Basically, what the title says. Do you use any app, that is proprietary, but either has no OSS alternatives or they're all not good enough? If there is an alternative, what keeps you from switching?

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[–] enix@reddthat.com 16 points 2 months ago (8 children)

I'm not sure if this fits but here is mine:

I want to get away from Samsung but the "Sound Assistant" app let's me control the volume of every app, kind of like a mixer. Sometimes an app doesn't have a mute option, I can set the volume of that app to 0 without effecting the volume of whatever music I'm listening to.

I also like to listen to my local police scanner and music at the same time. I can set the volume of the scanner app low enough to not really bother the music but loud enough that if something happens I can still hear it and pause the music.

I can't believe Samsung and their app is the only way, but I haven't found an alternative.

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not super well versed in the world of app development, but I would assume due to the way apps are sandboxed, this isn't something that could be done with a third party app.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

system apps can do it. android has an API for audio mods that allows such things

[–] myersguy@lemmy.simpl.website 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Right, that's what I meant when I said "third party apps". Samsung can write an app to do this, but your average app installed from the play store likely cannot.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

you can have third party apps as system apps. you can even write your own, but the API docs are somewhat harder to find. nowadays you install them with magisk modules (not all of them contains an app), so that it is easier to revert and also to hide from those looking for it with a bad intent

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