Comment by cseleborg
Comment by cseleborg 3 days ago
> The easiest way to get MyGNUHealth is by installing the package from your favorite operating system / distribution. Many operating system distributions already ship MyGNUHealth.
I was actually curious to try this out on my phone, since they claim to support mobile devices.
If running a command-line package manager is the easiest way to install this on Android, I don't want to know what harder ways exist.
I find this is quite typical for open source projects. The community still hasn't really, truly adopted mobile. I guess it's because of the need to have some sort of entity be present in the various App Stores? But if it's possible for servers, why is this so rare to have open source projects as app store vendors?
> I guess it's because of the need to have some sort of entity be present in the various App Stores?
This, and the fees, and dealing with weird App stores' rules. On Android, we had F-Droid - an alternative store where one didn't need to deal with this. And as has been reported recently, Google is making changes that will essentially kill F-Droid.
The reason there's not much good open source stuff on phones compared to PCs is because the hardware is hostile to it. The few phones out there that aren't are the ones almost no one uses.