My top android apps are : 1.Local send for file transfer 2.Bitwarden for password manager 3. Antennapod for my podcast 4.Seal for YouTube download 5.Boost for lemmy 6.Rimusic for YouTube music 7. Poweramp for local music on my phone 8.Lichess for chess 9.protonvpn for vpn 10.fairmail for email

  • @WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19•4 months ago
    1. Jerboa
    2. Firefox
    3. Feedly
    4. Home Assistant
    5. Ghost Commander
    6. Joplin
    7. Moon+ Reader Pro
    8. Avenza
    9. Kodi
    10. Twilight

    Honorable mentions to Newpipe and Termux.

    • @Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4•4 months ago

      Firefox is absolutely horrendous on mobile. A lot of websites don’t render properly, or when scrolling everything jumps around. Browsing Facebook is especially bad. Also UX is a lot worse than competing browsers.

      • @michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        11•4 months ago

        The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other browsers).

      • @WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        I disagree about the UX but that is probably just my preference. I use Facebook marketplace sometimes and it seems fully functional, no jumping around or whatever. Every now and then I have to use desktop mode but only on like government sites. Maybe it’s because I use an ad blocker that I don’t notice the problems you report.

    • kratoz29English
      7•4 months ago

      Racoon for lemmy

      This is the 1st time I decided to check about this (I have heard that name before here), after a 1st glance it looks a lot like Boost for Lemmy, and since Boost seems to be the best working client for me at this moment (image and posts load for example is way faster than Summit, Voyager and Eternity), in terms of speed Sync for Lemmy is faster, but it is so broken with my current instance that is not worth to use it anymore.

      I might install Raccoon soonish :)

    • CyclohexaneEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      About the racoon recommendation have you tried other Lemmy apps? Curious what made you choose racoon

      • RickShawRickEnglish
        3•4 months ago

        I have tried one other app which was Jerboa for lemmy but found Racoon easier to use so I stuck with it ever since.

    • @Alphamars@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3•4 months ago

      Just curious how people really enjoy twitch. I can’t spend time just watching people play games or doing stuff while I could be doing things

      • @squirrel@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        6•4 months ago

        I sometimes watch IRL streamers from parts of the world I’ve never been to. I’ve never been to New York City but due to watching streams from a bike messenger I feel like I know the city quite well.

  • @AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10•4 months ago

    I use Android as my secondary phone, my primary is an iPhone. Though for the past six months, my use of Android has surpassed iOS as the latter is now only for calls, messages and reading emails. For replying to emails, I use a computer.

    I have removed as many Google apps as I could using Canta, as long as the phone is able to boot and function.

    The apps, in no particular order (read: the order in which I can recollect):

    App Notes
    Droidify F-Droid client
    HeliBoard General keyboard
    Unexpected Keyboard Programmer’s keyboard
    Fossify Calendar, Gallery, Music Self-explanatory
    Voyager Lemmy client, although not a native Android app
    Eternity Native Android Lemmy client, although not as good as Voyager
    Tubular PeerTube and YouTube client with QoL niceties
    Calculator++ Calculator with QoL niceties
    Cromite Chromium based browser with QoL niceties
    Termux Terminal emulator
    Rethink DNS + Firewall To block ads and monitor network activity
    Orbot For accessing TOR
    Emacs Still setting it up on Android, only to browse my Denote repository (which seems the only way I can browse it on any mobile device)
    Aurora store To install Apple Music
    Apple Music To use the music subscription from my primary phone
    Proton VPN Self-explanatory
    Bitwarden Password manager
    P.S.

    I finally found a chance to use tables on Lemmy.

      • @Hyrulian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6•4 months ago

        Not original commenter, but I got the hell off of Swiftkey after Microsoft bought it for privacy purposes. That could be why.

      • @AusatKeyboardPremi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        It is the only decent AOSP-like keyboard I could find.

        I am just not comfortable using a proprietary keyboard when I know that I have other options. On iOS, I do not have an option, at all!

        Having said that, I do miss the better swipe gestures and autocorrect ability of the proprietary ones from time to time.

  • @CrayonRosary@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    You need to put a space after the period after your numbers to make a numbered list. Your list is all jumbled up into a paragraph. Doing it the right way also means the numbers you use don’t actually matter, which is nice because inserting an item near the top doesn’t mean you then have to edit all the numbers under it. They can all be 1. and the list will be numbered correctly.

