What are the "app dock" apps on your phone? Are they FOSS? (reddthat.com)

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Go to your phone homescreen and look at the app dock (the bottom row that contains some apps and stays the same when you switch pages).

Which are yours? Any FOSS apps?

In my case, they are FDroid, Signal, Threema, Firefox and the defaul Samsung camera app. So, 80% FOSS..

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[-] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Phone app, which is com.Android.dialer that seems kind of (F)OSS at least(?)
Contacts app, same as phone app: com.android.contacts
Telegram client Forkgram which is partly OSS but contains unfree stuff upstream + relies completely on non-free service (telegram server +client)
Email: K9/thunderbird android full FOSS
Browser: Iceraven which is a fork of Firefox Android. It comes with the MPL (Mozilla public license) but I think it also contains non-free binaries or assets, so mostly FOSS I would say?

[-] ThePfromtheO@social.vivaldi.net 1 points 16 hours ago

@LeFrog @lemmydividebyzero
Please, could you tell me how you made these hyperlinks, so they have the text appearing instead of the link, like how do in Markdown link ❓️

[-] LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 15 hours ago

The syntax is this: [some text](https://my-cool-url.com/nice) which is then rendered like this: some text

The complete "markdown source code" of my comment is this:

>Click to open<

- Phone app, which is  [com.Android.dialer](https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Dialer/) that seems kind of (F)OSS at least(?)
- Contacts app, same as phone app: [com.android.contacts](
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Contacts)
- Telegram client [Forkgram](https://github.com/forkgram/TelegramAndroid) which is partly OSS but contains unfree stuff upstream + relies completely on non-free service (telegram server +client)
- Email: [K9/thunderbird android](https://github.com/thunderbird/thunderbird-android) full FOSS
- Browser: [Iceraven](https://github.com/fork-maintainers/iceraven-browser) which is a fork of Firefox Android. It comes with the MPL (Mozilla public license) but I think it also contains non-free binaries or assets, so mostly FOSS I would say?

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