Which app you use on Gemini? Email, Calendar, File manager

[zsalab2]

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

Calendar: Calengoo
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&hl=en

File manager: stock

[Dixit]

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

Calendar: Calengoo
(the most costumizable calendar) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&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}.

[KF6GPE]

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.

[SNi]

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
- Calendar: Calengoo - (the most costumizable calendar) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&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

[Eldkatten]

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

[Dixit]

Yes. That did the trick. Thank you very much: aCalendar just became more useful.

[gidds]

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?

[Eldkatten]

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

[Ifanafi]

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!

[Dixit]

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.

[rubus-3.142]

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

[zsalab2]

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

Calendar: Calengoo
(the most costumizable calendar) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?...droid&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.

[Mithren Ithil]

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....

[Joern]

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

[RevBlackie]

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