android-foss
A list of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Android – saving Freedom and Privacy. (by offa)
opengapps
The main repository of the Open GApps Project (by opengapps)
| android-foss | opengapps | |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | 167 | |
| 4,890 | 5,750 | |
| - | 0.1% | |
| 9.0 | 4.8 | |
| 5 days ago | 4 months ago | |
| Shell | Shell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
android-foss
Posts with mentions or reviews of android-foss.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-11.
- Treasure within GitHub
- I've been really trying to get away from advertisements and tracking by using FOSS apps via GitHub. There's a few alternatives I'm looking for and any other suggestions are welcome
- Privacy-friendly alternatives to many apps!
- Apps on GrapheneOS
- Proud S23 Ultra users. What do you not like about your phone so far?
- 🗃️Android Ultimate Collection & Guides📚
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Open-Source Contacts App for Android?
I don't have a personal recommendation but you could check this list on github, you might find what you're looking for.
- Google to remove all VPN ad blockers that don’t comply with their policy
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need Gapps afterall
Additionally, check out https://github.com/offa/android-foss for a well orgainized list of FOSS apps for android. Otherwise you can use aurora store(preferred)/apkmirror/apkpure with a browser for non FOSS apps; not as great of a user experience, updates are manual for the latter two, but I try to stay away from non-FOSS as much as possible, so I don't suffer greatly.
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Are these programs that i use good?
This is the first place I go to find big tech alternatives for Android: https://github.com/offa/android-foss
opengapps
Posts with mentions or reviews of opengapps.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-11.
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Any possibility of installing Open GApps on Xreal Beam for Google Play Services??
I've used the Open GApps project to install Google Play Services on incompatible devices like Android Fire tablets in the past, though I think to install them I had to use a custom recovery like TWRP.
- Novice upgrading Galaxy Siii i9300
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Old, Bricked HTC M7 Tmobile
Do you have any pc set up with adb and fastboot tools? If not, please do so. Otherwise go to xda-developers.com and pick any ROM you may find interesting or just go with this You'll probably also want to install gapps, so download the following from here ARM/11.0/pico
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Fail to black
I'm looking at this comparison matrix trying to work out what it would be.
- Samsung vient de me forcer à télécharger Tiltok ?!
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Opengapps pico
For older versions of Lineage, there was a download at https://opengapps.org/ to choose f.e the pico package. Also, the OpenGapp package for Lineage 18 did not contain many Google tools. The help pages of lineage/openGapps is pointing to https://wiki.lineageos.org/gapps where a download for any unknown version is available. Choosing this package for Lineage 19, I got the whole advertisement for Google back. :-(
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Black screen while trying to access Google with Gapps
See https://github.com/opengapps/opengapps/wiki/Package-Comparison
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[HELP] Make Netflix work on a rooted device
https://nikgapps.com/ https://opengapps.org/ https://flamegapps.github.io/download#downloads
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Installing LineageOS on Galaxy A5 (2017) Heimdall libusb: error
For GAPPS it did not work with the suggested GAPPS since I got an error, so I used OpenGAPPS based on this form, install GAPPS error. I downloaded and installed gapps from https://opengapps.org/ with the settings ARM64, 11.0, nano.
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What Gapp should I download if I want to install LOS 19.1?
LOS 19.1 is based on Android 12 but there's only up to Android 11 on here https://opengapps.org/. So like do I just install the 11 one?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing android-foss and opengapps you can also consider the following projects:
privacy-redirect - A simple web extension that redirects Twitter, YouTube, Instagram & Google Maps requests to privacy friendly alternatives.
Magisk - The Magic Mask for Android
Shelter - A Free and Open-Source (FOSS) app that leverages the "Work Profile" feature of Android to provide an isolated space that you can install or clone apps into.
calyxos
foss-front-ends-and-alternatives
WSAGAScript - Scripts to install Google Apps into a WSA image. Plus optional root
apkupdater - APKUpdater is an open source tool that simplifies the process of finding updates for your installed apps.
GmsCore - Free implementation of Play Services
buildAPKs - Really quickly build APKs on handheld device (smartphone or tablet) in Amazon, Android, Chromebook and Windows📲 See https://buildapks.github.io/docsBuildAPKs/setup to start building APKs.
AuroraStore
WebApps - DEPRECATED ⛔️ Android app to provide sandboxed (private) browsing of webapps
microg_installer_revived - Install microG GmsCore, GsfProxy, FakeStore (or Play Store if you want so) and MapsV1 to /system/
android-foss vs privacy-redirect
opengapps vs Magisk
android-foss vs Shelter
opengapps vs calyxos
android-foss vs foss-front-ends-and-alternatives
opengapps vs WSAGAScript
android-foss vs apkupdater
opengapps vs GmsCore
android-foss vs buildAPKs
opengapps vs AuroraStore
android-foss vs WebApps
opengapps vs microg_installer_revived