Open Camera is an Open Source Camera app for Android phones and tablets. Features:
Option to auto-level so your pictures are perfectly level no matter what.
Expose your camera's functionality: support for focus modes, scene modes, color effects, white balance, ISO, exposure compensation/lock, face detection, torch, antibanding.
Video recording (including HD, taking photos while recording video, time lapse).
Handy remote controls: timer (with optional voice countdown), auto-repeat mode (with configurable delay).
Option to take photo remotely by making a noise (e.g., voice, whistle), or by voice command "cheese".
Configurable volume keys.
Optimise GUI for left or right-handed users.
Zoom via multi-touch gesture and single-touch control.
Option to lock orientation to portrait or landscape for photo or video. Upside-down preview option for use with attachable lenses.
Choice of save folder (including support for Storage Access Framework).
Disable shutter sound.
Overlay a choice of grids and crop guides.
Optional GPS location tagging (geotagging) of photos and videos; for photos this includes compass direction (GPSImgDirection, GPSImgDirectionRef).
Apply date and timestamp, location coordinates, and custom text to photos; store date/time and location as video subtitles (.SRT).
Yes you can take a selfie (also known as front camera), includes support for "screen flash".
Support for (some) external microphones.
Widget to automatically take a photo after launching.
Support for HDR (with auto-alignment and ghost removal) and Exposure Bracketing.
Support for Camera2 API: manual focus distance; manual ISO; manual exposure time; manual white balance temperature; burst mode; RAW (DNG) files; slow motion video.
Dynamic range optimisation mode for better quality photos.
Support for Mi Band 2 & Amazfit Selfie.
Small file size.
Completely free, and no ads in the app. Open Source.
Three weeks ago I blogged about how to get rid of non-free Google services and moving to free software on my Android phone. I’ve got a lot of feedback via email, lwn, and Google+, many thanks to all of you for helpful hints! As this is obviously important to many people, I want to tie up some lose ends and publish the results of these discussions.
The Open GApps Project is an open-source effort to script the automatic generation of up-to-date Google Apps packages.
On OpenGApps.org you can find more information about the project effort and also pre-built Google Apps packages generated by the OpenGApps.org buildbot.
The linux-based open-source mobile operating system Android is not only the most popular mobile operating system in the world, it’s also on the way to becoming a proprietary operating system. How is that?
While the core operating system is still released as part of the Android Open Source Project, the majority of core apps are not. It gets worse: More and more libraries and APIs are only available on phones that run various Google apps pre-installed, effectively locking third-party apps to the Google ecosystem. For these reasons Android is described as being a “look but don’t touch” kind of open.
At this point, several popular open-source applications like the secure messenger Signal already require some of Google’s proprietary libraries to be installed. Increasing demand in the free software community in addition to severe problems in Google’s proprietary software discovered by the Android modding community, have led to the development of a free software clone of Google’s proprietary core libraries and applications - the microG Project was born.
Although most microG components are far from complete, users are amazed by the results. Free software users got extended application support, privacy-caring users can reduce or monitor data that is sent to Google and especially older phones can expect some battery life improvements. microG is not only used on real devices, but also replaces Google tools in test emulators and is even used in virtual mobile infrastructure.
OwnTracks allows you to keep track of your own location. You can build your private location diary or share it with your family and friends. OwnTracks is open-source and uses open protocols for communication so you can be sure your data stays secure and private.
Mirakel is an easy to use and lightweight To-Do App for your Android Phone or Tablet
- manage your tasks with a simple and powerful tool
- keep your data under control
- it's free forever
Stikked is an Open-Source PHP Pastebin, with the aim of keeping a simple and easy to use user interface.
Stikked allows you to easily share code with anyone you wish. Based on the original Stikked with lots of bugfixes and improvements.
Here are some features:
- Easy setup
- Syntax highlighting for many languages, including live syntax highlighting with CodeMirror
- Paste replies
- Diff view between the original paste and the reply
- An API
- Search pastes
- Trending pastes
- Encrypted pastes
- Burn on reading
- Anti-Spam features
- Themes support
- Multilanguage support
- An Android app
- Command line tool to upload paste to Stikked based pastebins: Stikkit
- Another CLI tool requiring only curl program: pbin
- two-way-synchronization (server ↔ client, server always wins)
- focused on simplicity, security and privacy
- supports contacts, calendars (events) and tasks (to-dos)
- lightweight application, not cluttered with "features"
- flawless integration with device and address book/calendar apps
- high-performance algorithms
- seperately usable (either CalDAV or CardDAV)
- free and open-source software (FOSS)
Taskwarrior for Android will be a compatible App for the commandline tool Taskwarrior.
Boot-Repair is a simple tool to repair frequent boot issues you may encounter in Ubuntu like when you can't boot Ubuntu after installing Windows or another Linux distribution, or when you can't boot Windows after installing Ubuntu, or when GRUB is not displayed anymore, some upgrade breaks GRUB, etc.
Boot-Repair lets you fix these issues with a simple click, which (generally reinstalls GRUB and) restores access to the operating systems you had installed before the issue.
Boot-Repair also has advanced options to back up table partitions, back up bootsectors, create a Boot-Info (to get help by email or forum), or change the default repair parameters: configure GRUB, add kernel options (acpi=off ...), purge GRUB, change the default OS, restore a Windows-compatible MBR, repair a broken filesystem, specify the disk where GRUB should be installed, etc.
Boot-Repair is a free software, licensed under GNU-GPL.
Öffi is an Android app that tells you where and when trains and busses go, including delays and replacement bus service for more and more transport authorities in Europe and beyond.
Let me introduce the Xposed framework, which gives you the possibility to modify your ROM - without modifying any APK (developers) or flashing (users)!
Flock is a replacement for the default contact and calendar synchronization services provided by Google. Flock provides end-to-end encryption between multiple Android devices putting the privacy of your contacts and calendars back under your control.
A secure calling app for Android.
TextSecure is a free and open-source encrypted messaging application for Android. TextSecure can be used to send and receive SMS, MMS, and instant messages. The application uses end-to-end encryption to secure all messages that are sent to other TextSecure users.
TextSecure is developed by Open Whisper Systems and is released under the GPLv3 license.