I’d rather ask my piracy and privacy respecting community here where it can benefit us all than read some dumb gismodo link called “top 15 android torrent clients,” so, what are people using for some light android torrenting these days? Preferably something on f-droid if ya got it!

  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    LibreTorrent is the standard if you’re looking for an open source client that works well. You can install from the Google Play Store but from what I’ve read it works better if you install it from elsewhere / sideload the .apk so it can better access the Android storage.

    BiglyBT is also open source and available on Android (never used it myself).

    There’s also FrostWire, it is open source though it tries to do a bit more than just torrents so it’s not always quite what people are looking for. I remember the main dev used to be active over on Reddit not sure if he ever made it over to the Lemmyverse.

    A lot of people do like Flud, not open source or anything like that but it does have its fans.

    • coldsideofyourpillow@lemmy.cafeEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      BiglyBT is also open source and available on Android (never used it myself).

      BiglyBT is advertised as the most feature-rich free-as-in-freedom option for Android. However, it seems unmaintained, especially when compared to the desktop version.

      Also, it has a HORRENDOUS UI. I prefer function over form so it isn’t important for me, but some folks might find that important.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    15·
    9 hours ago

    I use LibreTorrent since I only have mobile data. It’s nice.

    I don’t know how to share URL from F-Droid app, it just tries to export the APK file…

    https://gitlab.com/proninyaroslav/libretorrent There’s all the links

    Edit: Oh, I am not sure if it was fixed/improved but previously it would pre-allocate full file size on external storage which would just write corresponding size of probably zeroes and then gradually overwrite it.
    Perhaps this changelog entry is related to a fix:

    POSIX Disk IO option in the settings. This should solve the downloading problem on some Android file systems, for example exFAT on SD cards.

    I didn’t try it as my current phone only works with stupid 4GB per file FAT32 so I don’t use the SD card for torrents anymore.

    This was a huge problem when I was downloading Wikipedia ZIM file (110GB), it crashed a few times, and even when it finally worked the pre-allocation took a few hours (I think) as it had to write 110GB of nothing.

    Edit 2: Yep. Zeros. This file shows up as “110GB” but doesn’t actually take up any (noticeable) free space on internal storage and it gets generated immediately. On SD card (at least in prior versions) it would actually write all of that first, which unless you were looking to partially prevent data recovery is unwanted.