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OsmAnd~ 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 t

OsmAnd~ 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 ago
  I 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 ago
I 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 ago
  OSMAnd 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 ago
    I've seen that with commercial (Waze) software too. It might be common bug in navigation software.
    - tapas73 5y ago
      maybe waze also uses openStreetMap?
      - habi 5y ago
        As 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.
    - vertis 5y ago
      Fun story, driving through Croatia toward Split Google Maps kept telling me the main freeway was closed and to take each and every exit. Someone is maliciously reporting roads closed. Obviously the same could happen to OSM, but there isn't the same 'no way to fix it until Google decides to fix it'. Similarly when I was in Bangkok wandering around, Google wanted to cross the train tracks at a road that tripled the walking distance to the destination. In reality it was possible to cross the train tracks (i.e an actual crossing, not just anywhere). Worse it was much more dangerous to walk the Google route. Fixing it on OSM was easy. Fixing it on Google was a pain because it had to be submitted and checked and approved (which it eventually was). There are definitely places where OSM is far outstripping Google maps. Especially when it comes to non-roads.
HKH2 5y ago
Librera is great for PDFs and okay for ebooks. The UI could be improved a little, but it's quite customisable.

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 ago
I 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 ago

I 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 ago
OSMAnd 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 ago
  I've seen that with commercial (Waze) software too. It might be common bug in navigation software.
  - tapas73 5y ago
    maybe waze also uses openStreetMap?
    - habi 5y ago
      As 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.
  - vertis 5y ago
    Fun story, driving through Croatia toward Split Google Maps kept telling me the main freeway was closed and to take each and every exit. Someone is maliciously reporting roads closed. Obviously the same could happen to OSM, but there isn't the same 'no way to fix it until Google decides to fix it'. Similarly when I was in Bangkok wandering around, Google wanted to cross the train tracks at a road that tripled the walking distance to the destination. In reality it was possible to cross the train tracks (i.e an actual crossing, not just anywhere). Worse it was much more dangerous to walk the Google route. Fixing it on OSM was easy. Fixing it on Google was a pain because it had to be submitted and checked and approved (which it eventually was). There are definitely places where OSM is far outstripping Google maps. Especially when it comes to non-roads.

HKH2 5y ago

Librera is great for PDFs and okay for ebooks. The UI could be improved a little, but it's quite customisable.