What are your top android apps?
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
Honorable mentions to Newpipe and Termux.
Firefox is absolutely horrendous on mobile. A lot of websites don't render properly, or when scrolling everything jumps around. Browsing Facebook is especially bad. Also UX is a lot worse than competing browsers.
Compared to any browsing experience without uBlock, Firefox wins by a very large margin.
The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other browsers).
I disagree about the UX but that is probably just my preference. I use Facebook marketplace sometimes and it seems fully functional, no jumping around or whatever. Every now and then I have to use desktop mode but only on like government sites. Maybe it's because I use an ad blocker that I don't notice the problems you report.
Racoon for lemmy Grayjay for video Antennapod for podcasts
Racoon for lemmy
This is the 1st time I decided to check about this (I have heard that name before here), after a 1st glance it looks a lot like Boost for Lemmy, and since Boost seems to be the best working client for me at this moment (image and posts load for example is way faster than Summit, Voyager and Eternity), in terms of speed Sync for Lemmy is faster, but it is so broken with my current instance that is not worth to use it anymore.
I might install Raccoon soonish :)
I see you're a person with great taste in Android apps. Thanks for introducing me to Medito! I need to chill.
Just curious how people really enjoy twitch. I can't spend time just watching people play games or doing stuff while I could be doing things
I use Android as my secondary phone, my primary is an iPhone. Though for the past six months, my use of Android has surpassed iOS as the latter is now only for calls, messages and reading emails. For replying to emails, I use a computer.
I have removed as many Google apps as I could using Canta, as long as the phone is able to boot and function.
The apps, in no particular order (read: the order in which I can recollect):
| App | Notes |
|---|---|
| Droidify | F-Droid client |
| HeliBoard | General keyboard |
| Unexpected Keyboard | Programmer’s keyboard |
| Fossify Calendar, Gallery, Music | Self-explanatory |
| Voyager | Lemmy client, although not a native Android app |
| Eternity | Native Android Lemmy client, although not as good as Voyager |
| Tubular | PeerTube and YouTube client with QoL niceties |
| Calculator++ | Calculator with QoL niceties |
| Cromite | Chromium based browser with QoL niceties |
| Termux | Terminal emulator |
| Rethink DNS + Firewall | To block ads and monitor network activity |
| Orbot | For accessing TOR |
| Emacs | Still setting it up on Android, only to browse my Denote repository (which seems the only way I can browse it on any mobile device) |
| Aurora store | To install Apple Music |
| Apple Music | To use the music subscription from my primary phone |
| Proton VPN | Self-explanatory |
| Bitwarden | Password manager |
The tables are actually helpful
I am kinda of curious, why do you use heliboard over swiftkeys?
It is the only decent AOSP-like keyboard I could find.
I am just not comfortable using a proprietary keyboard when I know that I have other options. On iOS, I do not have an option, at all!
Having said that, I do miss the better swipe gestures and autocorrect ability of the proprietary ones from time to time.
You need to put a space after the period after your numbers to make a numbered list. Your list is all jumbled up into a paragraph. Doing it the right way also means the numbers you use don't actually matter, which is nice because inserting an item near the top doesn't mean you then have to edit all the numbers under it. They can all be 1. and the list will be numbered correctly.
My list:
For giggles, view the source of my comment. Oh shit, I broke it by adding a 10th item. At least in Thunder. It doesn't support 1000000000 as a number for an ordered list.
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
In my list everything is open source
I think I need try out Keep Ass DX
Of course you can keep ass there 🤣
Are you just using only FOSS apps? Heliboard is not that great compared to swiftkey? how do you get on with mastodon?
Heliboard is lite and does everything for me. I use moshidon for mastodon.
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
If I had to pick some of my favorites:
Anyway yeah, those are some of the ones I use frequently. Sorry for not linking to them, but it would have taken forever lol.
I thought buzzkill was just for sound notification and how do you use Grayjay when you already have a YouTube account? How can you sync your subscribed list to it?
the only two apps i use but have not yet seen mentioned:
dishonorable mention:
those apps are all open source.
FUTO keyboard is actually nice that is what I am using.. Its great
I'm using FUTO Voice, but I wasn't aware of the keyboard. Installing.
Musicolet
Memorion
Comic screen
Lastfm.
Vivaldi
I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:
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.
My "Top" apps are what I think are cool, not necessary what the most useful apps are to me.
Briar its a peer to peer communications app that can communicate via wifi, blutooth, or through the internet via Tor. It can form a sort of mesh network with devices in proximity. Hypothetically, with enough users, you could spread information across a long distsnce even with a nationwide shutdown of the internet like some authoritarian countries do.
There's already some public forums on there by connecting to random people around the world via Tor, although, these forums doesn't have much activity now. But it exists and thats so cool. Its like a secret corner of the internet, even more obscure than the "dark web"
Wasted Remember those news about iPhones randomly restarting in police storage lockers? This app does something even better. Amongst many functions, this app can let you set your phone to auto-wipe itself if not unlocked for X amount of time, ranging from 5 minutes to 7 days. (Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a "Destruction of Evidence" charge. I am not a lawyer. You might wanna consult a lawyer before using this)
OpenKeychain Just a PGP tool for Android, pretty straightforward. Very cool to have a digital signature right in your pocket to validate your online identity with other internet users. Potentially useful for secret drug trades ahem just kidding lol, don't do drugs, kids. (Seriously, don't)
| App(s) | Use |
|---|---|
| Should I Answer? | Call Spam Blocking |
| Droidify | F-droid Client |
| Obtainium | Github Access For Apps |
| AnySoftKeyboard | Keyboard |
| Macrodroid | Automation |
| KDE Connect | Desktop Integration |
| FairEmail | |
| QUIK | SMS |
| Open Camera | Camera |
| KeePassDX | Password & 2FA Management |
| Breezy Weather | Weather |
| VLC | Music |
| Tubular, YouTube Revanced | Youtube |
| F-Stop | Image Library |
| Amaze | File Manager |
| Syncthing | File Synchronization |
| Organic Maps | GPS/Maps |
| Markor | Notes |
| Aliucord | Discord Client |
| Tusky | Mastodon Client |
| Eternity | Lemmy Client |
| Telegram | Messaging |
| RDX | Reddit Read-only Client |
| URL Check | Link Filtering For Sharing |
| Binary Eye | QR Code Scanning |
| Pushbullet | Info Passing |
How does "should I answer" app staked up with truecaller? How good is anysoftkeyboard with autocorrect?
Haven't tried truecaller. Autocorrect on AnySoftKeyboard can be a bit zealous, but its sensitivity is tweakable and takes custom vocabulary.
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(In no particular order)
I'm pretty basic:
Why sync over the other lemmy apps?
I like:
I don't think any of these are unique. I just like this implementation.
You still using chrome.... 😮
not allowed?
I don't think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them
Ios is just too caged for me.
iOS hasnt got my must-have apps, and developing for iOS is the worst experience I ever had working as an intern