Saw some users commenting that we should have these megathreads in here as well.

Recommend and/or request an android app in the comments!

  • burgersc12@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    31·
    1 year ago

    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!

      • DigitalPortkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        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.

      • retro@infosec.pubEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        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.

  • curioushom@lemmy.oneEnglish
    221·
    1 year ago

    Antennapod is a Free Open Source Software (FOSS) podcast app. The app is well designed with great features. You can also use it for playing audio books locally as well.

    • keeslinp@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I quite like it, my only complaint is that the Android auto support is not great. It seems to lose track of what podcast I’m playing s lot of the time. The customization and queueing features are great though.

      • curioushom@lemmy.oneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Yes that definitely used to be an issue. But I haven’t quite experienced/noticed that lately (maybe since they revamped the new home tab?)… If it’s been a while, maybe give it another shot.

  • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    1 year ago

    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.
    • AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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!

  • TOUnail@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    1 year ago

    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?

    • SkipperWannabe@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      If you are trying to switch from Chrome, then just use regular Firefox with the ublock extension (and maybe some of the other privacy extension officially supported). If you are a “power user” and want modify/access about:config and other settings then you need Firefox Nightly. The Fennec and Fenix (iirc) are just stripped down Firefox that either only have private mode or additional settings for privacy (that are already present in regular version, but way not be enabled by default). Hope that helps.

    • UllallullooAEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I liked IceRaven, but it’s not regularly updated anymore. I would go with Firefox Nightly, since that lets you install any extension you want (through an arduous process), where regular Firefox only lets you install add-ons on Mozilla’s approved whitelist.

    • qsr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I use Kiwi browser, which is a Chromium based browser with extension support! I currently have uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, Sponsorblock, Bypass Paywalls installed.

    • Matt@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • avail@lemmy.worldBEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been using Trunks as my go-to Mastodon client for a couple of weeks now and I’m really liking it.

      • ayyndrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        I was using Moshidon, but the official Mastodon app just got Material You so I switched back to it

          • ayyndrew@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah sorry if I wasn’t clear, but I switched to Moshidon because it had Material You before the official app did, but now that the official app has Material You I went back to it because it’s just a bit more streamlined

  • small44@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    1 year ago

    Musicolet is my favorite local music player because of the ability to switch between queues without losing the position of the last played track. I don’t understand how not all music player have the same feature

  • antoniocappiello@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • vividspecter@vlemmy.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’m waiting for more comprehensive offline support, but it does look promising. DSub and Ultrasonic are other good FOSS subsonic clients (although DSub isn’t being actively developed).

      EDIT: Actually looks like there has been some recent activity with DSub, which is great to see.

      • Skanky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        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

      • Skanky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        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

      • Skanky@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Agreed. Liftoff seems to hit all the right buttons so far. Allows multiple instances/accounts, beautiful theming, smooth performance.

        Sync has it’s work cut out for it, but i have no doubt it’s going to be amazing when ready

    • Myriadblue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • daq2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      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

    • Gordon Freeman @lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      There are a lot of options for Lemmy, but beware they still need to mature a bit. The two apps I keep using the most are Thunder and Connect for Lemmy. Lots of users swear by Liftoff but I find the aesthetics a bit lacking for me. There’s also Lemming which is the most barebones but has a great UI for something that has only had a couple of alpha releases. Most if not all of these are available to download from Github.

    • Reliant1087@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • feecoomeeq@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    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?

      • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yup! One guy in this comment section recommended Tusky, and it does nest comments! So I think I’m going to use that for now Thanks!

      • falkerie71@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        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.