Been using a degoogled LineageOS phone with all apps being exclusively FLOSS. My favourite free alternatives to proprietary apps and services must be Lemmy (Jerboa) for Reddit, ArcaneChat and Matrix (Extera) for Telegram, Fluxer for Discord.
Which ones are your favourite?
FUTO Keyboard I mainly use swipe typing, and it works better for me, than google keyboard.
Not FLOSS though. Only source available.
@myszka
- Fossify calendar, message and gallery
- NerdCalci : calculator
- Fennec : browser
- Markor : markdown notes
- Syncthing-Fork : sync my notes
- Acode IDE
- LibreOffice Viewer
- Librera Reader : PDF reader
- CapyReader : RSS reader
- Helliboard
- Termux
- Material Files : support browsing termux storage & more
- OpenCamera
- Image Toolbox
- NewPipe
- TrackerControl : track and block app data
- SherpaTTS
- Proton VPN
- CoMaps
- VLC
- Lawnchair : home screen
- Obtainium : apk downloaderThanks!
Material Files : support browsing termux storage & more
How do I do this? Can’t seem to find the right button 🤔
@myszka on the left menu, add an external storage and then you should see termux
@myszka you can also go to parameters and then something like “favourite folders” (my android is in French so I don’t know the exact translation) and there you can add Termux path.
Don’t have Termux in both places for some reason…
@myszka Sounds like a Termux config issue. Have a look at this page maybe:
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Termux-setup-storageStill no Termux in “storage” options, weird…
@myszka I’m a lost and don’t see what’s wrong, sorry. Maybe search the Termux Wiki. I did this on two different phones (Pixel 6a and Motorola g86) without issue. I’m not root either. Termux recommends Material Files as file browser and I have tested several others without success.
Fossify and LibreOffice
LibreOffice? For Android?
libreoffice viewer maybe?
https://f-droid.org/packages/org.documentfoundation.libreoffice/DOOOOOD!! Thank you!!
OK here’s what it is, it’s legit LibreOffice devs which I wasn’t sure of before.
LibreOffice for Android and iOS
The Document Foundation offers a viewer app for LibreOffice documents, with experimental editing support, for Android devices:
To edit documents, there is a LibreOffice-based product in app stores from Collabora, one of our certified developers and ecosystem members:
(On the Collaboration website)
Now available for F-Droid!
Regularly users have asked us about the availability of Collabora Office for F-Droid, the community driven platform focusing on free and open source apps for Android. And now it’s here! Currently we provide two versions: the 4.2.x release – already longer existing, and the snapshot of the unstable 6.4 line. With the latter you can help us test the latest and greatest features! Something we really appreciate, so do contact us!
However, searching in the F-Droid site app list, you will not find it:
- Add the repo using the F-Droid community How To Guide.
- Add the following third party repository: https://www.collaboraonline.com/downloads/fdroid/repo/.
LibreCuts for video editing Droid-ify as a lightweight F-Droid client Iris Keyboard as a lightweight yet extremely customizable keyboard Pur.ili as a search engine with its own index OpenNavBar for a fully-customizable navigation bar Fossify File Manager for managing files Prism Gallery for viewing photos and videos Lune as an offline music player Pocket Paint for photo editing and paint CoMaps for navigation GeoLibre as an altermative to Google Earth Yagni Launcher as an Android launcher Pimi Widget for weather widget Offline Translator for translating and OCR
Wow, I didn’t know of many of those. Thanks! A FOSS search engine with its own actual index is especially intriguing.
How is purili FOSS? I see no links to any source code on their site. It actually seems like someone’s vibe coded solo project, based on the blog posts.
Unfortunately a lot of people these days tend to conflate “private” or “not google” with “FOSS.” It’s one of the reasons I’m very adamant about not watering down the definition of FOSS, free software, or open source.
