You’re twelve years old on Thanksgiving at six thirty in the morning. You’ll be leaving for Grandma’s in about a half hour, and she’s lives a three hour drive away, going in one direction. You have nothing to prepare yourself on this journey, other than a tablet running Android Eleven. Beware, the speaker is broken and there is no headphone jack. Google Play complains that the device isn’t certified or whatever, but that isn’t going to stop you from downloading apps from third party websites using the family computer. Plus, you have one great advantage: F-droid is installed and ready to rock.
You must hurry, because you wont have an internet connection once you hit the road. Quick, what apps do you install? You have 128GiB’s at your disposal.
Tachiyomi
Which was discontinued, use Mihon instead, it’s an active Tachiyomi fork
Still works. Just cause it’s not being developed anymore doesn’t mean it stopped working. Mind you I am using something based of Mihon nowadays, TachiyomiSY
Yeah I only found out recently because I had thought that it’d been an oddly long amount of time since the last update. Went to check for updates and the button was gone, so I flew over to the github page and saw the announcement lol
Vinyl and a whole ton of mlp music downloaded with yt-dlp
With no sound?
Retroarch and tons of roms. Would set me up for quite a while.
It’s amazing what your phone can run, even better if you have a Bluetooth controller.
Emulators
Super Tux Cart
Endless Sky
Solitaire
ReadEra and a bunch of pirated ebooks from libgen. Basically the top 10 of the 3 genres I like most.
Bonus is that books are a few 100kb at most, so even with a poor internet speed I can download them in seconds, no problem.
2048
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup
OpenTTD
Shattered Pixel Dungeon.
A tablet, you say? Seems like a good reason to finally try Unciv.
And maybe Organic Maps if the driver needs help navigating.
Unciv works perfectly fine on a phone if you feel like risking significant amounts of your time (:
I found it uncomfortable on my phone’s small screen.
A small pillow and sleep.
This is the truest and most correct answer, but it comes with a huge drawback!
Lol, I’ve not seen that pic in forever.
But for real, even kids need sleep (actually more than adults due to still developing). Road trips for me when I was young was either: Cassette Walkman, listen to parents radio or look out the window. Sometimes having nothing got boring (especially driving through Texas), but I think it helped my imagination and self reflection time.
Shattered Pixel Dungeon and/or Hoplite. Or maybe an ebook reader.
this is the way
The only games I play on my phone
Lithium apk and Light Novel epubs.
If I want to play games downloading Retroarch + SNES cores + a good story based game like Chrono Trigger or Earthbound could do the trick, however I like reading on a bigger screen more, and I really dislike playing a game on a big touchscreen.
A BTD game, probably BTD6 but BTD5 would do
Fdroid
Find any offline game that works on my tablet, install as many as you can before you leave. Spend 3 hours cycling through random half good games until you find an awesome one as you arrive, play that on the way home.
Simon Tatham’s Puzzles
40 different puzzle games. You won’t like all of them but you’ll like plenty and they’re all super addictive so even one of them will keep you busy for a few days.
Install Aurora Store and then any free game that you want
