F-Droid

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/72182

I've been trying this out for a week, and really like it so far. Loads a bit faster than firefox, and has good ad blocking out of the box.

I'm kind of new to android. F-droid is kind of hard to navigate. some apps doesn't load their thumbnails and some doesn't even have them at all. It's hard to decide which ones are good other than how recent It's updated.

What I need atm:

• Music player
• Writing / Note taking
• Diary app
• VPN?
• Maps
• Messenger app
• Social media / Fediverse frontends (if it exists)
• Peertube client (to upload and manage videos)
• Reminders / To do list app

You can recommend me any android apps that might be useful.

There's a lot of proprietary apps to make unlimited clones of any app you want, but is there a FOSS method?

I know Shelter and Insular let you make one work profile clone, that's all though.

Do you put them in a notes app somewhere, in a browser, or something else? I'm hoping there's an app where you can put them in privately, organize them by tags, and search with those.

Maybe my search-fu is abandoning me here but every once a while I need to unextract an archive, do you have recommendations ? Don't want to install stuff from Aurora just for this.

The Cesium (wallet) and Ğchange (classifieds) applications are available via a third-party repository.

Might be helpful to f-droid users to know what others are installing so here's some of mine.

Web & email

• Fennec basically firefox for android with proprietary blobs removed

• K-9 Mail

social networking apps

• Fedilab to browse mastodon, find it's long press options really convenient for accounts across multiple instances. You can also use it for stuff like friendica but I find that awkward since it's still using a UI meant for twitter-likes.

• lemmur for lemmy and RedReader for Reddit

media/document viewers

• NewPipe to stream youtube.

• AntennaPod to subscribe and listen to podcasts

• VLC, the Swiss army knife of media playback. Can play pretty much any local file and supports streaming(IPTV and the like) via m3u files.

• Librera PRO for epubs, PDF, cbz ect

Misc android utils

• AnySoftKeyboard virtual keyboard/ime with suggestions

• Apk Extractor

• Aurora Store to update webview

• G-Droid an f-droid client with a UI I like and it supports reviews via a mastodon account.

• KDE Connect for various linux desktop integration things

• Lawnchair is what I use as my home screen app

• Material Files file manager, find it to be more stable than amaze and it can extract several varieties of tar.* files as well as compressing 7z/tar.xz/zip.

• RHVoice tts engine with English and Russian support and TTS Util which I can input text which RHVoice will use

• Termux terminal emulator with packages

Games

• Shattered Pixel Dungeon fun roguelike with cute graphics.

• Frozen Bubble puzzle bubble like game with multiplayer support.

• Vector Pinball

Post made using List My Apps and Markor

List of known repos that can be used with F-Droid. Might help anyone getting started who wants to see more software. IzzyOnDroid is highly recommended to really flesh out F-Droid.

A good inaugural post for this com.