I’m currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I’m currently out of ideas, so I’d like to heard if from you guys.

Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.

    • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
      7·
      1 month ago

      My philosophy is if I can use a web page for it, I won’t install an app (couple of exceptions, but a good rule). Less convenient, more secure.

      As KMFDM have it, “Those who sacrifice liberty for security Deserve neither and will lose both”

        • n2burns@lemmy.ca
          1·
          29 days ago

          So, if you don’t have an Apple/Android device (and the app installed), you just can’t use web-banking? That’s pretty crazy!

          • istanbullu@lemmy.ml
            2·
            29 days ago

            yes, that is pretty much it. all actions, including logins need to be done with 2-factor authentication, which means Google Play Store.

    • LiveLM@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      30 days ago

      God, you know what I really wish I could do?
      Run an Android VM on my phone. Imagine being able to do whatever you want with your device and still having a “stock” device for those pesky apps without having to actually have two phones.

      It is seemingly possible, but the only app I’ve ever seen do it was “VMOS”: a proprietary app, impossible to trust.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    I don’t use it much since I’ve already got it active on the apps I wanted it for, but on Samsung’s Galaxy Store there is an app I’ve never found an alternative to anywhere from my limited searching: Sound Assistant.

    On desktop/laptop, turning off individual app/program sounds is super easy, but this is literally the only app I’ve ever seen that allows you to turn off the sound for individual apps on android. Don’t know if other versions of android from other brands or android 14 has that feature natively, but it’s a feature I wish was native to all versions of android regardless of which large brand has made their own alterations to android.

    A minor problem, though, as I assume most people probably don’t give a rats ass about this.

    • Emerald@lemmy.world
      3·
      30 days ago

      There are a few Magisk modules for this. This isn’t something that is possible without root or owning a Samsung phone

  • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
    151·
    1 month ago

    Another idea would be a e-book reader. I don’t like Librera, because it acts more like a image viewer and less like a eBook reader.

      • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 month ago

        I like this. Only downside is that it isn’t Material You ready, but I don’t care about cosmetics as long as it work.

        Edit: no release available, which is a bummer.

      • velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml
        21·
        1 month ago

        I really don’t like gesture-based tap-zone control on KOReader. Is it possible to have buttons on-screen?

      • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        Is there a way to get colour there? B&W bums me out… I’m on GrapheneOS so have MoonReader (install google services, install, disable network on it, uninstall google services, and you’re good) but ebooks is one of my major use cases on mobile and everything FOSS sucks in comparison…

        • thisn@feddit.de
          2·
          1 month ago

          Can’t answer that question as I am only using KOR on my ereader, which only displays black an white :D What would be your usecase for color in ebooks?

          • MalReynolds@slrpnk.netEnglish
            2·
            1 month ago

            I like green on black on my phone, nice screen, good for the eyes. I’d love to sync between that and my kobo, but not happening at the moment. Currenly read new things on the kobo and old faves on the phone, it’s fine, but could be better…

    • shinysquirrel@lemmy.ml
      3·
      1 month ago

      try koreader I’ve tried a few e-book readers this is the best one I found so far I think it’s available in fdroid

  • Dogyote@slrpnk.net
    3·
    29 days ago

    Why is there not an app that tells you which grocery stores have the best prices? I should be able to give it a list and it’ll tell me where to buy each item.

    • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
      81·
      29 days ago

      Because grocery stores don’t make that data accessible to third party developers, otherwise someone would do what you’re suggesting and they’d risk you shopping elsewhere.

        • Zetaphor@zemmy.ccEnglish
          2·
          28 days ago

          Go ahead and try scraping an arbitrary list of sites without an API and let me know how that goes. It would be a constant maintenance headache, especially if you’re talking about anything other than the larger chains that have fairly standardized sites

            • chebra@mstdn.io
              1·
              28 days ago

              @Dogyote @Zetaphor

              And we also explored the AI option, it always turned out unrealistic. Either you would have to scrape the content and send it to the AI to parse the info, but then you’d be paying for every scrape, or run a powerful rig nonstop, but the results would still be hit and miss. Or you might let the AI generate the code for the scraping module, still not ideal, they were constantly hallucinating things that weren’t there.

