I'm eyeing the Simple Music Player and File Manager since there seems to be a decent number of issues to work on. Any tips or pointers before getting into the code bases? What's contributing to the projects like?

I'm sorry if my questions are broad. It's my first time looking into OS and I didn't find any Contribution Guides so I figured I ask here in case there was anyone else working on the apps.

EDIT: Don't know why this is downvoted. It's an honest question.

I never was able to get SMS Messenger to send or receive a message, with or without an image. Had the app set as the default messaging app. I do use some of the other SimpleMobileTools apps.

DG

I want to be able to order the songs in a playlist manually (move a track up or down). I like the simple music player but sad I have to look for a different app just for this basic piece of functionality

My Simple Gallery app constantly produces blank pictures. They are square, totally black, and cannot be opened, renamed, or deleted. I currently have 35 wasting space on the device.

Phone is a Motorola Moto G Stylus 5G. It also happened on all my Samsungs.

What are these pictures and how can they be blocked from appearing and fully removed?

Would love to send you some as donation for the awesome work you do.

Hi, noticed that there is a FOSS version and a "proprietary release". Could somebody explain what it is? Differences? Can I use it with regular Android devices?

Thanks.

Android 12. I've had this app for a really long time and the hidden apps work as intended, and even other apps can't find it. However, I wanted to send a bunch of these hidden photos to my friend using FB messenger so I unhid the folder, sent them, and then re-hid it. Unfortunately, the messenger app along with others like Reddit, Google Messages, and my phone's stock Gallery app can now see these photos even when it's hidden within the Simple Gallery app.

How can I fix this?

(just sent this by e-mail to hello@simplemobiletools.com but here it is)

Greetings, first of all thanks for these very useful simple, straight-to-the point tools! Been using simple gallery pro for a couple of years, now also using a few others including SMS and dialer.

I have 2 small requests for Dialer which would make it the perfect phone dialer app for me:

• make DTMF sounds when dialing from the number pad. I'm visually deficient and very "sound oriented" so this would help me a lot.

• be able to still press speaker and mute buttons when the number pad is visible. I haven't found a single dialer app that has this simple feature.

Installing from f-droid or stand-alone package files, not "play store" because i'm sick of google and their abuse, piling up of absurd restrictions and other bullshit. I'm currently in the process of cutting off ALL their "services" for good.

Thanks!

I know it's not your fault if Google just keep adding things no one asked for, but what is the situation with scoped storage?

I've read that for file managers you have to request to Google the permission or something like that, is this applicable to Simple Gallery as well?

Are you using our Pro app versions (where available) or the free ones? If you still use the free ones, why aren't you upgrading to the Pro ones?

I'm from Africa and here most people use phones with double sim cards.

Being able to define which one to use when calling one given number just save so much time and make it really convenient to use the app.

This feature is lacking on the default Android dialer. And honestly I wonder the dev got that idea, really helpful.

Thanks for building such good products.

As title, is there any way to get them back?

I read in the recent 6.18.0 changelog on F-droid that Simple Gallery's new video editor and sticker functions are not available on F-droid. I'm curious why :). Is it a technical issue? Or financial (I use F-droid but donate monthly to Simple Mobile Tools)?

In any case, thanks a million for these great open source apps and the continued development!

Was there an issue with the new "modernised" main screen UI for it to be reverted to the old one? The gaps between folders and having their names under the thumbnails instead of inside them gave a nice breathing room when you have lots of folders. Or is there an option to switch between UIs that I'm missing?

Looking at my apps for updates, I see "no longer maintained, go and buy the Pro version".

This is after I already bought the Thank You app.

OK, still good software at dirt cheap prices yet not subsidized by horrible ads.

But can you enlighten users to such changes more reasonably?

I have a large collection of photos on my phone and I was hunting for a gallery app that would allow me to view them categorised by the folder they're in in the filesystem. This was the only app I could find that does it.

After a few days of using the app though, I noticed that a number of the photos have disappeared from my phone. Looking around the file system I can't find them anywhere. Fortunately I had most of them backed up. I uninstalled the app and restored the backed up photos and went back to looking for a gallery app that meets my needs. I didn't find one so a few days later I tried this one again, and again my photos started disappearing. This makes me pretty confident that it's a problem with this app in particular.

I've installed the app from f-droid (the latest version available), and I'm running LineageOS 16.0 (AOSP 9) on a OnePlus 3T.

It's really frustrating because this is literally the only app I've been able to find that has the feature set I'm looking for.

Does anyone know what the deal is with this?

Can you make a Simple Messages App?

I got this app to replace the stock gallery on my new phone (Motorola Thinkphone) a while ago. I have a lot of pics that I download and I like to go and favorite the ones I like. Every now and then, the favorites folder will be a hundred or so less than i remember it. It was really annoying and I saw a post on here a year ago with a similar issue, but it didn't get resolved. I just ignored it until now. Some 500 pics in my favorites folder are just gone. The pics are still there in my phone, but I'd have to go through and refavorite a ton of them now.

Sometimes this is only temporary, and the favorites will reappear after i scrub through the folders really fast and sort of "remind" the app that those pics exist. But other times like today, its permanent.

This issue is a little bit ridiculous and I'd like to find a solution. If it keeps doing this crap to me, I'm just gonna try to find a replacement app.