List of Open Source Android Applications

Android is a Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

-based operating system for phones and other mobile devices (tablets, ereaders, media players, etc.).

Known free software Android applications

This is an incomplete list of notable applications that run on the Android platform that meet the guidelines for free software

Free software

Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...

Communication

Application name	Description	Website	Apk	Market	Sources	License	API	Note
APG Android Privacy Guard Android Privacy Guard is a Free Software application that runs on the Android Operating System. The application provides strong, user based encryption that is compatible with the Pretty Good Privacy and GNU Privacy Guard programs. This allows users to encrypt, decrypt, sign, and verify...	Android Privacy Guard	APG	apk		svn	Apache 2.0	Android 1.5+
Funambol Funambol Funambol is an American corporation that earns revenue from its dual-licensing business model that includes commercial software and free open source mobile data synchronization software based on the Funambol core project.-Funambol-based companies:...	Android Sync client	Funambol Client for Android	apk		svn	aGPLv3	Android 2.0+

Emulators

Application name	Description	Website	Apk	Market	Sources	License	API	Note
Scummvm ScummVM ScummVM is a collection of game engine recreations. Originally designed to play LucasArts adventure games that use the SCUMM system , it now also supports a variety of non-SCUMM games by companies like Revolution Software and Adventure Soft. It was originally written by Ludvig Strigeus...	ScummVM Android Port	ScummVM					Android 1.5+	now officially merged

Games

Application name	Description	Website	Apk	Sources	License	API	Note
Fish Fillets NG Fish Fillets NG Fish Fillets NG is a puzzle game. The goal in each level is to find a safe way out for both of the two fish. It's comparable to other sliding puzzle games such as sokoban and klotski. In Fish Fillets the play is complicated by a few additional elements and rules...	Underwater puzzle game.	Fish Fillets NG		tgz	GPLv2		Port of Fish Fillets NG
Frozen Bubble Frozen Bubble Frozen Bubble is a free software Puzzle Bobble style computer game which is available on several operating systems including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, the Symbian Series 60, Windows Phone 7 and Android line of smartphones...	Knock the bubbles down by making clusters of three or more bubbles in the same color.	Frozen Bubble		svn	GPLv2	3.0	Port of Frozen Bubble
Nethack NetHack NetHack is a single-player roguelike video game originally released in 1987. It is a descendant of an earlier game called Hack , which is a descendant of Rogue... Android	NetHack	homepage	list	svn	GPLv2	1.5+	Port of NetHack
Simon Tatham Simon Tatham Simon Tatham is an English programmer known primarily for creating and maintaining PuTTY, a free software implementation of Telnet and SSH clients for Unix and Windows API platforms, along with an xterm terminal emulator... 's Puzzles	A great portable collection of puzzle games, ported to android	Android Puzzles	apk	git	MIT	1.5+
Warmux	A turn-based artillery game	Warmux	apk	tar.bz2	GPLv2	2.0+

General

Application name	Description	Website	Apk	Sources	License	API	Note
Android's Fortune	Quotes and Fortune Cookie program	Project Page	apk	bzr	GPLv3
Barcode Scanner Barcode Scanner (application) The application Barcode Scanner also known as ZXing is an Android app that allows a user to scan 1-D or 2-D "graphical barcodes" with the camera on their Android device. This program turns that scan into the original data that is represented by the barcode...	Barcode reader	ZXing Project	latest	svn	Apache 2.0
FBReaderJ FBReader FBReader is a free and open source e-book reader for GNU/Linux, Microsoft Windows, and other platforms.It was originally written for the Sharp Zaurus and currently runs on many other mobile devices, like the Nokia Internet Tablets, as well as desktop computers...	e-book reader	site	apk	git	GPL	Android 1.5+	(fbreader's port)
Rockbox Rockbox Rockbox is a replacement for the standard firmware in various forms of digital audio players . It offers an alternative to the player's operating system, in many cases without removing the original firmware, which provides a plug-in architecture for adding various enhancements and functions...	Music player / jukebox	http://www.rockbox.org	http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/AndroidPort	svn	GPLv2		officially "unusable", early development version
Tomdroid[ Tomboy (software) Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Unix-like and Microsoft Windows operating systems, written in C# using Gtk#. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a wiki-like linking...	Note taking application with online sync	Tomdroid	latest	bzr	GPLv3	Android 1.6+	a port of Tomboy Tomboy (software) Tomboy is a free and open-source desktop notetaking application written for Unix-like and Microsoft Windows operating systems, written in C# using Gtk#. Tomboy is part of the GNOME desktop environment, often for personal information management. Its interface is a notepad with a wiki-like linking... to android

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