Desired apps - Sailfish OS Discussions on JollaTides Community Port

andreibechet

How about we use this thread to talk about apps which are known to be right now only for ios and in the google play store.

Out of the top of my head, I am really curious to use this: https://heml.is. Too bad it is only for ios and google play store.

JollaTides

That app definitely looks a good idea with all this recent NSA talk of spying etc. ;-)

I'm sure it would be possible to contact those app makers and get them to submit to the jolla harbour - it can only help them get seen on more devices and should be very straight forward if it already runs on Android. :-)

andreibechet

I asked them publicly on twitter. Did not get any replies yet.

technicus

Or maybe it would be possible to add a appdownload option to the homepage.
So it would be possible to download the android app and run it over the android emulator :)

andreibechet

Now I am asking myself if they have used some google specific stuff (like the article mentioned in another thread). I guess not ... it shouldn't if they want to offer very good privacy. Anyways, if you guys like it as well, maybe we can email them. The more requests, the better :)

JollaTides

@technicus

You're right, any available .apk file to download should at least have a chance through the android emulator...

@andrebechet

If the demand is there for an anti-spying IM app (which it SHOULD be!!) then people will definitely contact them... after all they are Swedish-based they must have heard of their neighbours = Finland = Jolla. :-)

If we contact them now, then maybe they will get the app ready in time for when our Jolla's arrive. ;-)

simo

I searched the net for a proper compatibility info about Android Apps running on Jolla, but there wasn't a nice one, or I didn't find one, so I made one :P
5 reports posted so far, two about Spotify.

Both using this and sharing the link might benefit many. What do you think? Have you run into better ones?
Shortie: bit.ly/1eP2g3T

JollaTides

@simo

This might be a nice one to start as a new topic or even create a new article on the blog so more people can see it and contribute their findings with Android apps. Great start! :-)

simo

I'm a bit unsure about how WP would handle a Google form, so it could be an article with a nice, larger list of Apps + link to my blog for ppl to report more Apps. Unless you know that an iframed form embeds nicely on WP too?

HuuhaaTm

Have you heard of Foilchat? I e-mailed to the dev some time ago and they have already been in contact to Jolla. There wasn't any promises to sailfish app though, but...

But what comes to topic.. I would like to see Scummvm, owncloud and bittorrent sync in Jolla. Some others too (like Netflix etc.), but those for starters. :)

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