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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there an apk for the dialer?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yes. You can install droid-ify and add calyx os repo named "The calyx Institute Fdroid repo (testing) . And search for Dialer and directly install it from there

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What's your favourite free Android app?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

All of these

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Anytype - open source note taking app, similar to Obsidian.

Vampire Survivors - addictive game without intrusive ads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

English Dictionary Offline: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=livio.pack.lang.en_US . Still unbloated after all these years.

Librera (ebook reader): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.foobnix.pro.pdf.reader/ . The pro version is free on f-droid, or you can buy it on Google Play if you want to support the dev.

Fossify Gallery: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fossify.gallery/ . This is a fork of the old Simple Gallery from before it got bought out. Same deal with Fossify File Manager and the other Fossify apps. Just no-nonsense functional apps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Librera (ebook reader)

Does it do OPDS for Calibre integration? I don't see that in the features.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't use this feature much so I can't speak to the details, but yes, it does support OPDS.

Screenshot:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I might give it a try then, Calibre library support builtin is a dealbreaker for me and it wasn't obvious in the description.

Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Quillpad https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.quillpad/

It's a nice simple Google keep replacement.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bitwarden. There's no excuse not to use a password manager.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Single point of failure for all my usernames and passwords? No thanks

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I used to think like that and only used pass. Then I stopped worrying and decided to trust the crypto.

You can keep your 2FA tokens in a separate app.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's why you use 2-factor-authentication

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Running useful CLI programs. A non exhaustive list:

  • ssh
    • Operating remote machines over ssh
    • Port forwarding to remote machines
  • iperf
  • ping
  • nmap
  • pandoc
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Tubular is feels better with some ui changes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of bangers in the comments, but I didn't see my favorite!

container (kinda) for your apps https://f-droid.org/packages/com.oasisfeng.island.fdroid/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And its sibling Shelter. Don't know which one is more up-to-date lately.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Looks like Insular has a more recent release: may 2024, and Shelter has the last in december 2023.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Musicolet, the only local player that I know allowing to switch between playlists and albums without losing each last played songs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Jota Text Editor, Connect for Lemmy, google translate for live translation

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

fcitx5 for android, basically gboard without Google service

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fcitx.fcitx5.android/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
  • Signal ^signal.org↗^ - Free, open source, completely end-to-end encrypted messaging that lead by a non-profit.
  • Shelter ^f-droid.org↗^ - Use Android's built-in "Work Profile" feature to install or clone apps into an isolated space.
  • Simplex ^f-droid.org↗^ - Like Signal but for the more paranoid. Not as good from a UX perspective so I can't recommend it to everyone, but definitely just as good if privacy/security is your ultimate requirement.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

how does shelter differ from insular - assuming you know. I just haven't seen that one and am curious

(https://f-droid.org/packages/com.oasisfeng.island.fdroid/)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Island vs Shelter vs Insular

https://secure-system.gitlab.io/Insular/faq.html

Island Shelter Insular (based on Island)
Isolated profile to install Big Brother apps Yes Yes Yes
No proprietary code/components (GMS, Crashlytics, etc) No Yes Yes
No Internet access No Yes Yes
Good internationalization No Yes No
Option to prohibit ADB access Yes No Yes
Auto freeze Yes (with proprietary Greenify) Yes No
Freeze main space apps Yes No Yes
Block Contacts Searching No Yes No
Image Chooser as Fake Camera Yes, with SAF Enhancer Lite Yes Yes, with SAF Enhancer Lite
License Apache License 2.0 GNU General Public License v3.0 Apache License 2.0
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

awesome, thank you... i'll have to read into this more!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

aSQLiteManager. Use ot to keep track of dart scoring and use views for reports / stats

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

DAVx5 came bundled with e/OS when I changed over but I've had no luck getting it going and I struggle to follow the guide. Would you happen to know of like an idiot's guide to getting started with it? Or could someone perhaps briefly summarise how to get going with it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Antennapod is so damn good!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I love syncthing. So convenient for transferring files between windows, android, and MacOS. Platform agnostic is the best.

Obtanium is awesome too for simplifying the process of updating apks from github.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Second obtainium. I had been looking for an app that does what it does exactly -- was super happy to find it and have it work pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

For some reason the Obtainium link does not work in mobile, but this one without index .html does: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dev.imranr.obtainium.fdroid/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Thank you. I am not sure how that only ended up on that link.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

FDroid itself

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