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Preparing a megathread about android FOSS apps - Part Five (Weather, Stores, social media and related stuff) (lemmy.ml)
submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by dez@lemmy.ml to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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This thread is ONLY to talk about Weather/Meteo apps, Store apps (Like F-droid or AuroraStore) and FOSS apps about social media and related stuff, like youtube or Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc..) apps.

For example, Newpipe is related to YouTube and a good FOSS app to watch videos.

Please, consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads. Your opinions are really important to build final megathread. You can upvote or downvote posts so that comments gain strength and agreement between the community.

Discussion about Contacts, SMS and Dialers app is here.

Discussion about Calculators, Cameras and Calendars apps is here.

Discussion about Manager files, Recorders, Galleries and Video editors apps is here.

Discussion about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players apps is here

Little context

spoilerWhy not build a megathread with the best and most reliable FOSS apps too help someone who want to join on the bright side of open source?

We (because this is not from me, this is from us) need to share thoughts, ideas and all things you want to say. Dont be shy. Upvote the comments you like and agree; disagree and tell why you disagree. This is will be different from others threads because this need a proper user opinion, and your opinions will be VERY important to build this. In short, your opinions and thoughts will be the fundamental source to build this.

I will read ALL comments to build this. Even if this has a million comments, I’m going to waste time reading it. Whatever it takes.

Your opinions about it are CRUCIAL and FUNDAMENTAL, because your opinions is the main-base to build the megathread.

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[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 14 points 10 months ago

Weather: Clima

App managers: Obtainium for FOSS, Aurora Store for proprietary apps, and Droid-ify just for browsing F-Droid repos.

Social media: For YouTube I use LibreTube for watching, as well as Seal for downloading videos (essentially a yt-dlp wrapper). For lemmy, I use Jerboa.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I use F-Droid basic for browsing. The client is really important for easy external repo searching.

Funny that I am not the only one, but F-Droid is simply the best for finding stuff.

Obtainium could need a better UI really.

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

If you're talking about UIs, f-droid is ugly as hell too. Just do yourself a favor and start using Droid-ify - it's just another f-droid client, but more modern and much nicer.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

I find F-Droid to be better. And I use Obtainium with official Releases, F-Droid apps and F-Droid third party repos.

And obtainium has by far the most confusing UI

[-] sibloure@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Glad I'm not the only one who uses Droid-ify for browsing only. I kinda felt bad like I hurt its feelings.

[-] bluegandalf@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Weather - Breezy Weather

Stores - Obtainium & Aurora Store

Social Media - Clipious(for Invidious/YouTube), Infinity for Reddit, Eternity for Lemmy, Tusky for Mastodon

[-] morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social 6 points 10 months ago

I really like the weather app "Rain" for Android 🥰

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
  • Weather: TinyWeatherforecast for anyone in Germany. I did a big thread once, "your local weather" was my favourite.
  • stores: Aurorastore, F-Droid basic (just for searching), Obtainium (for getting everything, it has a learning curve and especially external F-Droid repos are not easy, use F-Droid basic to find the package names or just use F-Droid basic for those apps, disable the main repo)
  • Social: Jerboah, just the most complete. Fedilab for Mastodon, its really great. Grayjay for all the Video platforms. Pixeldroid for cool images
[-] nailoC5@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago

Y*uTube: PipePipe, Seal

Pleroma/Mastodon: Husky

T*itter: Squawker

R*eddit: Stealth

Store: Obtainium, Droid-ify

[-] owen@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I love PipePipe. It is so chill.

[-] dillydogg@lemmy.one 4 points 10 months ago

I'm a big fan of the weather app wX for US people. It is a no-frills NWS data explorer, with a great radar and widget. It doesn't have the look of a modern app, persay, but the data are all there and very clear. (To get to the meteogram, long press on the radar widget on the home screen. I found this by accident, but am very happy I did.)

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 10 months ago

Breezy weather is updated but hasn't been working for me recently. Might be due to lawnchair my launcher idk

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Works good for me. Maybe try to clean the cache?

[-] SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

The widget I mean

[-] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

That also works for me. But I use a different laucher.

[-] radix@lemm.ee 3 points 10 months ago

Weather

OpenWeather: shows weekly overview by default; if you select one day it shows you a nice graph of precipitation and temperature for that day. Good for figuring out the forecast at a glance.

Weawow: the Hourly Details view is amazing for scrolling through the next few days hour by hour and seeing precipitation amount, precipitation probability, temperature, and so on all at the same time. I love the detail it provides. Also, I believe the beautiful pictures in the app are community-donated.

Store apps

Neo Store: Doesn't allow auto-updating, but I like its layout significantly better than F-Droid.

Social media

Voyager for Lemmy: neat compact layout allowing you to see many more posts at a glance than any other app I've tried (Jerboa, Liftoff, Thunder). Also lots of nice features like marking newly created accounts with a baby emoji, ability to share comments as nicely formatted screenshots (I didn't think I'd use this feature but it's honestly so convenient!), and ability to customize swipe behavior.

[-] Gooey0210@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Everything is good, there are just few sentences I would add:

Openweather works with gadgetbridge, so you can have weather info on your wearable

Neo store is far the best, but also obtainium is the new thing in the town

For lemmy, try eternity

And for social media in general, there are plenty of good apps for different platforms, I think this category needs to be extended into its own section. Because there are foss platforms, clients for closed source platforms, pixelfed, mastodon, lemmy, etc. I mean it's a lot

[-] no_ragrets@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

frost for facebook

doubt it being in development

[-] dez@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Im still using and liking:

  • Newpipe
  • Aurora Store (only for eventual emergecies and Wapp dependencie)
  • Forecastie [Weather APP] (Its not update since 2022 but I like a lot)
  • Jerboa
[-] no_ragrets@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

cromite

seal (media downloader)

materialistic hacker news

aegis

greenstash financial organizer

[-] dez@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

Hello mate. You probably missunderstood the thread. The thread is about weather apps, stores and stuff related with social media, like Fediverse or youtube, where social media like Twitter, Instgaram, Facebook, etc are included. That suggestions are not related to this.

If you want to share your application suggestions in the respective topics - you can see them in the main post of this thread - I would appreciate it

[-] no_ragrets@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

sorry, my bad. I have replied main post with a comment.

seal would still qualify though

[-] Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

How accurate is Forecastie? most of the weather apps I have tried are...not great.

[-] dez@lemmy.ml 3 points 10 months ago

For me works fine and has very accurate. And Im not living on big city on my country

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