What's your favourite F-Droid app?
What's your favourite F-Droid app?
What's your favourite F-Droid app?
Termux, definitely Termux. Best terminal emulator for Android.
It basically gives your phone as much power as you can get from a locked down system.
You can even install GUI in it. I use XFCE. Pretty useful for Handbrake as I am too dumb for ffmpeg, Firefox (desktop) because it won't crash with huge uploads to e.g.: OneDrive like every mobile web browser when you lock your phone, NOAA-APT to decode APT imagery from NOAA 15, 18 and 19 satellites.
Just some examples from what I use it for:
Now it gets even better
You get the idea. Plenty of stuff to do with it.
You can also run these distros under proot with proot-distro easily:
Alpine, Arch, Artix, Debian, Deepin, Fedora, Manjaro, OpenKylin, OpenSUSE, Pardus, Ubuntu, Void.
In my case forcing it to reboot into recovery, shutting it down, and booting it up manually (instead of auto reboot after system crash) did the trick, freeing 17MB, enough to boot up.
I have used Termux, even have it installed right now but apart from the odd cron job, I never used it for something heavy. You, sir, are basically running full fledged Linux with it.
you can install firefox desktop with termux? how?
First you need to set up GUI: https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Graphical_Environment
You could also use Firefox without WM or DE, but it's not nice.
Since you already enabled the x11-repo in this step, you can just pkg install firefox
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It sounds absolutely and completely overpowered for a phone... ... Well, what did I expect ¯(ツ)/¯
How bad is the battery drain?
Depends on what I do with it. Usually the only noticeable drain is WiFi being active.
But for example encrypting and compressing large files will absolutely toast the phone.
The errors can be a problem, even if they aren't written to a file. For example with tinyproxy. Disconnecting the network interface it's running on won't shut it down, it just keeps producing errors and clearly doing something as it can really heat up the phone.
This is what it spits out (as fast as it can):
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... ERROR May 25 13:01:06.107 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.107 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.107 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.107 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.112 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.112 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.112 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.112 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.112 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.112 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.114 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.114 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.114 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.114 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.114 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ERROR May 25 13:01:06.114 [9701]: Accept returned an error (Invalid argument) ... retrying. ...
Which is also why I run it with -d
which keeps it in foreground and this goes to stdout/stderr instead of a file. I keep everything I can in foreground. I can have multiple sessions open and just CTRL-C anything.
I have an RTLSDR any good beginner friendly apps for it? Ive used a pi for NOAA before and it worked really well with SATNOGs. Being on the go with it would be fun.
SDR++ is great for both desktop and Android: https://github.com/AlexandreRouma/SDRPlusPlus
Unfortunately, it's sometimes a bit buggy, but it's by far the best there is. Well, these are nightly builds, so I guess it's expected.
There's also SatDump which has many decoders, including NOAA APT and Meteor LRPT: https://www.satdump.org/download/
Tubular. It's a fork of newpipe incorporating sponsorblock and youtube dislike.
It is honestly better than YouTube Premium. Watt Google should offer as part of its paid suite, an open source software does it.
i like breezy weather as a weather app
binary eye for scanning qr codes
aegis authenticator to replace google authenticator
adaway to block ads on certain apps, not perfect but better than nothing
I reccomend Rethink DNS instead of Adaway. Might be overkill, but you can just disable those features.
I had to uninstall Vector Pinball because it was TOO favorite. Like, the motion sensor lights in the bathroom at work would shut off.
Fuck. Why are you telling us about it?
I should have never installed it, damn it
Lol! It's so good though! I'm sure I'll have another fling with it before long.
Nobody seems to mention Rethink DNS.
Seems greatly overlooked. Previously I used InviziblePro, RethinkDNS is much superior. I can't imagine Android without it.
Customizable DNS blocking, firewall, great logging, Wireguard and Orbot integration. Even GrapheneOS recommends it for a DNS block.
