Beginner's Resources

This book tracks the resources from:
( https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/beginner-resource-collection )and 
( https://github.com/molan-git/awesome-sailfishos/blob/master/README.md )


Beginner's Resource Collection

Let's use this topic to collect some resources a beginner might find useful.

Keep this user-centric, there's other categories for development and other discussions.

**Official Jolla Resources**
* [Jolla Store] https://shop.jolla.com/  get your SailfishOS licenses here!
* [SailfishOS Blog]( https://blog.jolla.com/ ) for news, announcements and things
* [Jolla Together]( http://together.jolla.com/ ):  legacy discussion and support forum (read-only, may go away)

* [Jolla Service and Support]( https://jolla.com/support/ ) a.k.a. Jolla Care 
* [Jolla@Zendesk]( https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ) Jolla customer care, where you can [create a new request](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/requests/new ) and  [search]( https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/search ) for others

* [SailfishOS Wiki](https://sailfishos.org/wiki/SailfishOS ) (developer-centric, with some user-related things)
* [SailfishOS Cheat Sheet](https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS_Cheat_Sheet ) for Power Users, and aren't we all
* [Community News](https://forum.sailfishos.org/tag/community-news ) monthly-ish news series on this forum

**Official User Guides**
* [User Guides](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/categories/200392647-User-guides ) the base (see also below links)
* [Jolla User Guide](https://jolla.com/guide/en/index.html ) SF1.0 (outdated)
* [Jolla Tablet User Guide](https://jolla.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/206260208-Jolla-Tablet-User-Guide ) SF2.0 (outdated)

**Community Resources**
* [The Awesome SailfishOS Collection](https://github.com/molan-git/awesome-sailfishos/blob/master/README.md ) a, well, awesome list of resources just like this one, by @molan et. al. more current version here
* [List of Android -> Sailfish OS applications](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/list-of-android-sailfish-os-applications/6866 )
* [Android apps and their Sailfish equivalents](https://github.com/sailfishos-community/equivalentsinsailfish ) also more current version  here also includes entries from the forum list above
* [SailfishOS forum on maemo.org](http://talk.maemo.org/forumdisplay.php?f=52 ) the mother of all forums
* unofficial app resource: [OpenRepos](http://openrepos.net )
* Telegram Group: [Sailfish OS Fan Club](https://t.me/+KeJKDDA60uU2M2Q0 )
  * More discussion channels are linked in [this post](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/sailfish-community-news-11th-march/5409 ), including links for different messaging platforms and languages.

**Third Party Resources**
* Sony [Open Devices](https://developer.sony.com/develop/open-devices/ )

**Technical Resources/Guides**
* [Guide: Installing Sailfish X on Xperias](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/sailfishX#guide-installing-sailfishx-on-xperias )
especially: 
   * [Increasing the "root" LVM volume size](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/sailfishX#33-increasing-the-root-lvm-volume-size )

* [Guide: Creating partitions on SD-card, optionally encrypted](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/guide-creating-partitions-on-sd-card-optionally-encrypted )
* [Guide: Externalising android_storage and other directories or files to SD-card](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/guide-externalising-android_storage-and-other-directories-files-to-sd-card )
  Note that externalising Android storage does not work for AlienDalivik (AAS) on Xperia XA2, 10, 10 II ans 10 III, yet.
* [Guide: Fix certificate issues on SailfishOS, e.g. DST X3 root certificate on older SailfishOS (e.g. Jolla1 with 3.4)](https://gitlab.com/Olf0/guide-fix-certificate-issues-on-sailfishos )
* [Some export (backup) functionality](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/how-can-i-issue-system-backup-over-ssh/4112/3 )

**App Stores /  Repositories Guides**
(enlisted here or in a separated thread ?)
* [How to install app's thread](https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/how-to-install-apps-in-sailfish-x-guide-for-noobs-like-me/1726 )

Awesome Sailfish

A curated list of awesome Sailfish OS resources.

Sailfish OS is a mobile operating system based on open source and developed by the Finnish mobile company Jolla Ltd. and the Sailfish OS community.

Sailfish OS

Jolla

Application Sources / Stores

Useful Communications Apps

Tips and Tricks

Instant Messaging, Social Media and other

In English

In German

In French

In Spanish

In Italian

In Turkish

In Chinese

In Russian

In Arabian

Academic

License

CC0

Android Equivalents in Sailfish

The following list includes some Android apps and their Sailfish equivalents.
Some of the Sailfish apps are available on mutliple channels (Jolla harbour, Openrepos and Chum). 

App Type Andorid App Sailfish App
Weather AccuWeather MeeCast
    Sailfish Weather


German Weather Service
Music & Audio Audio Recorder Recorder


Audiocut/works editor

Audio Player Media built in


Unplayer

AntennaPod  (podcast app)

PodQast, gPodder, kasts (from chum store)

Audiobooks 

Talefish player with Slumber sleep timer

Spotify

Hutspot with Librespot (a tutorial can be found here )



Browser Chrome Jolla browser


Angelfish



Language Google Translate TAO Translator

Duolingo

Wunderfitz multi-lingual local/remote






Productivity Dropbox built into accounts

ES File Explorer File Manager File Browser



Maps & Navigation Google Earth Puremaps or Oms Scout

GPSTester

GPSInfo

Strava/Opentracks

Kuri, Laufhelden, OSM Scout



Social Media Facebook Sailbook

Mastodon Tooter

Instagram Prostogram

discord Sailcord



News & Magazines Feedly Feed Haven
    Feed Me
    Kaktus


Tidings rss reader

News (Nextcloud RSS)

 Fuoten

RedReader (Reddit client)

 Quickddit



Health & Fitness Fit  



Productivity ForkHub

SailHub



Communication Gmail Jolla mail

YetAnotherCallBlocker (call blocker)  Phonehook

Telegram

Fernschreiber, or Yottagram

Signal

Whisperfish

Element (matrix)

Sailtrix, or hydrogen

Tox

jTox






News & Magazines Hacker News SailHN
    Hacker News

newsapi All The News






Entertainment Imgur Sailimgur



Social Media    



Productivity KDE Connect KDE Connect
    Sailfish Connect

MuPDF (PDF reader)

 Documents (built-in)

Printing (built-in)  SeaPrint

Document scanner? Fotokopierer






Tool Pebble Rockpool
    pebble

qrcode reader

QR Code Reader (built-in), BarCode
Authentication Aegis (TOTP) Google Authenticator

FoilAuth

Keepassdx

ownKeepass

MaterPassword

MPW

Android Password Store Passalic



Health & Fitness Runkeeper MeeRun
    Laufhelden









Education Symbolab SailorGram

sailwalpha sailwalpha

Ti85emu Ti85emu



Tool FingerTerm FingerTerm



Social Media Tinder Sailfinder
     

Twitter Tweetian
    Piepmatz
    Pingviini



Video Youtube YTPlayer
    microtube

 Newpipe

Sailpipe

DroidShows

SeriesFinale

Jellyfin (media server client) 

Sailfin










video editor

videoworks

Sailfish OS blogs