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

  • Hyrulian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    59 minutes ago

    If I had to pick some of my favorites:

    • BuzzKill, Gives you total control over your notifications. I use it to auto clear apps that think they need to have a persistent notification like VPNs, Smart Watches, etc.
    • DuckDuckGo, For their very useful, (In my opinion) app tracking protection proxy that they have built into the app.
    • GAMEYE, For tracking my physical games collection and my extensive Amiibo collection.
    • Grayjay & Revanced , For when I want to watch YouTube on mobile.
    • Image Toolbox, Great for doing a whole bunch of different things. Works especially well for image related tasks, but does more stuff than that too.
    • LocalSend, Airdrop but cross platform and open source. Really good.
    • Privacy, An app that links to your bank account and lets you make virtual cards to obfuscate your real debit card. Super useful as well for setting up with subscriptions so you can just turn the individual card off instead of having to go find the subscription cancel option for each service.
    • p!n, A very simple app that adds a quick actions menu button to pin a notification. I use it to essentially add reminders and notes to my notifications real quick.
    • rdx, A simple Reddit viewer for when I have to view a Reddit link for any reason. shudders
    • Shortcut Maker, Super useful app for when I’m not using Niagara Launcher. Let’s you make home screen app like shortcuts for a wide variety of things, including going to specific settings, launching specific sets of apps, and way more. Used to be my favorite app before I got into Niagara.
    • URLCheck, Acts as a middle man after I click a link, telling me a bunch of info about it before letting me pick which browser I want to open it in.
    • Niagara Launcher, my launcher of choice. Not for everyone, but I have found it makes navigating my phone super fast. I have tried so many different ones, but the fact that the app drawer is always on open on the home screen and I can navigate to each letter quickly made it the best for me.

    Anyway yeah, those are some of the ones I use frequently. Sorry for not linking to them, but it would have taken forever lol.

    • Alphamars@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      44 minutes ago

      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?

  • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 hours ago

    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
    P.S.

    I finally found a chance to use tables on Lemmy.

      • Hyrulian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 hour ago

        Not original commenter, but I got the hell off of Swiftkey after Microsoft bought it for privacy purposes. That could be why.

      • AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        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.

  • sag@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    2 hours ago
    1. Summit for Lemmy
    2. Kiwi Browser
    3. MPV
    4. Moon+ Reader Pro
    5. Dantotsu
    6. Libre Torrent
    7. File Manager(Material)
    8. Droid-ify
    9. WhatsApp
    10. Proton Mail.
  • Stomata@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago

    In my list everything is open source

    1. Moshidon (for mastodon)
    2. Eternity (Lemmy)
    3. KeepassDX (pass manager)
    4. Local send
    5. Heliboard (keyboard)
    6. Droidify (fdroid)
    7. Fossify gallery
    8. Multi calculator
    9. Cromite ( chromium browser)
    10. Mull ( Firefox )
    11. Rethink DNS, firewall
    12. SD maid se ( cache cleaning )
    13. Tubular ( for yt sometimes)
    14. Fossify calendar
    15. Conversation (xmpp)
    16. Molly(signal)
    17. Markor (notes) At last URLcheck
  • OmegaLemmyEnglish
    2·
    9 hours ago
    1. Kotatsu for Manwha
    2. Grayjay for YouTube
    3. YouTube Music for Music
    4. RunnerUp for my Jogs
    5. WallFlow Plus for automatic wallpapers
    6. Akakçe for finding best prices from multiple store fronts
    7. KDE Connect for clipboard and file share
    8. Pano Scrobbler for Last.fm tracking
  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    4 hours ago

    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:

    1. Mull (Firefox fork)
    2. Signal
    3. Google Messages
    4. Pi Music Player
    5. Shattered Pixel Dungeon
    6. Thunder for Lemmy
    7. YouTube
    8. Google Camera
    9. Fossify Gallery
    10. KeePassDX

    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.

  • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 days ago
    1. Jerboa
    2. Firefox
    3. Feedly
    4. Home Assistant
    5. Ghost Commander
    6. Joplin
    7. Moon+ Reader Pro
    8. Avenza
    9. Kodi
    10. Twilight

    Honorable mentions to Newpipe and Termux.

    • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
      32·
      21 hours ago

      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.

      • michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        19 hours ago

        The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other browsers).

      • WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        20 hours ago

        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.

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      71·
      2 days ago

      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 :)

    • Cyclohexane@lemmy.mlEnglish
      31·
      2 days ago

      About the racoon recommendation have you tried other Lemmy apps? Curious what made you choose racoon

  • FOSSEON@lemdro.idEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    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.worldEnglish
      2·
      21 hours ago

      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.idEnglish
        1·
        9 hours 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.

  • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    91·
    2 days ago
    1. Voyager for Lemmy
    2. AntennaPod
    3. Firefox
    4. YouTube ReVanced
    5. Signal
    6. Xtra for Twitch
    7. Thunderbird
    8. Medito
    9. KeePassDX
    10. Aegis 2FA
    • Alphamars@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      31·
      24 hours ago

      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

      • squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        4·
        23 hours ago

        I sometimes watch IRL streamers from parts of the world I’ve never been to. I’ve never been to New York City but due to watching streams from a bike messenger I feel like I know the city quite well.

  • bairy@feddit.ukEnglish
    51·
    2 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