Similar to how Tails aims to maximize privacy and security, the need for a "hardened" Android™-based Firmware is obvious.
- Whilst GrapheneOS does make a good job at security, it does not implement a fully transparent torification using Orbot from the get-go, and preventing unsafe communication as Tails does.
- Provide a simple to setup & boot into Android™-based distribution that is as east to get started as Tails.
- Develop a reference implementation / devkit for support. (aka. design a reference device)
As base operating system.
- Since Android™
F-Droid as preinstalled "Store".
Not only are we not a licensee for Google Play but also don't want to include it anyway in our ROMs.
- For those that need to download and use Apps from Google Play, (which we disrecommend!) there are options like Aurora Store that can provide the functionality.
- We do not guarantee functionality of any App - espechally downloaded through Aurora Store - and won't be able to support any of those. Any issues arising need to be resolved with the Apps' developers' directly.
Orbot for "torification" of traffic.
- monocles chat - a XMPP client that supports PGP, OMEMO & OTR encryption.
- monocles mail - an eMail client that supports PGP/MIME encryption.
- WG Tunnel for WireGuard.
- OpenVPN for Android to connect to OpenVPN.
- OpenKeychain, a simple App to facilitate OpenPGP encryption, decryption, signing and verifying.
- Keyoxide, a decentralized and privacy-friendly alternative to keybase in terms of verifying PGP keys.
- AdAway, a sleek Adblocker.
- ntfy, a client to recieve notifications from ntfy.sh - servers.
- OnionShare, a suite for collaboration and chat via Tor.
- WebCall, A WebRTC-based, End-to-End encrypted (Video-)Calling App.
- Zulip, a self-hosting capable Group Chat Solution.
- Ripple, a "panic button" to wipe apps and/or devices.
- baresip+, a Open-Source VoIP client.
As per Google & Android Brand guidelines as well as Android Developer Terms.
- Android™ is a trademark of Google LLC.
onionPhone is not officially supported nor endorsed by Google and contains code that does not allow to ship it as Android™, so we only call it Android™-based for that reason as to avoid confusion.