Android apps. I have known and (usually) loved

Mike Harding · Guru

Android apps. I have known and (usually) loved

Tony Bev · Guru

Thanks for that, Mike

I shall keep this info in my Tablet 7, I received for my birthday

I shall probably utilise some of them, after I become familiar with this new 21st Century gizmo stuff

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

I prefer Magic Earth to OSMAnd.

I used to use OSMAnd but the address search is not very good. Then I found Magic Earth. It uses the same Open Street Maps, it's free with no ads, it works offline, it supposedly is more private and the address search is much better.

Mike Harding · Guru

Very interesting: I expected this thread to receive many replies recommending more Android apps. the lack of such combined with the low numbers of views of the thread suggests people here are not using their tablets/phones to anything like the extent I do, I am surprised by that.

Whenarewethere · Guru

Double post, I'm making a meal of things.

-- Edited by Whenarewethere on Wednesday 14th of July 2021 10:04:04 AM

Whenarewethere · Guru

Sorry I posted in wrong thread.

JeffRae · Guru

You listed "Field Guide Victoria".
Also available are guides to NSW, Queensland, Tasmania, ACT, Gippsland Lakes, SA.
Handy when travelling

Whenarewethere · Guru

Toilet map so you don't have to cross your legs as long!

https://toiletmap.gov.au/

Radar · Guru

Mike, thank you. Will look at a couple of yours that I found be interesting.

Fuel Map app, we make use of for our fuel needs. No I boobed, this once was our favourite but not no more.

"Petrol Spy" is our new mate and in Queensland really reliable, A Class.

-- Edited by Radar on Wednesday 14th of July 2021 03:58:09 PM

Craig1 · Guru

Thanks "when "

Whenarewethere · Guru

Not only does the government want a piece of your ars_ they will know when you are doing it!

Actually, toilet map works well... just as well!

VK2FJW · Veteran Member

Noticed what is last on your post and I thought I would add my bit!

The Religion of Peace

As of 15/07/21

PeterD · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
RealCalc
An excellent scientific calculator - it does everything you could wish in science and engineering.

Thanks for that. It's good to be able to get back to an RPN calculator.

For weather, I like WilliWeather for my weather reports. It gathers BOM data and presents it in a form I prefer. I also prefer PetrolSpy, particularly in Qld where someone is gathering data from somewhere in real time.

Mike Harding · Guru

Yes, it's not often one comes across RPN on a calculator nowadays, iirc TI were its champions.

RealCalc is a great piece of software; spend a little time messing with it and you'll discover many features, one I often use is the "Conversions" facility.

I bought it for a few dollars although the free version provides 99% of the paid versions features but I felt the bloke deserved his money for such a good product.

oldbloke · Guru

Unit converter
Fuel map

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

I don't use any Google Framework Services and social media for privacy reasons. I use the following apps:

Phone: the standard app that comes with LOS.

Text messaging: the standard app that comes with LOS.

Calendar: I used to use Etar before it became the standard app for LOS. I now use the LOS app, which is Etar.

Repositories: F-Droid (whenever possible), AuroraStore (when something is not available via F-Droid. I don't have a Google account.)

Music: Vanilla Music with the Tag Editor, Cover Fetcher, Metadata Fetcher and Vanilla Lyrics Search plugins.

Contacts: Simple Contacts.

Gallery: Simple Gallery.

VPN: Orbot.

Browsers: Tor Browser, DuckDuckGo, Lighting (in order of decreasing privacy content).

Email: K-9 Mail (I'm a long time user of K-9 Mail. I think it uses OpenKeyChain for encryption) I use ProtonMail for more private emailing and later Tutanota because I feel it's better than ProtonMail.

Social media: Kontalk (end-to-end encryption) for keeping in touch with family and friends.

Podcasts: AntennaPod

Videos: VLC

YouTube: NewPipe (open source, non-tracking and no ads).

Camera: the standard app that comes with LOS.

Reddit: Slide (open source and no ads).

Navigation: OsmAnd (open source and uses Open Street Map data. Nothing Google). I've later switched to Magic Earth. It also uses Open Street Map data but has a better address search function than OSMAnd.

News: ABC News (supposedly unbiased. I hate social media telling me what news it thinks that I would be interested in).

Weather: BOM weather (Australian Government weather app)

Loyalty cards: LoyaltyKing

Games: a few open source games like Sudoku Daily, Solitaire (I really miss not having PlantsVsZombies but it won't run without gapps).

