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Model Specific Forums => Gemini PDA => Gemini PDA - Android => Topic started by: zsalab2 on June 28, 2018, 03:26:15 pm
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I wonder that there is no topic to select the three most important application for a Gemini. I use:
Email: Aquamail
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...g.kman.AquaMail (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail)
Calendar: Calengoo
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calengoo.android&hl=en)
File manager: stock
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I wonder that there is no topic to select the three most important application for a Gemini. I use:
Email: Aquamail
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...g.kman.AquaMail (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail)
Calendar: Calengoo
(the most costumizable calendar) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calengoo.android&hl=en)
File manager: stock
How does the week view look in Landscape mode ?
I like(d) aCalendar, but the week view is Mo-We-Fr-Sun and then below the 2nd line (Tue-Thu-Sat)
I first thought "WHAT is this ?" but then suddenly noticed that it looks fine in portrait.
My favorite app: Tripadvisor (though that one is sometimes also a bit weird in Landscape).
I use the Planet-advised K9 e-mail.
Also: buienradar (a rain radar and weather bulletin). Very handy if you want to go out. Works (apparently) worldwide, but the user interface is in Dutch (self-explanatory}.
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Google Inbox and the stock Google Calendar app. Can't wait to see the Agenda app, but if it doesn't sync to Google Calendar, I'm sunk.
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I wonder that there is no topic to select the three most important application for a Gemini. I use:
- Email: Aquamail - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...g.kman.AquaMail (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail)
- Calendar: Calengoo - (the most costumizable calendar) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calengoo.android&hl=en)
- File manager: stock
Blackberry Hub and Services (subscription required) - For mail: does my work email, 4 different personal email accounts, text messages, notifications from LinkedIn, Skype... On the calendar side it does my work calendar + gmail calendar
The File Manager is (not very creatively) called File Manager, by ZenUI, ASUS Computers Inc
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Hello,
just an answer to this:
(...) I like(d) aCalendar, but the week view is Mo-We-Fr-Sun and then below the 2nd line (Tue-Thu-Sat) (...)
you can change that in settings (since I have a non-englisch version I have to guess what the names of the items are, but I'm sure you'll find it) under "week view" (or so) and "week layout". What you probably want is "horizontal matrix". The alternative "vertical matrix" seems to be the default, and looks like you describe it.
Kind regards
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Yes. That did the trick. Thank you very much: aCalendar just became more useful.
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It seems that aCalendar, like many calendar apps, uses the existing Android calendaring back-end.
Does this have any implications for privacy? (I don't want any connection with Google — I have to use Google email and calendar for work, and I want to keep that totally separate from my personal stuff.)
I want something just like Psion Agenda: that can run stand-alone, not online or synced with anything else. With a decent week view, appointments with alarms, to-dos with alarms, multi-day events, repeating entries, &c. And the ability to import stuff from Psion Agenda. (Or at least, in vCalendar format, which Neuon's nConvert can convert Psion Agenda to.) What should I be looking at?
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Hello,
It seems that aCalendar, like many calendar apps, uses the existing Android calendaring back-end. (...)
Yes, that's true. But I just switched off synchronising with Google, so everything stays local (not to forget to switch of background activity). Furthermore I have installed "Firewall ohne Root" which allows to block network access separately for WLan and mobile networks for every app. So in addition I just blocked everything not really neccessary.
Being a decade-long Psion user myself, I'm quite satisfied with aCalendar, though it's a very long time since I actually had to move something from Psion to somewhere else. So, sorry, I don't know how it might work.
Oh, and for synchronizing my calendar with other android devices (and more) I use "MyPhoneExplorer".
Kind regards
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Stock Calendar (sync and other Google settings disabled).
Free versions of:
Messenger+ (Verizon SMS)
BlueMail
Dialer, Phone, Call Block & Contacts by SimplerApps
Siay
Firefox
G Cloud
Various news services apps.
