List your most often used and favourite foss application on your Android phone.
Interestingly enough, I made the rookie error of going to Google play and trying to find F-Droid. I shit you not, the only time I have ever seen this message: “Looking for F-droid nearby? This app isn’t available for your device because it uses an older version of Android”… now, how many people would give up and keep using Google Play Store? Devious shits!!
Search Based Launcher, Feeder, Antennapod, K-9 email, and Browsers: Firefox (default), Iceraven (for Singlefile addon), Bromite (on the rare occasions when I choose to let the site run Javascript on my phone), Tor Browser. Also, more recently Tusky (Mastodon) and Jerboa (Lemmy).
And Termux for local dev work, and a Debian proot within it to run calibre for ebook reformatting.
This is going to be a long list.
VLC, for playing videos and other media.
Auxio, for playing music and organizing playlists and such.
ConnectBot, for SSH.
Shizuku, for apps that support it.
RootlessJamesDSP, for audio stuff. Powered by Shizuku.
aShell, for stuff that requires root permission.
Aurora Store, for the few apps I need from the playstore.
KISS Launcher.
Droidify, for everything I need from F-Droid. Also powered by Shizuku.
Feeder, for RSS feeds.
FTPClient, for SFTP connections.
LibreTorrent, for torrenting and such.
Mull, for web browsing.
VLC, for playing videos and other media.
I’m surprised nobody mentioned this, but I use mpv for the same. It barely has an interface, but it’s light and extremely configurable, and what I did was turn it into a picture-in-picture player (small, no border, etc, show subtitles if possible…). I use it to watch everything, including Youtube videos (it has builtin yt-dlp integration).
AdAway for Android via fDroid
- AntennaPod (podcast player)
- Authenticator Pro (2FA)
- Aves (gallery)
- Bitwarden
- Catima (for stores’ reward cards)
- Etar (calendar)
- Geometric Weather
- Infinity for Reddit… as long as it works
- Joplin (note-taking software, synced with the desktop client)
- K-9 Mail
- Kvæsitso (launcher)
- Mull (Firefox fork)
- NetGuard (works in the background as a VPN to block network access to certain apps, for example I use it to block every network connection by Gboard)
- NewPipe
- Simple File Manager
- Tasks.org
