What is your must have open source application available on fdroid?

New pipe - the YouTube front end is absolutely critical for my lifestyle.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Termux (Linux terminal) is super cool, and you can install a lot of cools programs through it as well. Add in the plugins for tasker integration/etc and it can be used for some pretty cool things (ie, use wol to wake up your computer when you get close to your house, etc).

    • jet@hackertalks.comOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      That’s really interesting. Are you using a keyboard and mouse? Or is this like on a Android desktop setup?

      • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        By default the app is just a terminal with an on-screen keyboard. Packages installed and run through it are normally terminal only, although there is some amount of support for connecting to a separate app that runs an x server.

        There are several other projects that download arm Linux distributions, and install them inside termux to get a full desktop going though. Normally for these you actually interact with the desktop through a VNC client connected to a localhost VNC running on the Linux distro. A VNC client is a good way to handle accessing the desktop since most of them come with a lot of UI design/polish for controlling a desktop computer via a phone screen.