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Awesome Android Apps - my curated list of ~250 apps (github.com)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

🏔️ Codeberg version

I hope you will find it useful! 🤩

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Looks wonderful despite not being on F-Droid... I get more and more apps that are open source but not on F-Droid. It's a weird constraint now, I see... However, I wanted this list to be as DeGoogled as possible (without Aurora Store or Google Play). At least there is .apk file in releases.

[–] shiftymccool 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use Obtainium for all apps with no f-droid presence, I just forget which ones sometimes. It's the browser extension that makes this one great. I wanted something pretty easy after losing the convenience of Authy desktop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

True, Obtainium is a fix for this problem if .apk in the releases is present... just not only Google Play. Yeah I understand, I use Aegis only on my smartphone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

F-Droid has high inclusion standards (not high enough IMO but apparently too high for many Android developers). If a project isn't in F-Droid and has no interest in being in F-Droid I consider it a red flag, but it's crucial to find out if an issue has been opened and what the project's response on that issue is. Sometimes it's just because the developer(s) haven't gotten around to it yet, but other times it's because there's a proprietary component that can't be easily removed.

For example on this app (2fas) the reason it's not on F-Droid is apparently because it uses Google cloud messaging (FCM) and there's no interest in developing a version without. https://github.com/twofas/2fas-android/issues/14

Unfortunately with the security FUD against F-Droid peddled in part by PrivacyGuides and other organizations (which Obtainium and its fanbase happily help spread) there is decreasing interest even in using, let alone developing for, this repository.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Yeah, it mostly depends on the let's say GitHub issues that are maybe understandable and living without F-Droid and with this app or having a suspicion. Occasionally, what's not on F-Droid is on IzzyOnDroid. I try to have F-Droid over IzzyOnDroid, though.