Best FOSS alternative to Nova on F-Droid? Also general F-Droid app recommendation thread

Best FOSS alternative to Nova on F-Droid? Also general F-Droid app recommendation thread

NewPipe as Youtube alternative

why this over skytube?

Never used Skytube, I want just simple Youtube player and NewPipe is working fine.

Skytube is best for normal watching
New pipe for downloading and background play

Stock launcher works fine for me

i dont think it has made it into the official repo yet, but its available on github and the izzysoft fdroid repo. its called lawnchair, its nice and pretty, and decently customizable

KISS Launcher. Ricing your phone is for losers.

lawnchair is amazing

I use OpenLauncher, it looks good

This.
Also Red Moon. Cant let those blue rays messing your eyes when night posting.

Best music player?

Phonograph. I don't know if it's on F-Droid, but it's on github (published under GPLv3)

I heard the dev stopped developing it for over a year now

Openlauncher
its the evolution of many great launchers

AOSP>CM(trebuchet)>rocketlauncher

full foss

if you dont mind proprietary and want features just stick with NOVA

AndroFish. Best game.

Hayai launcher for people who hate homescreens.

>KISS launcher
I always liked the idea of having no apps on your main screen, so you just look at the wallpaper, while having an easy and really quick way of accesing the apps.

same here but I just used nova to do so, is kiss better for that?

This. Skytube is still lacking some things, like related videos. I like to jump and discover new channels.

he stopped but since couple of months it went open source and people are developing since then

Stop with this shit.

You can't view NSFW (18+/Mature Marked) Videos without an account. If you use youtube at all just fucking use the official app. The whole point of people using them is for the degoogling but they still collect your user data. They still own the Android Phone you use.

Stop with this shitty meme.

The normal YouTube app doesn't let you play videos in the background, and some people use it as a media player(Since so many phones have shit audio, the source isn't the bottleneck). Very few people are getting alternative YouTube apps to reduce their Google presence, and even the ones that are, so? Every bit helps. I use and enjoy Android, but wish it respected me more by spying on me less, so I make small changes, like disabling "OK Google" so it's not always listening.

I think you would be accessing stuff way faster with the KISS, its search bar also searchs for other nice stuff other than apps like contacts, specific settings or web browsing

There's a setting to show age restricted content in newpipe

Don't forget easy xkcd

Newpipe is honestly really well done.
>no sign in
>button to let you load audio only and play in the background
>video can still play while apps are switched
>option to load various file formats to suit less data usage or more quality
>can manually select resolution options, as well as frame rate if applicable
>can pop out video and overlay it as a window over other apps
>while video is in full screen, up/down motion on left side of screen will adjust brightness, right side will adjust volume (best if getting to volume buttons is difficult while the phone is laying on its side)

Its a very well done app. I work security in a fire panel, and because of the quality options, I can watch 8+ hours of youtube and not pass 2 or so gigs of data used.

Why doesn't someone make an open source launcher?
I have no programming knowledge at all, but if I did I would just make a clone of Nova.

I can't play skytube on my toaster phone.

Yalp store
A bit buggy sometimes but it works