PhyPhox app. Let’s you access every physical sensor your android device SoC has access to (at least for most major manufacturers). Especially on high end phones, they include a huge array of sensors from accelerometers to magnetometers to high accuracy air pressure barometers. Plus it includes a lot of processed sensor outputs, like rudimentary range finding sonar, audio frequency spectrums, etc… And it’s free!

I assume this is pretty basic for people on Lemmy, where you can’t throw a rock without hitting a couple of programmers and Linux nerds, but I always feel so cool using Termux to SSH into my laptop that I use to self-host a couple of things. Makes me feel like a 1337hax0r person.

As a flight computer/logger when paramotoring. Shout out [email protected] 😊

Here’s a screenshot of flight playback from this evening!

I like JustWatch because it lets you search all your streaming services at once. If you set up a (free) account, you can limit it to just the streaming services you have personally. Handy as hell.

Or get gameboy. No tracking at all

I use the desktop mode of my phone when I want to multitask my laziness in multiple windows simultaneously. I can YouTube using vanced, scroll through Lemmy and read manga.

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I’ve been playing around with Super Image more and more. Recently I used it to upscale some Ghibli stills so I could use them as wallpapers. It’s so neat to me that I can do it all offline, with the power of my own device.

I use Admin Hands for ssh and sftp access to my NAS.

You can turn an old phone or laptop into a wifi extender.

You can use an old iPhone to get iMessage working on an android.

If you attach a lens to it you can use your phone as a binocular

You can use your phone to scan a document and turn it into a digital file.

You can use it to make a signature, upload to computer to make a legally binding e-signature (the security of this is ambiguous, do at your own risk).

Theres probably an app somewhere to use it as a trackpad (if not can somebody please do this).

I’m pretty sure there’s an app to use it as a secondary monitor for your PC or laptop

If you ever repair or fix things, take pictures at various points to have a reference to how it comes back together.

It you ever need to remember anything just take a picture. (Use this all the time at work for stocking things, take a picture of its location address, walk down the warehouse etc)

I think there’s an app to use it as an angle gauge by tilting it. Used for hanging pictures and stuff.

Probably a pair of calipers with the right app and calibration.

You can get a “remote controlled button presser and switch flicker”. You attach it to a light switch or anything else to remotely activate it. Great for turning on and off a space heater or computer.

Use an old one as a remotely viewable security camera, with battery.

Pierce the battery to make a fire (can only be used once)

That’s about all I can think of right now

rensim! (I tried to share the app, not sure if the link will work) it’s puyo puyo.

I haven’t done much with it yet but I have Termux installed on my phone. Termux is a free and open source app that, while it’s very limited, allows you to run Linux applications on an android phone/tablet. So far the only things I’ve done with it was that I ran neofetch and I used ciso to compress some iso files into cso files, both of which were just to test it out and get used to using it. I do plan on enabling and trying out X11 at some point but android prevents Termux from having hardware acceleration and the amount of software available for non-android Linux distros is very minimal, so I have no idea how useful it would be.

The Roland Boss Tuner app to tune instruments. It’s free, it works and it doesn’t show me ads or inapp purchases.

I… I do distro hopping with my phone (custom roms/open bootloader) I know there are huge ass communities for that, but at least I don’t know anyone who bothers with this in person lol.

That comes with flashing modules and stuff, because no root, no fun.

I also play Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 4 (no bait), I am talking about a fan game made for PS2, I use Aethersx2 and I think I should be using Nether…

I manage my Synology NAS and docker stuff from here, apps like Androtrainer and nzb360 are good for this, aside the usual Synology utilities, also I control my Nvidia Shield TV with the official app… And talking about that I would never understand why people bother with apps such as “Downloader” I always find better easier and have more control when I download the apk or whatever I want to put in the Shield and share it form my phone through SMB (in this case X-Plore) or even from my MacBook Pro… I mean, I could take it for devices such as Chromecast with Google TV which don’t have SMB by default…

I use my phone like a sensor for accelerometry when I’m curious about the forces acting on me. Or iI use it as a spectrograph.