titanium backup has been made obsolete by swift backup
I used none of those and have only heard of a couple, despite using Android from the beginning. Sigh.
Loved minuum keyboard
I still miss Swype.
To this day it is still better than every other keyboard I’ve tried at recognising traces.
Microsoft has taken Swift and run it to the ground. Then it asks how it’s doing as if they’ve improved it. The fucking gall.
They really should’ve just ported the WP keyboard over to android, it’s still hands down the best smartphone keyboard ever.
Y’all remember bump?
I still miss QuickPic. :-(
ES File Explorer was very good at the beginning, but it enshittified quickly. Nowadays MaterialFiles is the best file explorer for Android, and it has more features than ES had ever. And it’s open source so it can’t have a similar fate. Google Play link, F-droid link
I would counter that I still feel Solid Explorer is the best, but I’m aware that’s just my opinion.
Solid is for people who want what es used to be. Not sledging it, but it’s unshittified ES.
Looks nice! I use the Fossify File Manager; they seem very similar.
Fossify looks similar, but it misses some crucial features I use frequently. I downloaded it now to check it, Material can do these things, while Fossify can’t:
- Open multiple windows for commander like usage
- Connect to remote shares with SFTP, FTP, SMB or Webdav
- Connect to app storage with Storage Access Framework
What happened to Total Commander
Total commander was never open source, even though it’s freeware.
Yeah just realized. I am disappoint
Thanks for that! I don’t need those features for now, but great to know there’s a solid option if I do later.
Material files doesn’t have anywhere near enough. ES File Explorer could open a bunch of files, a text editor, sftp, ftp, audio, image viewer, etc. ES File Explorer was intolerable on the free version, but if you paid a few quid, you got a perfect product.
Total Commander is pretty solid although unfortunately not FOSS. Even allows you to share files via WiFi etc.
MaterialFiles can connect to ftp, sftp, webdav and smb. It has a text editor. There is built in image viewer and music player in most roms nowadays, and MaterialFiles has an “open with” option where you can select what you want to do with a file.
I can’t find an open with option
Tap on the triple dot next to a file, first option
Joining in on the love for material files. I’ve been using it a long time. The more I’ve got into FOSS apps I’ve come to realise that they are feature rich, lightweight and ad free. Its the difference between using something designed to be a good product vs something that is designed to squeeze as much out of you as possible
This list is kinda of nostalgic to me. When I was younger, I was obessed with andriod mods and rooting videos on YouTube, and I remeber all those apps getting recommened in videos!
Inbox was fantastic. I used an older version well after the shutdown date.
The list is missing Google Now. A feature so useful Google cut it because it was reducing searches.
It wasn’t an app tho
Google Plus… legendary… what?
Legendar(il)y shit
I had a lot of fun on it…
Even if it was good, the fact that they wrote Google Plus and not Google+ tells me how much thought they put into this article
I was an early user of it and, unlike a lot of Google projects, there’s a reason they scrapped it: it sucked.
And we’re still stuck with its aftermath in that search engines require quotes rather than a + for requiring words, which they now ignore whenever the mood strikes.
Why?
Because some fuckwit at Google decided that the + was reserved for Google+ search results.
Legendary dumpster fire and generator of memes
