Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative?

I’m currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I’m currently out of ideas, so I’d like to heard if from you guys.

Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.

ClearCutCoconut,

I posted a similar question a few months ago if you want some more ideas :) (also looking to develop/design an open source app – hmu if you want to collab on one!)

lemmy.world/post/14119180

Blaiz0r,

NZB360

Andromxda,
@Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

A delivery tracking app would be great, ideally with Widgets and Material You. On iOS I used to use Deliveries or ParcelTrack, but after switching to Android and primarily using open source software, I couldn’t find a good alternative.

sag,

QuickCursor

Lobotomie, (edited )

Right now im looking for an alternative to the Google Maps Timeline. I know there is OwnTracks but I dont think that everything has to be hosted on a server somewhere (especially when all its saving is a timestamp and a coordinate, its not like that takes up alot of space)

Basically just your own location tracker and then the option to see your own history displayed in a map e.g. where you have been on the 02.july.2019 at 11:50.

subscriber_bot,

I would also be interested in this!

sulunia,

Are you thinking of a mobile app or something else, like fully separate hardware you’d carry around? Sounds interesting

Lobotomie,

No I am just thinking of an App. The Apps which exist (as far as I have found them, if there are better apps I would be glad for recommendations) are either:

  • “fitness/running” trackers
  • unmaintained
  • still use the Google location service
  • use a self hosted server to store your data
  • don’t have a built in map viewer to see your history
kilgore_trout,

I know there is OwnTracks but I dont think that everything has to be hosted on a server somewhere

Google Maps Timeline is also hosted on a server somewhere.

OsmAnd has a track recording feature.

Lobotomie,

Yeah obviously Google hosts this as a Services because it want your location data. But if I’m the only one who sees that data, I think it’d fine if it stays on my phone.

And I am especially not looking for a tracker like you showed (usually because I dont care “exactly exactly” how I went to places but rather at which time I have been at which place)

AlexCory21,

A nutrition tracker where you can enter what foods you eat into a small database. And then when you eat meals you can check those foods off in order to calculate all of the nutrition facts consumption per day. And it could be expanded even further by adding graphs and reports such as Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.

Could track Calories, Vitamins, Minerals, and other specific nutrition stats. Most nutrition apps I’ve seen only track Calories… Or don’t have accurate nutrition applied to specific foods as it is generic. Letting the user add the food as a item in a small database would give the user more control of how the stats and reports are calculated.

Could be helpful for some to see their intake and then figure out ways to change it to become healthier.

tinsmith,

Also, export the graphs/reports to PDF, or something easy to pass to a doctor.

Maybe a dev can take inspiration from the Yuka app. To their credit, they have put together a great database for scanning foods and comparing ingredients, as well as offering understand of the possible risks of those ingredients.

sarchar,

Sooo, an open source Cronometer.

… which is a really good app btw. Been using it for 10 years.

matt,
@matt@lemmy.world avatar

Isn’t this literally what Waistline is for Android? You create your own local food database (which you can automatically fetch info from Open Food Facts or USDA if desired, but not required) which lets you put in as many nutriments to track as you wish, all with graphs and information with different timelines.

No clue if there’s anything like this for desktop.

eugenia,
@eugenia@lemmy.ml avatar

A video editor…

tchnqs,
eugenia,
@eugenia@lemmy.ml avatar

That’s a video cutter, not an editor. There’s a difference.

tchnqs,

Ah, my bad.

cyberwolfie,

Is Kdenlive no good? Always heard good things, but I don’t use those kinds of software.

eugenia,
@eugenia@lemmy.ml avatar

Kdenlive is a desktop app, not an android one, that the OP is asking for. Regardless, kdenlive crashes easily, has no hardware acceleration, and it doesn’t have good color grading tools (particularly in regards to film emulation, which is what most people want to do artistic videos – I used to shoot music videos). For basic videos, it’s ok.

foremanguy92_,

Would like to get an effective metadata eraser, this one is pretty good f-droid.org/…/com.jarsilio.android.scrambledeggsi… but cannot saved to device, that’s really awful… If you could get something as strong as this and saved it to device that would be pretty nice

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Have you tried ImagePipe?

foremanguy92_,

It leaves some metadata

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Interesting, what does it leave?

foremanguy92_,

Don’t know exactly but many infos still there, but maybe there are not so important but there are still here

loudWaterEnjoyer,
@loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Can you give some info that’s still there?

charje,

Visual voicemail

nope,

Mixplorer ?

drasglaf,
@drasglaf@sh.itjust.works avatar

iVoox

whoisthedoktor,

Support for all the hardware so we can quit using garbage Google-provided Android on every single phone instead of just the half-dozen or so phones some of these Free Android builds support. Amazing that I can install Linux on every single freaking configuration of PC that’s ever existed with a very tiny amount of systems not having support for all of its hardware even if said hardware has never been freed or even officially documented, but not with phones.

The damn things will still be a privacy nightmare because your cell signal tracks you everywhere you go, but at least we’d have a Free OS for everyone’s phone.

reactive_recall,
qwerty,

Clash royale

liliumstar,

I think an open-source general device benchmark would be cool. Including CPU / GPU / Battery life metrics. As far as I know, everything that does this is proprietary.

iturnedintoanewt,
@iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee avatar

Allowing manufacturers to know how a benchmark is performed also allows them to more easily artificially cheat when they know the benchmark is running.

liliumstar,

That’s a good point, but I don’t figure this theoretical application would be big enough for any manufacturer to care about. I just wanted something for the people :⁠-⁠)

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