wiki/notebook/android.foss-apps.org
Gabriel Arazas b088086b06 Merge evergreen notes into the notebook
Now, it's all under the notebook umbrella. Seems to be appropriate as it
is just my notes after all.

I also updated some notes from there. I didn't keep track of what it is
this time. Something about more learning notes extracted from my
"Learning how to learn" course notes and then some. Lack of time and
hurriness just makes it difficult to track but it should be under
version control already.
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Android free and open source apps

Android is not much of an open ecosystem despite the kernel is open source due to the most of the phones distributed with the manufacturer's modification.

There are solutions into this such as Android custom ROMs and privacy-oriented mobile operating systems such as postmarketOS and LineageOS but that is not the topic. However, they are often not ready and/or widely supported. We may as well take advantage of the Android improvements and features by creating free and open source apps on it.

Here is my personal list of noteworthy Android apps:

  • F-Droid is a privacy-oriented app store for Android. It builds all of the hosted apps from scratch for privacy and security sake of fully Repr
  • Newpipe
  • Goodtime