Paid versions of:
Bluetooth Firewall
Norton Security Suite (Mobile Security, App Lock, Clean, WiFi Privacy)
Keeper Fill (password protection by Keeper Security)
Easy Uninstaller Pro
Music Folder Player Full
Nova (Prime) Launcher
TeslaUnread
Word (MS Office 365)
Cheers!
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I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of Calendar Apps that are all available.
Though they all are eventually another GUI onto the Google calendar.
I still am slightly disappointed, though, that the Gemini did not come with the promised Psion agenda.
Apparently beta versions exist: reviewers have seen it.
It would be cool if it reads native EPOC files. Why not ? Apparently that format isn't too difficult.
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If you are worried about Google I use fastmail (fastmail.com) for my email service - they have stand alone app that only talks to their back end - and it can also use the standard stock calendar apps with CardDAV. the stand alone app is not the nicest but is defo not Google.
Other heavily used Apps
Email - K9
File explorer - Solid Explorer
IM - Telegram
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I wonder that there is no topic to select the three most important application for a Gemini. I use:
Email: Aquamail
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...g.kman.AquaMail (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.kman.AquaMail)
Calendar: Calengoo
(the most costumizable calendar) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&hl=en (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.calengoo.android&hl=en)
File manager: stock
How does the week view look in Landscape mode ?
I like(d) aCalendar, but the week view is Mo-We-Fr-Sun and then below the 2nd line (Tue-Thu-Sat)
I first thought "WHAT is this ?" but then suddenly noticed that it looks fine in portrait.
My favorite app: Tripadvisor (though that one is sometimes also a bit weird in Landscape).
I use the Planet-advised K9 e-mail.
Also: buienradar (a rain radar and weather bulletin). Very handy if you want to go out. Works (apparently) worldwide, but the user interface is in Dutch (self-explanatory}.
For the CalenGoo I have started a new topic "There IS a useful AGENDA app for the Gemini" and there a set of screenshots are inserted in the first slide including different week view options.
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So I use...
Gemini Calendar synced using CalDAV-Sync to ownCloud (contacts synced using CardDAV-Sync)
K9 for my throwaway non-Google accounts
Gmail for my Google throwaway accounts
My main email (personal and work) I SSH (using JuiceSSH) to my home server and use Mutt (with GnuPG, links2 and vim).
For task management I use Taskwarrior which I also access via SSH.
For file management I use Solid Explorer.
I think the most important and most used app for me is JuiceSSH as not only do I use that to access my main email and tasks, but I also use it to access my notes and I use it for remote management for work.
To secure it I only use SSH keys for auth, fwknop for SPA and Yubikey for MFA. Still trying to figure out how to get Yubikey to only require auth for a period of time as currently it asks for each SSH session, which can be an absolute pain when copying files....
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I use
Calendar and Tasks: Calengoo
File manager: Total Commander
E-Mail: K9
Web: Firefox
Notes: Evernote
Office: WPS Office, MS Word and Excel
PDF reader: Foxit
Photo editing: Photo Editor, Aviary
DOS emulator: gDosBox
HTML editing: WebMaster
Twitter: TweedCaster
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After a week and a half of trying every app under the sun to see what works best with the Gemini's landscape format, here's what I've narrowed down as my daily drivers for most tasks:
Launcher: Nova Prime
Calendar: Business Calendar 2 (The free version is fine, but I upgraded to Pro because I liked it so much.)
File manager: Solid Explorer, although ES File Explorer is a close second.
E-Mail: MailDroid (Would be perfect if they'd add an option to swipe to delete -- right now it pops up mail handling options.)
Task Lists: Wunderlist
Web Browsing: Samsung Internet -- Got used to it on my Galaxy Tab and really liked it, and was pleased to see it was available for other devices via the app store. However, I've just installed Microsoft Edge, and it's been very, very good so far -- very clean interface.
Notes: OneNote, Google Keep
Office: MS Office
Remote Access: TeamViewer
Podcasts: Podcast Addict
PDF reader: Xodo, but am not happy with it. Would love something similar to Readdle Documents/PDF Expert for iOS, but haven't found it yet.
