1y ago

Preparing a megathread about android FOSS apps - Part Five (Weather, Stores, social media and related stuff)

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

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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.
- 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.
  
  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.
- Glad I'm not the only one who uses Droid-ify for browsing only. I kinda felt bad like I hurt its feelings.
Weather - Breezy Weather
Stores - Obtainium & Aurora Store
Social Media - Clipious(for Invidious/YouTube), Infinity for Reddit, Eternity for Lemmy, Tusky for Mastodon
I really like the weather app "Rain" for Android 🥰
Y*uTube: PipePipe, Seal
Pleroma/Mastodon: Husky
T*itter: Squawker
R*eddit: Stealth
Store: Obtainium, Droid-ify
- I love PipePipe. It is so chill.
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
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.)
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.
- 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
Breezy weather is updated but hasn't been working for me recently. Might be due to lawnchair my launcher idk
- Works good for me. Maybe try to clean the cache?
  
  The widget I mean
frost for facebook
doubt it being in development
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
- cromite
  seal (media downloader)
  materialistic hacker news
  aegis
  greenstash financial organizer
  
  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
- How accurate is Forecastie? most of the weather apps I have tried are...not great.
  
  For me works fine and has very accurate. And Im not living on big city on my country

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