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It's a great resource. With my minimal needs, I don't use any other Android store these days. (I only wish they had enough donations to fund faster builds of ne
by foresto 5y ago
It's a great resource. With my minimal needs, I don't use any other Android store these days. (I only wish they had enough donations to fund faster builds of new app releases.) A few gems that I have found useful:
Aard 2: Offline dictionary
andOTP, Aegis: 2FA code generation (including Steam, if you have your secrets)
DAVx5, ICSx5: Sync calendar & contacts with standards-supporting servers
Element: End-to-end encrypted chat on the Matrix network
FBReader, Librera PRO: Books
K-9 Mail, FairEmail: Mail
KDE Connect: Phone notifications, SMS, files, remote control, etc. on the linux desktop (not just for KDE Plasma users)
Metrodroid: Read NFC transit card balances
NewPipe: YouTube
Organic Maps, OsmAnd~: Offline navigation (maybe online as well?)
Privacy Browser: Lightweight web browser with a simple dark mode, using the OS WebView for rendering
Shattered Pixel Dungeon: Fun roguelike game
Twire: Twitch
- alisonatwork 5y agoOsmAnd~ is spectacularly good. If you spend a lot of time hiking, biking or just traveling outside, i also recommend Trail Sense (compass and a bunch of other things), Forecastie (weather, including wind speed) and BRouter (offline routing if you need a route but don't have signal). QuickDic is also very useful if you are traveling to areas where you don't speak the language. Offline dictionaries with very quick lookup. It's worth installing AnkiDroid too, if you do spaced repetition for language learning. I use KOReader for PDFs, but it's not great. Are FBReader or Librera any better? Simon Tatham's Puzzles are a fun little distraction.
- foresto 5y ago> I use KOReader for PDFs, but it's not great. Are FBReader or Librera any better? I think I've only tried PDFs once on each of these apps, and that was so long ago that the PDF experience could easily have changed since then. (I mainly use them for ePUB books.) Perhaps someone else can answer?
- ramshorns 5y agoI use Document Viewer (org.sufficientlysecure.viewer). I haven't compared it to the others but it's pretty good.
- betwixthewires 5y ago+1 for Document Viewer. I use it to read books, it's the only FOSS reader I've found that comes close to my favorite (proprietary) app, Moon+. It checks the boxes for the features I need.
- VZXvZXVBZ 5y agoI want to love OsmAnd~ but the ux and search features are spectacularly terrible. I was recently in Pomona, and searched for a Walgreens. The first result was for Livermore, with the next couple results being 100-200 miles away. 4th or 5th on the list was a store in Ontario, and the rest were 30+ miles away. I discovered there was a store in Pomona while driving to the store in Ontario. For UX, several months ago my phone decided to display pot leaf icons for all the pot stores in Seattle. This only happens in Seattle, and I've spent at least 30 minutes searching through the app trying to figure out how to toggle off the pot stores. Mind you the pot stores stay up even along side the results for more recent searches.
- orangepurple 5y agoOSMAnd search is awful. For everything else it's pretty good! However, in years past it failed spectacularly: instead of navigating straight through an intersection, it requested I turn right, immediately u-turn, then turn right again. Laughable glitch. I use it all the time for bicycle route planning with elevation considerations.
- omgwtfbyobbq 5y agoI've seen that with commercial (Waze) software too. It might be common bug in navigation software.
- tapas73 5y agomaybe waze also uses openStreetMap?
- habi 5y agoAs far as I know, Waze has their own map data, and is a subsidiary of Google. Their Wikipedia page mentions that > Waze continuously insisted to crowdsource data without using external sources or projects like OpenStreetMap that would restrict commercialization of the Waze map data.
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- HKH2 5y agoLibrera is great for PDFs and okay for ebooks. The UI could be improved a little, but it's quite customisable.
- user_7832 5y agoI must add: Trail Sense by Kyle Corry. It's an absolute delight of an app in every way possible. A large number of features for hiking including a clever use of the barometer to run in the background and provide weather warnings, the standard compass/GPS, a TON of tools like flashlight, whistle, bubble level, triangulation without GPS... unfortunately I'm not a hiker so I don't know what to do with half of these, but it's amazing. The UI of the app is amazing too - simple and material UI, but unobtrusive. The best part? It's 3.14MB (!!!!) in size. (And it's last update was 6 days back, so active development. And of course it's open source.) Oh btw, the Play Store listing (186 reviews) has an average of 5 stars and no review below 4 stars. Go figure.
- IntrepidWorm 5y agoI have used the waypoints feature on numerous occasions when trekking and have found it incredibly helpful for determining my location relative to various points of interest. It really is a fantastic app. The barometer has actually notified me of a rain storm about 30 minutes before some of the first drops fell- i was prepared for rain in the forecast that day, but it was still remarkable to see the app in action.
- khimaros 5y agoanother vote for Trail Sense. I also love the tide predictor and notifications about meteor showers!
- acidburnNSA 5y agoIn that category, I really have been impressed with osmand+, which uses open streetmap maps and allows you download entire state-wide regions in advance while still providing navigation and waypoint tracking. Very fun and useful for offline GPS needs. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/net.osmand.plus/
- donio 5y agoSome of my must haves: Termux: terminal Antennapod: podcast client (RSS) Fennec: Firefox (allows custom add-on collections so I can use Vimium) KeyMapper: HW key and button remapping Open Link With: open links with alternative apps RedReader: Reddit client mupdf: PDF viewer Shattered Pixel Dungeon: roguelike Something I am still looking for: folder-based music player with a seek UI that works well for long audio files (for example fine-seeking in a 4 hour long mp3)
- TranquilMarmot 5y agoDoes VLC not meet your needs for a media player?
- donio 5y agoI just checked again and it looks like they have added granular seek buttons for audio-only so it's serviceable now.
- rg111 5y agoNot in case of long audio files. I have some purchased audiobooks that are as long as 21 hours mp3. VLC sucks at playing those. Other than this need, VLC is all I need.
- yosamino 5y agoI am now super curious how you are using Vimium on a handheld device, do you mind sharing ?
- orangepurple 5y agoKDE Connect is a killer app. I am able to use my phone as a mouse and keyboard wirelessly over wifi when my laptop is plugged into the TV and the latency is low!
- servytor 5y agoI am commenting just because I want to remember KDE Connect. Had no clue that project existed.
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- acidburnNSA 5y agoSame. I hook my laptop's hdmi port to my big tv and get movies going or whatever using it as the keyboard and mouse and people are like "whoa!"
- chakkepolja 5y agoAlso sharing files and clipboard!
- mmohtasim 5y agoGitTouch: app for github and and gitlab Feeder: RSS feed reader Materialistic and glider: app for hacker news Scrambled Exif: Remove metadata from picture before sharing
- csdreamer7 5y ago+1 for Aegis. Can't recommend it enough.
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