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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.
accrescent is a great appstore with limited apps, my favourite is beautyxt and DNSnet, give it a try!
Note that, although (AFAIK) the Accrescent client is free software, it’s hardcoded to only support their own store which last I checked had no guarantee that it only offers free software. Its marketing seemed to rely a lot on spreading FUD about F-Droid even though it fundamentally serves a different purpose than F-Droid.
HeliBoard, don’t want google to get everything I type on their keyboard. KeePassDX - offline password manager
Tabs Lite let’s you search for songs, fetches lyrics and tabs, chords from the web and stores them offline on your device. You can organize all the songs in playlists as well.
Also not found searching the in f-droid store app.
Ah, it’s on IzzyOnDroid repo. I’m using Neo Store.
Hum I get a 404 page not found and f droid can’t find it as well.
Me, too. Too bad, I was excited to see a guitar app.
Strange, my Neo Store opens it fine
Edit: It’s IzzyOnDroid repo, I’m using Neo Store.
Metro - A Music Player For Android
Very, very nice music app for those with a local library.
rquickshare This is not an app for the phone because it uses the app you already have by default (nearby share/quick share), it enables you to use it with your Mac or Linux computer on the same lan so you can share your clipboard and files. I like it a lot.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker
url checker works as your mobiles default browser to easily edit links before opening them in a browser of your choice, I love this thing, I have given up trying to tell people about url hygene
CoMaps. Google Maps alternative. Can save paths and do navigation with TTS. Gets its data from the amazing OpenStreetMap.
Why use this app instead of OsmAnd?
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
OsmAnd is a great app for powerusers. CoMaps is a simpler, and more user friendly.
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.
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.
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
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
FindMyDevice. Alternative to Google’s find my device. You send a text from a different phone number, and you can do things like get the GPS location, lock the device, erase the device, ring the device, or have the device take a picture of its location.
Yikes
I agree. Ability for a third party / uncontrolled phone text to wipe my phone? No thanks
And also track your location
You can configure which features you want to have enabled. I have this running with just the gps locate functionaly enabled in case I misplace my phone or my wife wants to check to see if I’m almost home yet or something.
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/dnsfilter.android/ personalDNSfilter. DNS proxy filter. You can use your favorite block lists to block ads and trackers in a browser but also in most any other app. You can add your own rules and it doesn’t need root.
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
https://codeberg.org/svewa/MedicalCalendarLog
I use this every day to keep track of my medication, remind me of stuff I want to do regularly (measure weight, take specific meds but also chores). Disclaimer: I’m the author, could not find anything alike.
That looks cool, though I can’t seem to find the “releases” section to download the apk…
I’ve been looking for a tracking app to replace one I use called Tickmate. It’s so old and needs upgrades, but I’ve been using it for years and can’t seem to find a better replacement
I also can’t find releases on mobile. I see a bunch of f-froid publishing stuff at bottom or readme. Doesn’t seem to be on f-froid now, but maybe will show up there eventually.
Red Moon. Blue light filter for screen. Makes it less hurting for eyes to use phone at night, or generally in dark.
Oooh I bet this will work for viewing my salt water aquarium at night so I can see the nocturnal critters and corals at work!
Or maybe I just got a little too excited because this is for the output light filter and not the camera/input.
It is for output / screen. But I like your enthusiasm about using open source for salt water aquarium 😉
ArwwWwoOoOoo
Awoo is not a crime!
osmand~ – frontend to openstreetmap with included pathfinder.
