Essential Android software

What do YOU consider the essential Android software?

This is a list from
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_Android_software, but I'm more interested what do you guys recommend personally.

I'm looking for a good alternative keyboard to my new Android.

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Gay sex

If you are willing to do some work then the default keyboard comes with Lineage is good enough. If you don't care about the botnet though then go for Gboard.

I have OP6 but I dislike the default kb.
Maybe it's because it's so large that it feels slow to type on, but before this phone I used a 4.7" phone which had a smaller kb by necessity and it was much faster to write with

Is there an Android tool that gives me an always-on screen that displays time, notification icons and battery status?
The only ones that I've seen have been hacky as shit.

Wouldn't that drain lot of battery?

I think S9 has such screen and the upcoming LG G7..

>Wouldn't that drain lot of battery?
I used to have a Lumia 620. It had a 4" screen and 1300mAh battery.
The drain was neglegible.

Currently I'm running a Jelly Pro with 2.4" screen and 900mAh battery. It actually lasts three days, as long as I'm on wifi. The chink 4G chip is fucked up and can drain my battery in an hour in worst-case scenarios.
So I don't really care if the screen removes an hour from these three days, or two minutes from that hour.

That list is seriously outdated. Some of them like ADW are basically abandonwares.

That's part reason I made this thread.

What are YOUR essential apps?

Why would you need that?

Because it's useful.
Currently the only way to see what kinds of notifications I have is to either look at the pulsating LED or to unlock the phone.

Can you even into ergonomy?

>a Jelly Pro with 2.4" screen
Damn, I think I would lose phone that small by accident. Pretty cool it exist though.
>The chink 4G chip is fucked up and can drain my battery in an hour in worst-case scenarios.
I don't know batteries and 4G chips work, but my older phone used to drain itself in couple of hours when I moved innawoods due to work. It just kept searching for network. I never cared to fix the issue because it was a shit battery at that point anyways.

>Xposed
>Supersu
>TitaniumBackup
>Ad blocking apps

Your favorite keyboard app with AfWall+.

Clover
Newpipe
Nova Launcher Prime
Fdroid
VLC
Titanium
SD Maid
Solid Explorer
Adaway
Brave Browser
Greenified
Wakelock Blocker
I can't really think of much other essential apps, except games which I tend to uninstall soon as I complete it

>Brave Browser
Damn you are the first I see recommending it besides me. I love it. Also testing Firefox Focus but I don't feel it is as fast..

>I don't know batteries and 4G chips work, but my older phone used to drain itself in couple of hours when I moved innawoods due to work. It just kept searching for network. I never cared to fix the issue because it was a shit battery at that point anyways.
I did hear that apparently Android is also pretty shitty at handling low connectivity scenarios.
It was never an issue on Windows Phone. The drain got stronger, but only by a miniscule amount.

Actually, that makes for another question:
Is there an app for automatically toggling airplane mode in intervals when connectivity is shit?
I did some research about those, but all suggestions that I found are either blocked in my country or not available anymore. Plus, a lot of Android advice that can be found online seems to be written for and by pajeets.
Just finding out how to flash a Samsung S2 was a fucking adventure because of how atrocious, incomplete and borderline shady the instructions were.

Most OSes these days have a built-in internet blocker, I just use that

Many of the stuff that these apps did have been implemented directly into the phone OS and can be used without root.

Check the archive before posting
We don't want this thread every week

I actually was the guy that created this infographic many years ago. Sorry for not maintaining it but as others have said; its outdated and some functionality is built in now.

I have some essentials I'll share that are still relevant.

still using solid explorer on beta, still using naked browser, add contacts plus/messages plus/dialer plus, ac3 player for fucked up anime, and keep is really great when you get used to using it.

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favorite games.

Running aicp on note4. Prefer slimroms or vanilla aosp builds but only when stable. aicp is a mutt between lineage and omnirom and has been pretty nice so far.

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Music - AIMP
Block ads - adaway and or ublock origin for FF
Launcher - Nova prime
Widgets - KWGT
Live wallpaper - KLWP
Desktop image gen - polygen and tapet
Youtube - newpipe
video playback - MPV and VLC
File manager - ZENUI file manager (great fm)

Hey! Which Sudoku do you use? I checked the Google store but there were so many.

I'd also rec Khan Academy software

Open sans?
Muh nigga

Modded quickpic
Solid explorer
Gcam if compatible
Youtube vanced
Adaway
Magisk
Any communication app you need.

