What open-source Android apps should people know about?

Antennapod also has Android Auto support, though you have to do something in developer mode to activate it, because Google.

One of the most used F-Droid Apps on my phone

antennapod has boosted the quality of my commutes hugely.

I got this after PocketCasts started putting ads into their app even though I bought it to get rid of ads forever ago.

AntennaPod is a fantastic replacement.

Tip: It also works for playing local files. I use it for listening to courses that I download to phone. In comparison to a general media player it remember played files, what is important in that user case.

On my wife's phone it has tabs along the bottom. On mine it has the same options in the hamburger menu at the top left. I have no idea why they are different 😅

Or if you dislike all kinds of ads like me, you may also like the NewPipe fork Tubular, which provides SponsorBlock integration.

I feel like NewPipe would be awesome if it weren't just for Android. Like if you could run it on PC/Mac/Linux. iOS wouldn't be entirely out either, since you can sideload up to 3 apps with a free developer account. If you have an iPhone or iPad, you already have an Apple account, so you can just make it a developer account, and all that really does is add you to the developer mailing list, which isn't that annoying.

Of course, on the computer I just use Firefox + uBlock Origin, but I can do that on Android, too. I've never tried watching YouTube on my Android phone (my iPhone has a bigger screen, but I'd just rather use a computer) but I bet I can block the ads in the browser. I think the app comes with it. My iPhone doesn't even have the YouTube app. I never see ads in Safari using uBlock Lite, which is a DNS filter, which is exactly what Android users without root are doing, AFAIK (or VPN-based blocking e.g. PiHole that's platform independent).

(So basically I prefer a solution that works on all my devices from various vendors. But a good option for Android, especially since Google backed down on canceling sideloading!)

See also, FreeTube.

Also KeePassDX can do 2fa and if you keep passwords there it makes logging in with 2fa super quick and seamless

Also Stratum which is another open source authenticator app.

I like it because it has a Wear OS companion app.

What does "Google Authenticator compatible" mean?

I like cirrus as well

Don't forget the Breezy live wallpaper, where it shows a wallpaper based on the current weather.

Yup, used this a lot until I started using KDE Connect more.

fantastic for someone like me who doesn't know shit about networks and file sharing yet has a mix of windows and linux machines

Use it, love it, has a great http webserver fallback option too

Are there any alternatives that are decently fast for large files? My computer and my phone both get at least 300 mbps from the router, and I have yet to find a local file transfer application that will be anywhere near that fast for large files (destiny, local send, kde connect, might have tried others, I don't remember)

Its sick on iphone

This was mentioned on lemmy early this year. Gotta give it another upvote. It’s simple, it works.

I use this on my Macs — I think it works on all platforms? My use case is quite interesting. I have two Nintendo Switch emulators, one on a Mac and one on a MacBook. Due to the way Nintendo handles save files, it's not the same folder name from machine to machine. You'd think it would be something dumb like \saves{serial-of-game} but no, it's weird, it's dumb, and it makes syncing a challenge.

SyncThing isn't easy to set up, but it's doable. I had to find the folder on both systems (different names, of course) and I have ST set up to where if it detects a change in one, it updates the other.

For the test, I set up Animal Crossing on the Mac, played until I could generate a save (roughly 10-15 minutes, I think: you do character creation, then a tutorial, before you're allowed to go to sleep, and wake up with real-time enabled), then I booted it up on the MacBook and expected the save to load. I got a screen (within the game) I had never seen before, something about transferring my data to a new Switch (I'm guessing there's a hardware ID in there), but then, it worked. I might have to face that screen every time, but I did what Ninten-don't — I have an Animal Crossing save that lives on two machines at once. (And I never play it. I really just did it to see if I could. I play the game on my actual Switch, the actual game I paid for, because I wasn't trying to rip off Nintendo, really, just see if I could do it. And, ST was the tool I used to accomplish it.)

Is there a android app again?

SyncThing is probably my most used bit of software after LibreWolf. I have it installed on all of the computers I use so I have damn near instant, magical access to a bunch of files. It's how I sync my photos from my Pixel.

It's funny, because SyncThing is basically the reason I barely use my iPad these days. While there is a way to make it work with iOS, it's irritating enough that I just don't bother, and I don't use iCloud storage anymore, so it's a pain in the arse getting documents to it compared to just dropping them in a ST folder that my phone can access.

search for hidden wireless cameras in hotel rooms

Wow, how do you find them? Have you actually had success?

It used to have a feature that would beep faster the closer you got to an AP. I used it in cafes and libraries to figure out where to sit for the best WiFi. But they killed it, and I have no idea why :'(

Thanks

I like the calendar one especially. 

I've actually replaced my phone, messages and contacts apps with the fossify ones and I gotta say, the oppo ones were slow, would jump sometimes and just were very slow to respond to when texts or calls hit the phone. In contrast, the fossify messages app responds pretty much instantly to messages, the fossify phone app responds instantly to calls, and the two consume way less resources than the preloaded apps.

I like that unlike Chrome, Firefox mobile can use all the extensions.

IronFox

There's been a somewhat recent controversy with regards to stock Firefox selling our data. Many switched to LibreWolf fork after that.

This helps with Apple Calendar too so you can share with Google Calendar or some other

yeah, this one is less known and most useful

Why use this app instead of OsmAnd?

