App suggestions after use

/e/OS Smartphone Operating System Features & Applications
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After some time using /e/, here’s my suggestions of apps:

  • Amaze for file manager: very light and support root explorer
  • IceCatMobile for web browser: use Gecko instead of Blink (Chrome) and support all Firefox extensions
  • Vanilla Music for music player: not really good looking (but it can be enhanced) but support ReplayGain
  • VLC for video player: a classic

Other installed apps by default are OK for me.
Maybe it could be a very great feature to purpose several apps for default at /e/ setup, for exemple:
What app do you want by default for SMS?

  1. Signal: Good points, bad points
  2. QKSMS: Good points, bad points
  3. Silence: Good points, bad points

And I’m also searching an app to replace Clean Master (cleaner / antivirus), but I didn’t found yet.

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Antivirus apps for Android range from useless to malware, there are no useful antivirus apps.
I guess for cleaner apps the picture is similar.

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I the think 40MB apk is to much. Foss browser is under 10mb

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Thanks for the link to VLC :slight_smile:

IceCat seems to be based on a version of Gecko which is no longer supported (52 ESR). I use Fennec which is a very similar idea to IceCat but up to date.

“Fennec F-Droid (Browse the web)” - https://f-droid.org/app/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid

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After multiple tests, I have found the best cleaner for Android :
SD Maid
No ads, light and very efficient!

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SD Maid is excellent

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I am now using Malwarebytes and it is looking quite good. have you any thought why this should not be good option for using?

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Perhaps because according to the exodus privacy report, this application (like almost all anti-malware) is full of trackers. :slightly_smiling_face:

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I do use Exodus and it has “only” 4 tracker which I consider quite good. I also use Blokada so the have no other use. I already had success with Malwarebytes, somehow adware installed to my phone and it detected it and get rid of it.

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I’m now using Blokada too, I think it can replace the option to change the DNS in /e/, it can do the change of DNS and more.

And I’m using Vinyl as music player, it now includes ReplayGain and has a nice interface. I think it’s the best open source music player for Android, and for /e/.

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Small end user comment on Fennec browser - I can’t get this to install (Athene-Nougat 190717). Downloading… Installing… nothing! Any ideas?

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Different problem with Firefox Klar. The installer says it is not compatible with my phone, which is odd as it installed fine from F-droid…

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Installed fine from F-droid after I allowed installation from other sources.

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Hi @alx, you mean you got fennec from f-droid and it works now? Where did you try getting it from before?

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Ironically from e foundation but it didn’t work! : - )

It wouldn’t install.

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That is strange! I tried it myself and can confirm that after 7 hours the install did not work!

You should probably raise an issue about that: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/apps/apps/issues

Cheers :slight_smile:

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The default /e/ apps are generally pretty good. A few notes:

the Bliss Launcher wasn’t my cup of tea so I replaced it with LawnChair
https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/ch.deletescape.lawnchair.plah/

the default contacts app didn’t work for me so I replaced it with Simple Contacts
https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/com.simplemobiletools.contacts.pro/

I use Simple Book Reader (https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/com.github.axet.bookreader/) for ebooks

For audiobooks and podcasts I use Voice (https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/de.ph1b.audiobook/)

I use MyPhoneExplorer (https://www.fjsoft.at/en/downloads.php) for synching data with my PC

I also use the Amaze file manager
https://f-droid.org/fr/packages/com.amaze.filemanager/

All free and open-source.

I get meeting invitations by email sometimes. It’s important for me to read them. I haven’t found an open source Android email client that can open them yet. Any suggestions?

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Similar thing for me, with IceCatMobile, which serves a similar purpose with Fennec. I would still recommend those two over only the simple basic release of Firefox.

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I found a solution to the meeting invitations problem. Just install https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.k3b.android.calendar.ics.adapter/ from F-Droid. It’s code that will enable K-9 mail or a fork of it (like the default /e/ client) read ics files and import them to your calendar app.

It seems like this functionality could be made a standard feature included in the email app.

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