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What Are Your Favorite FOSS Android Apps? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Here's what I'm rocking:

  • Aegis
  • App Lounge
  • AntennaPod
  • Bitwarden
  • Dicio
  • Doodle
  • F-Droid
  • FeedMe (Not FOSS. Open to suggestions)
  • Firefox
  • FNG
  • InvizBox
  • Jerboa
  • Mastodon
  • Music Player GO
  • Obsidian
  • OpenLauncher
  • Organic Maps
  • OsmAnd~
  • Proton Cal/Drive/Mail/VPN
  • RadioDroid
  • RedReader
  • Signal
  • Silence
  • Simple Keyboard
  • Tasks (Not the built in. I love this one)
  • Unit Converter Ultimate
  • Wikipedia

This is just about everything I have on my phone. I'm on a FairPhone 4 running /e/OS. What's your load out like?

I'm looking for a new keyboard. Glad for suggestions :D

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[โ€“] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Obtainium is great for updating apps hosted outside the playstore, big upside being you don't need to bother with FDroid releases

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

what kind of apps cant be updated through playstore/fdroid?

what are the one you are using?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

what kind of apps cant be updated through playstore/fdroid?

it's not that they can't be (maybe some apps I use can't) but rather that I don't like some things about F-Droid. One of the big things being unreliable app updates. They are often significantly outdated compared to GitHub releases.

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#f-droid

"Due to their process of building apps, apps in the official F-Droid repository often fall behind on updates. F-Droid maintainers also reuse package IDs while signing apps with their own keys, which is not ideal as it gives the F-Droid team ultimate trust."

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This is somewhat outdated, developers can now opt in to reproducable builds using their own keys

https://f-droid.org/docs/Reproducible_Builds/

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

What do people prefer to use for apps that can't be updated through Obtanium?