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aldarion @infosec.pub

2mo ago

Good FOSS for contacts and SMS on android

Could you recommend a good FOOS app for managing Contacts and SMS on android? I want to get rid of all those Google apps.

Edit: I am gonna give a try to Fossify

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I recommend Fossify contacts and Fossify messages, I like that they are clean and follow material you design.
https://www.fossify.org/apps/

I use Fossify Contacts, Messages, Calendar, Gallery and Voice Recorder.
Alternatively take a look around F-Droid, there's plenty more :)
- I am assuming you would have to manually export contacts to a cloud location, import into Fossify and then do occasional cloud syncs?
  Am I understanding this correctly? Would love to move away from Google contacts (every little step helps).
  
  The (Fossify) ~~contracts~~ contacts app is independent from the location you store your contacts. You could e.g. keep storing them on Google although that's probably not your intention.
  If you don't want to store the contacts locally on your device, than you'd need to export them as vcards and then import them into a new CardDAV server of your choice, e.g. Nextcloud, Baikal, SoGo, ...
  Access and synchronization needs then to be configured in the Android native 'Accounts & Synchronization' settings or using DAVx5.

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