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AHelloWorldDev / MinimumWallpaper

Trying to set a black or color wallpaper on your smartphone or tablet? Can your Android handle a 1x1 pixel image wallpaper? What is the minimum wallpaper size that works on your device?
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publish on f-droid #3

Closed goyalyashpal closed 1 year ago

goyalyashpal commented 2 years ago

hi, will u have any objections to having your app published on https://f-droid.org - the store for FOSS android apps??

here's the rfp (request for packaging) for your app: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/rfp/-/issues/1946

7heMech commented 5 months ago

What happened to this? Is it on f-droid?

goyalyashpal commented 5 months ago

not worth it no activity - 7 yrs f-droid ain't even willing to add such inactive apps

how did u stumble on it btw?

personally, i have stopped caring about such small things. sometimes u just have to accept things just the way they are. android is borderline hopeless

don't loose the forest for sake of the saplings...

7heMech commented 5 months ago

not worth it no activity - 7 yrs f-droid ain't even willing to add such apps

how did u stumble on it btw?

personally, i have stopped caring about such small things. sometimes u just have to accept things just the way they are. android is borderline hopeless

don't loose the forest for sake of the saplings...

Well, I was looking into the other app which is published on the app store, but not compatible with my device, I currently use a pure black image generated from an app, but I was wondering the same thing, which is more efficient, having an app display pure black, or static image? Basically research purposes.

Also what do you mean by Android is hopeless?

goyalyashpal commented 5 months ago

Also what do you mean by Android is hopeless?

  1. development for android apps is soul suckingly locked down and complex; android studio my foot
  2. google turning all AOSP apps slowly into google proprietary ones: no FOSS dialer, contacts, pdf-reader, browser etc available (don't tell me webview based browsers)
  3. custom ROMs have basically been eliminated with locked down "open alliance of manufacturers" or what not

due to above 3 core-ish reasons, following ones follow:

7heMech commented 5 months ago
  1. development for android apps is soul suckingly locked down and complex; android studio my foot

On this I can agree, I'm by no means an Android dev, but it does look hard.

  1. google turning all AOSP apps slowly into google proprietary ones: no FOSS dialer, contacts, pdf-reader, browser etc available (don't tell me webview based browsers)

On the other hand, I cannot agree with this one, I have a FOSS:

Not sure on this one, there are a lot of custom ROMs though, I use a Google Pixel phone with CalyxOS for example.

like i wanted to modify the clock widget in android 12 to suit 24h, don't know where to even start

I mean yeah, Android dev is hard, but you can download a different clock app and get a widget it has.

goyalyashpal commented 5 months ago

they are either based on android webview, or do not work, or operate at snail's pace.

  • Dialer (don't have link because it's included with my ROM)

no, they are lacking. don't have conference support, can't record, can't video call. don't manage logs properly (groupby contact number), don't have proper history search. don't have floating in-call widgets

  • Contacts

yea, that might be the case. i said this one in flow.

Not sure on this one, there are a lot of custom ROMs though

compare the scenario now with what it was in 2016-17 era. and why is "pixel" the only supported phones these days 👀

but you can download a different clock app and get a widget it has.

no, clock apps use the system based widgets nowadays. they have stopped providing their own. the ones that did still didn't do 24h, and nevertheless are outdated

7heMech commented 5 months ago

they are either based on android webview, or do not work, or operate at snail's pace.

  • Dialer (don't have link because it's included with my ROM)

no, they are lacking. don't have conference support, can't record, can't video call. don't manage logs properly (groupby contact number), don't have proper history search. don't have floating dialer widgets

  • Contacts

yea, that might be the case. i said this one in flow.

Not sure on this one, there are a lot of custom ROMs though

compare the scenario now with what it was in 2016-17 era. and why is "pixel" the only supported phones these days 👀

but you can download a different clock app and get a widget it has.

no, clock apps use the system based widgets nowadays. they have stopped providing their own. the ones that did still didn't do 24h, and nevertheless are outdated

Well, there is collabra office as well, which can read pdf and more, my system dialer can record calls (true on not modified ROMs they restricted that feature, but you can still do it) also I've never heard of video dialer???

About the custom ROM it's just that CalyxOS only supports google pixels, but strangely pixels are the easiest to change the OS of, because you just unlock bootloader with one click. That doesn't change the fact that stuff like LineageOS exist which support a ton more devices.

7heMech commented 5 months ago

On a side note I'm positive MuPdf is not based on a WebView and it works quite fast.

goyalyashpal commented 5 months ago

On a side note I'm positive MuPdf is not based on a WebView and it works quite fast.

it is not working on the work profile which i am using to isolate the big tech's SNS app which's forced on to me by my institute.

more on isolation with work profile with shelter/insular app here: https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard/issues/341#issuecomment-1422286853

also I've never heard of video dialer???

wow, strange to me. we are hearing about on sim video calling since 2014/16.

That doesn't change the fact that stuff like LineageOS exist which support a ton more devices.

again, compare today's scenario with 2016 times; and u'll see the difference.

collabra office as well

it doesn't function well as pdf reader. it's ohkay for word docx xlsx spreadsheets etc though

7heMech commented 5 months ago

@goyalyashpal well, it seems like you have tried quite a few things with the pdf and honestly I use a super fast closed source pdf reader myself, just have it firewalled (a feature of my os) so it doesn't do anything fishy.

About video calling, it probably does support it, but my ISP (which is my sim provider as well) definitely doesn't support it. I just use nice apps like signal.

leao-nardo commented 3 months ago

what is needed for this to be in fdroid ? i forked and could try to adapt.