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gsantner@pod.geraspora.de

dandelion* needs your help

Hi everybody, dandelions appearance on F-Droid needs a refreshing update. Specifically some new screenshots are needed!

#dandelion will this time rely on community submitted screenshots. So please send me 1-2 nice screens (or/and text recommendations) and I will choose some for the next F-Droid release :-).

BTW, new update is out (theres going to be a seperatr post)

#fdroid #foss #dandelion #android

anotherlurker@d.consumium.org

DAVdroid DAVdroid (Sync contacts, calendars and tasks with CalDAV/CardDAV) - https://f-droid.org/app/at.bitfire.davdroid

So I found this on #Fdroid. I think it's my next step towards a #lifewithoutgoogle. Only now I need to find a server where I can connect to. Not sure where to find that yet. I could try to make it own server, but not sure yet if I'll do that. The temptation might arise that I would do more than just a server.


Tags: #dandelíon

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gsantner@pod.geraspora.de

Markor - TextEditor for Notes, ToDo and Bookmarks - for Android | Gregor Santner » Android, Linux & Open Source blog

Markor has a new project page :)

📝 Write down documents in plaintext and simple markup formats
🖍 Highlighting and format related text actions
📄 Open and edit documents of other apps and shared texts
👀 Convert, preview and share documents as HTML and PDF
📚 Notebook: All documents are stored on a common filesystem folder
📓 QuickNote: Quickly share into a fast accessible Markdown document
☑️ To-Do: Quickly share into your fast accessible ToDo list
🔖 LinkBox: Share pages to read later into your bookmark list
🖍 Markup formats: Markdown and todo.txt
📋 Copy to clipboard: Copy any text, text shared into Markor can be directly copied too
💡 LinkBox, QuickNote and ToDo are textfiles with chooseable location on filesystem
📚 Notebook is the root folder for your documents and can be choosen too


Tags: #dandelíon #markor #markdown #todo #fdroid #f-droid #foss #android

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gsantner@pod.geraspora.de

Markor v0.3.8 released | Gregor Santner » Android, Linux & Open Source blog
https://gsantner.net/blog/android/2018/05/18/markor-release-v0.3.8.html

https://pod.geraspora.de/uploads/images/scaled_full_c61910ab75ed4232db70.jpg

New features:

- Recently viewed documents
- Start editing of recent documents, button in the toolbar of main view
- Allow sharing into recend documents
- Queue containing the 10 last viewed files
- Keep scroll position when reloading document list (Notebook)
- Document/File Info: Dialog showing information about selected file
- Openable at main views toolbar when one item is selected

Improved:

- Overall better performance
- Faster document loading
- Decreased memory usage
- Reduce edit history size (undo/redo) to 5 for lower memory usage
- Preview/Rendering (All):
- Rework of theme, font-size and font injection
- Preview/Rendering (Markdown):
- Blockquote theme based styling
- Blockquote RTL compatibility

Fixed:

- Crash when Markor put to background and huge file is loaded
- Document contents are not stored into resume cache anymore if they are too big
- Make no major differences for huge files, just undo/redo history is cleared when switchting away


Tags: #dandelíon #markor #markdown #todo #fdroid #f-droid #foss #android

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dandelion00@diasp.org

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Why we don't publish at the Play Store

We got some requests recently, asking, why we do not publish #dandelion at the #GooglePlay.
So here are our main reasons, why we don't plan to uploadthe app there currently.

First of all, we do not comply with Googles terms of service. Having to pay ~25€ to Google who did not write the app and does not respect your freedom nor your privacy on its platforms (Youtube, GMail...) just doesn't feel right.
We believe, that our userbase is well aware of the privacy concerns that come with using Google's Services, so many diaspora* users actually get their apps through F-Droid (which is great).
Second, if a user that does not know about F-Droid yet wants to use dandelion* and searches for it, they'll hopefully find out about the F-Droid project and may get in touch with free software that way.
So by not publishing to Google Play, we hope to get more people to understand, use and appreciate free and open source software.

If you find dandelion* on the Play Store, please be aware, that you likely just found a version built by someone else. We can not guarantee that such a version has not been tampered with in terms of #malware, so we highly discourage you to use it.
It should be clear, that we'll never charge you any money for using, downloading, sharing or modifying the app.
Note also, that we won't support those versions.

If you want to dontate to the project to support the developers, and keep them motivated, please feel free to contact us :D
As always, you can help us by submitting bug reports, code and/or translations on github and crowdin.


PS: We maintainers (@gsantner and @vanitasvitae) will soon have more time again to actively work on the app.
The last weeks we were distracted with educational work, so here is some background information:

@gsantner was working on another FLOSS app called Froody, which lets you share (naturally growing) food and other things with others. He hopes to enable people to live a more sustainable life. The main idea is to share to and help other people by e.g. sharing pears, which would rot anyway if unused.Everything is built with international use in mind.
The app is available at https://github.com/froodyapp/froody-android, and is currently available in #English, #German and #Japanese. Also translatable on Crowdin.
He also writes his bachlor thesis about Open Source and Android, which will be completed in summer and likely to be released in an appropiate free license.

@vanitasvitae is writing his bachelor thesis about an #OMEMO module for #Smack, a #XMPP library used by many free messengers like #Jitsi or #Kontalk.
He hopes to enable those messengers to #encrypt your communication end-to-end using the OMEMO protocol introduced by #conversations.
He'll also attend #FOSDEM in #brussels by the way, so if you are there you might meet him and chat a little ;)


Sharing welcome!

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