Community about running GNU/Linux on phones. Projects like Ubuntu Touch, Plasma Mobile, PostmarketOS, Mobian etc. Either on former Android phones or hardware like the PinePhone.
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Hey everyone, I'm going insane due to a lack of creative project. I've written an app already but I haven't gotten around to publishing it yet. I'd like to know what kind of apps you'd like to see created for mobile Linux. I prefer easier, bite-sized projects over particularly large ones, but I'd love to hear your ideas nevertheless.
I find Android not having almost any option for various apps. I just want a touchscreen keyboard friendly text editor which saves txt files in my phone's home directory, for example. The only thing that really exists is emacs or using Termux, and using a modal text editor on a mobile keyboard is a massive pain.
Maybe it's because I use my phone like a computer, but I do not like using single purpose, clunky apps that obfuscate the filesystem. Mobile Linux has so many different apps that Android has no equivalent for. Not denying there's still much work to do for mobile Linux.
I believe the Linux infrastructure for mobile devices needs priority. I had difficulty getting a working images from various operating systems to work on my PinePhone. I need to eventually get Gentoo crossdev setup so I can compile packages for the PinePhone. Curious how well existing Android devices with Linux support fare currently.
A mobile first Lemmy app?
@Lofenyy not so much apps but infrastructure pieces.
- Better video camera support would be great (Dino would be awesome on Linux phone!).
- A bit more integration with UnifiedPush. I'm looking at Firefox, Thunderbird and chat apps.
- More streamlined solution for map navigation - it's janky atm.
- OSKs (on-screen keyboard) can be temperamental. Lets see when we will get text-input protocol v4 for Wayland 😄
Flare, the gtk Signal app, needs to get to near feature parity with the mobile app. When it does, I'm all in!
I believe they're working on it. :)
It uses a library which currently gets calls added, for example. Once that library supports calls, they can add it for Flare.
I've been waiting for years now.
A couple of months ago I created some mockups for Linux mobile apps. Maybe you find them inspiring: https://feddit.org/post/271755
A couple of notes on the my old post:
Unfortunately murena suffered an outage recently and some of their services are not yet online again, including the recepie one. So should you choose to take up that project, you would have to find (or host) a different instance.
What phones or such are y'all using for such a positive experience?
Had pinephone at the start of last year and it was most miserable time I had with a phone in years.
Yeah, because it's a Pinephone. It's an underpowered set top box SoC from around a decade ago. Definitely try something else. :)
Could you make some helpful suggestions for alternatives perhaps?
Most of them.