It says it has an update for itself. So you click your notification and it opens Obtainium. It downloads a newer version of its source, builds it for your phone, changes its path to the new one and exits abruptly. When you restart Obtainium it's the new version with all the same settings. Magic!

Yes, but if you are freezing the apps then no notifications. I personally can't live without some google apps yet, such as food, banking and job-related apps. When using shelter you clone these apps into the work area. They then are completely separate new apps that can't see the rest of your phone. So that's what I use it for keeping invasive apps like Doordash (Location Whore) or Google Photos (Every Permission Known to Mankind) completely isolated from the files on my phone. I don't know how much of that is possible for stock Android. But if you put a messaging app in there and it's set to freeze you won't hear responses. My understanding is it still works for stock.

Have you heard of Shizuku or Canta? These together allow you to disable some of the bloatware on stock phones.

FYI, KDE Connect can also pair with other mobile devices

My phone is not a pixel (so no grapheneos). Shelter could be useful for apps like Whatsapp, right?

Voice dictation could be useful!

Wait, how does that work? (adding obtainium to itself)

Nice, I will check those out!

yep that will be useful for syncing things

Thanks! Love finding new stuff.

Shelter is an app that allows you to isolate other apps based on work policy (made by you). Don't trust an app? Throw it in jail. This allows a separate installation and user account for apps. You also can freeze the apps in the shelter preventing then from doin' stuff. All with no root.

What kind of phone? If you don't wanna be specific. I ask because Pixels can get GrapheneOS which I am obsessed with.

Aegis - TOTP authenticator Audile - recognize music Aurora Store - play store alternative frontend Auto-auto Rotate - remember rotate settings by app DNSnet - lightweight VPN blocklist, ie ad blocker Radiodroid - radio streaming Futo Voice Input - pair with Heliboard for voice diction. Several models to choose from. RoMote - have a roku? Now your phone is a remote control. SmartScan - local LLM to classify and search all your photos.

Obtainium is a favorite of mine. It installs apps from source. So you find apps you like from izzy or fdroid and copy their source link. Now all your FOSS apps (including Obtainium itself, mhmm, add Obtainium to itself) are now cutting edge. Updated fast to pseudo-versions. There's a page for hard to add apps here.

For a Lemmy client, I like Summit. But if anything, it's because I'm on piefed and it's the most I like so far for it. Showing where else a post is crossposted is almost as handy as how piefed consolidate comments of cross posts all into one view. And I like the swipe actions.

Edit: didn't see rescue_toaster also recommended Summit, and I forgot it's not on f-droid

Seconding Thunder (currently writing this in it).

Some apps I like:

• KISS Launcher - snappy launcher with amazing search
• Image Toolbox
• LxReader - epub/ebook reader
• Auxio - music player
• OSS Dict - offline dictionary

Syncthing

Ok, I will look at summit then! I'll try both it and Thunder and see which I like the best...

Kvaesitso is my launcher of choice.

For lemmy apps, it's not on fdroid, but summit is definitely my favorite.

Oh, that might be good!

If you liked Metro Music player, you should check out Retro, which I think is a fork.

I will look at Kvaesitso, seems pretty cool! Termux is also a good one.

For Lemmy clients: Thunder is indeed very good, I haven't lookad further since I installed it.
Others:

• Kvaesitso (home launcher)
• Offline Translator Local automatic translator using Mozilla trained models
• Geo Share Convert Google Maps links
• SherpaTTS Text-to-speech engine
• KDE Connect Pair your device with a PC for seamless transfers, notifications and remote control
• PipePipe Youtube player
• Audile Music recognition
• QuickDic Offline translation dictionary
• BRouter Routing engine for offline cycling directions. It is supported in Comaps
• SD Maid 2 System tidy assistant
• Termux Terminal emulator
• Hail Freeze apps
• Acastus-Photon online address/POI search for navigataon apps

Yes, I tried it and I really liked it.

Blorp is also nice, I like it a lot. If you have any questions, the dev is will be able to answer them. @moseschrute@lemmy.world

Summit just added a side by side tablet mode. I haven't tried it on a tablet but worth a look, I like summit.

It's not exactly a tablet, but I'm using a foldable with Thunder and it's fine. Lots of settings too.