Kiss Launcher
The
whole of your phone user interface follows your positioning of the
phone by both ways portrait and landscape and you are able to find apps
by text search like in the desktop. The developer says "93% of users that try KISS for a week are still active users after 3 years." and now we are part of them. [Version: 3.2.1.0]
F-Droid Classic
Because
of the old phone limitations, we can only install F-Droid the Classic version not
the regular one. Apparently, it works and still provides many useful
applications. [Version: 1.2]
Open Explorer Beta
This
is our file manager on Android. We have the best experience with it. It
supports both thumbnails and detailed list views, sortings, image/video
previews, writing to SD Card, being small and fast etc. [Version:
0.212]
Firefox for Android
This is our main web browser. Surfing modern websites, blocking ads, playing audio and video, save as PDF work very well.
Important to note that it also works with DNS over HTTPS (DoH) enabled.
Get it from Mozilla. [Version: 68.0]
Fennec F-Droid
This is our secondary web browser. We need two browsers or more because if one failed, one might worked. Surfing modern websites, blocking ads, playing audio and video, save as PDF work very well. Important to note that it also works with DNS over HTTPS (DoH) enabled. [Version: 68.12]
End of essential programs.
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Beginning of daily life programs:
Amaze File Manager
To transfer files from phone to Ubuntu laptop via wifi, we use this. To do the otherwise, see Primitive FTPd section. This is an alternative to KDE Connect. It can be used as powerful file manager, too. [Version: 3.8]
Download Navi
This is a very fast multitreaded download manager similar to IDM for Android. [Version: 1.6.2]
DiskUsage
This is our Baobab (GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer) on Android. We need it to tell us which folders occupy disk capacity the most. This helps us to remove folders to keep free disk space. [Version: 3.8]
Document Viewer
This is our PDF reader. We read PDF a lot. To us, this is the smallest, fastest yet comfortable to use PDF reader with bookshelf user interface to show recent books. [Version: 2.7]
File Manager by Tibor Kaputa
This orange logo with three white folders is our alternative file manager. Our main one is Open Explorer. [Version: 4.3.1]
Music
This is our audio player. It plays MP3 recordings just fine with playlist and repeat features. [Version: 6.0.1r63]
My Notes
When we need to digitally write some poems, some notes, some drafts, we use it. [Version: 1.5.1]
Newpipe Legacy
This
is our YouTube application, but better. Usually, we use the regular
version but because of limitations mentioned we can only use the legacy
one instead. All in all, we can still play any video, create any
playlist we want, and download videos as many as we want using Newpipe
Legacy. [Version: 0.20.8]
Primitive FTPd
To transfer files from Ubuntu laptop to phone via wifi, we use this. To do the otherwise, see Amaze File Manager section. This is an alternative to KDE Connect. [Version: 7.0]
Simple Keyboard
We replace built-in Google keyboard with Simple Keyboard and it is very comfortable. [Version: 5.16]
Telegram FOSS
We
use Telegram FOSS daily. We need it for teaching work at our computer
course and it works very well* as well as normal communication with
family and commercial activities such as dealing with payments etc.
[Version: 10.2.6]
*) At the time we
write this article, it supports latest Telegram features already such as
video conferences, recordings, group topics, folders, stories etc.
VLC
To play musics and movies.
[Version: 3.5.2]
Volume Control by Andrea Mancini
Because
the physical buttons are difficult to access, we use this to adjust
volume via top menu by swiping it down and tapping its own [+] or [-]
button. [Version: 1.0]
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