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Ehm.. Hello.. I am Ahmed Nefzaoui.. I am a Mozilla Community member.. From Tunisia.. and a Mozilla Official Representative.
No one denies Firefox OS needs more Apps.. OR let's say needs more well performing Apps.. That's what I am aiming at making true.. Or making part of it true.. That is why I am asking around:
What Apps do you want to see on Firefox OS marketplace? Maybe the question should be: What apps you miss from Android or iOS that you want in Firefox OS?
Please list as many Apps as possible. Thanx!
A SSH client
Well, I am a sysadmin, not a developer.
Try port FirefoxSSH to Firefox OS
Calendar and address book app with full caldav and carddav support.
CPU control or something like this
Great ones But to be honest.. I was expecting kind of apps like productivity, utilities, news, weather + some style guides, custom UIs..
Remote desktop to windows machine.
Multimedia apps like NetFlix, Hulu, HBO Go, etc.
Launchers, so you can pick and choose the feel of the phone, etc.
How about "Personal Accounting Software" or like this?
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Great ones But to be honest.. I was expecting kind of apps like productivity, utilities, news, weather + some style guides, custom UIs..
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How about a fully customizable open source (!) dictionary software with full (!) support for StarDict?
Whatsapp. None other needed. I have sent a request to the developers but no response as yet. Rest not that necessary...
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Ehm.. Hello.. I am Ahmed Nefzaoui..
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Im an android user ever since eclair and this apps make me stay on android os:
AIDE (on the Phone IDE and compiler)
AndFTP
AndroPHP (on the Phone PHP/MySQL Server)
Android Assistant (Multi-Purpose Phone Monitoring Tool)
Beats or DSP by CM (Sound Enhancement)
Control Panel for cPanel
Dj Studio
Droid VPN
Expense Manager
Fast Burst Camera
Firefox
FPse
Go SMS
gStrings
Guitar PRO
GameBoid
Genesis
Geroid
GBcoid
Halo/Multiwindow
Instagram
Jbed
Joooid
Link2SD
My Tracks
Mx Player
Nesoid
Nova Launcher
Open Bibles
Opera Mini
PPSSPP
Project NOAH
QuickPIC
Root Explorer
Shadyface
SMS Bomber
Sweep2wake
Titanium BackUP
uTorrent
I was browsing around and saw this thread. Good timing too!
I have been thinking a lot about Firefox OS and how it may be the best hope at open source seeing as how Google is slowly taking backing away from open sourcing and making things rely on their closed APIs.
Anyway, I've given it some thought and I've realized that for Firefox OS to ever succeed, it will really be up to the app developers that choose to port or write apps, and lastly OEMs.
I'm not sure the people got the idea as they're listing forms of apps that are non essential or third party entertainment, that will eventually make its way over once the OS gains numbers.
Netflix, emulators, games ...would be nice but not essential to my mobile device as a productivity device. I would love if all my apps could be ported, but that's being too hopeful.
Bare bones, at the minimum, these are the most essential things:
1) A good simple note taking app. Nothing fancy. Think of AK Notepad or ColorNote
2) An office suite like OfficeSuite by Mobile Systems. & A good PDF reader with annotation support like ezPDF Reader
3) A good ebook reader with multi format support, like Cool Reader or Aldiko
4) A Google Voice dialer app (GrooveIP) + SIP and VOIP capabilities
+ A built-in text/messaging app would beat any third party options
5) A good email and contact system. This is a must have. I want to see easy transfer of Gmail and Outlook contacts + no frills push notifications.
6) An intuitive stocks app. I want to be able to gains / loses and real time prices. Lock screen widget of this would be nice.
7) Maps + Navigation (This a must)
It doesn't have to be Google. Although it would be preferred.
8) News/RSS reader + an app like pocket or read it later. + Podcast support
+ A forums reader like Tapatalk
Bonus...
If you guys could get devs or companies on board...
