Finally installed F-Droid

brax , 6 months ago

The version of t-ui (Linux Command Line Launcher) is way better on there than it is in Google Play

neonred , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Foxy Droid: alternative F-Droid-Client but with the classic and for me much more accessible UI of the old F-Droid-Client. Uses the exact same repos. Can be downloaded using the normal F-Droid-Client, which then can be uninstalled

neonred , 6 months ago

I’ve just seen Droid-ify is a fork or at least pretty similar to Foxy Droid, so I’d recommend that, too

winter , 6 months ago

AntennaPod for podcasts KeepassDX for a password manager LibreTorrent

And remember to donate the developers :)

RatzChatsubo , 6 months ago

Are there any alternative repos I’m missing out on guys? I just took everyones advice and started using f-droid lite. Noticed you can add repos so I’m curious

cupcakezealot , 6 months ago

get neostore too (front end for f droid)

shrugal , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Droid-ify: Same functionality as F-Droid, same repos etc, but with a much nicer UI.

Xtra: Alternative client for Twitch with support for blocking ads.

LibreTube: Native Android client for the alternative YT frontend Piped.

uis , 6 months ago

Newpipe, OMaps, Jerboa, VLC, zxing/barcode reader.

Newpipe also acts as a client of peertube and soundcloud.

1984 , 6 months ago

Newpipe!

Matth78 , 6 months ago

Agree with all suggestions. I didn’t see any image viewer so my recommendation for that is to use Aves.

yessikg , 6 months ago

Lato (downhill snowboarding game, a little rough around the edges but fun)

Rabbit Escape (a game similar to Lemmings)

Moneo , 6 months ago

A new app I’ve tested is Spotube (Spotify open source alternative).

This is super misleading. Spotube isn’t a Spotify alternative, it uses Spotify metadata and streams the audio from youtube.

GutsBerserk OP , 6 months ago

Edited. Thanks for the correction.

Moneo , 6 months ago

Thank you! They advertise it pretty confusingly, I didn’t figure it out until I saw a reddit post explaining.

ammonium , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Really? How does it do that? Not everything on Spotify is on YT is it.

Edit: github.com/KRTirtho/spotube/issues/835

Hmm, I think this is a bit deceiving from the developer. I have premium but just want an Android client which doesn’t force podcasts on me :(

Pantherina , 6 months ago

Aaand now uninstall it again and try F-Droid Basic. Its the version of F-Droid using modern libraries, which is way more secure. Featurewise that means modern apps have automatic updates

Annoying but thats why I always recommend to install that APK instead. You can just install it from F-Droid.

I tried all other F-Droid clients and they all have some bugs. G-Droid is discontinued but had an awesome rating system, Neostore has cool features but seemed buggy, Droid-ify is just fancy and has many repos preinstalled (but deactivated).

The lack of 3rd party repos being already in the menu with just a click away is the only problem with the official clients.

DeltaTangoLima , 6 months ago

I switched to Obtainium some time back, and ended up uninstalling all F-droid clients altogether.

Pantherina , 6 months ago

Yeah no way. I found it nearly unusable, and many great apps are only on F-Droid

DeltaTangoLima , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Lol - I found it far from unusable, but no worries. Obtainium also supports F-droid apps, so I get the best of both worlds.

burgersc12 , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago)

Obtainium - update manager for FOSS

Droid-ify - a nice and simple F-Droid frontend

Seeker - SoulSeek downloads music

ViMusic/BlackHole/InnerTune - Youtube Music

Antennapod - for podcasts

Florisboard - a keyboard, great for basic use (no predictive text/autocorrect) and has swipe function

Breezy Weather

Material Files

OpenCalc

Acode - text editor

Bitwarden - password manager

Librera - pdf/ebook reader

Kvaesisto - Launcher thats similar to Niagara, but FOSS

Mull - a privacy centric browser

K-9 mail

Read You - RSS reader

Simple Notes - not related to Simple Mobile Tools btw

Newpipe x sponsorblock - youtube but less annoying

Lemuroid - almost any emulator you would want (except GameCube and Wii, use Dolphin)

Tachiyomi - Read manga

AL-chan - keep track of watched anime/manga with AniList

Showly - keep track of movies and shows with Trakt

superduperenigma , 6 months ago

Is Florisboard still being developed? Hasn’t been updated in 18 months according to F-Droid. Some buttons generate a TODO pop-up when pressed and the predictive text still uses placeholder values.

burgersc12 , 6 months ago

There is development being done still on suggestions. Last i heard is there would be news once thats completed

DeltaTangoLima , 6 months ago

Yeah - this is the feature we’re all waiting for.

Salix , 6 months ago

github.com/florisboard/florisboard/…/2314

mulcahey , 6 months ago

Do I need Droid-ify, Obtaniun, and F-Droid Basic? Feels like there’s a lot of overlap there, no?

burgersc12 , 6 months ago

If you want them, but you don’t need but one of them. I like Obtainium the most as it updates from Github and F-droid, but i find Droid-ify makes it easy to search for new apps so i like to have it. I never liked F-droid Basic, but i would pick between that and Droid-ify for the best looking front end

helenslunch , 6 months ago

Droidify does the same thing as F-Droid but with a waaaay better interface…

9488fcea02a9 , 6 months ago

I moved a lot of my foss apps over to f-droid. But i’m a little worried about security.

The odds of a bad actor being able to takeover f-droid and update my keepass app with a malicious version seems a lot higher than someone being able to do the same google play, right?

Knusper , 6 months ago

This F-Droid-like model (also popularly implemented by Linux distributions) is usually considered an improvement in security.

The thing with FOSS is that ideally you don’t have to trust the developer at all.
In theory, you could read the entire source code and compile it yourself. Then you’d know for sure that no malware is included.

Obviously, in practice, you can only hope that some nerds dig into the source code and notify journalists of malware-like behaviour.
It is no perfect protection. But it is the only tangible protection that FOSS actually delivers.

What does not protect you, is to trust each individual developer. They could publish innocous source code and then build the release binaries from a version with the malware-like behaviour patched in.

But because you likely don’t want to compile each app yourself, you might still feel compelled to entrust that work to a third party. This is where the F-Droid team comes in. Rather than trusting each developer, you just have to trust a single team.

Well, and if an app is built in a reproducible build, then even the work from the F-Droid team can be verified.

9488fcea02a9 , 6 months ago

I trust the debian repo because fortune 500 companies run debian and rely on it

F-droid repo doesnt have the same level of scrutiny

Knusper , 6 months ago

Yeah, that is a valid opinion to hold. I am saying that trust is garbage.

You could consider compiling the KeePass app yourself, if you’re worried about that one in particular.
A guy I used to study with, decided that he just wouldn’t have a password manager on his phone.
I’ve certainly considered switching to a Linux phone for that, among many other reasons…

DeltaTangoLima , 6 months ago

You consider using Obtainium instead? It installs (and updates) directly from source release (Github repo, etc). That puts you directly in control of everything then.