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- Firefox
- Feedly
- Home Assistant
- Ghost Commander
- Joplin
- Moon+ Reader Pro
- Avenza
- Kodi
- Twilight
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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.
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.
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Racoon for lemmy Grayjay for video Antennapod for podcasts
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 :)
About the racoon recommendation have you tried other Lemmy apps? Curious what made you choose racoon
I have tried one other app which was Jerboa for lemmy but found Racoon easier to use so I stuck with it ever since.
I'm using Thunder.
- Voyager for Lemmy
- AntennaPod
- Firefox
- YouTube ReVanced
- Signal
- Xtra for Twitch
- Thunderbird
- Medito
- KeePassDX
- Aegis 2FA
I see you're a person with great taste in Android apps. Thanks for introducing me to Medito! I need to chill.
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
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.
That's actually nice
App Stores: F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/ Aurora Store https://auroraoss.com/downloads/AuroraStore/
URL Shortcuts: HTTP Request Shortcuts https://f-droid.org/en/packages/ch.rmy.android.http_shortcuts/
Terminal: Termux https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.termux/
VPN + Firewall (+Connect to Tor & I2P): InviZible Pro https://f-droid.org/en/packages/pan.alexander.tordnscrypt.stable/
Browser: Fennec F-Droid https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/ (type "about:config" in the address bar to configure all Firefox Browser settings) (https://kb.mozillazine.org/About:config_entries)
Notes: Standard Notes https://standardnotes.com/
Chat: SimpleX Chat https://simplex.chat/ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cRu98XSap0)
Youtube, PeerTube, SoundCloud, and Bandcamp Client: NewPipe https://newpipe.net/
Windows Emulator: Winlator https://winlator.org/
Media Editor (+50 other tools): Image Toolbox https://github.com/T8RIN/ImageToolbox
I tried switching to Aurora, but apps updated through there no longer appear in Android Auto for some reason (Spotify, Smart Audiobook Player)
That is very interesting, you should make the developers aware of this! https://gitlab.com/AuroraOSS/AuroraStore I personally don't use Android Auto and I can't see what the disconnect would be considering Aurora Store is only a client, and shouldn't interfere with an app's structure. I've been using it for a little over a year now and have updated major system apps like Google Play Services, Android System Webview, Android AICore, etc etc, without any glitching or incompatibilities. I'd be curious to see why Android Auto performs this way. I wonder if it depends on the Google Play Store for it to work. That's a new thing I've noticed that Google and Microsoft are doing, they're forcing their products to be dependent on eachother, for anything to work. Seemingly as a workaround for people who outsource to other services, such as FOSS alternatives.
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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
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
I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:
- Boost, Summit, Eternity, Voyager (Sync for Lemmy is out of this place... I still use Sync for Reddit Revanced though)
- Feedly/Feeder
- Firefox Beta
- Bitwarden
- Obtanium/Droidify
- Nekogram
- YouTube/YT music Revanced/Pocket Casts
- Spotify
- Obsidian/Syncthing
- 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.
- AntennaPod for podcasts
- LiftLog to track gym progress and weights
- Raccoon for Lemmy
- FUTO Keyboard.
those apps are all open source.
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Musicolet
Memorion
Comic screen
Lastfm.
Vivaldi
(In no particular order)
- Threema
- Brave
- Bitwarden (using a self-hosted vaultwarden instance)
- SpMp
- Notesnook
- Voyager
- LocalSend
- DeepL
Why brave browser? They look sketchy because of their crypto affliction
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I'm pretty basic:
- Sync
- Chrome
- Antenna Pod
- Guardian newspaper app
- Google Play Books
- Libby
Why sync over the other lemmy apps?
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.
- Anylist
- Catima
- Shake and strain cocktails
- RadioDroid
- Lawnchair launcher
I don't think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them
- Jerboa for Lemmy
- Firefox w/ unlock origin
- WriterP for note taking
- Message/Gmail/other system apps