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Ask HN: What lightweight apps do you use on your Android phone?

• pwg 8y ago
  Give the F-Droid store a look: https://f-droid.org/ https://f-droid.org/
  • mmerlin 7y ago
    NetGuard to control which apps are allowed to communicate with the world and when (save your battery) DNS66 for dns adblocking (save your sanity) Pindroid for bookmarks using pinboard.in (save your history)
• Ultramanoid 8y ago
  Too many to list, but a few token ones. Edit / code : https://github.com/billthefarmer/editor/ https://github.com/billthefarmer/editor/ Photography : https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencamera/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/opencamera/ Drawing / painting : https://github.com/Catrobat/Paintroid https://github.com/Catrobat/Paintroid Unicode : https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad https://github.com/Ryosuke839/UnicodePad
• Ultramanoid 7y ago
  What the heck, here's another four. File management : https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostcommander/ https://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostcommander/ Scan for application embedded trackers : https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.oF2pks.classyshark3xodus/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.oF2pks.classyshark3xodus... mpv for Android : https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android https://github.com/mpv-android/mpv-android Multipurpose downloader, aria2 -- it's also available through Termux : https://github.com/aria2/aria2 https://github.com/aria2/aria2 Edit : https://github.com/termux/ https://github.com/termux/
• JamesClear99 7y ago
  Make your own light weight app of popular websites through hermit.
• sreenadh 7y ago
  MiXplorer - https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.mixplorer https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/com.mixplorer Its a file manager I use daily. Well made, no issues. I wish its open-source for the sole reason that I want to read that code. It works so well and very light.
• deleted 7y ago
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