Dropbox
Pandora
Microsoft's recently released remote desktop or another alternative like Splashtop
Might be moot, but maybe you guys can work together with Adobe to port Flash (I know it's a long shot given they called it quits on mobile)
whatsapp. zello, line,viber hangouts...
Thanks
Share files with a computer through wifi
Offline dictionary
Control PC
VPN
Thanks
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whatsapp. zello, line,viber hangouts...
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Firefox OS WhatsApp reach before end of year
http://www.movilzona.es/2013/10/04/whatsapp-llegara-firefox-os-antes-de-final-de-ano/
VK, google maps, hangouts, guitar tuner, some country-specific apps like 2gis, yandex.traffic, anybalance.
Ahmed Nefzaoui said:
Ehm.. Hello.. I am Ahmed Nefzaoui.. I am a Mozilla Community member.. From Tunisia.. and a Mozilla Official Representative.
No one denies Firefox OS needs more Apps.. OR let's say needs more well performing Apps.. That's what I am aiming at making true.. Or making part of it true.. That is why I am asking around:
What Apps do you want to see on Firefox OS marketplace? Maybe the question should be: What apps you miss from Android or iOS that you want in Firefox OS?
Please list as many Apps as possible. Thanx!
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A MUST for me: Spotify
Not so neccesary: Instagram, Netflix, Photoshop Express, maybe Google Music, Snapchat, native Foursquare, Facebook Messenger...
For me the most needed smartphone apps are (not in this order.) : mail clients, chat clients, internet browser, navigation/maps, file manager, ssh/sftp clients, conversation recording (I'm using it very seldom, but it is a quite nice, almost important feature for me.), camera, sms , smart keyboards are quite nice also, notifications, calendar / task planners, video players... That's it I think.
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Before to get Apps,we need an Excelent App-Caching(the most important part in such OS) and the best Responsiveness we can get.
About Apps,i think you guys(Mozilla) should do a Campaign to incite/stimulate developers to port their existing apps to Firefos OS(i hope all Packaged apps,at least near all of them)so you won't have the need to code,or other stuff related.
I actually own an Alcatel one Touch Fire..as main phone,and i think this will be very handly,i have this hope in Mozilla.
We need an Official channel directly with the our mother(Mozilla) to have upgrades for our phones,cause carriers are going to do a Bottle-neck effect on our phone software,and to do this ,the best choice is to get prebuilded-builds,probably it's hard but not all the people can follow that loooong Wiki on how-to-build-it-your-self.
Take the idea to implement Node-Js,i think it will be helpful this guy already doing something http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2374160
As Google and the others company,Mozilla need to do simple way to take care of his Users
about apps: OpenVpn,SSH,PC-remote controlling(i'm thinking about a Gnome-Mozilla Collaboration
If you ask me, Firefox has had "apps" almost from the beginning. They are called "addons" (or, before that, extensions) and they handled all sorts of tasks which, prior to that, had only been possible as standalone applications on your desktop.
So consider my disappointment in finding out that all these addons are gone from the Firefox OS browser. They cannot be installed, as far as I can tell. There is not even any Adblock Plus. To me, this is insane, because the addons are the Firefox browser's greatest strength. Can someone explain this to me?
Graphic calculator will be a nice addition
Screen dimmer/ color editor (to make it look more green or red or anything)
adblock?
Hei Azuz !did you read this?
we all replyed to you,can you show to us a conversation about you and this topic to Mozilla?
Hi guys,
Being OmniRom an open source oriented ROM, probably most of us try to use Open Source apps as possible. So what about share our preferred ones?
Here goes mines
Mail: aosp or K-9
Calendar: aosp
Keyboard: aosp
Chat: Whattsapp, Hangouts. Telegram too but not many of my friends use it unfortunately
Cloud: Owncloud. Thinking in creating my own cloud with it also.
Social: Twidere, G+.
