My favorite F-Droid to install on Android devices

Some days ago I told them from F-Droid, an alternative app store to Google's that only offers open source apps. Today I want to tell you which are my favorites.

A clarification, some of these applications can also be found in the Google store. The advantage of doing it from F-Droid is that they do not track. In addition, one of those that I comment, KDE Connect, had to restrict some of its features of the Google version for a time because the company considered that the original violated its rules.

To install these applications, You must first install the F-DROID application or download the APKs of each one and install them manually on the phone.

These are my F-DROID favorites

KDE Connect

This application facilitates the interaction between a desktop computer and mobile devices. In general, Linux distributions based on KDE, have the application for the computer installed by default. Otherwise you will have to install it from the repositories looking for it by the same name. If you use a GNOME desktop, what you have to install is an extension called GS Connect.

Some of the benefits of the program are:

• Share the clipboard between devices allowing copying to one and pasting to the other.
• Share files and web addresses from any mobile application with your computer.
• Receive notifications on your PC about incoming calls and messages to your mobile.
• Transform the mobile into a Touchpad for the computer.
• View mobile notifications from the desktop.
• Use your phone to control multimedia playback on your computer.
• Device connection using end-to-end TLS encryption.

KDE Connect establishes connection via WiFi

Having used KDE Connect in both GNOME and KDE and Microsoft's proprietary solution for Windows, I have to say that the former seemed to work much better.

K-9 mail

If you receive large volumes of emails and are fed up with the arbitrary classification and meddling of the native GMAIL client, you are going to love this program.

K-9 mail works with POP3, IMAP, Push IMAP protocols (and of course SMTP) with the addition of additional applications that can also be downloaded from F-DROID you can use OpenPGP encryption and export and import account settings to and from other devices

VLC

If it weren't for the fact that people are constantly being added to the open source world, and therefore not taking things for granted, I would be tempted to skip the description and move on to the next application.

VLC it is "the media player". It doesn't matter what platform or operating system you are using. Although it must be said that the default interface for Android is much more successful than that of the version for desktop computers.

Suffice it to say that it is almost impossible to find an audio or video format that VLC is incapable of playing and that it can do so with both locally stored content and remotely.

It is possible to connect the VLC application of the mobile to that of the computer connected to the same network and use the device as a remote control or play content from one computer on the other.

Com Phone Story Maker

If you like sharing stories but not using Facebook-owned social media, you should take a look.

With Com Phone Story Maker multimedia stories can be created by combining photos, audio and text to tell stories. The application's interface, which is very easy to understand, makes it possible to create photo slideshows, send them to other devices that run the application, or reproduce them locally; create templates; export them as a movie; upload them to YouTube; or publish it as a website.

Stories are made up of the desired number of multimedia frames. Each individual frame of the story can include an image or photo, up to three layered music or audio tracks, and text content. The frames can be edited at any time.

What are your favorite open source mobile apps? The store doesn't matter. Tell us in the comment form.