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Android phones, like this Nexus S running Replicant, allow installation of apps from the Play Store, F-Droid store or directly via APK files.. This is a list of notable applications (apps) that run on the Android platform which meet guidelines for free software and open-source software.
LineageOS is a open source [a] Android distribution [c] for smartphones, tablets, and set-top boxes.It is community-developed and serves as the successor to CyanogenMod, from which it was forked in December 2016, with the source code available on both GitHub and GitLab.
Leonardo Banchi of AndroidWorld recommended the application as a free alternative to other podcast apps. [20] In April 2023, Jon Gilbert and John Bradbury of Android Police recommended AntennaPod as one of the 17 best free open source apps on Android in 2023 [21] In January 2024 AntennaPod has hit 150,000 monthly active users on Google Play. [22]
F-Droid is a free and open source app store and software repository for Android, serving a similar function to the Google Play store. The main repository, hosted by the project, contains only free and open source apps. Applications can be browsed, downloaded and installed from the F-Droid website or client app without the need to register an ...
Wißfeld created the NOGAPPS project in 2012 as a free and open-source drop-in replacement for Google Play Services, Google's closed-source system software that has been pre-installed on almost all Android devices. The NOGAPPS project became MicroG by 2016. [9]
scrcpy (short for "screen copy") is a free and open-source screen mirroring application that allows control of an Android device from a desktop computer. [2] The software is developed by Genymobile SAS, a company which develops Android emulator Genymotion. [3] The application primarily uses the Android Debug Bridge (ADB) via a USB connection to ...
Haven is a free and open-source security application for Android designed to monitor activity occurring in the vicinity of a device using its built-in sensors, and to alert the device owner of such activity. Haven was co-developed by Edward Snowden, and The Guardian Project, under the auspices of Freedom of the Press Foundation.
Mobian is an open-source project focusing on Debian GNU/Linux on mobile devices. [12] postmarketOS is based on the Alpine Linux. [13] Arch Linux ARM based Manjaro is focusing on PinePhone hardware. [14] WebOS (LG Electronics) was initially available only under a proprietary license but the source code was later released under a free permissive ...