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This isn't a project developed for the public sector really. Afaik it's a privately funded, for profit, product that has been licensed by several states in Germany by now. Apart fr…

> How do you leave? Maybe long-press the room name, or swipe? Nope, you enter the room, click on the triple dots, settings, scroll down, leave room. Long press sure works in a rece…

Have you looked at the beta versions yet? The UI was overhauled over basically the last 1.5 years and the points mentioned in the blog post are the bits missing to release that as …

I think where it went wrong here is that when it asked you for your "passphrase" (which is called a recovery key) it's very likely it wanted your login password instead. (Because t…

I found the linked retrospective "The user has sobered up" quite an interesting read: https://medium.com/@richlitt/the-user-has-sobered-up-df0b411...

I think delta chat does exactly this: https://delta.chat/ (email as chat)

This has been going on for 2 days, not 2 hours.

That would be lovely indeed!

> removes one layer of Google code, but keeps building on the Google layers beneath it. Well, the layers beneath it are AOSP and free software. The situation is certainly not great…

The package description doesn't do a particularly great job at explaining what this is: This is the German "Coroana Warn App"[1], the official German contact tracing app but instea…

A google account is not required for using the android SDK. You have to agree with the TOS if you download the prebuilt SDK from google, yes. Building the SDK from source is unfort…

Alternative repositories are a first-class feature of F-Droid. Alternative app stores aren't really a first class feature of Android (though they are obviously possible, in contras…

Not sure what I'm doing differently but the search suggestions go below the history suggestions for me.

Author here (of that post and the framework). The solution to the background limitations for now is running as a foreground service. This shows a persistent notification (which can…

There's also Transportr, they use the same library for accessing transit data though. Transportr has some really good guides here, how it works under the hood and how to help with …

Are all the GTFS feeds that google maps consumes necessarily open? I've been searching for a GTFS datasource for TfL (Transport for London) data but couldn't find anything. Google …

Matrix is the other IM service. This is the tool for getting whatsapp chats into matrix: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-whatsapp

The alternative is of course to host your own repo. These can be added to the f-droid client.

The app exists and is going to be banned from google play in the next few days. It wasn't yet submitted to F-Droid when this piece was published.