🔐 De-Googled Android operating system /e/OS V2 brings Android Auto support, UI and privacy enhancements
— @liliputing

"There’s a new “wall of shame” to the privacy homepage to let you quickly identify the apps on your device that are sending the most tracking requests."

https://liliputing.com/de-googled-android-operating-system-e-os-v2-brings-user-interface-and-privacy-improvements/

#eos #android #degoogled #privacy #opensource

De-Googled Android operating system /e/OS V2 brings Android Auto support, UI and privacy enhancements - Liliputing

^{Brad Linder (Liliputing)}

15 #Android Apps You can't find on the Google Play store

https://youtube.com/watch?v=xthkvsnNb-8&si=f-Ilgh2ay53RkMFc

15 SECRET Apps You CAN'T FIND on the Google Playstore!

Here are 15 crazy apps that are not available on the Google Playstore for one reason or another. Links below ⬇️As always, proceed with caution with all of th...

^YouTube

Another major step forward for @Mozilla #Firefox and #passkeys

"Firefox on #Android14, third party passkey vendor is not supported" has been fixed.

Fix is in #Firefox128 🚀 🙌

Can't wait for #KeePassDX to add #passkey support on #Android : https://github.com/Kunzisoft/KeePassDX/issues/1421

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1862132#c13

If you're someone with a Samsung Galaxy device who uses the Samsung Internet browser, they finally fixed the bug preventing it from allowing Bitwarden to autofill passwords.

#Android #Samsung #SamsungGalaxy

• Gesture navigation (50%, 46 votes)
• 3 button navigation (49%, 45 votes)

Nieuwe Signal update voor Android 🎉

- Nieuwe UI toegang tot camera 📷
- Nieuwe UI toegang tot contacten 👥
- Cloud back-ups in ontwikkeling ☁️

👉 https://signalapp.nl/signal-app-nieuws/signal-update-android-nieuwe-ui-voor-toegang-geven-tot-camera-en-contacten/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #beta #signalbeta #nieuws #android #update #tech

Signal update Android: nieuwe UI voor toegang geven tot camera en contacten - Signalapp.nl

Nieuwe bètaversie Signal voor Android vernieuwde UI voor geven van toegang tot de camera en contacten. Ook is verder gewerkt aan cloud back-ups.

^{Redactie Signalapp.nl (Signalapp.nl)}

#Passkeys coming to Gboard and WearOS with #Android 15

https://www.elhayat-life.com/2024/05/passkeys-will-show-up-in-gboard-on.html

Passkeys will show up in Gboard on Android 15 and come to Wear OS 5

At I/O 2024, Google's work on passwords continues with a simpler sign-in process, as well as platform updates to Android 15 and Wear OS ...

^{Kyle Morris (Breaking News)}

Android 15 beta 2 released

Google released Android 15 beta 2 today, and with it, they unveiled some more of the new features coming to Android later this year when the final release lands. Android 15 comes with something called a private space, an area with an extra layer of authentication where you can keep applications and data hidden away, such as banking applications or health data. It's effectively a sep

https://www.osnews.com/story/139707/android-15-beta-2-released/

#Android

I need your help, recently I launched this game and I need to make some traction this week for the #android playstore algorithm to recommend it on the results, right now it doesn't even shows unless you search the exact full name.
I want you to try it and tell me what you think, leave 5 stars if you liked it, this means a lot for me, please boost.
Any help is very appreciated

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=game.irodoku

#indie #IndieGame #indiedev #gamedev #mutualaid #neurodivergent

Irodoku Puzzle - Apps on Google Play

Random generated puzzles that test your logical and abstract reasoning.

^{play.google.com}

Interesting. #Android #ChromeOS

"Google is experimenting with running Chrome OS on Android"

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1cr6d6u/_/

If you want to know what trackers and permissions an Android app has, try the Exodus project's search tool. It will let you know what trackers are being used as well as the device permissions they request.

https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

#Android #privacy from @exodus

Which do you prefer?

#CustomROM #Android #Phone #CustomAndroidROM #AndroidPhones #phones

• Enjoying life (46%, 25 votes)
• Running a Custom ROM on my phone (53%, 29 votes)

I found this app on the Play Store that, when used with #Shizuku, can change almost every visual aspect of #Samsung #OneUI.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=project.vivid.hex.bodhi&hl=en_US&gl=US

#Android #SamsungGalaxy

Hex Installer: OneUI themes - Apps on Google Play

Create Personalized Themes for your Samsung Galaxy OneUI.

