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Re:Going FLOSS-only on Android by tmalsburg2 on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:02AM (#17798351)
I have a Fairphone 2 running their non-Google, largely FLOSS, version of Android with F-Droid app store. Sometimes, I'm slightly annoyed that I can't install app X but from the top of my head I can't even tell you what values X took. So it can't be that bad. The only regular annoyance is having to use Open Street Map. Very nice maps, but rendering and localization (GPS-only) are too slow.
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Re:Going FLOSS-only on Android by majewsky on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:04AM (#17798546)
Which OSM app are you using? I've started using "Maps" (the OSS variant of https://maps.me/, available on F-Droid) and it has pretty much replaced Google Maps for me. Performance is good enough for me, and offline maps are a killer feature.
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Re:Going FLOSS-only on Android by liotier on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:19AM (#17798607)
Also, try https://osmand.net - great and getting better all the time !
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Re:Going FLOSS-only on Android by tmalsburg2 on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:27PM (#17803634)
Thanks. I just installed it and, yes, it feels much smoother than OsmAnd which is what I've been using so far. Unfortunately GPS doesn't seem to work.
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