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

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    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.

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

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        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.

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            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?

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    Considering “top” as meant to be “most used”, I’d say:

    • Voyager, which I’m using right now, a Lemmy client.
    • Tusky: a Mastodon client.
    • Mull: Firefox fork.
    • Firefox (yeah, I have two Firefox installations)
    • Sketchbook: a drawing app, I even paid for the additional features.
    • Google translate: when I don’t remember how to say something specific in English, or when I want to experiment with multiple languages, especially Latin (and Google translate is the only translator app to have Latin support)
    • Noto (I was previously using Notesnook): text editor with folder capabilities. I use it to write poetry, free from distractions
    • Acode: source code text editor. I use it to create Node.js snippets which I run with…
    • Termux: a kind of a “Linux emulator”, it emulates a terminal environment within Android with additional programs compiled to arm architecture. One of those programs is Node.js (both the REPL, the runtime and the npm package manager)
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    My “Top” apps are what I think are cool, not necessary what the most useful apps are to me.

    Briar its a peer to peer communications app that can communicate via wifi, blutooth, or through the internet via Tor. It can form a sort of mesh network with devices in proximity. Hypothetically, with enough users, you could spread information across a long distsnce even with a nationwide shutdown of the internet like some authoritarian countries do.

    There’s already some public forums on there by connecting to random people around the world via Tor, although, these forums doesn’t have much activity now. But it exists and thats so cool. Its like a secret corner of the internet, even more obscure than the “dark web”

    Wasted Remember those news about iPhones randomly restarting in police storage lockers? This app does something even better. Amongst many functions, this app can let you set your phone to auto-wipe itself if not unlocked for X amount of time, ranging from 5 minutes to 7 days. (Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge. I am not a lawyer. You might wanna consult a lawyer before using this)

    OpenKeychain Just a PGP tool for Android, pretty straightforward. Very cool to have a digital signature right in your pocket to validate your online identity with other internet users. Potentially useful for secret drug trades ahem just kidding lol, don’t do drugs, kids. (Seriously, don’t)

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      Warning: You may get in legal trouble for using this, if you get arrested and the phone auto-wipes, you could get a “Destruction of Evidence” charge

      One could defend itself alleging that they had the app in order to prevent themselves from being blackmailed and/or extorted by robbers which could try to access the phone contents in order to extract information from banking apps, photos, social networks and personal information.

      Defending oneself from malicious actors (such as robbers) shouldn’t be a crime.

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        Or alternatively, don’t even mention you have such an app and when they ask if you had anything to do with the phone getting wiped, you say “hmm that’s odd, it must been some sort of hardware failure, I’ve heard that [Phone’s Manufacturer] have had some issues with quality control, perhaps that’s the reason”

        You’re not lying, you’re just suggesting a possible reason: hardware failure. And every manufacturer had quality control issues, it wouldn’t be odd for you to have heard about such news, or even just rumors amongst people about a company’s quality control issues.

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    App(s) Use
    Should I Answer? Call Spam Blocking
    Droidify F-droid Client
    Obtainium Github Access For Apps
    AnySoftKeyboard Keyboard
    Macrodroid Automation
    KDE Connect Desktop Integration
    FairEmail Email
    QUIK SMS
    Open Camera Camera
    KeePassDX Password & 2FA Management
    Breezy Weather Weather
    VLC Music
    Tubular, YouTube Revanced Youtube
    F-Stop Image Library
    Amaze File Manager
    Syncthing File Synchronization
    Organic Maps GPS/Maps
    Markor Notes
    Aliucord Discord Client
    Tusky Mastodon Client
    Eternity Lemmy Client
    Telegram Messaging
    RDX Reddit Read-only Client
    URL Check Link Filtering For Sharing
    Binary Eye QR Code Scanning
    Pushbullet Info Passing
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      How does “should I answer” app staked up with truecaller? How good is anysoftkeyboard with autocorrect?

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        Haven’t tried truecaller. Autocorrect on AnySoftKeyboard can be a bit zealous, but its sensitivity is tweakable and takes custom vocabulary.

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    If I had to pick some of my favorites:

    • BuzzKill, Gives you total control over your notifications. I use it to auto clear apps that think they need to have a persistent notification like VPNs, Smart Watches, etc.
    • DuckDuckGo, For their very useful, (In my opinion) app tracking protection proxy that they have built into the app.
    • GAMEYE, For tracking my physical games collection and my extensive Amiibo collection.
    • Grayjay & Revanced , For when I want to watch YouTube on mobile.
    • Image Toolbox, Great for doing a whole bunch of different things. Works especially well for image related tasks, but does more stuff than that too.
    • LocalSend, Airdrop but cross platform and open source. Really good.
    • Privacy, An app that links to your bank account and lets you make virtual cards to obfuscate your real debit card. Super useful as well for setting up with subscriptions so you can just turn the individual card off instead of having to go find the subscription cancel option for each service.
    • p!n, A very simple app that adds a quick actions menu button to pin a notification. I use it to essentially add reminders and notes to my notifications real quick.
    • rdx, A simple Reddit viewer for when I have to view a Reddit link for any reason. shudders
    • Shortcut Maker, Super useful app for when I’m not using Niagara Launcher. Let’s you make home screen app like shortcuts for a wide variety of things, including going to specific settings, launching specific sets of apps, and way more. Used to be my favorite app before I got into Niagara.
    • URLCheck, Acts as a middle man after I click a link, telling me a bunch of info about it before letting me pick which browser I want to open it in.
    • Niagara Launcher, my launcher of choice. Not for everyone, but I have found it makes navigating my phone super fast. I have tried so many different ones, but the fact that the app drawer is always on open on the home screen and I can navigate to each letter quickly made it the best for me.

    Anyway yeah, those are some of the ones I use frequently. Sorry for not linking to them, but it would have taken forever lol.

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      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?

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    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
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    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.

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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.

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

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        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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    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.

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      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 :)

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

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    1. Summit for Lemmy
    2. Kiwi Browser
    3. MPV
    4. Moon+ Reader Pro
    5. Dantotsu
    6. Libre Torrent
    7. File Manager(Material)
    8. Droid-ify
    9. WhatsApp
    10. Proton Mail.
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    1. Voyager for Lemmy
    2. AntennaPod
    3. Firefox
    4. YouTube ReVanced
    5. Signal
    6. Xtra for Twitch
    7. Thunderbird
    8. Medito
    9. KeePassDX
    10. Aegis 2FA
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      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

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        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.

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    1. Kotatsu for Manwha
    2. Grayjay for YouTube
    3. YouTube Music for Music
    4. RunnerUp for my Jogs
    5. WallFlow Plus for automatic wallpapers
    6. Akakçe for finding best prices from multiple store fronts
    7. KDE Connect for clipboard and file share
    8. Pano Scrobbler for Last.fm tracking