What's your favourite F-Droid app? (links.hackliberty.org)

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[-] Bebo@literature.cafe 6 points 8 months ago

Tubular. It's a fork of newpipe incorporating sponsorblock and youtube dislike.

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

I like pipepipe cause it lets you see comment chains instead of just the top one

[-] BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Tubular does this now too

[-] anytimesoon@feddit.uk 1 points 8 months ago

So does newpipe

[-] BigFatNips@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Tubular is newpipe but better, got sponsorblock plus a cooler name

[-] the_grass_trainer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

This doesn't show when i search for it on F-Droid 🤔

[-] starman@programming.dev 1 points 8 months ago

It's in IzzyOnDroid repo

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago

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

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 8 months ago

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:

ping
traceroute
telnet/ssh client
wget for serious downloads and poor man website mirroring
tar for creating archives
gpg for encrypting files
gzip for compressing files
touch for modifying timestamps
Vim for text editing (yes, I know)
rsync for backups (if not using tar)

Now it gets even better

socat for port forwarding
VNC Server (tigervnc) for accessing the Termux GUI
SSH Server (OpenSSH) for remote CLI access and secure port forwarding
NGINX server for serving the websites you mirrored with wget and as a forward proxy for other web-related services (to get them on same port, add basic authentication, use HTTPS,...). I also use it for serving videos in a lazy way (checkout fancyindex module).
kiwix-serve for serving archives from kiwix.org. I have (not only) the whole motherfucking English Wikipedia on my phone (110GB)!
Navidrome server to stream music locally stored on my phone (currently 1,339 songs at ~23GB) with a nice web-ui. Also supports adding internet radios.
Jellyfin server (under Ubuntu proot) if you have some movies too. I ditched this idea, but I tried it, and it works.
cloudflared for creating Cloudflare tunnels to perhaps access this from internet (if you feel OK about that). You can test it by creating quick tunnel which doesn't even require account (limited to HTTP).
HTTP proxy server (tinyproxy) to use my phone for internet access (will also route it over VPN). If your carrier restricts hotspot usage, this is the way. For me it's useful to circumvent blocking on school network without the need for any extra software on school PCs.

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.

Oh, now for a warning. Things like NGINX save error logs to your storage by default. Sometimes (e.g.: your phone disconnected from Wi-Fi making an active interface disappear and logs being firehosed) they can rapidly fill it up. INTERNAL STORAGE FULL TO THE LAST BYTE MAY CAUSE A BOOTLOOP!!! (Guess how I know)

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.

[-] greencactus@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

It sounds absolutely and completely overpowered for a phone... ... Well, what did I expect ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[-] kirk781@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

you can install firefox desktop with termux? how?

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

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.

VNC Client: https://github.com/bk138/multivnc

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

What the fuck

[-] johan@feddit.nl 3 points 8 months ago

Organic Maps (google maps replacement) - https://f-droid.org/packages/app.organicmaps/

AntennaPod (podcast app) - https://f-droid.org/packages/de.danoeh.antennapod/

[-] Asudox@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Bluetooth LE Spam

I love annoying people with it. I may be an asshole, but it's fun.

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago

Bitwarden, mull, cloudstream, antenna pod (recently seems worse?), librera fd

[-] IHateReddit@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

My favorite ones are:

Bura as a weather app
LinkSheet to choose which apps to open links in
HeliBoard as a keyboard

[-] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I had to uninstall Vector Pinball because it was TOO favorite. Like, the motion sensor lights in the bathroom at work would shut off.

[-] timo_timboo_@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Fuck. Why are you telling us about it?

I should have never installed it, damn it

[-] KammicRelief@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Lol! It's so good though! I'm sure I'll have another fling with it before long.

[-] Saltarello@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Everyone knows the popular ones so here's a shout out to a few that are perhaps not so commonly known:

whoBIRD - Shazam for birds
Subz - Subscription manager
zCard - Loyalty/membership/store card wallet

My most used can no longer live without app:

Joplin - Note taking. Various sync options. Brilliant app, helpful community & very regular updates (especially desktop)

[-] LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago

Jerboa!

[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

Libretube

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 1 points 8 months ago

thumbkey, catima, protonPass, odyssey, binary eye, mull

[-] TheLugal@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

These are probably the ones I use the most

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

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/

[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 8 months ago

Tasks.org https://f-droid.org/packages/org.tasks/

[-] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Nobody seems to mention Rethink DNS.

[-] perishthethought@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago

DNS + firewall + VPN

Oooohhh, that's a lot in one app. My suspicions are raised...

[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] whaleross@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[-] puppy@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Fennec, a flavour of Firefox that strangely consumes much less battery than the official Firefox app.

[-] inlandempire@jlai.lu 1 points 8 months ago

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

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