Search engine: DDG (Google sometimes when I don't find something)
To do: ?? haven't found a good one for my needs yet, I want sync.... MyOwnNotes is too much basic yet but hoping it gets upgraded. Testing Mirakel also.
File Manager: CM File Manager
News: Feedly; still trying to learn how to use ownCloud News Reader. Pocket; in the way to learn how In the Poche exactly works...
Browser: Firefox
Video player: VLC
Music player: Apollo
Navigator: OsmAnd
Reading: CoolReader or FBReader. Amazon one also sometimes, I got some books there.
Others
Github official client, aLogcat or Catlog, AdAway, DavDroid and some others that I dont remember...
What about your preferred open source apps?? Any better option than mine?
Greetings!
Some of those aren't open source, although they're at least freely available from the Play Store.
I always have OsmAnd installed for when I'm in a place with no network coverage (gmaps will fail here).
While OsmAnd is GPL, updating from the Play Store requires a paid version of the app for full functionality. (This is perfectly legal under the GPL as complete source for the paid version is available. I consider the Play Store builds to be a "support service" myself and YES - I do pay for OsmAnd+ to facilitate my laziness. )
There are a number of opensource apps we'd like to include with Omni, but the nature of package signing in Android makes it difficult to do this except by grabbing prebuilts which we'd prefer not to do. (this is what CM does with Terminal Emulator.) I believe our inclusion of DashClock has caused some issues, which is why I'm considering putting in a patch that changes the package name to allow people to install the Play Store version without conflicts. (Similar to the patches I have in place to deconflict Google Camera with AOSP Camera.)
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Some of those aren't open source, although they're at least freely available from the Play Store.
I always have OsmAnd installed for when I'm in a place with no network coverage (gmaps will fail here).
While OsmAnd is GPL, updating from the Play Store requires a paid version of the app for full functionality. (This is perfectly legal under the GPL as complete source for the paid version is available. I consider the Play Store builds to be a "support service" myself and YES - I do pay for OsmAnd+ to facilitate my laziness. )
There are a number of opensource apps we'd like to include with Omni, but the nature of package signing in Android makes it difficult to do this except by grabbing prebuilts which we'd prefer not to do. (this is what CM does with Terminal Emulator.) I believe our inclusion of DashClock has caused some issues, which is why I'm considering putting in a patch that changes the package name to allow people to install the Play Store version without conflicts. (Similar to the patches I have in place to deconflict Google Camera with AOSP Camera.)
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Yeah I know some of them aren't Open Source, in some cases it's hard to find a OS apps that work as desired.
You're right, DashClock gives some problems when you try to actualize, it may be a better option letting it work trough Play Store.
Thanks 4 your time @Entropy512! :good:
Greetings
If you are interested in open source software for Android click the button in my signature
F-Droid might be what you are looking for
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If you are interested in open source software for Android click the button in my signature
F-Droid might be what you are looking for
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Yup what he said. Tons of open source apps on there
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If you are interested in open source software for Android click the button in my signature
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yup I know, I downloaded most of them from there
Hello guys. About half a year ago I created WAIL Beta — last.fm scrobbler for Android with pretty good and simple UI.
But I just have no enough time to provide support to it, so I decided to make it Open Source.
I am writing here with little hope, that xda developers can help WAIL app.
Little description of Last.fm: it's a service for those, who love music. Main feature — scrobbling, when you send information about playing tracks to the last.fm and service stores it and give you recommendations based on scrobbled music.
Main features of WAIL Beta:
Catching broadcast intents from Music Players and scrobbling playing music information
Updaiting #nowplaying on last.fm
Offline support (WAIL will send data when network will be available)
Minimalistic Holo UI, looks good on Android L too
Sound notifications feature
App architecture:
WAIL — What am I listening
1) Main part of the WAIL — WAILService, it handles info about music track states and decides what to do (scrobble, update #nowplaying and more)
2) BroadcastReceivers — they catches information from Music players on your Android device and send it to the WAILService
3) SQLite database with tracks info, it allows WAIL to work offline. WAILService periodically checks it
4) UI — all UI based on fragments, Main Activity supports tablets
Main features for future:
Support for RemoteClientController. It will allow WAIL to support about 90% of music players, because it's a common API from Android to work with media apps. For example, your lockscreen uses RemoteControllerClient to show and control playing music.
