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I don't know about better, but here are some additional apps that I find useful:

• Acastus (Address / POI lookup)
• AdAway (adblocking, requires root)
• AntennaPod (podcasts)
• DAVdroid (contacts + calendar sync)
• K-9 Mail (mail client)
• LibreTorrent (torrenting)
• OsmAnd~ (maps and navigation)
• RunnerUp (fitness tracker)
• Termux (terminal)

Also, you can browse the "most popular" apps under the various categories on https://fossdroid.com to find more.

FWIW for those looking for a Mastodon mobile app, I tried Tusky recently and I seriously like it more than any Twitter mobile app I have ever used. There is even a dark theme available that looks better than the default one.

Dns66. Ad-blocker for non root devices. Did I mention it is open source?

Linkme:dns66 .....Wait that's not gonna work :\

https://fossdroid.com/a/dns66.html

Request: Tasker/macrodroid/automate app for Chromecast

My go to go Podcast Player (which I think doesn't get enough love) is AntennaPod: https://fossdroid.com/a/antennapod.html

I'm not an huge podcast listener, so maybe it's not good for addicts, but it's simple, lightweight and looks pretty enough for me. Also it's Free Software, which is always awesome.

Uh, microG is only meant to replace the Google Mobile Services, so that the ones among the apps you use that require those proprietary services can run anyway despite the absence of them. It doesn't provide anything "cool" or additional. You cannot "do new things" with it. It just lets you be free from somewhat privacy-intrusive proprietary components, while still being able to run most proprietary apps when/if you do need them.

Many people who who install LineageOS for microG will prefer to use free and open source apps from F-Droid, however, and that is why F-Droid is installed by default in it. I encourage you to look at the applications available in it, although its search feature is not always the best (you can also search for apps on their website or this alternative frontend, and there are alternative F-Droid clients available withing F-Droid itself, if you don't like the default client). Then if you have certain proprietary applications that you just can't do without, that's what microG is there to help with.

I use FaceSlim. It's just an app that connects to the mobile site. It's not particularly fancy, but it's better than logging in on your web browser proper.

https://fossdroid.com/a/facebook-lite.html

AnySoftKeyboard is the closest I've found. Though it doesn't have swipe typing yet(you can try it in a dev branch from their github page, but it's still a few months out from being in the normal build).

There's also the AOSP keyboard, but you would have to pull it form an AOSP/LineageOS rom or build it yourself.

I would be interested to know if anyone knows of any others though.

Dev here, in the about page I explain the purpose of fossdroid.com and give the credits to f-droid.org (amazing team). If you click on the three dots (top right) you can see more options:

http://imgur.com/a/r7EYZ

like site, source, ect.... about the app itself.

Fossdroid is made for help the people to approach the open source world: this is why it has a simple interface without the "complessity" of F-Droid (with the possibility to view the screenshots).

I've tried to replace Google Analytics (setted anyway with anonymizeIp) with Piwik but i wasn't sodisfied.

Thanks for your points.

PS: When you download an app from fossdroid.com it's redirect to F-Droid site using url rewrite.

PS2: I will publish the source soon, i'm really busy right now...sorry :(

Hey, great list! Got me started using F-Droid and I also looked up some older threads.

One thing mentioned was https://fossdroid.com/ that makes it much easier to look for popular or new or trending apps, much like the play store. Hope this helps!

I use this browser which is a forked version of Fennec, while enabling hardened and privacy firefox settings like resistFingerprinting. I personally think Firefox Android UI is miles ahead of Chrome.

https://fossdroid.com/a/mull.html

UserLAnd will let you do this, although not with dual boot. Dual boot is impractical because most distros don't have proper support for android device drivers anyway.

Thanks to F-Droid team, and thank you Daniel for the reply on issue about downloads count.

I hope my work (that uses the F-Droid repo):

https://fossdroid.com

will help us to spread open source applications around the world.

