Comment by drnick1
5 months ago
The issue is that the mobile-centric apps are few and far fetween, and not nearly as polished as the Android ecosystem.
5 months ago
The issue is that the mobile-centric apps are few and far fetween, and not nearly as polished as the Android ecosystem.
I maintain a project [1] that tries to collect and track them all, and ... at least for keeping track of how they all develop, there's not a few apps. ;-)
[1]: https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/
You currently list 720 apps, Google Play Store has 3.3 million.
Even if we assume that a good chunk of that may be "duplicate" in terms of functionality (e.g. todo apps), that is still just a completely different dimension of apps and use cases covered by android natively.
Fair point!
That said, Google Play is not really the thing to compare this too. F-Droid could be. Summing up the "Show all ..." counts, F-Droid clocks in at 6147 apps, and it started way earlier (2009? 2010?).
Some of these F-Droid apps (specifically those created in QtQuick or Flutter) should also run with very minor tweaks on #MobileLinux.
Also, there's more than these 720, some are just very hard to evaluate (because they are for hardware or services I don't have/use), which then keeps me from adding these apps.
I don't recommend using the vast majority of mobile apps, which exist for data-mining and addiction-maintenance purposes. Android is specifically known as the worst ecosystem in this regard. Browsers continue to work, despite the corporate push to dark patterns.
It's Linux, if you need something you or someone else will eventually write it. But first there needs to be acceptable, working hardware. Enter the FLX1/s, and we come full circle.
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