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KDE Connect! Share files, clipboard, links from one device to another, use your phone as a mouse or laser pointer.
When you use the KDE Desktop Environment it will also show notifications from your phone and sync media controls (e.g. stop playback when you get a phone call). It’s great!
Now if the remote mouse control could show a 128x128 area of the screen under the mouse pointer on the phone…Sure I could get my ass up and read what the video title is then but… No.
HeliBoard, don’t want google to get everything I type on their keyboard. KeePassDX - offline password manager
CoMaps. Google Maps alternative. Can save paths and do navigation with TTS. Gets its data from the amazing OpenStreetMap.
OSM and magic earth ?
What’s the difference between this and Organic Maps?
I think it’s a fork that was made after some recent community drama. Probably the two apps should be pretty similar, although CoMaps is updated more frequently I think.
Why use this app instead of OsmAnd?
ETA: Rereading, I realize this could have sounded very rude and sarcastic, I apologize - it was a genuine question.
On-device routing and the map rendering is way faster in CoMaps.
OsmAnd has way more features.
If you just need basic navigation, I tend to go to CoMaps
I was a long time OsmAnd user, I loved that app. After a couple of years I realized, I really liked the cusomizability, but in the end, I use like 5% of it’s features. I gave Organic Maps a try (now Co Maps after some community drama) and it was love at first sight. It’s the opposite is OsmAnd, a lightweight and super simple app to look for places and navigation. I miss like one, maybe two features, but I the usability is great and I won’t look back.
Thank you, I’ll give it a look.
OsmAnd is a great app for powerusers. CoMaps is a simpler, and more user friendly.
For me, I have both of them.
co-maps I use when I need to add a place to open street map, and OSMAND I use for features that co-maps doesn’t have.
Basically, co-maps is easier to use for things that it can do and OSMAND is harder to use but can do more things/different things.
That sounds cool. I’ll give it a look.
How would you say the OSM editor is better in CoMaps than Osmand?
There is one big friendly button to add place to osm in comaps
rquickshare This is not an app for the phone because it uses the app you already have by default (nearby share/quick share), it enables you to use it with your Mac or Linux computer on the same lan so you can share your clipboard and files. I like it a lot.
I use davx5 to sync my caldav calendar (radicale) with my Android.
This helps with Apple Calendar too so you can share with Google Calendar or some other
yeah, this one is less known and most useful
obligatory shilling for LocalSend, it’s airdrop except open-source and completely cross-platform!
Its sick on iphone
Yup, used this a lot until I started using KDE Connect more.
fantastic for someone like me who doesn’t know shit about networks and file sharing yet has a mix of windows and linux machines
Are there any alternatives that are decently fast for large files? My computer and my phone both get at least 300 mbps from the router, and I have yet to find a local file transfer application that will be anywhere near that fast for large files (destiny, local send, kde connect, might have tried others, I don’t remember)
I have used Copyparty on my LAN (with nginx as a reverse proxy), and remember it being fast enough to saturate a gigabit connection. I would probably believe the numbers quoted here: https://github.com/9001/copyparty?tab=readme-ov-file#reverse-proxy-performance
Use it, love it, has a great http webserver fallback option too
Didn’t know about the plain HTTP option! I’m using Sharik for this
Mindustry: one of the few great games on f-droid (tower defense)
Mindustry is a great FOSS game, period. There’s also Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
And pirate solitaire
Tabs Lite let’s you search for songs, fetches lyrics and tabs, chords from the web and stores them offline on your device. You can organize all the songs in playlists as well.
Edit: It’s in IzzyOnDroid repositoryHum I get a 404 page not found and f droid can’t find it as well.
Me, too. Too bad, I was excited to see a guitar app.
Strange, my Neo Store opens it fine
Edit: It’s IzzyOnDroid repo
Also not found searching the in f-droid store app.
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker
url checker works as your mobiles default browser to easily edit links before opening them in a browser of your choice, I love this thing, I have given up trying to tell people about url hygene
AntennaPod Podcast player with awesome ui
Antennapod also has Android Auto support, though you have to do something in developer mode to activate it, because Google.
One of the most used F-Droid Apps on my phone
antennapod has boosted the quality of my commutes hugely.
On my wife’s phone it has tabs along the bottom. On mine it has the same options in the hamburger menu at the top left. I have no idea why they are different 😅
You can change it from Settings > User Interface > Bottom navigation
Ah thanks!
FindMyDevice. Alternative to Google’s find my device. You send a text from a different phone number, and you can do things like get the GPS location, lock the device, erase the device, ring the device, or have the device take a picture of its location.
Yikes
I agree. Ability for a third party / uncontrolled phone text to wipe my phone? No thanks
And also track your location
You can configure which features you want to have enabled. I have this running with just the gps locate functionaly enabled in case I misplace my phone or my wife wants to check to see if I’m almost home yet or something.
osmand~ – frontend to openstreetmap with included pathfinder.
Breezy weather. It plays nice with gadget bridge and if you use the git version you can choose all kinds of weather sources, the fdroid one is a bit more restrictive. Also it just looks great and is easy to interpret at a glance.
Don’t forget the Breezy live wallpaper, where it shows a wallpaper based on the current weather.
I like cirrus as well
Metro - A Music Player For Android
Very, very nice music app for those with a local library.
