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I would love to go fully FLOSS on my phone. I would even love a dumbphone better. I just need/love to use my smartphone for a few things: - Spotify - Google M

I would love to go fully FLOSS on my phone. I would even love a dumbphone better. I just need/love to use my smartphone for a few things: - Spotify - Google Maps - Sygic car navigation - WhatsApp/Telegram There are just no viable fully FLOSS alternatives for all these services, AFAIK. Last time I had Lineage+MicroG these services kinda worked, but I didn't have the time to invest such that it would work as smooth as the closed source counterpart. Maybe I'll try again soon.

sjdbwixb 8y ago
Telegram's client is FLOSS. Get it on f-droid. Telegram has always had its own push service, so it works with out microg or google services installed. The telegram service itself is non-free, but it can be used with only free software
slezyr 8y ago
- Google Maps Never used it on mine phone. Try OSMand
- deivid 8y ago
  For some reason osmand is unusably slow on my phone (30+s to render). I use "Maps" from f-droid.
bopbop 8y ago
The task of FLOSS authors creating clients for walled gardens like Spotify always seems like a bit of own goal to me, tbh. I think we all love our phones - it's this amazing silent revolution that's happened where ubiquitous computing has already happened (at least in the first world) I understand you likely want specific features from the services you list but for others, if they were generics, this is the best either FLOSS or if not available, De-Googled list I could compile: ///Music Mp3s Spotify (closed source with a downloader on FDroid) I'm not aware of any open source clients for the streaming services. Some friends use Youtube-dl on a pc and send then files across. ///Maps OpenStreetMaps (edit: meant OSMAnd) Maps ///Messaging Signal Silence (Secure SMS text messaging) Telegram (On FDroid - again haven't checked with MicroG) Whatsapp (Closed Source with a downloader on FDroid, although I haven't tested it with MicroG) ///Sygic car navigation I don't think there's much hope for this one... (edit: sorry for the horrible layout)
- liotier 8y ago
  > ///Maps > OpenStreetMaps Openstreetmap only supplies data - to use it one needs an application such as https://osmand.net/ https://osmand.net/ or https://maps.me/ https://maps.me/
Fnoord 8y ago
Spotify should work in a browser, and they follow your every move [1]. HERE Maps is a proprietary alternative to Google Maps (you won't need Google then though). OSMAnd might work great for you. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681289

sjdbwixb 8y ago

Telegram's client is FLOSS. Get it on f-droid. Telegram has always had its own push service, so it works with out microg or google services installed. The telegram service itself is non-free, but it can be used with only free software

slezyr 8y ago

- Google Maps Never used it on mine phone. Try OSMand

deivid 8y ago
For some reason osmand is unusably slow on my phone (30+s to render). I use "Maps" from f-droid.

bopbop 8y ago

The task of FLOSS authors creating clients for walled gardens like Spotify always seems like a bit of own goal to me, tbh. I think we all love our phones - it's this amazing silent revolution that's happened where ubiquitous computing has already happened (at least in the first world) I understand you likely want specific features from the services you list but for others, if they were generics, this is the best either FLOSS or if not available, De-Googled list I could compile: ///Music Mp3s Spotify (closed source with a downloader on FDroid) I'm not aware of any open source clients for the streaming services. Some friends use Youtube-dl on a pc and send then files across. ///Maps OpenStreetMaps (edit: meant OSMAnd) Maps ///Messaging Signal Silence (Secure SMS text messaging) Telegram (On FDroid - again haven't checked with MicroG) Whatsapp (Closed Source with a downloader on FDroid, although I haven't tested it with MicroG) ///Sygic car navigation I don't think there's much hope for this one... (edit: sorry for the horrible layout)

liotier 8y ago
> ///Maps > OpenStreetMaps Openstreetmap only supplies data - to use it one needs an application such as https://osmand.net/ https://osmand.net/ or https://maps.me/ https://maps.me/

Fnoord 8y ago

Spotify should work in a browser, and they follow your every move [1]. HERE Maps is a proprietary alternative to Google Maps (you won't need Google then though). OSMAnd might work great for you. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17681289