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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.
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 ...
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.
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]
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 ...
Android x86 (ver. 4.0) on EeePC 701 4G. Android-x86 is an open source project that makes an unofficial porting of the Android mobile operating system developed by the Open Handset Alliance to run on devices powered by x86 processors, rather than RISC-based ARM chips.
Anbox (short for “Android in a Box”) is a free and open-source compatibility layer that allows Android applications to run on Linux distributions [2] by using containerization techniques. Originally introduced by Canonical , Anbox executes Android applications in a lightweight system container, isolated from the host system for security and ...
Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone) is a SIP-compatible distributed peer-to-peer softphone and SIP-based instant messenger for Linux, Microsoft Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. Jami was developed and maintained by the Canadian company Savoir-faire Linux , [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and with the help of a global community of users and contributors, Jami ...