9mo ago

Fossify Phone - one of the very few open-source dialer apps for Android

GitHub - FossifyOrg/Phone: A handy phone call manager with phonebook, number blocking and multi-SIM support

Idk why I never heard of this one before but it got an update recently so it appeared in my Droid-ify feed and now I'm sharing it. Hopefully someone finds it useful.

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you probably heard of "simple dialer". Fossify apps are forks of simple (because simple is sold to an advertisement company)
long story short 👆
- Real sad what happened there.
  Yes, I get that people need to eat, but goddamn it man THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO GET MONEY THAN SELLING OUT.
  
  at least push one last update that warns the users
- Damn, I didn't know! When did that happen? By the way, I've just noticed that the Simple apps haven't been updated for about a year.
  
  Fdroid version is old because their newer versions are not open source anymore. So don't use them
I used this for a while, but every time my phone rang I had to type in my pin to answer it which was a deal breaker for me.
- Hmm I'm not sure if it's the expected behavior. Probably you didn't have some permissions enabled?
  
  Could be. I do remember trying to get it to work a number of ways at the time. If you're telling me that this isn't the case for you though, I might try it out again.
Is there some obstacle to writing them? Special SDK privileges or anything like that? Seems like a good thing to degoogle if possible.
- I have no idea but apparently nobody makes dialer apps. What's even more weird is that SMS and contacts apps are way less rare.
  
  Contacts and dialer should maybe be merged. It's nice to be able to call someone and make notes in that person's contact page during the call.
  
  please tell me if you find any open source MMS apps (was more relevant pre RCS, but I still want to see how to actually do it)
Or you can try The calyxOS Dialer. It's little bit different than AOSP Dialer. To get it add calyx institute Fdroid repo on droid-ify and install it from there.
Use this as daily driver, can recommend
What bothers me is that there is no way to answer a call using the phone when BT earphones are connected. It's 2024, how's that possible? It happens that I leave them in another room and I may forget that they are connected and when I answer I don't ear anything, damnit!
By the way, even though I've always wandered why changing the dialer, I'm gonna try it!
- The stupid thing is that the aosp dailer is great
  
  It's discontinued though.

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