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What are your top android apps? (lemmy.world)
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My top android apps are : 1.Local send for file transfer 2.Bitwarden for password manager 3. Antennapod for my podcast 4.Seal for YouTube download 5.Boost for lemmy 6.Rimusic for YouTube music 7. Poweramp for local music on my phone 8.Lichess for chess 9.protonvpn for vpn 10.fairmail for email

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[–] FOSSEON@lemdro.id 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

App Stores: F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/ Aurora Store https://auroraoss.com/downloads/AuroraStore/

URL Shortcuts: HTTP Request Shortcuts https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.rmy.android.http_shortcuts/

Terminal: Termux https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/

VPN + Firewall (+Connect to Tor & I2P): InviZible Pro https://f-droid.org/en/packages/pan.alexander.tordnscrypt.stable/

Browser: Fennec F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ (type "about:config" in the address bar to configure all Firefox Browser settings) (https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries)

Notes: Standard Notes https://standardnotes.com/

Chat: SimpleX Chat https://simplex.chat/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRu98XSap0)

Youtube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp Client: NewPipe https://newpipe.net/

Windows Emulator: Winlator https://winlator.org/

Media Editor (+50 other tools): Image Toolbox https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I tried switching to Aurora, but apps updated through there no longer appear in Android Auto for some reason (Spotify, Smart Audiobook Player)

[–] FOSSEON@lemdro.id 1 points 4 days ago

That is very interesting, you should make the developers aware of this! https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore I personally don't use Android Auto and I can't see what the disconnect would be considering Aurora Store is only a client, and shouldn't interfere with an app's structure. I've been using it for a little over a year now and have updated major system apps like Google Play Services, Android System Webview, Android AICore, etc etc, without any glitching or incompatibilities. I'd be curious to see why Android Auto performs this way. I wonder if it depends on the Google Play Store for it to work. That's a new thing I've noticed that Google and Microsoft are doing, they're forcing their products to be dependent on eachother, for anything to work. Seemingly as a workaround for people who outsource to other services, such as FOSS alternatives.

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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

List made using List My Apps

[–] bairy@feddit.uk 4 points 5 days ago

Nova Launcher

Edge Gestures as an alternative to android gestures

Quick Cursor for easy one handed usage

Panels as a sidebar based quick launch / app switcher

AccuWeather for weather and minute by minute forecast

Google Fit for basic quiet step counting - can also measure your heart rate with the camera

Outdoor Active or AllTrails to show you walking routes

Street Complete to contribute to open street map in a much friendlier way

Spark for multi account email

[–] land@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

1: GrayJay, Revanced and PipePipe - YouTube 2: Voyager for Lemmy (currently in a hunt for a push notifications client for Lemmy) 3: Tap Tap for back taps (gives you ability to execute certain tasks just by tapping) 4: Shelter for separating work apps 5: RetroArch - retro emulator games 6: ReThink - dns/trackers and adblocking systemwide. 7: ProtonPass - password management 8: **Open link with ** - opening links is specific app 9: OnStream, Stremio and CloudStream - streaming movies/series 10: Loops - reels 11: LocalSend - - transfer 12: LibreTorrent - torrents 13: JINA for sideview panel (some android phones don’t have the side panel) 14: Install with one - install batch of apks with one press (requires shizuku enabled) 15: GMaps WV - Google map 16: Filen - Cloud storage 17: FFshare - file conversion 18: Ente Auth - 2FA 19: Aves Libre - Gallery 20: GCam - Camera

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:

  1. Boost, Summit, Eternity, Voyager (Sync for Lemmy is out of this place... I still use Sync for Reddit Revanced though)
  2. Feedly/Feeder
  3. Firefox Beta
  4. Bitwarden
  5. Obtanium/Droidify
  6. Nekogram
  7. YouTube/YT music Revanced/Pocket Casts
  8. Spotify
  9. Obsidian/Syncthing
  10. Material Files

Honorable mention to Kinestop, finally being able to use my phone on a vehicle? It was the last place where I would dare to doom scroll!

I seriously could go on... I have too many apps.

[–] rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)
  1. AntennaPod for podcasts
  2. LiftLog to track gym progress and weights
  3. Raccoon for Lemmy
  4. FUTO Keyboard.

those apps are all open source.

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 5 days ago

I'm using FUTO Voice, but I wasn't aware of the keyboard. Installing.

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[–] small44@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Musicolet
Memorion
Comic screen
Lastfm. Vivaldi

[–] gregor@gregtech.eu 1 points 5 days ago (4 children)

(In no particular order)

  • Threema
  • Brave
  • Bitwarden (using a self-hosted vaultwarden instance)
  • SpMp
  • Notesnook
  • Voyager
  • LocalSend
  • DeepL
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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm pretty basic:

  1. Sync
  2. Chrome
  3. Reddit
  4. Antenna Pod
  5. Guardian newspaper app
  6. Google Play Books
  7. Libby
[–] Alphamars@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Why sync over the other lemmy apps?

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I like:

  • customizable swipe left/right gestures,
  • swiping to close a post,
  • being able to set the font size of the different parts of the post list,
  • different display formats for different communities,
  • switching between accounts easily,
  • the markdown hints in the editor,

I don't think any of these are unique. I just like this implementation.

[–] Stomata@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You still using chrome.... 😮

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[–] lietuva@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago
  1. Anylist
  2. Catima
  3. Shake and strain cocktails
  4. RadioDroid
  5. Lawnchair launcher
[–] Kaboom@reddthat.com -1 points 5 days ago

I don't think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them

  1. Jerboa for Lemmy
  2. Firefox w/ unlock origin
  3. WriterP for note taking
  4. Message/Gmail/other system apps
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