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The Apps

FDroid

FDroid is easy to install and provides free applications. Note that it doesn't require root permissions and is very easy to install, even without the command line.

Apps That Still Need To Be Liberated

Please add apps here that have no free counterpart, but are important to have on a free system. People can contact the authors of those apps and ask them why they are not Free Software.

• Public Transport App

  • Öffi is a very popular app which builds upon a Free Software library by the same author.

  • There is now a Free Software alternative called Transportr that is still looking for contributors.

• Menstruation Calendar and Calculator

  • There is now Periodical

• All-round-Backup (You can only backup your entire flash with CyanogenMod's bootloader or use apps that backup only some data)

  • There is now also oandbackup that can backup your apps.

• GSM-Hacking

  • something like HushSMS which is non-free.

• Special Keyboard

  • missing a Keyboard with lager keys like MessagEase

• slow Network Browser

  • missing a browser for slow mobile networks with an turbo mode like Opera Mini or Yandex.Browser

• Car Sharing Map

  • missing a car sharing map like Mobility Map

• App for dict.cc

  • at the moment, there is no foss app to use the great dictionary from dict.cc on playstore

  • But there's QuickDic

• Missing an download manager/accelerator for Android

• Unified Network Location Provider

  • MicroG UnifiedNlp

• [please add your candidates here]

Responses to Objections We've Heard from App Developers

We already collected objections and responses on FSFE's Free Your Android Campaign. If you know more, please add them here.

• [please add here]

Development

Here, we collect free alternatives to resources that can be important for Android development such as free replacements for important proprietary libraries.

Google Play Services

Location APIs

• Mapzen Lost

Maps

• OsmDroid

• Mapbox Android SDK

• Mapzen Android SDK

Service Core (GmsCore)

• MicroG GmsCore

Services Framework Proxy (GsfProxy)

• MicroG GmsCore

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