Sideband
LXMF client for Android, Linux and macOS allowing you to communicate with people or LXMF-compatible systems over Reticulum networks using LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi, I2P, or anything else Reticulum supports. (by markqvist)
flutter_contacts
A Flutter plugin to retrieve and manage contacts on Android and iOS devices. Maintainer: @lukasgit (by lukasgit)
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| Sideband | flutter_contacts | |
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| 9 | 1 | |
| 231 | 192 | |
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| 9.5 | 0.0 | |
| 29 days ago | 3 months ago | |
| Python | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Sideband
Posts with mentions or reviews of Sideband.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-31.
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Meshtastic: An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network
yggdrasil can use WiFi on Android, I haven't tried it yet - https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/. yggdrasil gives you the ability to use TCP/IP applications over its mesh network but doesn't offer any end-user functionality itself.
Manyverse can use WiFi for decentralised social networking - https://www.manyver.se/. They're currently in the middle of a rewrite of the backend and a protocol switch away from Secure Scuttlebutt to their own protocol currently named PPPPP.
Reticulum/Sideband offers a P2P messaging system over WiFi or other mediums - https://github.com/markqvist/sideband
- Sideband v0.4.0 - with Paper Messaging and better hardware support - has been released
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Reticulum Development Roadmap
Related programs such as Sideband and Nomadnet has also had their repositories updated with more visible roadmaps.
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A comparison of various anonymity/privacy focusing networks
Mobile support: Yes, Android only for now though. There is an example Android messaging app that uses Reticulum here: https://github.com/markqvist/sideband. The app source code can be used as an example for others that want to use Reticulum on Android, at least until I get around to writing a full Android development guide. There is some preliminary info in the manaul on the topic here as well: https://reticulum.network/manual/gettingstartedfast.html#reticulum-on-android
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3 mile text coms no license
While it still requires a few more steps to set up, a system based on Reticulum, using a client like Sideband is a lot more flexible. You can mount the radios in optimal positions, for examples on your roof or another high spot, and Reticulum can automatically bridge the LoRa and your home wifi network, so everyone on the wifi network can share the single radio on your house, without having to connect anything directly to their phones/devices. Here is how one user have utilised this during hurricane Ian.
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⟳ 0 apps added, 6 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
Sideband (version 20221005): LXMF client
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⟳ 4 apps added, 10 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
Sideband: LXMF client
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Are any of you actually working on privacy-related projects?
I have built a few simple communications tools with Reticulum, Nomadnet and Sideband.
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Internet/ Mobile outage preps
https://reticulum.network https://github.com/markqvist/sideband https://github.com/markqvist/nomadnet
flutter_contacts
Posts with mentions or reviews of flutter_contacts.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-04.
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Are any of you actually working on privacy-related projects?
Names and formats of fields in the Contacts, I think. I filed a couple of bug reports: https://github.com/lukasgit/flutter_contacts/issues/202 https://github.com/lukasgit/flutter_contacts/issues/201
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Sideband and flutter_contacts you can also consider the following projects:
TranslateYou - Privacy focused translator app built with MD3
libremdb - A free & open source IMDb front-end.
Reticulum - The cryptography-based networking stack for building unstoppable networks with LoRa, Packet Radio, WiFi and everything in between.
fake_contacts - Create fake phone contacts, to do data-poisoning.
NomadNet - Communicate Freely
artadosearch - Artado Search is open source, private and highly customizable search engine
quetre - A libre front-end for Quora
flutter_barcode_scanner - Barcode scanner plugin for flutter. Supports barcode scanning for Android and iOS
flutter_audio_as_service - A flutter plugin for audio playback as service
Sideband vs TranslateYou
flutter_contacts vs libremdb
Sideband vs Reticulum
flutter_contacts vs fake_contacts
Sideband vs NomadNet
flutter_contacts vs artadosearch
Sideband vs fake_contacts
flutter_contacts vs quetre
Sideband vs quetre
flutter_contacts vs flutter_barcode_scanner
Sideband vs libremdb
flutter_contacts vs flutter_audio_as_service