QuickLyric is my favorite app from F-Droid. It's listed twice in the repository, for whatever reason, so be sure to download the one with the higher version number (1.8d at the moment).

Discovered this when I was browsing Fossdroid. Below is the list of features:

Features (Mi Band)

Mi Band notifications (LEDs + vibration) for Discovery and pairing Incoming calls SMS received K-9 mails received Generic Android notifications Synchronize the time to the Mi Band Display firmware version and battery state

Features (Pebble)

Incoming calls notification and display (caller, phone number) Outgoing call display Reject/hangup calls SMS notification (sender, body) K-9 Mail notification support (sender, subject, preview) Support for generic notificaions (above filtered out) Apollo playback info (artist, album, track) Music control: play/pause, next track, previous track, volume up, volume down List and remove installed apps/watchfaces Install .pbw files Install firmware from .pbz files (EXPERIMENTAL)

VLAN just means "put the cameras on their own network".

This means they can't reach out to randomly talk to other devices in your home. (i.e. Like many products do: They scan your network and report what devices you have.) In fact, you can say "no internet access from this VLAN", so that your cameras can't "accidentally" download updates (that may change how the camera behaves, remove features, suddenly start charging, etc.)

Instead of "the camera can stream to anywhere in the world", the camera streams ONLY to your NVR software, then you can (optionally) allow remote connections to your NVR software from anywhere in the world.

This is the UNIX philosophy of "do one thing". If you want remote access to your home network, there are tons of VPNs that can do it. That choice should not affect which camera software you use, there are tons of choices. And the camera software should not affect what kind of cameras you buy (as long as they support a specific protocol, like RTSP). So you can change each layer at your whim.

There a trade-off:

• 3rd parties like Ring will "put this all together for you", meaning you don't need to know much to get it working.
• If you want the privacy from DIY, you have to roll up your sleeves and start Googling around for how other people do it. There is no one "best" way.

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>Any FOSS apps that can view camera hardware

https://fossdroid.com/a/ojo-rtsp-ip-camera-viewer.html

But frankly, having a web-based NVR is better, since it is very "future-proof" (i.e. it will be supported on any phone or tablet.)

For Open Source apps. Please visit.

1. F-Droid - https://search.f-droid.org/?q=vpn&lang=en

2. Fossdroid - https://fossdroid.com/s.html?q=vpn

3. Github - https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=vpn&s=&type=Repositories

There are people working hard to replicate as much of the Star Trek tricorder as possible, but we're still rather far off, specially if you expect a light handheld device. That said, we do already pack an impressive array of sensors in a typical smartphone, try this app for example, not terribly useful but still very cool.

Sorry to give a negative answer, but while there are some vaguely similar things that other have mentioned (and I could add the older Omnidroid, as well as A2DP Volume which sounds unrelated but actually has some relatively fine-grained event-based features), I can say with some confidence that there is nothing really even close to Tasker, since I have looked for that multiple times.

You can start browsing the F-Droid app repository, from their website:

> F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, install, and keep track of updates on your device.

I suggest you to use this website https://fossdroid.com/ to find your fossdroid's app ;)

The alarm input, as said elsewhere is great. I don't want to have to mess with a clock shaped menu when I'm used to a digital clock anyway. Entering in what I know, with your custom numpad option is soooo much faster.

-Logging timer times may be useful, if possible, so that way multiple results can be compared without the need for screenshots. -The little circle that encloses over the X is kinda ugly, but that's just my opinion. I don't know what it'd be replaced with. Maybe the icon of the timer or alarm, except enlarged? -You can put this on Fosshub if you'd like. - Although it's not often, you can set up IAP's so that people can donate. I'd just but a some default dollar amounts in the form of buttons at the bottom of the settings page. - Putting more screenshots doesn't hurt, once you get the time to update them a bit (there's an app that make it looks like the screenshots were taken on certain phones), apply alternating background colors.