There is opensudoku on fdroid, but lately I've been loving mathdoku.

Any ads on either of those?

Fdroid
-newpipe
-clover
-OsmAnd~ (maps), but also herewego on gplay isn't bad
-mupdf
-amaze

I don't believe there are ads on either. There are two Opensudoku on fdroid however and the one I used didn't have much for difficulty.

>Root Essentials
Titanium Backup
Adaway
Greenify
>Media Player
VLC
Poweramp
>Device Management
>Security
>Administrative
>Audio Tools
Almost everything listed in those comes by default in some ROMs. I use Lineage and everything is there.
>Recording
Stock recorder
Screen recorder
Hidden Camera App
>Developer Tools
>Exploitation
Don't do that on android so no clue
>Xposed Modules
Greenify
Wakelock Blocker
>Internet
Stock Browser
Webview
Orbot
Libretorrent
Solid Explorer
>Keyboard
Gboard
Handwriting Keyboard
>Productivity
Omni Notes
>Games
Some good ones in playing now
Beatstreet

easybrain, others have mentioned some foss alternatives. I use this one because I have ad free from the all the google play credit from the samsung play credit glitch a long time ago.

That sounds awesome.

What's a good .epub reader application?

Musicolet is the absolute best music player app I've found. No ads, free, full features. It does everything you could want a music player to do.

Havent checked to be fair, I usually set droid sans / droid sans mono.


I recommend lithium.

It was, I only recently ran out of play store credit. It was basically a form vulnerability for a play store giveway of $25 credits, you had to put a serial number but they didnt validate spaces in the form and periods in the email address field, so it would keep working. Wonder if any lads from that night are still here.

the fuck is xposed

I have seen an app that does that for OLED screens

I'm probably going to buy my first smartphone tomorrow, what apps do you guys recommend for a newfag like me?

What's a good application for battery information, like wear level?

Current list
-cracked spotify
-YouTube vanced
-appflix

>cracked spotify
how safe? not that i care to get one myself, i dont like music

They seem safe but might be stealing user data for all I know, just make a new spotify account unrelated to you and use it to sign in. Other than that just block the app from doing anything else

what version of the apk do you have

they're getting banned left right and centre m8

I just download them from demonoid and when one stops working I download the newest one there

>Browser
Brave Browser should be mandatory.
>Jow Forums
Clover

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Can't read surrender

Moon+Reader. Nothing else on Android comes close.

>Not using Majisk

Bruh

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gr8 b8 m8. Lithium doesn't even begin to compare.
The next closest reader to moon+ is Marvin on iOS, and even that can't quite match it. Lithium is a novelty toy in comparison to those ereaders.

Dude, Moon+ is bloat city, I even bought the pro version years ago, now it freezes everytime I try to open it, and reinstalling dosen't help.

Use magisk hide and it won't freeze.

wtf, it actually worked.

What music player would you recommend, Jow Forums? Vinyl was acting perfectly fine, but now I'm facing a problem. One folder and the tracks inside are completely ignored for some reason when everything worked fine before, and when I try to open these tracks with Mixplorer (leading me to the Vinyl app), Vinyl crashes. I really loved the UI, so I'm pissed a little.

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He said Android not iPhone

I'm looking for an audio player for Android that has a customizable interface like blackplayer, replay gain like foobar and poweramp, cue sheet support, and most importantly the ability to long press the volume rocker to fast forward/rewind a track by some amount of time set in the settings of the app. MX Player is the only app that does this but since it's a multimedia player like MPC or VLC it's not really ideal for audio in many other aspects. I want this feature as it allows me to skip around long songs or podcasts by touch when in the car so I don't have to take my eyes off the road and fiddle around with sliding a bar or hitting a FF rew button a million times. Most apps just skip to the next track when you long press the volume rocker and the aren't even any settings that allow you to change that. This is a dealbreaker for me.

How did you enable dark mode on brave?

n7 if you're an album guy

Good list, love me GMD gesture control didn't know it was "known"

Lucky patcher definitely deserves to be on the list and not in honorable mentions.

Also liveboot is awesome and very useful at times.

Swiftkey is too good to avoid botnet, sadly.

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Nova Launcher Prime
ES File Explorer
Aptoide
Uptodown
Root Essentials
GLTools
SuperSU
GBWhatsapp
OGYoutube (Dosn't work anymore tho)
Newpipe (OGYoutube replacement)
PornHub app
LuckyPatcher
Orbot