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Is there any proprietary Android app for which you wish there would be an open-source alternative? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'm not super well versed in the world of app development, but I would assume due to the way apps are sandboxed, this isn't something that could be done with a third party app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

system apps can do it. android has an API for audio mods that allows such things

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Right, that's what I meant when I said "third party app". Samsung can write an app to do this, but your average app installed from the play store likely cannot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

you can have third party apps as system apps. you can even write your own, but the API docs are somewhat harder to find. nowadays you install them with magisk modules (not all of them contains an app), so that it is easier to revert and also to hide from those looking for it with a bad intent