On the other hand, there are many free software alternatives on F-Droid.
I managed to delete Simple Gallery and Notes. I use Notally instead of Notes and Aves Libre for Gallery, though Aves Libre feels pretty bloated, annoying to navigate, and yet has missing functionalities I was used to using in Simple Gallery. I had Etar on my phone, but I couldn’t update it because LineageOS now uses it for a calendar, and I am stuck on an old version of LineageOS on my phone with very little space until I can backup my phone and update the OS, which requires me to finish my Gentoo laptop installation which I have been struggling with for months (recently, I have been spending weeks trying to make the kernel boot as an EFI stub and unlocking a luks partition using argon2id, and it refuses to recognize the dracut cmdline to open the UUID/PARTUUID as the kernel panics for some reason even though I have fiddled with various configs). There’s just Etar and Simple Calendar if I want an offline calendar, and Etar was very lacking in basic features and wouldn’t import my events from Simple Calendar in one file for all events. I tried uninstalling Etar to reinstall the updated version, but now I can’t install the new version and the old one is no longer available, so I am screwed for now. I was surprised how little choice there is for free software Android applications, and I don’t like most Android apps. Simple Mobile Tools was bearable for simple applications with a clean interface I really wanted, but now I am forced to find alternatives. I really can’t wait to get my Linux phone for Christmas.
The issue is that if these apps end up abandoned, Android updates will break these applications eventually. I really do not like the Android ecosystem, and I can understand why the dev would not want to support upcoming Android versions. Like I said, I look forward to using a Linux phone, even with the quirks and challenges I will face with it. I look forward to having a physical keyboard with the PinePhone as that will make using emacs on a mobile device easier for me. I want to learn emacs as its ecosystem of applications are absolutely god-tier, and I like emacs’ ethos and community.
I managed to delete Simple Gallery and Notes. I use Notally instead of Notes and Aves Libre for Gallery, though Aves Libre feels pretty bloated, annoying to navigate, and yet has missing functionalities I was used to using in Simple Gallery. I had Etar on my phone, but I couldn’t update it because LineageOS now uses it for a calendar, and I am stuck on an old version of LineageOS on my phone with very little space until I can backup my phone and update the OS, which requires me to finish my Gentoo laptop installation which I have been struggling with for months (recently, I have been spending weeks trying to make the kernel boot as an EFI stub and unlocking a luks partition using argon2id, and it refuses to recognize the dracut cmdline to open the UUID/PARTUUID as the kernel panics for some reason even though I have fiddled with various configs). There’s just Etar and Simple Calendar if I want an offline calendar, and Etar was very lacking in basic features and wouldn’t import my events from Simple Calendar in one file for all events. I tried uninstalling Etar to reinstall the updated version, but now I can’t install the new version and the old one is no longer available, so I am screwed for now. I was surprised how little choice there is for free software Android applications, and I don’t like most Android apps. Simple Mobile Tools was bearable for simple applications with a clean interface I really wanted, but now I am forced to find alternatives. I really can’t wait to get my Linux phone for Christmas.
Edit: Good news, it looks like a fork is being made by a long-time contributor: https://github.com/SimpleMobileTools/General-Discussion/issues/241#issuecomment-1837464578
Old org:
https://github.com/FossifyXRenamed org: https://github.com/FossifyOrg
The issue is that if these apps end up abandoned, Android updates will break these applications eventually. I really do not like the Android ecosystem, and I can understand why the dev would not want to support upcoming Android versions. Like I said, I look forward to using a Linux phone, even with the quirks and challenges I will face with it. I look forward to having a physical keyboard with the PinePhone as that will make using emacs on a mobile device easier for me. I want to learn emacs as its ecosystem of applications are absolutely god-tier, and I like emacs’ ethos and community.
Sorry, I did go on a few tangents here.