In around two weeks I’m migrating from iOS to a postmarketOS phone.

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@luana based,,,

[hsza@social.tudbut.de]

@luana btw try to get the openrc variant first, if theres an option to avoid slopstemd go for it

[clygro@labyrinth.zone]

@luana for an xmpp client kaidan might be good enough (idk about spaces support and it appears that my xmpp server is down so i can't check)
for discord i think your best bet is probably dissent (which is gtk4 sadly) or maybe just use a pwa as i think they added a mobile layout for the webapp
signal is a bit of a dead end as flare last time i tried to use it barely worked and it's gtk4, i think i did see a project that did tweak the electron desktop client for linux mobile, i can't remember where that was from though
for telegram the official desktop client should be good enough as when i last used it basically had all the features of the mobile app (although i think they removed sign ups from it), also iirc it's qt and not electron which is a bonus
for the email client, the pmos repos have mobile-config-thunderbird which should make thunderbird more better on mobile, my second recommendation would be geary, but i've had problems with it remembering the email passwords so i would just use thunderbird
for all the others i don't really have much of a clue apart from the new plasma keyboard is better than the old maliit keyboard but it's still missing the keyboard height adjustment though, all of the onscreen keyboards suck in their own ways unfortunately

[sorro@woof.tech]

@luana in the case of discord, if you open it from the web browser and it detects that you are on mobile, it shows a mobile-friendly version of the desktop UI

thats how i use discord on my android phone at least, and it works quite well (probably a bit slower than the app though)

as for whatsapp on waydroid, if you dont need google play services for anything else and you'd rather avoid them in the waydroid container, whatsapp gives a direct download to the apk in their website: https://www.whatsapp.com/android (you will probably need some extra app for push notifications if you install whatsapp like this though)

[doubleubee@mastodon.social]

@luana very cool, never used pmos before but am intrigued. Will watch this space!

[davidoclubb@toot.wales]

@luana Shattered pixel dungeon, podcasts, tuba, readest. I know you weren't asking for these types but they're the ones I use most! Also firefox obvs

[betarays@p.changeme.fr.eu.org]

@luana@wetdry.world I use Thunderbird with the mobile configuration for an email client but it doesn’t adapt the calendar part I think. For XMPP I use Dino but it doesn’t support spaces (maybe a web/PWA client like Movim can be fine on your phone?). For maps I use Mepo for now but it doesn’t seem maintained anymore and is slightly unpolished. I haven’t tried any alternative clients for Signal as it requires connecting to a “phone”, which needs to scan a QR-code, but I guess for these things there are alternative clients and bridges. In general I would suggest looking at GNOME and KDE apps and the postmarketOS wiki when you need something.

[newbyte@mastodon.nu]

@luana I used to use (GNOME) Health for health tracking but one day my data was just all gone ️ Stopped using it at that point. It's also effectively unmaintained.

[richardwonka@mas.to]

@luana there is a linux app on github, I think (?). It used to be called `qobuz-player` and now redirects you to the new name that I can’t remember right now. Even with a text- and a web-interface

[allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@luana hi! Daily driving Plasma Mobile for a couple months (and pmOS for half a year).

Can't answer all, but here's some:

1. Not that I'm aware of, but libadwaita apps seem to work relatively well, so maybe you can find something there?
4. CalDav syncing seems to work from Nextcloud via the system settings. Not sure about non-NC
5. For what watch? There's RockWork for Pebble watches, which I packaged, but is not mergable as it depends on Qt5. I'm working on-and-off on a GTK replacement

1/?

[allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@luana
9. There's BitRitter, but I haven't gotten it to log in successfully yet. I use the FF extension otherwise, and manually copy passwords.
10. There's Butler which just wraps a webview, but no widgets or anything AFAIK. Butler fails to log in for me but it might be an issue on my side.
11. I use Geary, which works if you get past the janky UI. There's a mobile-config-thunderbird but it doesn't render any emails for me.

2/?

[allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@luana
12. Maybe you can bridge them to XMPP or Matrix? For Signal there is a native client called Flare, which is very good, but not 100% for receiving/sending (due to Signal changing their API frequently methinks)

13. I currently use Pure Maps for turn-by-turn. It has an online mode, but dunno about traffic. There's GNOME Maps as well but it freezes my phone.

15. There's Unfettered Keyboard, which I used to type all these. I really love it, and am working on adding some missing bits!

3/3

[luana@wetdry.world]

@allpurposemat I’ll try those out, thanks a lot!!

\5. which watch?

Garmin Venu 4

[stovis@fosstodon.org]

@luana plannify is really good for reminders etc https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.alainm23.planify

[luana@wetdry.world]

@stovis oh that looks cool, thanks!

[fisherdude@mastodon.social]

@luana Go to Flathub. It has a mobile friendly section. Also, dont be afraid to use PWA apps. They work well.

[luana@wetdry.world]

@hsza as I mentioned I’m getting nix and system-manager on it, so unless the openrc family gets a feature-complete systemd-compatible implementation that’ll unfortunately be a no

[crystallinefire@app.wafrn.net]

@luana@wetdry.world

for email i've used geary before and it's alright . there's also merkuro mail if you prefer something qt based , but i generally find that gtk apps perform a bit better ( just a rule of thumb , not always true )
dino is probably your best bet for xmpp , it's not perfect but it's what i've found to be the most usable .
there's armcord for discord , for signal there's flare
there's pika backup , which is pretty nice
for the keyboard , you could try stevia instead of plasma-keyboard ? ( or maliit2 maybe ? ) there's also ways to get android keyboard working with atl but i haven't figured that out yet .
for bitwarden , there's not really a good option besides just like the browser extension for firefox .
there is a pinetime compatible app if that's what you mean , but there's not a generic gadgetbridge port , that is very much android specific .
for reminders , there's merkuro calendar if you prefer qt apps ! and for gtk , there's planify ( disclosure , i have not tried this one out personally )
there's not like , any good mobile optimized mobile editor for linux . onlyoffice is sorta the best it gets in this regard and it's still not great .

i have not tried nix home-manager yet since my phone isn't really powerful enough for it , but if u get it working i'd love to know lol

hope this helps !
-CRYSTL ⬡

[chfkch@ruhr.social]

@allpurposemat
I am the maintainer of BitRitter, can you elaborate (in DM/here/issue) what is happening? I am sure we can work it out.

OT: for tasks i use Planify, works good with my nextcloud CalDAV sync.
@luana

[pan@social.treehouse.systems]

@luana For Telegram Telegram Desktop works great, and there is a fork of Signal Desktop that makes it mobile friendly, you could use WhatsApp using atl (Android Translation Layer) but that's not perfect yet, also keep in mind battery life is not great unless you use something like mobile-power-saver, i have it packaged here but i didn't have the time to send it to upstream yet (it only works with systemd) https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/panpanpanpan/pmaports/-/tree/mobile-power-saver