Android fans, what are the primary reasons why you will never ever switch to an Iphone?

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SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
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  • hardened_malloc

    Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability / integration over time.

  • There's a bigger open-source community working on Android projects, and I enjoy tinkering and customization. I value software like Graphene OS, Firefox and its forks, and F-Droid too much.

  • SponsorBlock

    Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

  • I also kept running into paywalls with Safari ad blockers, which isn't something I've experienced while using Firefox or Brave. The last 3 I've tried (AdGuard, AdBlock Pro and 1Blocker) all required a paid subscription in order to block YouTube ads or give you custom filters, for example. One extension I use, SponsorBlock, it's free on Chromium as well as on on Firefox, and you can even build it yourself for free on GitHub, but on Safari it costs US$2.99 in the iOS App Store and US$3.99 in the MacOS App Store (yes, those are different prices).

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • tachiyomi

    Discontinued Free and open source manga reader for Android.

  • Sideloaded apps: I use a few FOSS apps like Tachiyomi, Logseq, and YouTube ReVanced. Tachiyomi allows me to download manga and read manga offline. Logseq allows me to take offline notes using Markdown. YouTube ReVanced allows me to watch ad-free YouTube.

  • xManager-Spotify

    Discontinued Ad-Free, New Features & Freedom [Moved to: https://github.com/xManager-App/xManager]

  • People already explained Vanced, so I figured I'd mention the Spotify equivalent that blocks ads and provides unlimited skips: https://xmanagerapp.com/ with the Github here. It's an install manager, so you install it and it downloads the special Spotify version.

  • logseq

    A local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base. Use it to organize your todo list, to write your journals, or to record your unique life.

  • Sideloaded apps: I use a few FOSS apps like Tachiyomi, Logseq, and YouTube ReVanced. Tachiyomi allows me to download manga and read manga offline. Logseq allows me to take offline notes using Markdown. YouTube ReVanced allows me to watch ad-free YouTube.

  • uBlock

    uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

  • Firefox: I generally prefer open-source software, and Firefox is my browser of choice. Firefox on Android is great because it allows you to use extensions like Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, and Dark Reader. I also use Firefox to send tabs between my devices.

  • darkreader

    Dark Reader Chrome and Firefox extension

  • Firefox: I generally prefer open-source software, and Firefox is my browser of choice. Firefox on Android is great because it allows you to use extensions like Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, and Dark Reader. I also use Firefox to send tabs between my devices.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Bitwarden

    The core infrastructure backend (API, database, Docker, etc). (by bitwarden)

  • Firefox: I generally prefer open-source software, and Firefox is my browser of choice. Firefox on Android is great because it allows you to use extensions like Bitwarden, uBlock Origin, and Dark Reader. I also use Firefox to send tabs between my devices.

  • desmume-wasm

    DeSmuME is a Nintendo DS emulator

  • It's a webpage. You just create a home screen icon for it and when you launch it you select the ROM you want to use and off you go

  • AltStore

    AltStore is an alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

  • Not as straightforward and convenient as on Android but you can do it: https://github.com/rileytestut/AltStore

  • revanced-builder

    Discontinued A NodeJS ReVanced builder

  • But apks made using Revanced Builder do work really nice!

  • revanced-manager

    💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

  • revanced is already working(you need to patch youtube client yourself via manager) https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager/releases

  • awesome-security-hardening

    A collection of awesome security hardening guides, tools and other resources

  • termux-packages

    A package build system for Termux.

  • sharedrop

    Easy P2P file transfer powered by WebRTC - inspired by Apple AirDrop

  • You can always use something like Sharedrop. Or send it to yourself via WhatsApp or any other messaging app. Or place it on iCloud / Google Drive and download it.

  • linux

  • Right now I'm holding out hope for some of the ongoing efforts to bring the Snapdragon 845 chipset into mainline Linux. It's a difficult feat, requiring a full open-source driver stack for the device, but its completion could extend the 6T's software shelf-life by far longer than most phones.

  • tor-relay-docker

    Tor relay Docker images for x86-64, armhf & arm64 (from source)

  • If you think that Safari is the world's most secure browser, you're wrong. The real MOST SECURE and MOST PRIVATE browser on the planet is the Tor browser, and guess what, it's based on Firefox.

  • sideloading-master-guide

    Master Guide for Sideloading.

  • idk what you're talking about. I'm using an iPhone with sideloaded tweaked apps on the latest iOS 15 (also works on iOS 16) without jailbreak with AltStore, although you're limited to 3 sideloaded apps without an apple developer account but as far as sideloading goes, you can sideload IPAs on iOS. Learn more about it here https://sideloading.gitbook.io/sideloading-master-guide/

  • SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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