing I saw that IzzySoft is a code contributor then I had high expectations; he is also a code contributor to Raival-e File-Explorer which is for me an indispensable file manager; it is so good that this is what the AOSP stock file manager should be, in my opinion.

https://github.com/IacobIonut01/Gallery
https://github.com/IacobIonut01/Gallery/releases
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.dot.gallery/

(Raival-e) File-Explorer
https://github.com/Raival-e/File-Explorer
https://github.com/Raival-e/File-Explorer/releases

source:
https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/simple-mobile-tools-to-be-bought-by-zipoapps/15337/8
"I’m quite enjoying Gallery by lacoblonut on F-droid. Though it may not have features others are looking for."

Aeon

small update:

The Fork Fossyfi changed their name slightly:

The new github adress: https://github.com/FossifyOrg

rndmE

Some of you may have deactivated the automatic updates of the Simple Apps just as I did after I've read about the sellout of the Simple Tools.
Today, I have noticed, that the Fossify Gallery (also the name in the store) is now officially available in the F-Droid store.
I have installed it and it works perfectly fine.
Simple Gallery is finally deinstalled.

missing-root

Aeon

This is especially bad as the SMT apps could have been good replacements for the old unmaintained AOSP apps GrapheneOS ships.

Afaik, the Filemanager is the only App (with a launcher icon) that is actually maintained.

I want to open another discussion about this.

missing-root

Eury the file explorer hasnt have an update for 15mo (same on F-Droid but the last release is really that old).

For a tiny Gallery I would use Leafpic revived (still years old) which even has an editor. I see no reason for that other Gallery, and that Android design wasting 30% of screen space makes no sense at all. Fossify Gallery it is!

Aeon

Update (2. jan. 2024)

Fossify has started to do their initial releases of some of the Apps :-)
https://github.com/FossifyOrg

The following apps have an release as of today (Jan. 2nd 2024)

Gallery: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Gallery
Calendar: https://github.com/FossifyOrg/Calendar

Dumdum

Aeon
Fossify File Manager is now also available.

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