Personally paid for Niagara launcher as I find that to be the far superior launcher to any other I’ve tried. My second one is Symfonium, the most feature rich and well developed audio player.
What are yours?
Tasker. Pretty much programming your Android to automate things. Such a powerful app.
Paprika app. Helps us meal plan and be prepared for the week. Cloud sync with my spouse, shared grocery list, calendar, pantry tracking, recipe scaling, and many more features. The best feature however, is that the screen does not go off while you are cooking.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hindsightlabs.paprika.android.v3
What a great suggestion! Very nice 👌
What are these “paid” android apps you speak of?
What do you mean?
Just being silly. I don’t think I have any apps I’ve paid for.
Used to be the case for me too. But recently discovered that paid apps generally is much better polished, feature rich and ad+tracking free. That at least for me makes it more interesting paying for apps.
FX as an explorer replacement when Xiaomi put pubs in theirs.
You have a free version too, I don’t even use the “pro” stuff just wanted to contribute.
An oldie but a goodie.
Niagara launcher
The Royal Spanish Academy’s dictionary, most likely. While I can easily have conversations in Spanish, the similarities with my mother language every once in a while make me get words confused, specially in conjugation (why does B and V need to sound so similar…). I’ve had it for a while, and although it was a bit pricey, it has saved me quite a few times from awkward mix ups. Also bonus points for working completely offline (looking at you, Yomiwa dictionary…), and having no problems being sideloaded into vanilla Android systems.
NZB360 for managing my *arr services for downloading movies and TV shows
Slay the Spire
Also Balatro
Not today, Satan.
Don’t tell me this! I have it on my steam deck and it is addictive enough. I had no idea it was available on android. I am going to try and pretend I didn’t read this.
I’ve put 400 hours in on phone alone from public transit commutes.
It’s coming for you… I’ve already bought it and played it all the way through on pc, switch, and android
That game is tons of fun, but I suck at it.
Heads up: Nova launcher got sold out to a shady company - Branch Analytics.
Thanks for the warning, I didn’t know about that. That’s disappointing news.
Are there any good free software alternatives?
And laid off all but one person. Source: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/nova-launcher-savior-of-cruft-filled-android-phones-is-on-life-support/
Stardew Valley.
The only other app I have paid for that wasn’t a game is “iVCam” so I can use my phone’s camera as a webcam that isn’t limited to some stupidly small resolution or have a watermark, can do more than 30fps, and also works as a source in OBS. I mostly use it for full body tracking in VR with the April tag system. But I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite.
Android has webcam support in USB mode and has for like 3 versions now, though?
When it asks you what you want your device to do when plugged into a PC you get options like "file transfer (ftp)”, webcam should be on the bottom
Works flawlessly for me in both Linux and Windows for OBS
Easy question for me, Tasker. Don’t know what I’d do without it. Come to think of it, as someone has already mentioned, Stardew Valley is pretty good too.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm
This one? What do you use it for?
That’s the one. Lots of uses mentioned below.
I like the idea of Tasker, but can’t think of usecases. What’s yours?
Some examples of using Tasker:
- When a specific contact sends a text message, it alerts me using TTS so I can be aware they are trying to reach me. I have an older family member she lives closer to, so having an alert from her is important if anything should happen forbid it does. When I plug my phone in to charge, it auto silences the phone and keeps it silenced until I unplug it, built into the same task, if monitors for phone calls from my contact and a few others and overrides it.
When a specific phone contact or contact calls, it raises the volumes to max. This is useful if you went to an appointment, set your phone on silent or vibrate but forgot to reset it. After the call has been completed, it returns the phone to the original volume you set.
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When I scan a NFC Tag, i have it send a webhook to my August lock to unlock it. As an apartment dweller, if I go down to the car to unload groceries, the door by default auto locks. This means I have to pull the phone out, unlock it, open the August App, and then tell it to unlock the door and sometimes use the biometric to do so. Having the NFC tag do this means I can put it in my wallet and when I put my phone in the same pocket where the wallet it is, it triggers the door.
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When connected to my computer only, it keeps the screen on all the time.
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When I launch certain apps, it keeps the screen on until the app is closed. Very useful when you are at the grocery store working within a strict budget and want to see how much you have put in to the cart!
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I have a widget on my screen which toggles my Private DNS on/off. This allows me to disable the adblock dns I use if I encounter a public wifi which insists I disable it. (I usually stay away from those, and use my mobile data, but sometimes it’s unavoidable when there is so much interference your 5G goes to NONE and you have to be there for a while.)
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Likewise, I have a widget which toggles my Tailscale connection on/off which comes in handy as well. Again, if the Wifi spot rejects custom DNS’s and I’m in the scenario above.
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If you have a Google Account (Sadly, this is the only way). You can view the list of profiles/tasks which other people have built. It’s a growing list. https://taskernet.com/shares/
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Using third party software such as Wake on LAN, when I come home and connect to my WiFi, it wakes my computer. (Or really any condition I set to trigger it).
I will say that the dev is very responsive and active in releasing updates and new features.
With that said, it has a slight learning curve which he(the developer) is working on to help simplify things and modernize it more. Since taking over the project from the previous owner, it’s really grown.
I admit though, I used to have a lot more tasks and profiles, but it seems that Android is starting to bake those functions in so it’s not as used on my end. But don’t let it it sway you. Your imagination is the only limit with what you can do with Tasker.
Generally, for less than a cup of coffee, it’s worth the purchase price. :)
Tasker would be mine too. Apparently i don’t have many paid apps lol
The only paid app I’ve got is Sound Profile. Puts the phone on quiet (except for family) at night, or silent (with auto resume to normal) in meetings. It’s on my & spouse’s phones.
Idk about the meeting thing but do not disturb can do this already. Can set up a multiple schedules to auto turn on/off do not disturb and then allow exceptions from favorite (starred) contacts. You can also allow an exception from someone who calls you 3 times back to back in case they’re calling you from someone else’s phone. And can also allow some apps as exceptions in case you use a 3rd party alarm app or something else that you want to be able to make noise.
Windy. The best weather forecast app. You can have a free account, but with premium you get more often updated data from various models.
Is there any Lemmy android client with the push notifications?
Thunder has local notifications and is completely free.
Eternity has notifications. It is free as in beer tho