What are your top android apps?
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
Honorable mentions to Newpipe and Termux.
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.
Compared to any browsing experience without uBlock, Firefox wins by a very large margin.
The only browser that supports proper extensions such as Ublock origin (which is much more advanced than the built-in adblockers in other 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.
How do y'all forget KDE connect?
We don't really use kde to enjoy kde connect
KDE Connect doesn't require the use of KDE otherwise. Check it out, it might be worth your while.
Even works on Windows IIRC
Neither do I
Racoon for lemmy Grayjay for video Antennapod for podcasts
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.
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):
::: spoiler P.S. I finally found a chance to use tables on Lemmy. :::
The tables are actually helpful
I am kinda of curious, why do you use heliboard over swiftkeys?
Not original commenter, but I got the hell off of Swiftkey after Microsoft bought it for privacy purposes. That could be why.
What do you use instead? Autocorrect is a very big issue with the other keyboards
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.
You can try FUTO keyboard
Thank you. I did come across it, back when I was looking at alternatives. Though I don’t remember why I didn’t try it out.
How is your experience with the keyboard? How does it compare with the alternatives?
Better than Heliboard by a mile. Privacy oriented Keyboard The autocorrect works well and the crazy part is the voice keyboard. Everything is offline
Thank you. I shall try it out as a secondary general keyboard.
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
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:
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.
This is Jerboa. Wtf are you using? Lol
They used the "View Source" feature like I told them to.
You can see the real comment in the background.
Ohh that's so strange
I haven't seen anyone mention Gboard yet so I'll say Gboard. Best keyboard on Android.
Heliboard kicks Gboard out of the park
Did you say HOOOOOOB?
I may be missing a reference. Or you're just making HooooooB out of heliboard. Enlighten me!
Look at the app icon
Privacy and not too good autocorrect issues
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
In my list everything is open source
I think I need try out Keep Ass DX
Of course you can keep ass there 🤣
Are you just using only FOSS apps? Heliboard is not that great compared to swiftkey? how do you get on with mastodon?
Heliboard is lite and does everything for me. I use moshidon for mastodon.
those apps are all open source.
FUTO keyboard is actually nice that is what I am using.. Its great
I'm using FUTO Voice, but I wasn't aware of the keyboard. Installing.
the only two apps i use but have not yet seen mentioned:
dishonorable mention:
If I had to pick some of my favorites:
Anyway yeah, those are some of the ones I use frequently. Sorry for not linking to them, but it would have taken forever lol.
I thought buzzkill was just for sound notification and how do you use Grayjay when you already have a YouTube account? How can you sync your subscribed list to it?
Just started using Image Toolbox a few weeks ago, shits fucking dope.
I tried switching to Aurora, but apps updated through there no longer appear in Android Auto for some reason (Spotify, Smart Audiobook Player)
I am gonna cheat and name multiple apps with the same/similar purpose:
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.
List made using List My Apps
How does "should I answer" app staked up with truecaller? How good is anysoftkeyboard with autocorrect?
Haven't tried truecaller. Autocorrect on AnySoftKeyboard can be a bit zealous, but its sensitivity is tweakable and takes custom vocabulary.
Musicolet
Memorion
Comic screen
Lastfm. Vivaldi
can you log in to your youtube account on Grayjay?
Yeah
Please how do you get it to work? I have downloaded it but I am stuck
import subscriptions, then authenticate your account through settings
Done thanks
Proton mail with a proton account?
Yea? You can only use Proton Account on Proton mail.
I presume you also have a Gmail for your Gmail account
No I don't use Gmail. I have degoogled device. That Moon+ Pro Reader is 🏴☠️
I know moon+ pro reader but I don't know how people enjoy reading books on their mobile
I use big screen tablet. It's better for me.
(In no particular order)
Why brave browser? They look sketchy because of their crypto affliction
To be honest if you disable crypto stuff in brave it's a solid browser. I recommend it to those people who are still using chrome .
Yeah but you're still using Chromium :/
Thousand times better than chrome :-) I don't use it btw
I'm pretty basic:
Why sync over the other lemmy apps?
I like:
I don't think any of these are unique. I just like this implementation.
You still using chrome.... 😮
not allowed?
I don't think I even use 10 apps, I use like 3 of them
Move to iOS: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.movetoios&hl=en-US
::: spoiler spoiler kek :::
Ios is just too caged for me.
iOS hasnt got my must-have apps, and developing for iOS is the worst experience I ever had working as an intern