Hey everyone, I’m going insane due to a lack of creative project. I’ve written an app already but I haven’t gotten around to publishing it yet. I’d like to know what kind of apps you’d like to see created for mobile Linux. I prefer easier, bite-sized projects over particularly large ones, but I’d love to hear your ideas nevertheless.

    • erebion@lemmy.sdf.org
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      4 months ago

      Yeah, because it’s a Pinephone. It’s an underpowered set top box SoC from around a decade ago. Definitely try something else. :)

    • toastal@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      Sailfish OS supports Sony Xperia 10s… you get a headphone jack & a microSD

  • Fell@ma.fellr.net
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    4 months ago

    Here’s a very niche problem: On Android, I use an alarm clock that you can only turn off by scanning a QR code. Such an app doesn’t exist on mobile linux.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      4 months ago

      that is indeed niche… what time do you need to be up to resort to this, and what time do you go to sleep?

      • Fell@ma.fellr.net
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        4 months ago

        @tetris11 I usually go to bed at 11-12 and get up around 8-9. It’s just that my subconscious mind has learnt how to turn off the alarm before I even know I’m awake.

        I used to oversleep without ever remembering that I turned off the alarm.

        • absGeekNZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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          4 months ago

          I fixed this issue, but being an arsehole for a month.

          Get a loud stereo with an alarm clock function; have it go off 1 minute after your alarm, and be really really loud.

          Trust me, shocking yourself awake with a huge noise just after the little beep-beep works a treat. After a week or two, you will bolt out of bed to catch the stereo before it wakes everybody else up and pisses them off.

  • sh_itjust_broken@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago

    A good mobile friendly GTK nextcloud talk app. I love nextcloud and I love my pinephone but having to use the browser is a massive pain.

  • pak0st@fosstodon.org
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    4 months ago

    @Lofenyy not so much apps but infrastructure pieces.
    - Better video camera support would be great (Dino would be awesome on Linux phone!).
    - A bit more integration with UnifiedPush. I’m looking at Firefox, Thunderbird and chat apps.
    - More streamlined solution for map navigation - it’s janky atm.
    - OSKs (on-screen keyboard) can be temperamental. Lets see when we will get text-input protocol v4 for Wayland 😄

    • sh_itjust_broken@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      IMHO we are a long way off from that being a good idea even if the app existed. I may make jokes about it but I would be terrified if my brother switched to a linux phone with his diabetes. There are just to many other issues ATM.