Video Player: VLC
Music Player: BlackPlayer EX -- it's alright, but I wouldn't mind finding something better.
Game Emulators: ScummVM, MAME4Droid, most of Robert Broglia's console emulators (NES.emu, etc.), Magic DosBox.
Comic Reader: Perfect Viewer
Ebook Reader: Moon+ Reader
Misc. Must-Have: Ultimate Rotation Control
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(still testing, because I switched from iPhone, most apps are new for me ..)
Launcher: Apex (with Holee Style and icons in 6 rows and 10 columns) (v3.3.3, I read too much too bad things in the playstore reviews for the new v4)
Web: Firefox (see my other topic)
Mail: don't really like any yet, but I don't need it that much anyway. Maybe I'd prefer a Linux-Thunderbird-Port with full-featured menu bar like Thunderbird within AndroPorts (or AndrOpenOffice), however I don't like the fact that you cannot touch in Androports and only use the touchscreen just as a track pad. In the meantime I'm trying hard to like k-9. At least it has a "vintage" (though not customizable) table-view with from/subject/date.
Calendar: after Apple "destroyed" the calendar for me on the iPhone some years ago, I stopped using private calendars, I don't have that much appointments anyway. At work I use Outlook (2010). So maybe if Planet fixes some of the problems with Agenda, I'll be using a private calender again, we'll see. I really liked the Agenda on my Series 3 & 3a, but during school I had more use for a calendar.
File manager: tried various (dual-pane is a must), at the moment I mostly use Ghost Commander, but also mc within Termux. On my Win7 desktop PCs I just use Windows Explorer, on my Win8/XP-Notebooks I prefer the good old "Salamander". I think there is still a lack of keyboard-friendly and desktop-feature-rich Android-Apps, not only in this category. That's why I try using mc in termux, but to be honest, I never really liked those ugly file commanders in DOS, I grew up with Directory Opus on Amiga, even started to program a version in OPL on my Series 3a in the mid 90s - but never finished.(**)
Spreadsheet: undecided yet, have still to play more with AndrOpen Office and MS Excel. If both fail, I'll still have Office 97 via Win98 emulated as a backup option.
Music: not needed (I have my old iPod Nanos for music and I won't change that, I hope my old itunes-version on my iMac with OSX 10.6.8 will serve me the rest of my life, because everything gone worse nowadays and there is no sign of hope on the horizont that anything will ever be as good as before. But don't call me a dinosaur yet, because then how would you call me in 20 years? ;) )
Calculator: I cannot look at that ugly flat stock Android Calculator, so I installed "HiPER Calc".
Text-Editor: undecided yet, playing around with Jota+ and Quickedit. (I think no editor on Android is as good as for example Notepad++ on Windows. Fast file edits are good enough in file managers, but in a stand-alone App I want at least to have tabs, for example.)
**) BTW, I think I sold my Series 3a for the Nokia Communicator in 1996, so that was my first mobile phone and my first smart phone. On the one hand I was really sad that I couldn't write Basic/OPL - programs anymore, but the online-part was more important. What only if Psion had released a Series 3 successor with mobile phone in 1996 instead of Nokia! I even connected the Communicator to my Windows 95 running IBM PC 110 Palmtop ( if anyone remembers this device, I wrote that comprehensive english FAQ between 1996-98. Ah that fun in those good old days. I must admit that this switch to Gemini and Android is a bit of a revival of those old times for me, but instead of hindered by technology and hardware, hindered by software and security restrictions nowadays).
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Mail - K9
File manager X-plore Can be a bit fussy on the Gemini size screen but has many very good features and is a sound replacement for ES once it started getting very bloated and intrusive.
Calendar - aCalendar but tbh I don't really use a calendar in my private life too much
Browser - Opera seems much faster and lighter than Firefox imho
Then the usual WhatsApp, Viber, FB games etc
And finally UserLAnd for my Linux needs