On 05-07-2023 03:31 Arnold Knight <
no-email@invalid.com> wrote:
This is good to know if this "stock Android (AOSP) contacts app" can be
found.
Mine came with GrapheneOS, so I never had to look for it.
I'm not rooted & I don't know how to use "GrapheneOS" so you're ahead of
me, which is why (thankfully) you understood the question nobody else did.
What others didn't understand is I'm trying to protect THEM (not me!).
All they can comprehend is the little world that Google handed to them.
None of them can see outside the tiny box that Google boxed them all into.
But you can.
Do you recommend any of those apps to keep the contacts local (which means >> they can not be stored in the default sqlite contacts location on Android)?
You might take a look at this app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/
Thank you for that wonderful suggestion of opencontacts on F-Droid.
Its description seems to be almost perfectly tuned to the problem!
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts/ OpenContacts
A different database for contacts to keep them private only to you.
Even though we are not having any problem sharing our mobile number with
all third parties, people in our phone book might have.
We should not be sharing their contact information online.
This app saves contacts in its own database separate from android contacts. This way no other app would be able to access contacts.
Can be used in place of your default phone(dialer) app.
It can import contacts from vCard files.
So we can export Android contacts and import into this app.
Maintains call log as well.
Also shows the person's name upon receiving call.
They seem to have a deprecated site on gitlab also.
https://github.com/sultanahamer/OpenContacts
Privacy to your contacts.
This app saves contacts in its own database seperate from android contacts. This way no other app would be able to access contacts.
Can be used in place of your phone app.
We can export / import contacts from Android contacts app into this app. Maintains call log as well coz Android call log app would not be able to
show name of contact Also shows the person name upon recieving call
Which points us to what seems to be a well-maintained site at gitlab.
https://gitlab.com/sultanahamer/OpenContacts
This app saves contacts in its own database seperate from android contacts. This way no other app would be able to access contacts.
Can be used in place of your default phone(dialer) app.
We can export / import contacts from Android contacts app into this app. Maintains call log as well coz Android call log app would not be able
to show name of contact.
Also shows the person name upon recieving call.
I picked up the APK directly from F-Droid onto my Windows PC.
https://f-droid.org/repo/opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts_28.apk
Name: opencontacts.open.com.opencontacts_28.apk
Size: 4048046 bytes (3953 KiB)
SHA256: 2C421C73849023C6964F76D8636BF02F39A232DCD3E5B4D402F60008AD8F8672
It installed with no problems onto my Android 12 pixel.
It had a very easy way to add contacts individually from the call list.
For some reason, it didn't nag me to make it the default dialer.
Nor the default messenger. Nor the default contacts manager.
That surprised me as it worked as all three (although, of course, it didn't have any contacts yet - but it did suck in my recent phone calls after I
gave it permission to do so in the initial setup screens).
The add contact form enabled email which is useful since I'm going to
likely start with my Windows Thunderbird address book as the master db
(which was one of the suggestions that the Windows users had made).b
Excellent that it can import and export as that's the most critical
component of any tool that handles contacts locally, where I noticed it has
the option to export automatically on a weekly basis to the file system.
It's interesting that it has an option, off by default, to open telegram
and whatsapp conversations directly from the open contacts app itself.
For the master sqlite database, I'll populate it with this program.
https://f-droid.org/packages/me.billdietrich.fake_contacts/
This way I'll instantly know when a program is sucking in the sqlite db.
Given the master contacts db will be stored on Windows, I'm also testing
a way to maintain the master file on a PC due to the keyboard & big screen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Contacts https://web.archive.org/web/20201210184251/https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002
https://download.cnet.com/Efficient-Address-Book-Free/3000-2074_4-10921069.html
Thank you for being the only person who not only understood the problem set wasn't to preserve MY privacy (but to preserve YOURS!) and who had a
solution.
Your helpful and caring information is how Usenet is supposed to work.
I will test this out and let you know what I find out soon about it.
The end result won't change my privacy at all - but it will help others.
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