Showing current playing track on the Main Screen, many users does not understand what's going on at the moment, is WAIL catching something or not
Notifications in the status bar about scrobbling, #nowplaying updates and so on
Settings for control scrobbling in different types of network (mobile, wifi)
You can easily suggest your features in issues list on the GitHub!
Who could be interested in helping WAIL?
Serious Android developers, who want show their skills and help Android App Open Source project
Android newbies, developers who want to become more skilled in Android Development. I suggest you to create or take small issues and send pull requests with implementation.
WAIL users, who is also Java or Android developers and want to fix/change or add something to the WAIL
If you decided to help WAIL Beta app:
Thank you from me and WAIL users!
I created small WIKI with git commits styleguides, git flow on the project and styleguides about source code and resources, please check WIKI on the GitHub page of the project (I can not attach links at the moment)
Yep, succesfully merged pull requests from you will be deployed to the Google Play, to real users!
I will be project maintainer, I will check pull requests and help WAIL as developer at my free time
GitHub repo: http://github.com/artem-zinnatullin/android-wail-app
Also app can be found on the Google Play (WAIL Beta).
It is fully non-commercial.
You can ask questions about app or something else in this thread!
Use this app for a long time. Like it more than other lastfm scrobblers: it's easy to use, it's not buggy, it had a lot of features that other scrobblers don't have
Good luck to you, artem_zin and hope that community will like it too
Have a way to WAIL Beta work with MixZing or it has no compatibility with this player?
You'd better write to developer in cornments on Google play. He always give a quick reply
Thanks for this great App.
Now i can back to scrobble my music on CM13 phone.
Simple Last FM scrobbler wont work because stupid permission.
But this App work perfect and smoth
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Thanks for this great App.
Now i can back to scrobble my music on CM13 phone.
Simple Last FM scrobbler wont work because stupid permission.
But YouTube App work perfect and smoth
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I also tried this and it seems very useful, will get back to this thread if I find any bugs or errors with the services
kalakala said:
I also tried this and it seems very useful, will get back to this thread if I find any bugs or errors with the services
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Yup this App work perfect on my phone with cm13.
Stupid last FM official app is to heavy, and simple last FM scrobbler wont work.
Will no one ever pick this up and update it? Not that we really need one, but I'm sure last.fm will **** up their system sometime in thr future and this will require scrobblers to update.
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Will no one ever pick this up and update it? Not that we really need one, but I'm sure last.fm will **** up their system sometime in thr future and this will require scrobblers to update.
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It would be nice if it worked with Apple Music on Android, for starters.
I still cant see this fantastic app in my country store (Poland, cant write comment)
Not working for Apple Music for Android. There is no app available for Apple Music
I think the app needs to require notification access to get to scrobble Apple Music tracks. Is there any way to implement this option ?
Hey, found a little bug with the Samsung Music app on my S8. Wail can´t detect the title of the playing track, it always scrobbles things like Metallica -null
just took a look, it scrobbles as now playing to last.fm (with title and interpret), but last fm wont save the scrobble. Working great on poweramp
Will you add a feature to upload your data to Libre fm?
it keeps crashing on Nougat (samsung a5)
Wont work on Huawei Honor 4c stock Android 6.0
Simply not scrobble anything from any music player. I use AIMP from Play Store
Any news about this app? Its really handy for last.fm users
it's a shame to see this app not updated because it used to work great for me
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it still works on my Xperia Z LineageOS 14.1 nightly builds.......
but love to see it updated.
alternative: Pano Scrobbler
Huawei Y6 Slim OS 7
Android 7.1.2
Not work.