    My list:

    1. Mull (Firefox fork)
    2. Signal
    3. Google Messages
    4. Pi Music Player
    5. Shattered Pixel Dungeon
    6. Thunder for Lemmy
    7. YouTube
    8. Google Camera
    9. Fossify Gallery
    10. KeePassDX

    For giggles, view the source of my comment. Oh shit, I broke it by adding a 10th item. At least in Thunder. It doesn’t support 1000000000 as a number for an ordered list.

  • @bairy@feddit.ukEnglish
    5•4 months ago

    Nova Launcher

    Edge Gestures as an alternative to android gestures

    Quick Cursor for easy one handed usage

    Panels as a sidebar based quick launch / app switcher

    AccuWeather for weather and minute by minute forecast

    Google Fit for basic quiet step counting - can also measure your heart rate with the camera

    Outdoor Active or AllTrails to show you walking routes

    Street Complete to contribute to open street map in a much friendlier way

    Spark for multi account email

  • LucaEnglish
    4•4 months ago
    1. AntennaPod for podcasts
    2. LiftLog to track gym progress and weights
    3. Raccoon for Lemmy
    4. FUTO Keyboard.

    those apps are all open source.

  • @land@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    1: GrayJay, Revanced and PipePipe - YouTube 2: Voyager for Lemmy (currently in a hunt for a push notifications client for Lemmy) 3: Tap Tap for back taps (gives you ability to execute certain tasks just by tapping) 4: Shelter for separating work apps 5: RetroArch - retro emulator games 6: ReThink - dns/trackers and adblocking systemwide. 7: ProtonPass - password management 8: **Open link with ** - opening links is specific app 9: OnStream, Stremio and CloudStream - streaming movies/series 10: Loops - reels 11: LocalSend - - transfer 12: LibreTorrent - torrents 13: JINA for sideview panel (some android phones don’t have the side panel) 14: Install with one - install batch of apks with one press (requires shizuku enabled) 15: GMaps WV - Google map 16: Filen - Cloud storage 17: FFshare - file conversion 18: Ente Auth - 2FA 19: Aves Libre - Gallery 20: GCam - Camera

  • @sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    I’m pretty basic:

    1. Sync
    2. Chrome
    3. Reddit
    4. Antenna Pod
    5. Guardian newspaper app
    6. Google Play Books
    7. Libby
      • @sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        I like:

        • customizable swipe left/right gestures,
        • swiping to close a post,
        • being able to set the font size of the different parts of the post list,
        • different display formats for different communities,
        • switching between accounts easily,
        • the markdown hints in the editor,

        I don’t think any of these are unique. I just like this implementation.

  • StomataEnglish
    4•4 months ago

    In my list everything is open source

    1. Moshidon (for mastodon)
    2. Eternity (Lemmy)
    3. KeepassDX (pass manager)
    4. Local send
    5. Heliboard (keyboard)
    6. Droidify (fdroid)
    7. Fossify gallery
    8. Multi calculator
    9. Cromite ( chromium browser)
    10. Mull ( Firefox )
    11. Rethink DNS, firewall
    12. SD maid se ( cache cleaning )
    13. Tubular ( for yt sometimes)
    14. Fossify calendar
    15. Conversation (xmpp)
    16. Molly(signal)
    17. Markor (notes) At last URLcheck
    • @Alphamars@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1•4 months ago

      Are you just using only FOSS apps? Heliboard is not that great compared to swiftkey? how do you get on with mastodon?

      • StomataEnglish
        1•4 months ago

        Heliboard is lite and does everything for me. I use moshidon for mastodon.

  • kratoz29English
    3•4 months ago

    I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:

    1. Boost, Summit, Eternity, Voyager (Sync for Lemmy is out of this place… I still use Sync for Reddit Revanced though)
    2. Feedly/Feeder
    3. Firefox Beta
    4. Bitwarden
    5. Obtanium/Droidify
    6. Nekogram
    7. YouTube/YT music Revanced/Pocket Casts
    8. Spotify
    9. Obsidian/Syncthing
    10. Material Files

    Honorable mention to Kinestop, finally being able to use my phone on a vehicle? It was the last place where I would dare to doom scroll!

    I seriously could go on… I have too many apps.