I yearn for the day a FOSS keyboard for Android will have functional multilingual autocorrect. Most of the typing I do on my phone is in Frenglish and every FOSS keyboard I've tried has made it impossible to have autocorrect turned on. They always default to autocorrecting in either only English or only French which is just very frustrating.

Compare that to SwiftKey, which not only has no issues with mixed languages, also learns my texting patterns, such as typing j'fais rather than je fais. I just don't give it any permissions, including network access. It's one of the only proprietary things on my phone but I couldn't use my phone without it.

Hopefully I'm not too late. This is the first of your posts that I see.

It is always a great idea to list awesome opensource apps. And most importantly keep the list up to date.

This should not be a one person task and keeping a megathread up to date and readable isn't that great.

There are "awesome lists". Anyone can create an awesome list. It is a curated list of apps or services, often maintained on github for easier collaboration.

Following are two of those

https://github.com/binaryshrey/Awesome-Android-Open-Source-Projects

https://github.com/LinuxCafeFederation/awesome-android

Privacyguides should always get a mention when talking about recommendations since they curate their list and state why they choose this or that app and service. Its primary target is privacy but opensource is important for that as well https://www.privacyguides.org/

In short, if you are serious about it, create a repo somewhere and begin writing and listing. Or, contribute to other lists.

I'm extremely picky about Notes apps. I've tested so many Open source as well as closed source apps. I'll be interested in what others are using, but the features I want are:

• Cross platform (Android, Linux, and MacOS)
• Universal format - markdown is a bonus
• Good task handling with checklist support

So what I've settled with is Obsidian (not open source) due to its simplicity of reading and writing to a folder hierarchy of plain text files. But since it sucks at task and checklists, I've been using Quillpad. It only syncs with Nextcloud at the moment, but there is promise of plain text file and bring-your-own-sync-solution on the roadmap.

Notesnook is a nice app, but since it's all E2EE, there is no plain text without exporting your notes manually. Shame too because it handles tasks and checklists very nicely.

Honorable mention: Acreom it's not open source yet, but that is on the roadmap. It is local first and plain text files on desktop OSes...but not on Android, meaning of you want to sync between your desktop and mobile you have to use their cloud. And I don't want to do that.

Joplin gets mentioned constantly. But it adds weird metadata to every text file and changes the titles of the files to some garbled hexadecimal string, which makes it impossible to know what you're looking at at the file level. And the task management/checklists is awful. Android app is bad too. I'm sure I'll get hate for hating on the FOSS golden child, but that's ok. This is simply my opinion. Like I said I'm very picky.

Notes: Joplin

Maps: OSMand, Organic Maps, StreetComplete, Vespucci, EveryDoor

Music: VLC

Notally it's been my main one for writing things when I need. Imo, is really really good and simple.

As someone suggest me here on Lemmy, the keyboard im using is OpenBoard from Helium314 github page.

About Music Players, I used Auxio and Metro (a fork from Retro MusicPlayer) and liked it.

Orgzly is a great notes app. Zero complaints.

I love Retro Music Player, it's almost perfect.

Maps: Organic Maps

Notes: Note calendar. Type in notes for a specific day. A beautifully simple app.

Notes:

• Logseq

Music (Local Mp3 apps)

• Vinyl Music Player
• Metro Music Player

I've enjoyed anysoft and floris keyboards but I want something open source with gif support. Might go back to swiftkey just because of it.

Keyboard: OpenBoard

Notes: Quillpad

Music: Symphony

Maps: OsmAnd~

• Openboard
• Quillnote
• Organic Maps
• ViMusic - music streaming but after 1st listen songs are cached for offline play.

Edit: Now that I think about it, I use session for taking notes and "syncing" them with my PC. I guess any messaging app with a desktop client would work.

For notes I really like Quillnotes.

OINotepad lost the ability to export notes to a file.

What is another notes app that is single press to start a new note, after app opening. Has no-nag auto-save if app is closed halfway through writing a note. Can auto title the note with the first line of the note. Can export all notes to a clear-readable file. Has search within a single note. And can sort by most recently modified.

Prefer on fdroid, but open to any FLOSS solution(on obtanium etc.)

OINotepad covered all this. Standard notes comes close but I can't search within an individual note.

Please help. (c:

##Keyboards

Florisboard is back!

Openboard is sadly outdated, but there was some steady updated fork

Simple keyboard (NOT the simple tools), but it doesn't have many fucntions, but works just great and looks on a million $

##Notes

Many good options, but i would like to see an gpg encrypted notes with local storage

Honorable mentions: logseq, simple notes

Maps

Gmaps WV (donate to divest, plz), organic maps

##Music

Everything that works with jellyfin, bauh was good, but not updated in a while

• Keyboard: OpenBoard (works great, support anonymous mode, my layout, emojis, paste, move cursor using finger over space button, longer deletes using finger over backspace)
• Music Player: Odyssey (I don't rely on ID3 tags but directory structure instead - there is too little of those players who use it)
• Music Player: ViMusic (FOSS interface to Youtube Music)
• Music Player: RadioDroid (for online radio stations)

Keyboard: FlorisBoard

Music Player: InnerTune

For notes I'm using Joplin with sync with desktop client through a nextcloud instance. Really a very nice app if you want sync with multiple devices anc user friendly interface.

For maps OsmAnd, I even pay a subscription to support the project (and have hourly updated maps which is pretty cool when I fix wood paths in openstreetmap).

I'm using "Unexpected Keyboard" right now. I like that it's different in that I dont have to long press a key in order to input punctuation. It's a swipe from the center of a key to a corner and I think it's that little bit faster. :)

Also doesn't have auto-correct like other FOSS keyboards.

Muaic: InnerTune (F-Droid), Deezloader to get mp3s (apk)

I quite like unexpected keyboard and I don't do much note-taking but when I do I just type it in acode and a save it as a .md.

I use Simple Keyboard and sometime Fboard.

And to play music I use RiMusic and also used Retro Music in past.

And NotiNotes for notes. A notes app which lives in notification.

Does anyone know of an alternative to Hacker's Keyboard? It hasn't been updated for about 5 years and I'm worried it will stop working on newer versions of Android.

music player: auxio or symphony

auxio is more simple but has less features. symphony is the inverse. pick your poison

Fcitx5 supports CJK

What's the best alternative to Gboard?

I've gotten use to swiping to type, and the English (Australia) (PC) QWERTY layout with the number row at the top, and hold-press numbers are the equivalent QWERTY keyboard symbols.

Am finding it hard to replace.

• Music player: "dialog music player" for filemanagers, Vanilla music if you want auto-play, anrimians player is nice too (github)
• maps: nothing beats OSMAnd
• Notes: personally markor, but if you want cross platform sync Standard Notes may be nice
• Keyboard: Florisboard forever, so stable and customizable. I cant like without the internal clipboard and quick deletion, and the editing buttons

Joplin

I sync it with onedrive basically for free between my phone, laptop and computer. It's wysiwyg editor means it was basically a drop in replacement for EverNote for me, but open source and without the costs.

noteless . esp for collecting links/bookmarks