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.
For anyone looking for an alternative to Gallery, Gallery by Iacoblonut looks better, and you can use Amaze to edit images.
I always try to avoid these because of how they had held users data hostage on their calendar's play store version, glad this happened so there can be a foss fork by more trustable parties. Yay!
Ah no, that sucks. I've been using a lot of those apps.
sad
Nooooo
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!
I think it is worth mentioning that there is an alternative for each one of Simple Mobile Tools apps. It will just mean we have to spend some time looking for such apps yet again. We as users of FOSS software must be always prepared to move from one application to another. This is why walled gardens, export to / import from open standard formats and in general easy replaceability of FOSS SW is important. This is just a sad fact about using FOSS where FOSS maintainers are just normal people, with all their needs, faults, and weaknesses.
Simple Gallery has a feature rich photo and video editor as well. I haven't found any FOSS app that can edit videos. Also, any Material You themed Dialer app? Don't want to use the old AOSP one :(
Other than these two, I think all other apps have good alternatives.
NOOOOO
So the most important question is - what happens to the F-Droid versions? Will the apps still be listed in F-Droid in the future, and if so, should they still be updated?
Time to download all those apks and keep them mirrored elsewhere, I fear for their future now
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?
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.
Hmm, I think I got Simple File Manager Pro from F-droid, would I need to do something else for it?
What is a good alternative?
Also I had the simple music player app, although I have no music downloaded ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
EDIT: hmm, strange acquisition actually, only the fee apps? Or the deal ain't over?
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