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Media Gallery app for Android made with Jetpack Compose
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KDE Connect! Share files, clipboard, links from one device to another, use your phone as a mouse or laser pointer.
When you use the KDE Desktop Environment it will also show notifications from your phone and sync media controls (e.g. stop playback when you get a phone call). It’s great!
Now if the remote mouse control could show a 128x128 area of the screen under the mouse pointer on the phone…Sure I could get my ass up and read what the video title is then but… No.
AntennaPod Podcast player with awesome ui
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.
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 😅
You can change it from Settings > User Interface > Bottom navigation
Ah thanks!
obligatory shilling for LocalSend, it’s airdrop except open-source and completely cross-platform!
Its sick on iphone
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
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)
I have used Copyparty on my LAN (with nginx as a reverse proxy), and remember it being fast enough to saturate a gigabit connection. I would probably believe the numbers quoted here: https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#reverse-proxy-performance
Use it, love it, has a great http webserver fallback option too
Didn’t know about the plain HTTP option! I’m using Sharik for this
I use davx5 to sync my caldav calendar (radicale) with my Android.
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
CoMaps. Google Maps alternative. Can save paths and do navigation with TTS. Gets its data from the amazing OpenStreetMap.
OSM and magic earth ?
What’s the difference between this and Organic Maps?
I think it’s a fork that was made after some recent community drama. Probably the two apps should be pretty similar, although CoMaps is updated more frequently I think.
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.
On-device routing and the map rendering is way faster in CoMaps.
OsmAnd has way more features.
If you just need basic navigation, I tend to go to CoMaps
I was a long time OsmAnd user, I loved that app. After a couple of years I realized, I really liked the cusomizability, but in the end, I use like 5% of it’s features. I gave Organic Maps a try (now Co Maps after some community drama) and it was love at first sight. It’s the opposite is OsmAnd, a lightweight and super simple app to look for places and navigation. I miss like one, maybe two features, but I the usability is great and I won’t look back.
Thank you, I’ll give it a look.
For me, I have both of them.
co-maps I use when I need to add a place to open street map, and OSMAND I use for features that co-maps doesn’t have.
Basically, co-maps is easier to use for things that it can do and OSMAND is harder to use but can do more things/different things.
That sounds cool. I’ll give it a look.
How would you say the OSM editor is better in CoMaps than Osmand?
There is one big friendly button to add place to osm in comaps
OsmAnd is a great app for powerusers. CoMaps is a simpler, and more user friendly.
Breezy weather. It plays nice with gadget bridge and if you use the git version you can choose all kinds of weather sources, the fdroid one is a bit more restrictive. Also it just looks great and is easy to interpret at a glance.
Don’t forget the Breezy live wallpaper, where it shows a wallpaper based on the current weather.
I like cirrus as well
Aegis - Google Authenticator compatible 2FA
Also KeePassDX can do 2fa and if you keep passwords there it makes logging in with 2fa super quick and seamless
I don’t think it’s a good idea to have both the passwords and the 2FA in the same app. But it does make it much more convenient
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?
It means that apps that ask you to use Google Authenticator for 2FA can be used in Aegis instead. Most authenticator apps do support this same standard at this point.
Did Google create this standard? I’m just not sure why they’re being mentioned. It’s like saying your email account is “Gmail compatible”.
The standard is called TOTP and Google became synonymous with it because they pushed it in the late 2000s for Gmail and have a large user base. Other sites did have systems beforehand, like Paypay which had a dedicated fob, but that was not widely used. Gmail was likely most people’s first experience with MFA and Google pushed their own Authenticator app (and didn’t really advertise that others could be used). As other sites got on board, it was easier to tell people to use the app they use for google to get their code, since you could assume people had the app.
Basically that made a situation where people who had a different TOTP app knew their app would work with “Google Authenticator” but for those without an app or using Google Authenticator, they were likely unaware of the interoperability and standards behind the mechanisms.
Not really, my guess is that you can import your 2FA codes from Google Auth so it is mentioned as an alternative to it
It probably means that you can copy your keys between apps.
HeliBoard, don’t want google to get everything I type on their keyboard. KeePassDX - offline password manager
NewPipe — Lightweight YouTube front-end: background playback and downloads without Google Play services.
Or if you dislike all kinds of ads like me, you may also like the NewPipe fork Tubular, which provides SponsorBlock integration.
Me like PipePipe
pipepipe is a way better app for me. they tend to fix stuff much more frequently than the newpipe app devs.
newpipe had bugs that still hadn’t been fixed for years. so I switched and pipepipe is much more reliable.
The only issue I get with PipePipe is that when I switch from LTE to WiFi the stream cuts off and won’t restart due to an error. I can play other stuff through the app, just not what I was listening to after the network change.
I prefer PipePipePipe.
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!)
there’s freetube for desktop, i hate how it’s an electron ‘app’ though
I think there’s technical reasons for that. It looks like (and I may be wrong) they grab the YouTube website and show you a modified version of that, instead of requesting just the video from the server. This may be useful because YouTube changes how its API works sometimes to throw off 3rd party clients.
nope they’re completely creating a new page, not a modification of the youtube website.
PipePipe still works without being an electron app but redundancy is good
Ah, yes, I have it (on macOS, I use it for downloading when YouTube blocks jd2 from downloading, I can get the video in any res with no audio, and the video in like 160p with good audio. Throw both into mkvtoolnix, ditch the low-res video stream, and it’s all good. A bit of extra work, but if I want the video I can get it). I know it’s similar.
i think you can just use
yt-dlp -x {youtube link}to get audio btw.
There is an experimental version floating around that does run on linux through the very new android translation layer. Very buggy though currently. Its in flathub.
Ya, it works! But it is very much like a phone interface on the computer. Maybe not perfect but it exists.
That’s awesome. Linux should absolutely be pushing for Android app compatibility in much the same way macOS does with iOS/iPadOS apps.
And by pushing, I mean it should be an optional project people could install if they want, not forced on everyone like a commercial OS feature. I just mean it should be a thing.
I think Waydroid fits the bill of what you’re describing.
See also, FreeTube.
Mindustry: one of the few great games on f-droid (tower defense)
Mindustry is a great FOSS game, period. There’s also Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
And pirate solitaire
Drip A tracking free, cloud free and subscription free period tracker. There are a lot of period tracking apps around, but most of them try to push a subscription on their users and putting that data into a cloud can be dangerous in many countries where abortions are forbidden. You know that some judge in Texas wants to have access to that data. Save yourself or the women in your life from subscribtion and tracking hell and switch them over.
osmand~ – frontend to openstreetmap with included pathfinder.
Trail Sense - a lot of useful tools like compass, ruler, bubble level, metal detector, unit converter, 3D AR astronomy visualizer and many more.
I hate being reminded there’s no compass in my phone, $600 pocket computer that can’t find north, what a joke
I don’t understand. There are lots of compass apps.
Yeah, but for folks like me and the guy above this doesn’t matter. Our phones is missing the actual compass hardware inside the phone that said apps needs to function.
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.
Does this have maps of it’s own?
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.
