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Hey all!

I am anxiously chomping at the bit for the tool library. I work as a USPS mail carrier and like to listen to audiobooks and Spotify playlists while ai am on route. I have been carrying an old smartphone without service as a media device. Admittedly, this works fine but I really don’t like carrying an extra device. Too much fiddling with audio outputs and keeping two devices charged. Minor annoyances I admit. I know the tool library is a few months out, and I am getting impatient with especially since I saw someone post a audiobook tool. I looked at the guide in modified light phones subreddit and frankly it’s a whole lot to absorb. I am worried about screwing up my phone. Can folks give me some insight to their experiences. I don’t really want to change the os. I kind of just want to add a tool or two to the existing list. Is that possible? Thanks in advance!

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u/buttersplosion — 13 hours ago

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I built Audiobooks: a real, offline audiobook player for the LP3

I've been working on an audiobook player for the LP3 and it's now in a usable beta state: https://github.com/fenleon/audiobooks

It's built as a real LightOS tool! A thin UI on the SDK design system with a companion app for scanning and playback.

I forked and stripped it down from bard, kept the playback core, rebuilt everything around local-only, offline listening.

Installable today via sideloading, and designed to go through the official vetted-tools pipeline once submissions open.

u/fenleon — 5 days ago

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Non-owner questions about Light Phone III

Hi there.

I had dismissed the LP as an option for a minimal phone mostly because I absolutely need WhatsApp (living in South America), a better music player and more robust maps/navigation software (Waze, for example, I drive quite a bit).

I read that with the upcoming Toolkit those things might become a reality? That it will be an App Store of sorts where Light will approve apps from the users to be easily added to the phone?

If that's the case I might hold up on buying a new phone and wait until the toolkit is available and just get a LPIII.

Thanks!

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u/efabril — 10 days ago

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I made BrightMarket: browse, install and update LPIII apps without hunting GitHub releases

I used Obtainium for a bit and it works fine, but it never felt like it belonged on the light phone. It was too complex and had too many features that were unnecessary for what the LP3 needed.

So I made BrightMarket!

It replaces Obtainium, and adds the part Obtainium was never trying to do

I built a web portal, where you can actually browse what apps exists and read more about them. Find a tool you want, scan the code with the BrightMarket tool, and it opens ready to install.

The other half of BM is the Obtanium replacement and that part still works the way you'd expect. It watches GitHub releases and tells you when something's out of date. You can point it at any repo that publishes APKs, including ones that have nothing to do with BrightMarket, so you're not giving up anything you already track.

You also don't have to set it all up again by hand. Import your Obtainium export and it takes the lot. Apps in the gallery become normal entries, everything else gets tracked exactly as it was!

You get to decide whether the tool browser lives on your phone

This is a bit I know a lot of people really care about. A gallery on your phone is a scrollable feed, and a scrollable feed on a Light Phone kind of just sucks and defeats the point.

So it asks you on first launch. Keep browsing on the phone if you want it. Or go extra light, and the phone only shows the apps you've got and their updates! Anything new arrives by scanning a code off the desktop. You can still patch something without going to find a laptop. You just can't browse.

Turning it on is one tap. Turning it back off means scanning a code on the desktop page.

What's in it

The 20-odd apps I've built for my own Light Phone, plus a few forks of existing apps I adapted for my LP3. All free, all open source. A camera, an ebook reader, an RSS and newsletter reader, a TOTP authenticator, live scores, subway times, an Apple TV remote, a notebook and calendar, a couple of games.

If you've made something for the LPIII you can add it. Sign in with GitHub, pick a repo that has a release, done. The sign-in asks for read:user and nothing else, so it can see the public repos you own and can't write anywhere.

Installing it

Either adb install it, or just open this link on your phone https://brightmarket.gzl.dev/apk/ and install from there. After that everything else goes through BrightMarket. There's a "How to set up" button on the site with the steps.

Visit the tool gallery at brightmarket.gzl.dev

Repo Source: https://github.com/gi-os/BrightMarket

u/gman6849 — 13 days ago