ETA: Rereading, I realize this could have sounded very rude and sarcastic, I apologize - it was a genuine question.

What's the difference between this and Organic Maps?

OSM and magic earth ?

Now You can have Private Space integrated into Android Out of the Box

Could anyone ELI5 the difference between all these? Is there a "stock" Android work profile possible also?

I use this, it's pretty great! Not really a replacement for the stock app, but I use a non-stock OS so it doesn't matter to me. It is more like messaging before GIFs and whatnot, but not hard to figure those things out if you want them.

I hate being reminded there's no compass in my phone, $600 pocket computer that can't find north, what a joke

thanks this is so cool

This is very cool but their nap function isn't working for me despite being in a place very famous for its trails.

I use it all the time for the variable brightness flashlight and screen-as-light-source. Also sun and moon info, asteroid alerts.

And there's a bunch of stuff that's potentially very useful. Making a live map from a map image sounds very interesting, e.g. with a historical map.

Does this have maps of it's own?

Neostore is great too

Or, if one wants to go the minimalist, smallest threat footprint way, one can go in the other direction and use F-Droid Classic. Think a debloated F-Droid, made by the F-Droid folks.

"more repos = more apps out of the box" sounds nice in theory but IMO this is more of a downside than it might appear. Having a bunch of repos enabled out of the box means you have to be more careful about which repo offers what app and some apps are even offered in multiple repos. I got bit by this when I installed an app from IzzyOnDroid instead of F-Droid by accident.

With F-Droid you get the baseline repo that has high standards and then you can opt in to having additional repos that may have different or lower standards. Having those extra repos enabled by default may give a false reassurance that those other repos also conform to F-Droid's standards, or that those other apps are "in F-Droid" when really they're in IzzyOnDroid or some other third party repo. I've seen enough instances of that and there are a few even in this thread.

Yikes

Mindustry is a great FOSS game, period. There's also Shattered Pixel Dungeon.

Is it good with handwriting?

I tried sooo many rss readers on android, some paid, some closed source, but Capy Reader is by far my favorite one especially because it supports notifications!

Ok, this layout is messing with my head, but I do want to make it work...

I love FlorisBoard. It doesn't have autocorrect yet... which is one of it's best features

Anki is spaced repetition technique which is simple but highly effective. It helps you memorize things by automatically repeating them across increasing intervals based on your responses with no need for you to keep track of what to study or when to study it. You create notes (or download shared decks) with content you need to memorize, and the scheduler will make sure you see the content when you need to.

I want to use Matrix so bad, but my bridges to Telegram and Signal just... stopped working, completely. After which I promptly gave up on it and let my domain expire a few months later (the domain I'd had for 1.5 years, Matrix was the first thing I actually did with it lol).

This is amazing, thanks partner ;)

Every now and then I try a new launcher, but I always come back to Trebuchet. It just works, it's light, and I'm only one or two taps away from anything

It's just not as pretty as lawnchair

That's one of the first app I install after installing F droid every time I format my device

I second this, one of my most used apps

Wow thanks for this!

Librera is hands down the best ebook reader.

Also with speech synthesis! I use it often to listen to PDFs while walking 😍

And supports old versions of android too! (Droidify tells me that it supports as low as android 5)

I use Audire (does not require an audd.io API token). It's open source but only available in the IzzyOnDroid repository.

How does it compare to Shazam?

I use this all the time also for gift cards.

and library cards.

Basically anything with a barcode.

Nice this uses a local model of birdNET?

I am US based, so maybe not relevant, but is it a good replacement for Merlin?

CoMaps is the fork of Organic Maps as it was found that Organic Maps Devs were using the app in ways not intended. Mostly due to privacy, transparency and for profit issues.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoMaps

I think this was posted twice?

Combine this with Librera Reader and you can listen to eBooks easily.

Love this, i'm using the GladOS voice

Uh, nice I didn't know tempo was forked, thanks for sharing :) I'll make the switch

Does it work with VPNs?

Eh, I don't think it has a bad design, it's just very utilitarian which I like. Markor is my favorite app for notes and text files on the fly.

I'm using Outer Tune right now and like it as well.

Thanks, hopefully this one stays functional for longer than the others!

You're two hours later https://lemmy.ml/post/39895219/22599238 :-)

you're 7 hours late :-) https://lemmy.ml/post/39895219/22599990

Very limited in locations that it can provide timetables for. Basically, if you're not in a large, urban area (US or Europe) it doesn't have timetables.

Link because it sometimes doesn't show up in f-droid:
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.schildbach.oeffi/

Looking at the last change notes, the Dev stated that they're no longer maintaining the app due to openweathermap now requiring credit card info. Looks like they suggested using Cirrus instead.

SimpleX is starting to delve into Crypto. Some may care, some may not but it is a newer development in the project.

This seems really cool. Gonna try it out.

The only thing that sucks is Buran, or any Gemini browser for that matter, haven't been updated in years which makes for some frustrating issues browing Gemini sometimes.

God this is such a lifesaver. And insane how useless android is that it can't fucking save files by default

Sadly my flashlight only supports 1 level of brightness.

Not only for providing additional noise, but especially to changing state of your mind. Can be used for meditation, nap, focus etc.

How do you pull data with this? You have to export all your transactions first, right?