i use miracast where I can (my TV and Samsung phone support it natively), as it pretty much just works and is a decent protocol. Sadly every phone manufacturer that isn’t Samsung seems to have abandoned it right now, but it is still widely supported in TVs. On Linux, there is the app gnome-network-displays (yes it also works on KDE) to cast your screen over miracast.

Miracast is an actual local streaming protocol (closely related to WiFi Direct). For content streaming the only FOSS standard I am aware of is FCast, but sofar it only is implemented in the GrayJay Android app.

Edit: There is also Deskreen for casting a PC screen.

For casting mobile to PC there is also scrcpy.

This isn’t really casting, but I often find that an HDMI cable (often paired with a USB-C to HDMI dongle) is the simplest and most reliable way to display a phone screen on another monitor (as long as the phone supports DP altmode).

Yes definitely, here’s my Steam ‘Local Multiplayer’ collection:

• Biped
• Move or Die
• Overcooked! 2
• Party Animals
• (Portal 2)
• Rayman Legends
• Screencheat
• Stick Fight: The Game
• Tetris Effect: Connected
• Ultimate Chicken Horse
• Unrailed!

Nintendo also has some great couch co-op games,for example:

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
• Nintendo Switch Sports
• Super Mario Party

I also very much agree with the other commenter here, it’s such a shame that couch co-op is dying. The only ones still believing in it seem to be Nintendo.

Another game that’s fun to play is Unravel 2, but for me the Steam version had all sorts of problems so I ultimately ended up refunding it again.

The Pixel 8 and onwards technically support DP alt mode again. I’m not sure about stock, but I believe I read about some people having it just work in Graphene OS.

https://github.com/Akylas/OSS-DocumentScanner

I use this app for scanning documents, I just tried sharing a picture to the app and running OCR on that picture, which also worked fine, so it should also fit your usecase.

Imo it looks to be very bloated for what I want. I don’t need (or necessarily want) a GPS track for the whole journey, but rather just start and endpoint. I intend to tell the distance from my cars odometer.

Also I already started making my own app by now anyway and I’m far too committed to consider other options lol

Hm using Tasker for this is actually a really good idea, thanks!

Yeah, I would just use Connected to Car BT?

I have so many ideas but so little time to properly look into Kotlin and Android dev :/

Some other ideas I had:

• maybe also track how much I pay for parking tickets
  • notification if I’m still not driving and my ticket is about to expire
  • ocr for parking tickets
• automatic prompt, something like Hey, you just drove x km and seem to have arrived, What do you want to call this trip?
• …

Under the hood it’s also way more similar: LibreOffice uses the odt format internally (and converts docx to it on the fly, sometimes leading to some formatting weirdness). OnlyOffice on the other hand uses docx internally, meaning better compatibility with MS Office (but also some weirdness with odt files).

(I’ve used docx and odt as placeholders for all the other formats here, like pptx, xlsx, etc.)

I presume your phone can’t enter deepsleep if it’s not in Standby. I’m not that knowledgeable on that topic but another point (that might be practically the same thing) is AFAIK your CPU and GPU can’t shutdown, as your phone is still on and rendering a black image.

Wait InnerTune is abandoned?? That’s a bummer, imo it is literally the best music app, especially the caching is amazing.

The newer Sony Xperias sound like a good fit for you. I haven’t used one myself, but they’re pretty decent from what I can gather.

Also it seems as if Sony is the only phone manufacturer shipping flagships with headphone jacks and SD card slots.

On another note, I highly recommend the GSMarena Phone Finder for getting a general selection of phones that have the features you care about.

HoleyLight sounds like what you’re searching for. I’ve never personally tried it though.

It works fine for me, perhaps you didn’t grant the app Contacts permissions?

I got this a few days ago. Previously I was using Geometric Weather, but then in Feb or so it got stuck. I’m very happy that this app (or rather the fork) is now maintained again!

I’d recommend just taking an hour or so to scroll through all of the recently updated apps, I found a ton of super cool small “utility apps” that way.

The units can be adjusted in Settings > Appearance > Units, or are you missing options there?

Do beware, Samsung typically has a decent amount of bloat and not so privacy respecting services.

You can probably do this with Tasker (incredibly powerful paid app, very worth it). I believe there are also more apps like tasker which are free, but I don’t know of any examples right now or how well they would work for this.

From what I can see Blockinger had its last commit 11 years ago. While it’s not on F-Droid (still FOSS though), my Tetris clone of choice is Falling Lightblocks. One super cool feature is 2 player competitive on one device using 2 game controllers.

On Samsung phones Samsung Gamelauncher Gaming Hub gives you the option to mute all game audio, but I’m afraid this is a Samsung exclusive feature.

Another feature I have on my Galaxy S10 is the ability to set different outputs for apps, ie. “bad sounds” from some app to phone speakers (which are muted), and the rest to my Bluetooth headphones.

On my phone this feature is called “Separate app sound” and is located in Settings > Sounds and vibration > Separate app sound. It might also be a Samsung exclusive though.

Edit: I have yet another, sadly probably Samsung exclusive, solution. Samsung Sound Assistant let’s you set a different volume for each app (like Windows volume mixer).

I believe it’s all Pixels, but definitely the Pixel 6 family do not support DP alt mode (DisplayPort over USB-C).

If you want a Dock with video output, you have to get one that is DisplayLink compatible and I believe also install the DisplayLink app.

Kinda, it only let’s you zoom into the center. With Aves I can zoom into any part of the video and then drag my view around, just how you would with a picture that you’re zooming into.

Other than that though Just Player is great, and as long as I don’t need zooming it is my go to video player.

So far the Aves video player is also the only foss player I’ve found where you can freely zoom into a currently playing video.

I believe this app also works without root (at least for screen rotation, it seems to just need permissions given from adb).

Also apparently Android has a Notification History, which can be shown with the Notification History tile from this app, which is amazing. I always thought that feature was just a pipe dream.

Have you tried HeliBoard yet? It’s a newish fork of openboard and has support for glide-typing.

Yes, you just might need to download the apk for them as there may be no app store installed.

Mann I remember my M8. I still use it as an IR remote sometimes. Sadly the battery is pretty much completely dead so I can’t really use it for anything else.

+1 for FolderSync, it’s amazing. I use it to sync some folders to my server over SMB.

If you have to access wikis from fandom, you can use breezewiki

I use Another Notes App. It’s super basic but that’s exactly what I need.