F-Droid TIL thread: What's your favorite obscure feature in an F-Droid app? (lemmy.world)

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Is there a feature you've recently discovered in an app available on F-Droid that might not be obvious to casual users of the app? This is your chance to share it!

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[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 12 points 4 days ago

Does anyone know how to make it search properly? Because searching for apps on fdroid is a fucking hassle, since it only seems to look for the title and the short description of the app. For instance, searching "video player" on my moto g5 will only show:

Next Player
NOVA Video Player
Just (Video) Player

No signs of VLC anywhere. Searching for "Fediverse" shows only 4 apps: Fedilab, Fread, Fediphoto and koyu.space, despite several other apps being there. Seriously, their search fucking sucks

[-] dadarobot@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

i use droidify. has a better interface

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

How does its search compare?

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