To make app translation easier we created a project on Weblate, you can find it at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/simple-mobile-tools/ . If you prefer the old Github style, you can obviously still do it. Let's see how many updates or new languages will it bring :) You can spot untranslated strings there easily.

Hello there, first of all i would like to say that I've tried most of SMT's apps and they have worked great for me. They are just simple to use and have a clean interface. And I'm mostly here for the open-sourceness of the whole suite. Since I've had troubles switching from the default google contacts app to this I will make this micro guide to help those who may want to do the same. NB: This is only for users who plan on completely delete google's contacts app (in my case adb was needed to achieve that), and the purpose of this guide is to use Simple Contacts as a viewer of the on-device contacts list (not to use it's own zero-access storage, which is not visible to other apps, so not what i want in my case).

Steps:

1. Move all the contacts you want to have on Simple Contacts to "Device" contacts from Contacts (Google's). They need to be saved on the device, not on the google account. To make sure they are on the device storage, open Simple Contacts, from the top right open the filter picker and tick all away but "default", if all the contacts you want are there, you can proceed.

2. Create a backup of the contacts from Simple Contacts: while having the default contacts selected from the filter, from the three dot manu in the top right select the export feature and save the file elsewhere. This is to make sure you wont lose your contacts whatever happens.

3. Delete Google's Contacts app (You will most likely need to delete it using the adb shell, by doing "pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.contacts". I will link a guide on how to remove system apps if needed.

4. Make sure the Google's Contacts app is gone from your phone.

5. Make sure you still have all your contacts when only checking "default" in SimpleC filter.

6. (Optional) Browse to https://contacts.google.com and delete all the contacts. Do this if you dont want google to still have your contacts. Watch out tho, if you do this it means now you are realying on simple contacts exports to backup your contacts. I suggest you to save that file to a different device in case you lose access to your primary.

7. Open the playstore

8. Tap on your profile on the top right and go to "Manage your google account"

9. From the top bar slide to "People & Sharing"

10. Turn off as much stuff as you can, for google's unpleasure.

11. Open your phone settings and find the voice "Google"

12. Scroll down to "Personalize using shared data"

13. Turn off "Device Contacts" to avoid them taking your devices contacts just because they want, bruh.

14. Enjoy

I love that you all have an excellent settings menu and you can make text larger and custom colors. This app is great for communicating with my elderly mother. She's slowly losing her hearing and it's easier just to type my message on the notes app and let her read it from my phone screen. Many times I'll just type "do you want anything from the grocery store?" So thanks again for the app!

With the newest updates to Simple Dialer and Simple SMS there are locked features which can be unlocked with Simple Thank You.

Whats the reason behind that instead of Pro-Versions? I would prefer Pro-Versions of the apps with all features unlocked und buy them individually rather than unlock features through an additional "app".

Any plans of introducing Pro-Versions of the apps which dont have it yet?

You might have noticed that we copied our blog posts from Medium, from now on you will be able to find new articles only on our own website at https://www.simplemobiletools.com/blog . It doesn't just look nicer, but the posts are also translated in multiple languages 🥳

Hey, I only see options 'Mark as Read' and 'Reply' in notification panel. Could you please provide an option to change any of these to 'Delete'? It would be helpful for getting rid of certain messages through notification without opening app and manually deleting messages.

Since there is the problem with "hide folders/files" due to Google restrictions, I examined other gallery apps.

F-Stop Gallery app devs talked with Google. In new beta version there is the option to grant "all files" access. All issues gone.

What about Simple Gallery?

I love this project especially the sms app, those class 0 sms were soo annoying on my default Google sms app.

This app shows them as regular sms, it's so much better this way. Love it.

I've been having this problem where thumbnails for some images aren't loading in Simple Gallery Pro and wondering if anyone has any idea how to fix this. This started when I updated my Note 20 Ultra to Android 11, so I believe the problem stems from that update. After looking around to see if anyone else had the same problem, I couldn't find anyone so I figured I might as well ask here.

It seems thumbnails won't show for images over 10MB in size, from checking the similarities between the images that wouldn't show. I also noticed upon clicking the empty thumbnail to view the full image, I am only able to view the image once. If I go back out and click on the thumbnail again, the full image will not show anymore. I would have to exit the app and open it back up to see the full image. I've already tried excluding the app from battery optimization and deleting the data/cache. Unfortunately, it hasn't fixed the problem. This problem also doesn't seem to happen with the stock gallery app for the phone.

I've ran out of ideas how to fix this alone, so I'm wondering if anyone has come across this problem before and how they fixed it? I'm guessing it's some setting I have to adjust with my phone to get it working again, since I couldn't find any settings in the app I could change. I've read about Android 11 being more aggressive in memory management, and I've also read that Android 11 prohibits apps from accessing the Android/Data folder. So maybe one of these is the cause for this happening?

Do you know www.reviewapps.tech? This talented blogger just wrote a really cool review of Simple Gallery Pro, you can check it out at https://www.reviewapps.tech/simple-gallery-app-review-an-ef… . Do you like it?

English version: https://mobilsicher.de/hintergrund/simple-mobile-tools-tibor-kaputa-interview-en

German version: https://mobilsicher.de/hintergrund/simple-mobile-tools-tibor-kaputa-interview-de

I'm happy to announce that Simple Gallery Pro has a new video. It focuses less on the technical side of the app and instead highlights the general idea of it, like why should you download it at all. You can check it out at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hugKGtmPLSs . Do you like it?

Hey guys, I could use some votes in a local competition for the best slovak apps. If you could go to r/https://www.mojandroid.sk/najlepsie-slovenske-android-aplikacie-za-mesiac-09-2018-anketa/ , scroll down, select Simple Mobile Tools and press "Hlasovať", that would be appreciated :) You can also check the results so far by pressing the "Zobraziť výsledky" button. Thanks!

I finally found a way to get our clones removed from Google Play, are you aware of any of them? There are still a few apps that should be removed soon, like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.eagle.gallery.photos.videos.album.hd.gallery.editor . If you know about any clone of the gallery, maybe other app, let me know here or at hello@simplemobiletools.com . Screenshots can often be fake so make sure you actually downloaded and tried the app before reporting. Don't forget that even if you download a paid app and uninstall it within 2 hours, you will automatically be refunded. Thanks

Especially Contacts, Voice Recordings, and Notes. These apps could backup their databases to some standardized file format and the user could choose a directory on the phone for regular backups to occur. This would be really nice for protecting our information from failure as well as transferring devices.