So you don’t have to click
Huh, never used any of those, only SuperSU. Google Plus being there makes the rest of the list suspicious
Android Authority has always been Google simp along with other companies that sponsor their reviews and get them free devices, merch, trips and invitations. There’s no low they won’t sink to. One of their author regularly promotes Google store android merch on their social media.
Yeah, let me do it Authority
- Google podcasts
- Hangouts
- Google allo
- Google reader (I think it’s an app?)
Feel free to add your own
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Google chat was XMPP compatible. The shit that ensued after it’s decommission still stinks to this day.
Hangouts was the death of all Google messages for me. People I knew where using it and when they killed it no one would move over to another messaging app from Google.
We’re on like the third generation of Google messaging apps since the death of hangouts. Giving up on Google seems like it was the smart decision.
I’ve never heard about any of the apps in the post, but killing hangouts and podcasts still hurts.
Google allo did die quickly but had some nice stuff, most messaging apps still don’t. Like change text size, use google assistant inside the app eetc.It wasn’t anything amazing but I had some fun with it
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Podcasts was good. Lightweight, cross platform and basic. YTM is a sink hole as a podcast alternative.
Apple Podcasts lives on as a far superior alternative whilst Google has left it’s users in the lurch. In an alternate world, Google would still be developing Podcasts not only on mobile but also on Wear OS
Ytm still doesn’t notify for new episodes. It’s absurd
I didn’t even try using YTM as a podcast client. Streaming music players doubling as podcast players always have a hindrance (but at Atleast Amazon Music has some ad free content from Wondery in some regions in case one is a Prime subscriber).
AntennePod is a good FOSS alternative whilst Pocketcasts is a decent cross platform one (but the latter basically is subscription based if one wants desktop and watch playback which is a downer).
I would 100% agree with you but pocketcasts recently added ads on free + has a really dated UI and antennapod is a pain if you want it to sync with other devices
Pocketcasts really is trying folks towards it’s subscription driven model though I have no qualms with the UI. AntennePod relies on gPodder service to sync but that is slow and clunky sometimes.
There is Podcast Republic as well I think, which is still a one time purchase.
This is where I ended up. Republic
Reader was a site/service, but it was THE rss reader for most people. Fuck Google for killing it (and a lot of other things).
Replacements:
Titanium Backup -> SystemPanel2
MX Player -> Poweramp
Google Play Music -> YouTube Music
ES File Explorer -> FX File Explorer
Swype Keyboard -> Gboard
Google Plus -> Google One
Inbox -> Gmail
SuperSU -> Magicsk
You’re welcome :3
I bought music off of google play, and I downloaded the MP3s. YouTube Music has an atrocious downloaded music section, and I don’t enjoy it. I happily have returned to “finding” music and playing it in foobar2000.
FX File Explorer == > Solid Explorer
MX Player
For this I’d suggest mpvKt as its a video player
ES File
Mixplorer (unless it breaks functionality without getting an update)
I agree with all but G+
I miss ES File Explorer to this day…
Have you tried fx
Its a shame there are no updates anymore, but it works pretty flawlessly. Especially love the sftp integration
Oh I didn’t notice it was abandoned:( it was my go to for root file explorer
Yeah, there are some things I’d like added, but it works so well that I don’t mind. Also theres not a really any good alternative
I still use ES File Explorer on my old phone because I’m too lazy to download anything else and I only use my old phone like once a year if even.
Google Plus… legendary… what?
Even if it was good, the fact that they wrote Google Plus and not Google+ tells me how much thought they put into this article
I was an early user of it and, unlike a lot of Google projects, there’s a reason they scrapped it: it sucked.
Legendary dumpster fire and generator of memes
ES File Explorer was very good at the beginning, but it enshittified quickly. Nowadays MaterialFiles is the best file explorer for Android, and it has more features than ES had ever. And it’s open source so it can’t have a similar fate. Google Play link, F-droid link
I would counter that I still feel Solid Explorer is the best, but I’m aware that’s just my opinion.
Material files doesn’t have anywhere near enough. ES File Explorer could open a bunch of files, a text editor, sftp, ftp, audio, image viewer, etc. ES File Explorer was intolerable on the free version, but if you paid a few quid, you got a perfect product.
Total Commander is pretty solid although unfortunately not FOSS. Even allows you to share files via WiFi etc.
MaterialFiles can connect to ftp, sftp, webdav and smb. It has a text editor. There is built in image viewer and music player in most roms nowadays, and MaterialFiles has an “open with” option where you can select what you want to do with a file.
I can’t find an open with option
Tap on the triple dot next to a file, first option
The list is missing Google Now. A feature so useful Google cut it because it was reducing searches.
It wasn’t an app tho
I still miss QuickPic. :-(
Inbox was fantastic. I used an older version well after the shutdown date.
titanium backup has been made obsolete by swift backup
I used none of those and have only heard of a couple, despite using Android from the beginning. Sigh.
Loved minuum keyboard
