Awesome Android Apps
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Hi all,
for 2 years, sporadically, I’ve been adding awesome FOSS apps with the following:
Rules
- Open Sourced
- Free of charge (on F-Droid and source code repository releases)
- Free as in Freedom
- Ad-free
- Installed and tested by me or by contributor
- Privacy-friendly aware
- Easy to use
- Still in development or polished experience
- Does not lack features compared to proprietary app
- Does not need an account (the only exceptions are self-hosted) apps)
- Has dark theme
…tested by my and then later by contributors. I think many of you will appreciate this simple README.md repo, and I would love some help with it.
I hope you will find it useful! 🤩
Anyone got a suggestion for a clock app that lets me set an alarm for say three days from now? They all seem to only let you set it for the next time that time comes around, or on repeat. Is that an OS limitation?
I don’t think it’s Open Source (sorry) and it does have (non intrusive, can prob be blocked) ads in the Freemium, but Sleep As Android by Urbandroid has this and much more. I bought an unlocker years ago and have not looked back.I didn’t read the rules. My bad.
I’m not OP and not trying to get things added to the list so don’t mind suggestions that don’t meet OP’s criteria, but I would prefer something open source if possible.
But now you mention it, I think I may have bought Sleep as Android many years ago, so I might still consider it. Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m the OP and I feel the same. 😆
Sometimes we find those gems. I know, for example about Niagara Launcher that is not open source but excellent. Just the original author wants to keep this app for himself. Also, nothing wrong with it same for making money with open-source apps. Yet, I intend to be FOSS and that’s all.
Unfortunately I do not have an app. I deal with this by adding an entry in my calender with a notitication. It’s annoying but works
I do this currently for far off things but a notification doesn’t really replace a screaming alarm.
I think it’s not OS limitiation, more like proper access to Android API functions that are easier on harder depending on the Android ROM. I can set an alarm to 4 May and it’s clock functionality.
I’m running GrapheneOS if it makes a difference. What clock app are you running?
The stock one can do it and others on the list. Let’s say I want 11 AM at Tuesday - 3 days from now.
That’s it.
Yes this is what I do currently, however, there are two issues with this.
First, sure it will wake me up on Tuesday. But it will also wake me up the following Tuesday, and the one after that.
But secondly, the main problem is that I can’t set an alarm for Tuesday the 3rd of September, when I have something important that I don’t forget and that justifies a screaming alarm, but it’s not within the next week so choosing to repeat each Tuesday doesn’t work.
Yeah, you need to disable this after ringing.
I understand… I had this functionality (setting alarm on the particular date) on my old OnePlus 7 Pro with stock Clock (Oxygen OS 12.1). It was awesome. You could even set an alarm, check “Ring when powered off” or something like this, and you could power off your phone and let’s say I have a 6 AM alarm, the smartphone would automatically turn on itself at 5:58ish AM. I think every Clock app is based on “AOSP” clock project, so I think it depends on implementation and maybe hardware?
It’s funny, this stuff was normal before smart phones. If you forgot to charge your phone (because you only had to do it every week or so, so you didn’t have a routine) then the alarm would still go off even if the battery died in the night.
We have some awesome new things that smart phones give us, but it’s not without compromise.
True. I still miss, and I don’t know how to display passing seconds on my clock. It was present in Android 11 and now in Android 14 I cannot find anything to have it. Moreover, I loved on OxygenOS “triple fingers” from top to bottom - doing screenshot. I hate doing it through buttons. Same when I have a turned off-screen I could just “draw” with my finger letter V, and it would turn on the Flashlight and the same way turning it off.
Oh I remember those gestures when I had a Oneplus, I think it was a 3T.
For the clock, if I open my clock app and go to the clock screen it shows me the time with seconds. Or are you meaning in the notifications bar or lock screen?