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Is there any closed source android app that you wish had a good open source alternative? (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm currently looking to develop an open source app that can help somebody. I'm currently out of ideas, so I'd like to heard if from you guys.

Sorry if it seems to lazy to ask for ideas like that, I just thought that I could do it since the result will be a free app.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (4 children)

SMS Backup & Restore? Unless there is an alternative that I'm missing? Play store link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.tmo1.sms_ie/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I saw this but its missing a key feature: daily backups. SMS Backup & Restore can make a backup every day then I can sync the file out to Nextcloud or similar. It also supports Dropbox if that's your thing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's fair. It's the only open-source SMS Backup app I could find.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I am so sorry! I took another look at SMS Import / Export and to my surprise it does support scheduled backups! I had seen it before and had overlooked that feature so disqualified it. I'm going to test it now but if you don't hear back its probably because I made the switch without issue.