The Belmont Bear · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
Very interesting: I expected this thread to receive many replies recommending more Android apps. the lack of such combined with the low numbers of views of the thread suggests people here are not using their tablets/phones to anything like the extent I do, I am surprised by that.

Mike maybe a lot of us dont use Android apps on our iphones, ipads or Apple car play systems.

BB

dorian · Guru

Mike Harding wrote:
Yes, it's not often one comes across RPN on a calculator nowadays, iirc TI were its champions.

No, TI calculators did things the logical way, ie they used algebraic notation, just like we were taught in school. Underneath this human interface, TI also used a stack (which could be accessed with undocumented op codes by way of a clever hack). Hewlett Packard, on the other hand, decided that their users should learn to think like their calculators. They pushed the bogus idea that RPN was more economical with keystrokes whereas in fact I was able to achieve the same end much more quickly, and just as economically, using regular notation. The fact is that HP's calculators were inferior (apart from their keypads), and HP's marketing cleverly promoted the lack of algebraic notation as a feature, not a detriment.

To me, the difference between RPN and algebraic notation is like the difference between the command line and a GUI.

-- Edited by dorian on Saturday 11th of September 2021 07:07:09 AM

PeterD · Guru

Dorian, The TI calculators I purchased in the 1970s worked by the RPN, not the algebraic principle.

For those who don't know what we are talking about see: - Reverse Polish notation. It is supposed to be harder to learn but after learning it first I now find algebraic calculators harder to use.

Mike Harding · Guru

You're right Dorian, it was HP who were into RPN not TI. For people not sure what we're talking about:

Reverse Polish Notation

A RPN calculator

Despite having written more software than I can recall I too prefer algebraic notation because that's the way I was taught arithmetic and the way I think - 2 apples + 2 apples = 4 apples. And as for stack based languages... I never did like Forth.

Anyway: everyone is different and RealCalc offers both options.

PeterD · Guru

Lightbulb, I take it that all those recommendations are for programmes that work on Linux. This thread is about apps for use on Android. How many of those programmes have been ported to work on Android?

-- Edited by PeterD on Saturday 11th of September 2021 10:24:44 AM

dorian · Guru

PeterD wrote:
Dorian, The TI calculators I purchased in the 1970s worked by the RPN, not the algebraic principle.
For those who don't know what we are talking about see: - Reverse Polish notation. It is supposed to be harder to learn but after learning it first I now find algebraic calculators harder to use.

I bought these TI calculators in the 1970s:

http://www.datamath.org/Sci/WEDGE/sr-56.htm

http://www.datamath.org/Sci/WEDGE/TI-59.htm

Both were algebraic.

PeterD · Guru

Ah, maybe they were not TI, maybe they just had TI modules in them. TI made bits for others. However, they did operate on RPN so I had to learn RPM.

-- Edited by PeterD on Saturday 11th of September 2021 11:20:41 AM

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

PeterD wrote:
Lightbulb, I take it that all those recommendations are for programmes that work on Linux. This thread is about apps for use on Android. How many of those programmes have been ported to work on Android?

-- Edited by PeterD on Saturday 11th of September 2021 10:24:44 AM

They are all Android apps.

dorian · Guru

Buzz Lightbulb wrote:
PeterD wrote:
Lightbulb, I take it that all those recommendations are for programmes that work on Linux. This thread is about apps for use on Android. How many of those programmes have been ported to work on Android?

-- Edited by PeterD on Saturday 11th of September 2021 10:24:44 AM
They are all Android apps.

Is this what you mean by LOS?

https://lineageos.org/

PeterD · Guru

Tks Dorian, I put "LOS" into both Google search and DuckDuckGo and neither of the search engines produced any results. The only use of those initials I have encountered before was for Linux operating system. That's the problem with people using non-standard abbreviations that are not included in listings like The Free Dictionary.

Buzz Lightbulb · Guru

dorian wrote:
Is this what you mean by LOS?
https://lineageos.org/

Yes LineageOS, Lineage Operating System or LOS to those who use it. It's an Open Source Operating System for Android phones based on the Android Open Source Project, AOSP.

It doesn't include the Google Applications such as Google Services Framework, Google Play Store and a heap of other Google privacy invasive bundles. That's why I use it, to partially protect my online privacy until the Australian Federal Government implements laws, similar to Europe, that protects my online privacy.