Alternative is Scrobbal for last.fm
Has anyway been able to successfully import this to android studio lately?
Upon first launch these apps are installed
Apollo
Browser
Calculator
Calendar
Camera
Clock
Dev Tools
Documents
Downloads
DSP manager
Email
Gallery
Messaging
Movie Studio
OmniSwitch
People
Phone
Search
Settings
SIM Toolkit
Torch
Voice Dialer
I'd like to know which of these are actually supported.
I believe many of them have been abandoned by upstream, like Email, Calendar, Gallery, Messaging, etc.
Search should be removed, seeing as it hasn't been updated since like 1.5. Same with Movie Studio.
I disabled Apollo, Browser and Email within minutes, as there are better apps for their purposes.
VLC instead of Apollo, Firefox instead of browser and K-9 Mail instaed of email.
For some reason, Apollo, a third party app by Cyanogenmod gets included but not any other third party apps.
If third party apps are going to be included, there should be some kind of system as to what is included.
Is omnirom going to come with everything included or just what you need to get started?
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There are some open-source apps I'd like to include, but there are some issues (regarding package signatures) that make it difficult to properly include stuff that is also available on the Play Store.
Apollo's inclusion is mostly from inertia, I think that really needs a nuke and repave. Once it was submitted to CM it kind of just sat there. (I'm wondering if it was the victim of shady manuevering by the CM leadership like Focal was...)
Most of the other apps are included as part of AOSP - fixing these apps is something pulser is working on organizing in conjunction with some other projects.
In general, if an app doesn't automatically start a background service and is part of AOSP, we don't put significant effort into removing it since free space in /system achieves nothing for the user.
Frankly most of these apps are useless as Google has alternate in market eg.
Calendar
Browser
Voice dialer
Apollo
Camera
Dash clock widget
I generally freeze them after installing. Might use a script to flash and remove these after install
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Frankly most of these apps are useless as Google has alternate in market eg.
Calendar
Browser
Voice dialer
Apollo
Camera
Dash clock widget
I generally freeze them after installing. Might use a script to flash and remove these after install
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But a solid rom *must* include apps to cover that basic functionality, regardless of what else is availabe in the market. Preferrably it should include excellent apps to cover the basics like that. No calendar? No camera? No browser? Those are *must-have* apps to be included with any rom). Unless there's a replacement baked in, it would be a major slight to cut them out. It'd be better to leave what essential apps in as placeholders until superior replacements can be developed/incorporated, instead of just shipping with gaping holes in the ROM and telling users, 'You don't like a barren, crippled build? Ha! Go fish!'
That kind of thing reminds me of so many Linux distros who spend tons of time on slick graphics, but don't even include basic functionality (*cough-elemental-hack*), leaving users to fend with a half-assed barely functional experience. That is just an atrocious way to go about things, IMO.
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Frankly most of these apps are useless as Google has alternate in market eg.
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To add to what Culot said a post above: an AOSP ROM should include apps to cover that basic functionality, and provide a fully functional and useful experience, not only regardless of what else is available in the Play Store, but mostly because an AOSP ROM should be usable without even having Google Play Services.
I've recently taken the OTA upgrade to Oreo.
As you all know this brings along with it, a new version of YouTube.
Not sure how others feel but I find the animated thumbnails very distracting.
So does anyone know of a way to stop them or maybe a link to the old YouTube app that does not have this annoying feature?
Thanks all for your help.
I hate them too. You can go to their support forum and complain but their ADHD inflected developers seem to need the constantly animated nonsense. They've been rolling it out across all their clients. PS4, AppleTV and now Android TV. Sucks.
I ended up side loading an alternative client called "Smart Youtube TV" that is blissfully free of animated thumbnails (so far).
You'll have to bing it because it looks like I can't post links yet.