https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Climate_Orbiter

Android System Webview provides the Webview, not the browser.

Yes, if you use Firefox or one of its forks. They use a different engine.

However, many things on Android rely on Android System Webview. Tons of apps use it to render content, my Lemmy client Voyager uses it. Tiktok, Facebook, Instagram, all use it, your bank or phone service provider probably use it too.

Browser, Ironfox or Cromite (if you want chromium)

YouTube, either Newpipe, or Tubular (if you want sponsor block)

You might like Droid-ify better than F-Droid, I find the UI better.

For getting apps there is also Obtanium, which pulls directly from the source. Github, Gitlab, etc.

Welcome to the dark better side

This one is interesting, quite limited, but it is 816kb and works at least as far back as Android 4.4

What’s wrong with Simple Keyboard?

It’s not my first choice, but I don’t see anything wrong with it. I do actually use it on an Android 4.4 device since it works on that.

Edit: are you thinking this is Simple Mobile Tools version of Simple Keyboard?

I use my tablet for site surveys and leave my phone at home or work. It is light to carry, has great battery life, has a sim card, memory slot, headphone jack. When I’m done work I can watch a film. It’s some shitty Samsung thing work gave me, it’s great. I don’t think I would ever buy a tablet myself though.

I do not have a use for a smart watch.

Yes, that’s my understanding. So it’s more work to use than point and shoot, which would be a nice feature for someone like me who can recognize major constellations and planets, but not much else.

Planisphere is alright, it’s basic, but does the job. No nasties in it and works offline.

Tubular has sponsor block too.

Do you mean Heliboard? It supports gesture typing, but you need to import the library you want.

There is Open Contacts which also acts as a dialer if you want it too. It creates its own database which could be useful if you don’t want other apps to have your contacts.

It works fine, I use that or Koler

They actually did that with the SimplePhone. Last time I looked the pages were down but I know I archived them on the wayback machine.

They made lots of promises, including that a downloadable ROM would be available, the whole thing quickly crashed and burned.

Reddit had some pretty extensive threads about it. The whole thing seemed like a grift (it was) and convinced me to dump all their apps.

Anyway, if this is something you want to do you could check those threads, I know people linked to the phone they were using (from Alibaba) and the source code was on Codeberg iirc.

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Did you look in about:config ? Maybe the flag for Pocket is there but turned off.

I’m on mobile now otherwise I’d check

Did you switch keyboard languages? If the keyboard language is set to something other than what you are typing in it will underline it (essentially throwing an error).

As far as I can tell Heliboard does not have a global spellcheck, you can’t add multiple languages and have it spellcheck anything but the selected language.

Wired is soft paywall too. Clearing cookies works

To be clear you do not have to add newpipes repo. If you do you are using f-droid only as a client, you are not sourcing it from f-droid.

If you want it at release, add newpipes repo. If you want it from f-droid wait a few days for them to build it.

Swipe down, there will be a message ‘add your favorite apps here by clicking the menu button’ . the wrench icon at the bottom of that message takes you to all the settings

Have you looked at Discreet Launcher? I think it has what you what.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.vincent_falzon.discreetlauncher/

I don’t use Brave, but I did read that post because I am interested in how they are handling this. It’s worth reading for that.