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tranquvis / SimpleSmsRemote

Android app for remotely controlling a phone through sms messages
MIT License
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OsmAnd~ Support #17

Closed ghost closed 3 years ago

ghost commented 6 years ago

I hope I have not misunderstood, but I have read about the google play store that now there is integration with google maps .. well, you could also add an integration for OsmAnd~ (https://f-droid.org/packages/net.osmand.plus/)?

tranquvis commented 6 years ago

The message would become very long, if it contains multiple links. A good solution would be, to provide an option in the module's settings. However, there are so much map apps out there and I think the importance of this feature is not very high.

You could also ask OsmAnd~ about that. OsmAnd~ could support viewing google maps urls. So you would be able to open all google maps urls with OsmAnd~.

ghost commented 6 years ago

I understood, but I meant to completely replace G Maps with OSM. This is because, in general, one is a proprietary service (and let's say it, also spy), the other is open source and is perhaps the only valid alternative. The global idea would be to use only free services (eg, first of all, Replicant OS.) To which then add apps and infrastructures, so as to progressively exclude those owners.

tranquvis commented 6 years ago

Ok. I understand your approach.

I also prefer using an open source alternative. But I think in this case, Google maps is much more used than OsmAnd~. Probably, if the original issue requested an OsmAnd~ link, I would not have implemented it, because I think it covers too few users. (Would be happy, if I will be proven wrong.)

ghost commented 6 years ago

If you mean downloads, here they are:

OsmAnd (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand) 5.000.000-10.000.000 downloads

OsmAnd+ (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.osmand.plus) 100.000-500.000 downloads

They are certainly not as many as G Maps, but they are still many

tranquvis commented 3 years ago

I now agree to your opinion. Google Maps should not be preferred over other apps, just because its more used. We should not promote the monopoly even more. However, I would not prefer any specific application, since there are so many out there. Therefore I just removed the google maps link in commit https://github.com/tranquvis/SimpleSmsRemote/commit/0d4b132b92c16f829cc2098d9575457324f648a2.