Android Apps

I'm looking for an application thats designed to be a privacy focused alternative to Google's 'Google Assistant'. I've been looking for years, and couldn't. Spite me looking on F-Droid and github. I couldn't find anything that I was satisfied with. I'm on android 10, meaning I'm aiming for an optimized app, hell, an app not using spyware components or tracking etc.

I'm looking for something that "a child would find easy to learn", possibly a virtual keyboard with an obvious "start recording" button that does that, recording your keys on the selected Track, then allowing easy playback so you can listen to it.

I have a custom ROM (DivestOS); I don't have access to the Play Store.

The latest version of Honkai: Star Rail is out, but Aurora installs the bundled version of the APK which always throws an error "Not enough storage space to install required resources" (there is enough space).

In the past, I've used APK Mirror to download the standalone version of the APK. But the latest update on APK Mirror only offers the bundled version.

I've tried APK Pure and APK Combo to install an XAPK version, but that always fails too.

So, does anyone know where I might find the standalone version of the app, or how to resolve the bundled app error?

Thanks in advance.

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/17561925

I am having some trouble in picking one of the habit trackers available on F-Droid/Izzy-on-droid. Which one would you recommend or maybe you know another good free/libre one (from other repos or sources in general)?

The ones in my scope thus far are:

• Table Habit
• Kudoku
• Loop Habit Tracker
• Habo
• and "Habits"

TimePlanner has also caught my eye but it seems to be quite a bit more than a simple habit tracker

I am trying to find this application that's in fdroid (repo on github) but I am unable to find it again. It's an application designed to help bring the music finder feature from android 12+ to older versions. Android compute core.

shazam foss alternative built into AOSP

Just something I like that Android has, no Google from what I've read back when I got my pixel. The music that my phone detects doesn't get sent to google. Anyways, I can't find app, and the icon is literally the same as the official one from what AOSP has.

I just need one that can add up few items for eg. daily expenses etc. And should pop-up keyboard automatically as soon as I touch a cell.

No need for complex formula support or fancy graphics. Single sheet is also OK.

Edit: I am looking for something like this https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.thinctank.cellcalc

This one doesn't popup keyboard so needs two touches to enter data. And I do not know how to access stored data!

I came across this purely by accident, but it checks pretty much all of my boxes for a good keyboard:

✅ It is simple, beautiful, and customizable. (I like to use AMOLED black, and increase the height a bit)

✅ It has built in offline voice typing. I had been using sayboard for this which was not bad, but so far this is a little quicker and more accurate.

✅ It has easy to use settings (I used ASK for years despite the mess of the settings)

✅ ~~It's FOSS~~. Edit: Apparently, it's currently under a development license that limits certain types of use. The source code is open, and the stated intent is to make it fully FOSS when it is completed.

✅ It has swipe typing. I was using heliboard with a gesture typing library added, but it'snice to have it built in.

It has some interesting features like using an adjustable LLM for text prediction. It will be really interesting to see how it shapes out.

I've been using HeliBoard lately as my primary input. It's based on AOSP keyboard and includes a few quality of life improvements over say, OpenBoard.

One feature is possible gesture typing. The setting reads: "Provide a native library to enable gesture typing." I am not sure what a gesture library is or how to get one. Does anyone have an insight on this?

So I'm no fan of cryptocurrencies, and I'm dismayed at how many crypto wallet crap apps are in the main F-droid repo. Between the environmental and social effects of cryptocurrency, I think it at least would warrant an antifeature flag.

I've looked in vain for apps that allow me to at least filter out keywords or categories that I don't care about in the first place, but no luck.

Is there a general purpose repo with regular updates that also won't promote cryptocurrency by hosting apps for that purpose?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owenfromcanada.bedtime

For your toddler, or for you! Customize your routine from a list of options, and enjoy the cute icons, fun sounds, and general dopamine of accomplishment.

I created this app for my daughter, who thrives on routine but was having a rough time getting to bed at night. It's not the most polished, but she loves it and maybe someone else will too!

