Replicant

= Replicant Wiki =

News about the project is available in the [http://replicant.us Replicant website]. You are currently in the Wiki section, which is the user edited section - feel free to contribute by creating an account and editing pages now!

This section of the site is a wiki, and as such anyone can edit the pages here. When doing so, please bear in mind that we are a [http://www.fsf.org/about/what-is-free-software FREE SOFTWARE] project.

Current phones

We are currently focussing on HTC Dream and Nexus One, for several reason: * Both phones have versions that permit the user to become root if he wants to: [wiki:root_status only a few phones] comes with root privilegies, or a mecanism that permit the user to become root. (If you know about another android phone that comes with root by default please let us know on irc or mailing list.) * They are well supported in the AOSP, that is to say, part of the hardware libraries are released under a Free Software license * The replicant developers have or the htcdream, or both.
Note that [http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/pour-one-out-t-mobile-g1-no-longer-for-sale/ T-Mobile G1 is no longer for sale] so our default device will become the Nexus One.

Also note that if you have a phone that is not a nexusone or an htcdream, adding support for it could be doable, especially if your phone is very similar to a supported one or that you have full or partial hardware libraries source code.

Current Status By phones * The htcdream status: [wiki:AndroidStatus] * The Nexus one status: preliminary evaluation of the port has been done, The initial sources need to be published and then the real work will start Replicant source code

The Replicant source code is currently hosted [http://gitorious.org/replicant at gitorious]. For the branch descriotion, see the Builds Howto

How to build and install Replicant

=== Htc Dream === * Here's how to build your htcdream image: [wiki:BuildAndroid] * Here's how to install your htcdream image [wiki:InstallAndroid] === Nexus One === * Here's the build howto: [wiki:BuildNexusOne] * Here's what proprietary libraries and firmwares were shipped on the nexusone and the status of their replacement: [ProprietaryNexusOneLibsReplacement]

Replicant Software Center - a libre market application

Replicant Software Center is a fully free software market application (because Google Market is proprietary software) developed using the APKTor client which is released under the GPLv2.

We are going to do our own Replicant branded version but for now you can download the [http://apktor.gotoinit.com/ APKtor client].

If you wish to test it we have a libre app repository at this URI for testing purposes: http://sorbaioli.org/repo

List of Free Software applications

We're building a list of all known [wiki:ListOfKnownFreeSoftwareApps Free Software applications for the Android platform].

Libre software replacement for non free Google apps

• Google Market -> APKtor

• Gmail -> K9

• Google Maps -> [https://code.google.com/p/osmand/ OsmAnd], AndNav2 or OSMdroid or Navit

• Google Talk -> [wiki:Sipdroid]

• Youtube -> ? (I was able to watch youtube videos directly from my browser with cyanogenmod. Someone should try if this works with replicant too).

• Genie Widget (also known as News/Weather widget) -> NEWS part: BBC News or NPR News. WEATHER part: ?

=== (OLD INFO) previous tentative to build a market app using SlideMe 1.0 and codeJVending ===

• We're working an a free software market for Android called FLOSS Dispenser based on SlideME 1.0CE. * [http://gitorious.org/replicant/floss-dispenser Source code] * [wiki:BuildFLOSSDispenser Build instructions]
• FLOSS Dispenser is designed to work with JVending, an implementation of the J2EE Client Provisioning Specification. * [http://gitorious.org/replicant/jvending Source code] for our fork * [wiki:BuildAndDeployJVending Build instructions] and deployment information

IRC

We meet on an IRC channel, #replicant on irc.freenode.net.

Mailing lists

Here's the [http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/replicant mailing list]

GNU/Linux on the HTC Dream
The replicant project is no longer involved with stock GNU/Linux port on the htcdream, that doesn't mean that the port is not developed anymore, it just means that it's done in the SHR project rather than in the replicant one. Starting Points for Using Trac * TracGuide -- Built-in Documentation * [http://trac.edgewall.org/ The Trac project] -- Trac Open Source Project * [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracFaq Trac FAQ] -- Frequently Asked Questions * TracSupport -- Trac Support

For a complete list of local wiki pages, see TitleIndex.