What are the "app dock" apps on your phone? Are they FOSS? (reddthat.com)

submitted 6 days ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/foss@beehaw.org

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Go to your phone homescreen and look at the app dock (the bottom row that contains some apps and stays the same when you switch pages).

Which are yours? Any FOSS apps?

In my case, they are FDroid, Signal, Threema, Firefox and the defaul Samsung camera app. So, 80% FOSS..

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[-] 73kk13@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

✅ Molly, Signal fork: https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
✅ Feeder, RSS Reader: https://github.com/spacecowboy/Feeder
❌ Polar Flow (unfortunately Gadgetbridge doesn't support my device)
✅ Threema Libre, open source, free in context of FOSS, but paid: https://github.com/threema-ch/threema-android?tab=readme-ov-file
✅ Voyager, Lemmy client: https://github.com/aeharding/voyager
✅ Oeffi, public transport: https://oeffi.schildbach.de/index.html
✅ FairEmail: https://github.com/M66B/FairEmail
✅ GOS camera: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Camera
✅ StreetComplete, OSM surveyor app: https://github.com/streetcomplete/StreetComplete
✅ OSMAnd: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand

I thought this was an easy one, but turns out it is not.

[-] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 4 points 5 days ago

open source, but not free

Free here means free-as-in-freedom. The free software definition and open source definition are almost identical, there are very few apps that are only one or the other.

[-] 73kk13@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 days ago

Edited. Thx for pointing out.

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