I'm looking for an app to keep track of my kids chores and allowance. In a perfect world, I would like something everyone could have on their device, where I could assign dollar/point amounts to chores, the kids could check them off as they're done, and I could go back and deduct points/money if they weren't done properly. OurHome seemed like the perfect app for what I need, but no one except me was able to add it to their phone or accept my invites (even my wife, who has the same phone as me). I tried it a few times over the last year before giving up, even trying to email the developer. I've tried a few others since then, but they either didn't meet any criteria or they required a subscription. I'm all for paid apps, but I don't have the money in my budget currently to add a monthly expense (especially if I'm going to potentially boost my kids allowance).

Does anyone have any suggestions?

I am unable to choose between the 2. I need some advantage/disadvantage to make me decide one I love the Aegis UI but I hear that 2FAS is more secure. I would also like to know which of the 2 options is closer to FOSS "philosophy".

i've been trying to find an alternative to goodreads for a long time, and among the requirements were a nice interface, a complete database of books, a social component (friends, recommendations, voting reviews...) and a spanish language. the latter is not fulfilled in this case, but time will tell. i recently tried storygraph and although it's a good app in terms of functionality, there was something about the interface that didn't quite convince me. then by pure chance i discovered Hardcover, which has everything i'm looking for (except the language) and also allows you to import your goodreads library. if you like this kind of apps you should give it a try.

I often read collections of short stories. I know I can bookmark each chapter Ive read or read the stories in order. But is there any other way I can read stuff in am order of my choice amd have them marked as read since I like the percentage read mark on books.

So, I need text messages from my secondary phone -- either on my primary phone (both Android, both Samsung Galaxy) or on a web-based service.

The forwarding must be near-instant. I can wait a few seconds; maybe a minute, but not two. The setup must be reasonably secure and reliable.

I'm looking for a trustworthy app; willing to pay, but would prefer free trial to see it really works. I don't want to send all my message unecrypted through some server in someone's basement, but I'd consider a professionally run service. E2E is gold, but must be practical.

Paid is fine if it's low-cost

PDF editting is nice but not a necessity. Recommendations?

Currently just using OneDrive as a PDF viewer but there must be nicer ones too

What's that one app on your phone that is utterly invaluable to you specifically. Maybe it's got a super small use-case, but for you, and you alone it's absolutely invaluable.

I'll get us started...

Stitch Photos

It's a small all that allows me to stitch photos together. I usually use it to stitch screenshots together. It's got a nice interface and is absolutely fantastic at the one thing I need it to do.

What about you?

I'm wanting to do some light coding on my phone. I want no ads, monospace font, prefer FOSS. Syntax highlighting would be nice, but not required. Should handle files of decent length, 200+ lines.

Pretty much anything on F-Droid is for older versions of Android, play store apps all seem to have ads or onine editing.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/18225670

App to help you remove tracking information before sharing links.

Features:

• Untrack when sharing: You may share links to “Untracker” in the sharesheet to remove tracking information and copy or share again.
• Select to untrack: You may select text and click “Untrack” in the selection toolbar to remove tracking information and replace.
• Manage rules: You may control or add rules to remove tracking information with JavaScript code.

https://github.com/zhanghai/Untracker

Really as similar as possible but I guess the must haves for me are:

• Dark theme
• Swipe to type ability (I usually tap but definitely want swiping as well)
• Searchable emoji's
• Word suggestions

Nice to have:

• Text editing tools for moving cursor just one character at a time through button presses
• Clipboard button
• Copied text automatically becomes next suggested word the first time the keyboard is invoked after copying the text
• Suggested next word.

I want to install native alpha plus but cannot purchase it as I don't have Google play services, and cannot build it from source as I don't have access to a computer. If this is not possible, could somebody please help me out and PM me a link to a compiled APK.

There are certain apps that I want up to date always. Is there an app store client, or an app that automates this? play store only allows enabling auto updating for all apps.