Saw some users commenting that we should have these megathreads in here as well.
Recommend and/or request an android app in the comments!
Here’s my personal list of recommended apps for a few things:
- Aegis (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - 2FA FOSS app that’s minimal and simple
- Auxio (F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense music player for local files
- ConnectBot (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - Simple SSH client
- K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird (Play Store / F-Droid / GitHub) - No-nonsense e-mail client
- NewPipe (F-Droid / GitHub) - YouTube client for privacy, has no ads, supports background playing, local subscription lists, and ability to download videos
- Techmino (GitHub) - FOSS Tetris clone with no ads and multiple modes, definitely my favourite
- Waistline (F-Droid / GitHub) - Calorie counter app that stores all data locally. Need to add products yourself but have full control.
K-9 Mail, soon to be Thunderbird
Wait, what.
K-9 has joined Thunderbird family. Development speed has increased and it will be officially renamed to Thunderbird Mobile soon.
Me too… wait, what?
K-9 Mail and Thunderbird ended up partnering about a year ago at this point, and they’re planning to turn K-9 Mail into Thunderbird on Android (and also iOS and macOS).
I know - TIL!
Obtainium is one that I have been using for over a week now. It keeps all my FOSS apps up to date. I have 30 apps added now, and 80% of them are now updated directly from their github page!
I would love to know what apps you have added to it!
I use Obtanium to keep Liftoff and Thunder up to date, since the updates come faster than they do from the Play Store :) Very easy to set up…even if you originally installed from the Play Store, you can still use Obtanium to update going forward.
Heres the list
And I just added AntennaPod, Vinyl Music Player, Lawnchair, and Liftoff to the list as well!
How did you manage to add breezy-weather? It complains that it can’t find a suitable release for me if I try to add the repo url directly
You have to use the include pre-releases option with Breezy.
Worked like a charm, thanks!
Bitwardens auto sync uses push notifications through Google services, so I’d recommend play store for that one if you use multiple devices.
I don’t use bitwarden for much besides copying/pasting my passwords on my phone. I figure its better than memorizing a single password like I used to!
The easiest way is to look at your Installed apps through F-Droid as it will show both apps installed through F-Droid and apps from the Play Store that are available through F-Droid. You can copy-paste each source link into Obtainium.
https://wefwef.app/ advertised as mobile-first client for Lemmy
https://lemmy.world/post/367599
Things are moving fast. Let’s see how it turns out to be atleast until we get Apollo/Boost/Thunder etc with multi-platform feature parity.
I’d love for wefwef to have a Material Design theme automatically applied when using an Android phone, but other than that it’s right now the perfect Lemmy app and it’s extremely fast when you install it with Chrome!
Komoot - great bike route planner and gpx recorder.
Mapy.cz - great hiking navigation with trails colors/indications. Mosty Europe I guess.
Fdroid ->Catima - simple loyalty cards / barcodes instead of supermarket apps
Fdroid -> StreetComplete very easy contributing to osmMaps. You know your neighbourhood? Answer questions if that trafic lights have sound indication for blind people or about the type of surface that bike line has.
For self hosted music lovers, I would like to introduce you to Tempo, an open source and lightweight music client for Subsonic, designed and built natively for Android.
With all the social media corps going full ham on advertising, I’m going to make the switch from Chrome to Firefox with ad-blocking add-ons. However, I’m at a crossroads since there are many variations ranging from the official Firefox app to Firefox Nightly and even Fennec or Fenix.
Any recommendations?
Using since few months Iceraven Browser with ublock origin and no-script addons
Just get the regular Firefox with uBlock Origin if all you’re concerned about are advertisements. The default settings out of the box are fine for most users.
Get the Mull browser if you’re concerned about privacy as well, as this is a hardened Firefox similar to LibreWolf. Not sure if this is on the Play Store, but it’s definitely on F-Droid.
Looking for a good Lemmy and/or KBin app.
I’m personally waiting for Sync for Lemmy to come out, but in the meantime, Liftoff for Lemmy and Thunder have been pretty good for me
deleted by creator
Agreed. Liftoff seems to hit all the right buttons so far. Allows multiple instances/accounts, beautiful theming, animations, smooth performance.
That being said, Sync has its work cut out for it, but i have no doubt it’s going to be amazing when ready
deleted by creator
Keeping Sync on my phone so I can sell it in 10 years for $40k like phones with Flappy Bird
I read your comment, jumped over to the play store and the dev already removed all Sync versions from the store.
Keep your copy safe and sound.
All other Reddit 3rd party client are still there.
Trying Liftoff after coming from mainly Jerboa and Thunder, this is the most refined experience yet.
Connect is working really well for me, but I prefer jerboa. Unfortunately that isn’t working right now with lemmy. World being on an older version. Once they go to 18.1, I should be able to use it again.
wefwef is the smoothest right now and it’s just a webapp
Connect, liftoff, thunder, jerboa are the best ones at the moment
All the apps I have tried so far have been great. Liftfof however is on a class of it’s own. A unique feature it has is the ability to combined feet from different accounts on different instances.
I’m looking for a Mastodon app. The official app and website really sucks for viewing threads. I prefer the comments to be nested like on Lemmy, but the official one stacks them all. Are there any recommendations?
I use Fedilab, since I prefer a native app to a PWA
Have you tried megalodon? Does more than the official app, but with a similar layout so the learning curve is a non issue.
I’ll take a look. Thanks!
Edit: It still stacks all comments like the official one. Maybe I’m too used to the Reddit/Lemmy comment nesting style. That’s the gold bar for me, but at least something like what Twitter has would be better.
Does anyone have recommendations for an app that does heart/step/etc health tracking but is FOSS supporting WearOS watches.
I think your best bet is this: http://gadgetbridge.org/
I’ve been using Trunks as my go-to Mastodon client for a couple of weeks now and I’m really liking it.
Any app with mark as read or mark as read on scroll?
