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Awesome Android Apps - my curated list of ~250 apps (github.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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Awesome Android Apps

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Hi all,

for 2 years, sporadically, I've been adding awesome FOSS apps with the following:

Rules

  • Open Sourced
  • Free of charge (on F-Droid and source code repository releases)
  • Free as in Freedom
  • Ad-free
  • Installed and tested by me or by contributor
  • Privacy-friendly aware
  • Easy to use
  • Still in development or polished experience
  • Does not lack features compared to proprietary app
  • Does not need an account (the only exceptions are self-hosted) apps)
  • Has dark theme

...tested by my and then later by contributors. I think many of you will appreciate this simple README.md repo, and I would love some help with it.

๐Ÿ”๏ธ Codeberg version

I hope you will find it useful! ๐Ÿคฉ

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[โ€“] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Whobird under AI, nice.

Might be good to add descriptions for a lot of these also, I'm not sure what a lot of them do.

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    • [โ€“] 6 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    Browsers could list more than Brave.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    But... there is more than Brave. :)

    • 2 Firefox based
    • 2 Chromium based
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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    But these smaller ones are scary to follow because they'll always lag behind on security updates.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    That is why someone created FFUpdater.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    It's strange that it doesn't have Waterfox. Anyway, that wasn't my point in the first place; first, Mozilla has to release its bug fixes, and then all these other browsers' devs have to release their own counterparts in response. It is during this window in time when they're most insecure, since the issues are then brought to light while users are helplessly waiting.

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    • [โ€“] 5 points 2 years ago (19 children)

    Anyone got a suggestion for a clock app that lets me set an alarm for say three days from now? They all seem to only let you set it for the next time that time comes around, or on repeat. Is that an OS limitation?

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I don't think it's Open Source (sorry) and it does have (non intrusive, can prob be blocked) ads in the Freemium, but Sleep As Android by Urbandroid has this and much more. I bought an unlocker years ago and have not looked back.

    I didn't read the rules. My bad.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I'm not OP and not trying to get things added to the list so don't mind suggestions that don't meet OP's criteria, but I would prefer something open source if possible.

    But now you mention it, I think I may have bought Sleep as Android many years ago, so I might still consider it. Thanks for the suggestion!

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    I think it's not OS limitiation, more like proper access to Android API functions that are easier on harder depending on the Android ROM. I can set an alarm to 4 May and it's clock functionality.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

    I'm running GrapheneOS if it makes a difference. What clock app are you running?

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (10 children)

    The stock one can do it and others on the list. Let's say I want 11 AM at Tuesday - 3 days from now.

    1. New alarm
    2. 11 AM
    3. Tuesday only

    That's it.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Yes this is what I do currently, however, there are two issues with this.

    First, sure it will wake me up on Tuesday. But it will also wake me up the following Tuesday, and the one after that.

    But secondly, the main problem is that I can't set an alarm for Tuesday the 3rd of September, when I have something important that I don't forget and that justifies a screaming alarm, but it's not within the next week so choosing to repeat each Tuesday doesn't work.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    Yeah, you need to disable this after ringing.

    I understand... I had this functionality (setting alarm on the particular date) on my old OnePlus 7 Pro with stock Clock (Oxygen OS 12.1). It was awesome. You could even set an alarm, check "Ring when powered off" or something like this, and you could power off your phone and let's say I have a 6 AM alarm, the smartphone would automatically turn on itself at 5:58ish AM. I think every Clock app is based on "AOSP" clock project, so I think it depends on implementation and maybe hardware?

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    It's funny, this stuff was normal before smart phones. If you forgot to charge your phone (because you only had to do it every week or so, so you didn't have a routine) then the alarm would still go off even if the battery died in the night.

    We have some awesome new things that smart phones give us, but it's not without compromise.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    True. I still miss, and I don't know how to display passing seconds on my clock. It was present in Android 11 and now in Android 14 I cannot find anything to have it. Moreover, I loved on OxygenOS "triple fingers" from top to bottom - doing screenshot. I hate doing it through buttons. Same when I have a turned off-screen I could just "draw" with my finger letter V, and it would turn on the Flashlight and the same way turning it off.

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    • [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Nice! Thanks a lot, found some I hadn't heard of before

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    [โ€“] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    "Early bird alarm clock" has it under the repeat menu you can set a date/dates for alarms.

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    [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    For AI, you could add SDAI FOSS

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Looks astonishing! But I need to check if it's working and applies to the rules. :c Maybe you could do that for me with a Pull Request? :)

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Sorry, I don't know how to use git. But I can verify that it does work, and work well. Its just a bit slow. It also adheres to the rules as far as I can tell.

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Ah, I understand, no worries. Just using Android and knowing what F-Droid is is enough. :)

    Its just a bit slow.

    If you don't mind, me neither. ;)

    But I don't use it and I cannot confirm, so you know... contribution would be helpful. In the future I will try this up but no time for now :c

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you tell me how to make a pull request I'd be happy to give it a go

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago

    This repository is excellent for learning how to contribute on GitHub. Unfortunately account is needed.

    1. Log in into GitHub account.
    2. Fork my project.
    3. On your fork add necessary changes using git and some text editor.
    4. Go into my project and submit a pull request that has changes on your fork for my main branch.

    That's it. :)

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    • [โ€“] [S] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Cross-posted also on:

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    [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    @Psyhackological
    Hey, good use of AI on that one! I love whoBIRD!

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  • [โ€“] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    Yeah, I tried it and is awesome! Not 100% FOSS, but at least the app is as FOSS as possible. I would like to add more apps to "AI" category.

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    • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

    Fritter as a client for Twitter ? Lol this app doesn't work for long time. Squacker is the only available option today but unfortunately they use Twitter API instead of Nitter that was shut down

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    • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Awesome ๐Ÿฅณ

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