• redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        9·
        1 year ago

        Simplest path is probably to use the old simple mobile tools recorder app on fdroid, which won’t be getting any updates. Fossify will likely release their recorder app very shortly, which will essentially be the next update for the smt recorder app.
        It is already under active development, they just haven’t gotten the first release yet.

        Edit:
        Another interesting one is DroidRec. It is usually used and seen as a screen recorder, but it has three simple toggles for screen video, device audio, and microphone. If you turn off screen and device audio, it becomes a very nice voice recorder.

        • ijgwin@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          I just tried that app and every time I try to record from mic only the app just closes when hitting the record button and it creates a 0 byte file. Does this actually work for anyone else?

          • redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            1·
            1 year ago

            Which of the two?
            DroidRec works for me. I have quality on normal, codec on default, and record stereo. Selecting just mic or device audio and mic records to an m4a file.

            E: smt simple voice recorder v5.12.3 works fine on default settings too for me

            • ijgwin@lemmy.world
              1·
              1 year ago

              I meant droidrec. Same settings for me but keeps crashing when hitting record. Audio recorder from f droid (white background with black microphone logo) seems to be working for me though.

    • ZeroHora@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Is a good advice but for the ‘Simple’ apps doesn’t make difference, all ‘Simple’ apps listed in the f-droid will not receive updates.

  • Sanguine@lemmy.world
    89·
    1 year ago

    Didn’t “simple” recently get acquired and is no longer to be trusted? Correct if wrong but isn’t Fossify the new preferred fork?

  • darth_tiktaalik@lemmy.ml
    5·
    1 year ago

    So they’re trading on the smt name to…do a bunch of things that are the antithesis of what was attractive about the brand to begin with?

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    1 year ago

    Android damn well ought to let you lie.

    This program wants my contacts? Okay, have fun spamming Blarvis Davies, e-mail [email protected]. Camera? Random noise that looks like a lens cap. Microphone? Well make it real in this case, but if it’s a photo app, quiet pink noise.

    It’s fine if the program doesn’t work, work, with fake info. Obviously if I lie to an e-mail client then I’m either typing in addresses m’self or else I’m chatting up Blarvis. Maybe not even that, if I lie about internet access, and it looks like my connection just sucks.

    But any program that tries to detect real versus fake info can be nuked off the face of the store.

    If we’re worried that your grandma will somehow enable those protections, but be unable to tell they’re on, we can make the fake data even more obvious. After all - the program should never make any effort to detect this kind of chicanery. It can be blatant. [email protected]. A camera image of light grain applied over the words “you disabled camera permissions.” Though the mic probably has to stay as a quiet hiss.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 year ago

        I don’t want anything voice-controlled to misbehave. E.g. if the word “goodbye” makes it close out. These things are too stupid for context. You know the rules, and so do I.

    • LoveSausage@lemmy.ml
      2·
      1 year ago

      You need GOS for this, the function is called scopes combined with true separated user accounts. The shitty apps just get what I allow them.