            • chebra@mstdn.io
              1·
              28 days ago

              @Dogyote @Zetaphor

              I’ve been webscraping in my job for 6 years. Yes, it’s a constant headache, they keep updating their sites and improving their antibot protections. But it can be done and some companies are doing it (on a biiiiig scale). It’s just not very realistic that an open-source project would be able to invest that much effort into all the updates. Well some do, youtube-dl is basically webscraping and they are pretty up-to-date. It’s just very rare.

  • abominable_panda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    1 month ago

    One of those “smart” alarms that monitor and graph your sleep. E.g movement, sounds, snorings, sleep talking etc.

    At a minimum one that wakes you up in the 30 minute window of your lightest sleep phase

    • HessiaNerd@lemmy.world
      1·
      29 days ago

      I paid for AMdroid because I can set profiles, Geo fence, have math problems to turn off alarms, fade in music, turn on my flashlight… All the bells and whistles. I would love a FOSS version, but many try to be single feature. I like all the things.

  • AlexCory21@lemmy.world
    7·
    30 days ago

    A nutrition tracker where you can enter what foods you eat into a small database. And then when you eat meals you can check those foods off in order to calculate all of the nutrition facts consumption per day. And it could be expanded even further by adding graphs and reports such as Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.

    Could track Calories, Vitamins, Minerals, and other specific nutrition stats. Most nutrition apps I’ve seen only track Calories… Or don’t have accurate nutrition applied to specific foods as it is generic. Letting the user add the food as a item in a small database would give the user more control of how the stats and reports are calculated.

    Could be helpful for some to see their intake and then figure out ways to change it to become healthier.

    • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      30 days ago

      Isn’t this literally what Waistline is for Android? You create your own local food database (which you can automatically fetch info from Open Food Facts or USDA if desired, but not required) which lets you put in as many nutriments to track as you wish, all with graphs and information with different timelines.

      No clue if there’s anything like this for desktop.

    • tinsmith@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      30 days ago

      Also, export the graphs/reports to PDF, or something easy to pass to a doctor.

      Maybe a dev can take inspiration from the Yuka app. To their credit, they have put together a great database for scanning foods and comparing ingredients, as well as offering understand of the possible risks of those ingredients.

  • MicrowavedTea@infosec.pub
    4·
    1 month ago

    Something that comes up a lot but probably can’t be made open source is a wallet app. But if we ignore the payments part, Google wallet has some really nice features when dealing with plane tickets which I’d love to see in a standalone open source app.

  • moonpiedumplings@programming.dev
    41·
    1 month ago

    Xplore file browser

    It’s trivial to replace the independent pieces of xplore, but it has so many features in one app that I just can’t let it go. It’s got dual pane file browsing, disk usage chart, smb, ftp, and many other cloud storage connections. It also handles many types of compression.

    It’s become my main offline music player as well, because it has the simple ability to shuffle a folder of music, which is all I really need.

    It can also view installed apps, export them to apk, and view and modify appdata (as non root!).

  • 5ymm3trY@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    1 month ago

    File Explorer

    I haven’t checked in a while, but I am still using CX File Explorer because I didn’t find a FOSS alternative I like. Maybe it is just because I am used to it, but one thing I really like is the network feature that you can access local shares of a NAS.

    • mranderson17@infosec.pub
      9·
      1 month ago

      broad support for generic smart watches

      Gadgetbridge is pretty well on it’s way to this. They roll out support for new devices monthly it seems like. Of course there are always feature X and Y that fitbit or garmin does that it doesn’t, but it’s quite an impressive project. I use it with a pebble 2 HR.

    • cole@lemdro.idEnglish
      2·
      29 days ago

      I built an open source app a while back that had some similar functionality to sleep as android called “Go to Sleep”. Haven’t updated it for a long time, always wanted to add more things

  • Maroon@lemmy.world
    3·
    29 days ago

    FLOSS Shazam? I really love discovering music when I travel, but I see no open source version of it.