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L'unico Dee @feddit.it

1y ago

I finally installed GrapheneOS on my pixel, 0 issues 😁, do you have any apps that you would recommend?

I cover alla my needs with foss but mor minimal apps would be better. PS: This was my suite of apps when I wrote the post

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Antennapod, Aves, Breezy, Etar, InnerTune, NewPipe, k-9Mail, Openboard, Organic Maps, VLC...
- Weirdly enough, I appreciate the fact you listed them in the alphabetical order.
  
  😂😂😂 I simply took a look at the apps installed from fdroid and chose a few and, obviously, they were in alphabetical order

Obtainium!

Congrats! It's great software. OsmAnd~, Unexpected Keyboard, ~~OpenLauncher~~, Arcticons Dark, UntrackMe, and Mull are a few of my favorites. Aurora Store also, but I try not to use it unless I absoutely need to (I don't have sandboxed Google services/Play installed)
Edit: OpenLauncher might be a bit out of date. Will switch to Discreet Launcher for now, but the dev has stopped adding features and will only release bugfixes and Android compatibility updates moving forward
- Is open launcher safe to use? It hasn't been updated in a while
  
  Oh good point, thanks for the heads up. I see that the last release was a few years ago and there are a lot of open issues. I haven't had too many problems with it, but a launcher is something you don't want to have security vulnerabilities for. Will look around for an alternative
- Unexpected Keyboard: and no swipe typing of course 🙈
  
  I'm happy with it so far! No swipe typing, and it's pretty difficult to land on the right key, but I've found that I'm getting better at using it with time, especially after customizing it to my liking

Go with Neo Store rather than the F-Droid app; it has a better GUI, supports adding other FOSS app repos like IzzyOnDroid, and does a pretty good job keeping apps up to date actually
- You can add any repos you want to the official F-Droid app as well. If it's anything like Droidify, Neo Store probably just makes it simpler to add the popular ones.
  
  It can update apps automatically in the background, similar to the google play store app, f-droid wouldn't do that for me.
- So like droidify?
  
  Yeah I prefer Neo Store but they both are really solid

https://alternativeto.net/list/28655/the-ultimate-f-droid-setup/
You can download them from other sources ;)

Congratulations. A starter list is here: https://lemmy.ml/post/2262098
Hope it helps.

AdAway - must have, first app in android.
- I've set my DNS as mullvad dns and I use Ublock Origin on Mull, it should do the trick. Thanks for the tip

F - Droid --> Droidify ViMusic --> Innertune NewPipe --> LibreTube

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