Which Android app stood out to you this year & why?
Could be anything you used daily, discovered recently, or just genuinely loved.
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F Droid, as I made my move from ios to my new device, F-droid helped me find apps that made the transition go smoothly.
I put F-Droid on my Meta Quest 3 and then I didn’t even need to use SideQuest anymore lol, I could just install a file manager and KDE Connect from F-Droid, transfer apk files remotely through KDE Connect and then install them using the file manager
I moved to Droidify, a fdroid client. Its got extra repos built in and feels more polished IMO.
You can also look into Obtanium to install APKs direct from GItHub. This generally means you get updates faster than fdroid, and are 100% sure no code had changed (fdroid rebuilds packahes and resigns them).
I wouldn’t really recommend fdroid tbh. Obtanium + AppVerifier would be a better combo.
Just a few links: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/f-droid-security-issues/
https://xcancel.com/GrapheneOS/status/1883895255142932816#m
https://gitlab.com/ironfox-oss/IronFox/-/issues/7
https://github.com/obfusk/fdroid-fakesigner-poc
https://github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Android/issues/2608
https://gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issues/593
https://github.com/00-Evan/shattered-pixel-dungeon/issues/1394
KOReader (ebook reader)
Though clearly not designed for small screens, since I have a somewhat long read queue and it can sort by read progress, it helps a bunch.
Home Assistant
Vivaldi, web browser
Connect for Lemmy.
I’m embarrassed to say it was Brotato. 🥔
Molly (Signal fork) with self hosted mollyconnect + ntfy for push notifications without Google services.
I saw the obtanium comments and switched over. What sources do people use to find apps besides a post like this?
So nice not to see ads on any web sites or within any apps.
If it is ever off, I’m reminded how bad things are out there.
Boost for Lemmy was huge for me.
I’ve also been using KDE Connect, but I wish I could set filters/exclusions for notifications, because a lot of things I already get notifications on my computer for so when KDE Connect syncs the notification from my phone, that’s a duplicate.
I thing you could turn off certain notifications from the PC side.
Seal on F Droid
Try ytdlnis
cleverkeys. Super customizable offline 1st gestures keyboatd powered by neural networks.
Termux and associated addons, especially x11. Because fuck the direction the entire Android ecosystem is going in. I’d rather have a Linux phone, but Termux:x11 is as close as I’m realistically going to get at the moment.
reVanced.
https://f-droid.org/packages/de.quantumphysique.trale/
It’s a weight tracking app. It keeps all the data locally and keeps bugging you to back the local data up somewhere. It’s just so subtly good - it has this “stats” screen which is for some reason addictive to keep checking - it shows your current BMI, how many days you have left till your goal weight. It graphs your weight. The log-weight-by-dragging-the-scale thing is also great. There’s 3 total views in the app - that’s it.
I don’t know it’s just sensorially respectful?