Going on a tangent, check out this FOSS Calculator app for Android. It's much better than the one Google offers (or at least was before they approved it, and still has some neat features). It has a widget that opens a floating calculator, tracks a good amount of history, and allows you to edit what you've entered. You'd think that the stock calculator app would allow you to do at least that.

That said, thank you so much for this, OP, this is pretty neat. I wish you luck.

> Titanium Backup (deletes bloatware, allows system backups)

Install oandbackup instead, it is open source and allows you to easily (batch) backup and restore as well as delete system apps. You won't find it on the Play Store, though. Instead, get it from F-Droid. If it complains about BusyBox missing, just install the BusyBox installer from F-Droid and then BusyBox itself with the app. Btw, FossDroid simply provides a nice webUI to browse F-Droid apps. If you keep GApps and use closed source apps XPrivacy is definitely a must.

Thx I saw that post, wasn't sure whether this contains any "Moto enhancements" because - contrary to GApps - those I really want.

>Also, do you know if / how to enable gestures like the flash and camera one if going such route? I also would like a google-free android phone, but I kinda like those moto gestures

I tried to download these Moto Actions with Raccoon and my Google account from the Play Store onto my desktop but didn't work since it requires a couple of changes to Raccoon. What you could do, though, is the following: Install Amaze from F-Droid and from within its App Manager you just backup the Moto Actions apk and restore it on your GApps-free rom. As long as there are no significant updates to this app it should do the trick.

I do private self-hosted location sharing with my family using an open source tool called Hauk and it's pretty great. I have the backend installed on a $3/mo cloud server.

KOReader, tap on the title to show the menu > Tools Icon > Calibre.

On the calibre side, you'll need to add the "Connect/Share" icon to the toolbar > Start Wireless Connection, set password and ip:port.

Mi accodo alla richiesta, io sto usando (solo per stock/etf) Stocks Widget (open source per Android, si trova su F-Droid).

https://fossdroid.com/a/stockticker.html

Piacerebbe anche a me sapere se c'è una valida alternativa sia per crypto che stock.

If it's more about coding for you why not release it as open source? Eg. on https://fossdroid.com/c/games/ This way you give back to the community, encourage and help other people to code and you might get valuable feedback

Imaš tekstove svih poznatijih stoičara u ovoj aplikaciji:

https://fossdroid.com/a/stoic-reading.html

A ako ne želiš čitati na engleskom, evo za sada samo Meditaciju.

https://www.mediafire.com/file/3dzy2rgmbu7f6wb/Marko_Aurelije_-_Samom_sebi-Dereta_%282004%29.pdf/file

There are some great free and open source music players on F-Droid. My favorites: https://fossdroid.com/a/phonograph.html and https://fossdroid.com/a/music-player-go.html

They are probably also available on the Playstore, if you prefer.

Using "all the same apps" as in normal Android pretty much defeats the point as most of the most popular apps spy left and right (Facebook, Twitter, etc).

It makes sense to install something "cleaner" on an Android phone if you're also planning to do some research on whether you can use a phone with a minimum of invasive proprietary apps. Go to https://f-droid.org/ and see what's available, or since the site is awfully slow these days, check them on https://fossdroid.com/ maybe.

~~I managed to get something out of it by installing this:-~~

~~https://fossdroid.com/a/%C2%B5g-unifiednlp-for-gappsfree-devices.html~~

~~Which gets rid of the enable geo-location dialogs. (I'm not running GAPPS)~~

~~Then setting a custom manual location. This seems to then verify the API key. I am seeing if things work as expected if I now disable the Custom location.~~

~~After a bit of digging there is clearly a DEPENDENCE on other apps for the location services.~~

~~If you aren't using GAPPS, as I wasn't when I tested, I found the Widget configuration better ~~ ~~(no geo-location~~ ~~ errors) after installing https://fossdroid.com/a/%C2%B5g-unifiednlp-for-gappsfree-devices.html ~~

~~But never managed to get the widget working. the API Key remains at Pending Verification. I generated an addition key. No different. Cleared the app cache and data too. Diddley.~~

There's a bunch of RSS readers on F-droid, and also, it seems, a few authenticator apps, but I haven't used any of these. About the other ones, I'm not sure. A good place to search the F-droid repository is Fossdroid.

