Might be helpful to f-droid users to know what others are installing so here’s some of mine.
Web & email
social networking apps
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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.
media/document viewers
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NewPipe to stream youtube.
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AntennaPod to subscribe and listen to podcasts
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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.
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Librera PRO for epubs, PDF, cbz ect
Misc android utils
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AnySoftKeyboard virtual keyboard/ime with suggestions
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Aurora Store to update webview
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G-Droid an f-droid client with a UI I like and it supports reviews via a mastodon account.
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KDE Connect for various linux desktop integration things
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Lawnchair is what I use as my home screen app
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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.
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RHVoice tts engine with English and Russian support and TTS Util which I can input text which RHVoice will use
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Termux terminal emulator with packages
Games
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Shattered Pixel Dungeon fun roguelike with cute graphics.
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Frozen Bubble puzzle bubble like game with multiplayer support.
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My keyboard is florisboard(the beta version). Its incredible!
Lemmur does look much better but it seems that development has stalled on it? Otherwise I would make the switch.
Lemmynade is a fork to revive Lemmur
For email, FairEmail’s gotta be my favorite mobile client. It’s much more polished and has a better interface than K9 imo.
I don’t really like the interface of the official F-Droid app or Aurora Store, so I use FoxyDroid instead.
To help me study Japanese, I use Hibi to keep a journal, and Goodtime as a pomodoro timer. I also use AnkiDroid when I’m away from my computer.
I use Husky to keep up with my Pleroma account, and Infinity to look at Reddit. QKSMS and Simple Gallery replace my stock apps.
There’s also the Arch Forums app and Deedum, used for browsing gemini sites, that I browse from time to time.
https://github.com/LawnchairLauncher/Lawnchair-V1# This repository has been archived by the owner on Jul 7, 2019. It is now read-only. Any alternative #HomeScreen to suggest ?
I’m trying Thor as a web browser. Some options are missing but I really like it. Blokada to block ads without root.
adaway to block ads. insular to seperate/randomly delete work profiles. hacker’s keyboard for keyboards. materialistic for hacker’s news. infinity for reddit. frost for facebook.
Conversations is a great XMPP client, most android clients are based on Conversations.
I also use Ariane for browsing gemini, Revolution IRC for chat and used to use Nihonoari for studying kana.
some more apps that haven’t been mentioned here:
Was just about to recommend tusky, I like it a lot better than fedilab.
During a time between 2018 and 2019 I stopped recommending Tusky because it sent too much requests to a Mastodon server I managed per client and with just a client, mod_evasive in Apache with my adapted configuration arrived to the limit in comparison with Fedilab doing the same tasks.
Apache access.log file showed that was Tusky sending a lot of request to have up-to-date statuses and could not be configured.
KOReader is pretty good in terms of usability and features. Haven’t had any major issues so far.
Good list. I like having a separate music app, but VLC can do it well enough that I don’t mind
Give Vanilla Music a shot. I install it on every Android phone I own, even if the phone came with a default music app (which is usually shit). It also has a couple of add-ons you can install through F-Droid like plugins for lyrics, cover fetcher, etc.
Dsub is an excellent open source android music player that works with subsonic.
Last update was 5 years ago, though? Any recommendation for a music player from local storage?
Vinyl is an awesome fork of Phonograph.
Try Metro player
Metro - A music player for Android (Best material design music player for Android) https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.Music/
I think it still gets updates, just not on f-droid, I had to download an apk for that one.
Look at the buttom of the file: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/blob/master/metadata/github.daneren2005.dsub.yml
There is a unknown maven repo ‘http://4thline.org/m2’ that disables the f-droid build.
I just know that the project is open source, had commits less than 2 weeks ago: https://github.com/daneren2005/Subsonic
If it not on F-Droid I don’t trust at all. Amaze was removed for including non-free undetected blobs from last releases a year ago if I remember.
Material Files came as a replacement later without non-free dependencies but not always is like that.