It's really a great app and has replaced AdAway for me completely.
Just because somebody might now the answer here: Sometimes the DNS is offline but I do not notice that have no internet connection. Only later I notice I had "No internet" the whole day. Anybody knows if there is a way to enable a notification when that happens? Not sure if I explained correctly.
DNS + firewall + VPN
Oooohhh, that's a lot in one app. My suspicions are raised...
Fossify Gallery: https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.gallery/
I've only really dipped my toes in F Droid but getting back Simple Gallery minus the recent changes has been well worth it.
Simple suite of apps used to be good until the dev sold it to some company, I think. The versions on F Droid are still clean, but on Play Store, they are riddled with ads until you pay, I think.
Yeah, agreed, that's what I mean. I use Fossify now, but the apps are basically identical, without the crap.
In the same vein, fossify notes is so incredibly nice after years is notepad apps being riddled with bullshit!
Everyone knows the popular ones so here's a shout out to a few that are perhaps not so commonly known:
My most used can no longer live without app:
Organic Maps (google maps replacement) - https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/
AntennaPod (podcast app) - https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/
These are probably the ones I use the most
Just as a heads up, the simple apps got bought out. The foss versions go by fossify now https://f-droid.org/packages/org.fossify.messages/
Thank you, for the heads up :)
Fennec, a flavour of Firefox that strangely consumes much less battery than the official Firefox app.
I just started using Local Send (https://f-droid.org/packages/org.localsend.localsend_app/) ; what a blessing this app is, no more uploading to someone else's computer the cloud and downloading to my pc or vice versa, it's so fast too
Binary eye. The best damn QR (and other codes) scanner there is.
It's also on the play store but I don't care I just like it a lot.
'Russian links doesn't work"..
Cannot download..
Unexpected Keyboard or Super Tux Kart tough choice
I hadn't heard of Super Tux Kart so I just went and tried it out and man...it seems awesome but the control schemes are all so incredibly awful. Do you know if there's controller support?
I have no clue, but hope at least a DS4 would work
edit: someone on yt has been able to wire up an xinput controller, so there's something at least
oh wow, unexpected keyboard is amazing for termux/Linux
FairEmail. I got fed up with the Gmail app injecting ads despite I pay for storage and services. FairEmail is not beautiful by modern standards but with some tweaking I can live with it, no problem.
Thumb-key, mull browser, keepassdx, kiss launcher, tuta mail, ntfy
Runner up (running tracker)
Breezy Weather
Hold up; is Jan 11, 2022 really seriously the last time Temux was updated anywhere? Wtf?
OsmAnd for obvious reasons.
Breezy weather, cause goddamn is it nice to have an actually good weather app that doesn't want the most bullshit permissions that a weather app shouldn't ever need access to.
Image Toolbox - it's pretty nice.
Cool Reader - dead project, it's successor KnownReader isn't on F-droid, but it doesn't matter much. I still haven't gotten completely used to known, cool works perfectly fine and it has been my e-reader of choice ever since the j2me days.
Loyalty card keychain - copy bar codes in to load up and scan, can create shortcuts to specific ones, cranks screen brightness while a code is open
Kotatsu - manga reader
Haven't seen InnerTune mentioned yet: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.zionhuang.music/
Good Spotify alternative for me.
Bitwarden, mull, cloudstream, antenna pod (recently seems worse?), librera fd
Bluetooth LE Spam
I love annoying people with it. I may be an asshole, but it's fun.
Libretube
Either Molly or Findroid
thumbkey, catima, protonPass, odyssey, binary eye, mull
KOReader is a pretty decent ereader option, it matches what I put on my Kobo.
It also supports sync between Kobo and Android, which is really neat
Savertuner while it did make me use adb to grant permissions it did make a big difference to my phones battery life
I'm new to fdroid, does anyone know of a swype capable keyboard? I'm using SwiftKey but I hate that it's owned by MS now.