Be careful, and only use it with the fake "Yalp Store" Account. Also, when you spoof a device make sure you spoof a device with the same API level your tablet is on. For example if your tablet is on Nougat 7.1.x, that's API level 25, so spoof a device with that API if possible, but go with a lower one if needed. NEVER spoof a higher API level than what your device is. For my Chromebook, I spoof the Xiaomi Mi5, and it works just fine.

Yalp Store link

Privacy guard only stops apps from only viewing personal information.

I'm learning right now that Google Play Services from GAPPS (The package that is often installed with LineageOS) collect a lot of information about you, which gets sent to google.

It gets worse than that because a lot of the code in modern android apps calls functions that are exclusively tied to Google Play Services, thus making it necessary to have.

Again, this comes from when you flash the GAPPS (a separate package) with your lineageOS package.

Fortunately there is a project called microg, which is an open source alternative to Google Play Services. See link below for an installation guide:

https://www.gabsoftware.com/tips/how-to-use-microg-on-lineageos-or-cyanogenmod-without-xposed/

Additionally, you will need to install UnifiedNLP and some backends for it:

https://fossdroid.com/a/%c2%b5g-unifiednlp-for-gappsfree-devices.html

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_UnifiedNlp/blob/HEAD/README.md

I use F-Droid quite a lot, but pretty much every app I found from elsewhere first. It is not very good for "discovering" new apps.

I don't care much about ratings (altough because of the user base, they might be actually useful and not just mostly useless verbal vomit like on Play), but the lack of screenshots is annoying. One screenshot would often tell more than 1000 words. This seems to be some kind of a tradition in open source - websites with good documentation and so on, but not a single screenshot.

Here's an alternative site listing F-Droid's apps: https://fossdroid.com

Have you had a look at Ring? It does video and works both as a SIP client and a distributed communication network with end-to-end encryption. It does not use XMPP for setup and text messages, but a distributed hash table.

I suggest NewPipe: https://fossdroid.com/a/newpipe.html

> Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services.

(Sorry for mild necropost; I'm just trying to help :P)

> on a terminal that doesn't have a tab (curse you phone!)

You should look into Hacker's Keyboard (assuming Android, not sure about iOS).

It's an excellent keyboard, although a little cramped when you set it to display all keys in portrait mode. You can have it set to full on landscape mode and "gingerbread" on portrait if you'd like, or any combination of either. I switch between gingerbread and full in portrait mode (can't decide), and keep landscape on full.

Or, you know, get a physical keyboard to use with your phone. I'm getting a Planck soon, and I plan on using it with my Galaxy S3 (Cyanogenmod).

Sorry, I'll give more details about the project.

I mentioned RPi because I'm familiar with it. I used to have one and I know what is capable of. I know there is a huge community around it and several projects (i.e. Seafile) have versions oriented to it and guides for RPi. But I don't mind using a different singleboard if it does the job.

My plan is to have connected to the RPi2:

• The SD card with the OS and the torrents files.
• Wifi dongle (I have no access to the router to use ethernet).
• 1 TB external drive (i.e., WD 1TB WD Elements Portable USB 3.0 Hard Drive Storage (WDBUZG0010BBK-NESN)) where I'll backup my laptop files (mostly pictures) using Seafile.
• HDMI.
• I'd like to control the OS with my cellphone as a touch pad and keyboard (i.e., Gmote)
• I don't have any requirements about power consumption, size, model, battery-powered or not, Netflix, programming capabilities, and whatnot.

I hope it helps. Thanks!