^{play.google.com}

Psst 👋 Email Preview for push notifications is coming soon!

Now you can know who is sending you an email before opening your mailbox! 🎉

Here's a sneak peek 🤫
#teaser #ios #android #sneakpeek #privacy #security #linux #macos #windows

What are the best #Mastodon clients for #Android these days?

(I picked up a Pixel for work and it's been a long time since I used Android.)

Materialious, modern material design for Invidious - IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/us.materialio.app

#Android

„Materialious“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Modern material design for Invidious

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Overmorrow weather app - IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.marotidev.Overmorrow

#Android

„Overmorrow“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Beautiful minimalist weather app

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

woot! has the Google Pixel 7 Pro 512 GB for $479 right now.

https://electronics.woot.com/offers/new-google-pixel-7-pros-unlocked

#Google #Android #Pixel #Pixel7Pro

This is a pretty good, simple RSS reader app for #Android.

Check out "Aggregator News - RSS Reader"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.and96.aggregator_news

Aggregator News - RSS Reader - Apps on Google Play

Aggregator News - RSS Feed Reader - Read news for free, quickly, without ads

^{play.google.com}

I just discovered a huge list of awesome #android apps that support Google's Material Design..

https://github.com/nyas1/Material-You-app-list?tab=readme-ov-file#-newly-added-apps

GitHub - nyas1/Material-You-app-list: A well organized & frequently updated collection of apps that supports material you design/theme.

A well organized & frequently updated collection of apps that supports material you design/theme. - nyas1/Material-You-app-list

^GitHub

More bug fixes, including F-Droid metadata! Material 3 progress and targeting Android 14. All this AND glimpses of a two-app future in the April 2024 Progress Report for Thunderbird for Android. 📱 ✨

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/05/thunderbird-for-android-k-9-mail-april-2024-progress-report/

#Thunderbird #Android #Development

Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail: April 2024 Progress Report - The Thunderbird Blog

In the latest Thunderbird for Android update, we discuss bug fixes, F-Droid, Push permissions, Material 3, Android 14 and a two-app future.

^{cketti (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Secure PDF Viewer app version 19 released:

https://github.com/GrapheneOS/PdfViewer/releases/tag/19

See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.

Forum discussion thread:

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/12571-secure-pdf-viewer-app-version-19-released

#GrapheneOS #privacy #security #pdf #android

Secure PDF Viewer app version 19 released - GrapheneOS Discussion Forum

GrapheneOS discussion forum

^{GrapheneOS Discussion Forum}

Content warning: Diario de self-hosting de una instancia de GoToSocial Reveal/hide

Día 4:

Las primeras impresiones de GoToSocial como servicio de microbloging para ActivityPub han sido buenas. O al menos tan buenas como cabía esperarse dado lo que indica la documentación oficial.

Dado que la idea es usar esta instancia para darme servicio a mi mismo he optado por usar la instalación más sencilla posible.

Nada más arrancar, la carga de CPU rondaba 0.1, y ahora que estoy federado con 1751 instancias ronda el 0.5. Nada mal.

Como GtS no tiene una GUI completa tengo que usar #Tusky en #Android y Pinafore cuando estoy en mi equipo si quiero poder hacer un uso normal de mi instancia, aunque hay más alternativas. Ya intentaré alojar un Pinafore cuando tenga un rato.

Crear el mirror de mi antiguo usuario desde mi instancia original hacia el actual en esta otra fue un procedimiento sencillo. Recibí las solicitudes de mis antiguos contactos automáticamente y empecé a ver como iba federando con más instancias.

Por otro lado, el proceso de añadir mis antiguos contactos aquí fue bastante manual. Tuve que exportar el CSV desde mi antigua instancia y añadirlos a mano uno por uno. Que sí, que ya se que lo más geek hubiera sido picarme un script con la CLI de GtS, pero no tengo tantos contactos y no me sale a cuenta el ponerme a mirar documentación y hacer pruebas. Además, esto no es algo que me plantee hacer todos los días.

Una vez migrado mi usuario lo primero que noté es que, a parte de lo que iban tooteando mis contactos, no veía mucho movimiento en mi timeline federada. Esto se debe a que aquí estoy yo solo y, tal y como funciona la federación en GoToSocial (no sé si también es así en Mastodon), es necesario que tus contactos hagan boost de otros toots para que tú puedas verlos en tu TL federada. Además, GoToSocial no soporta el uso de relays todavía.

Por suerte, me topé con una solución parcial al problema en este toot. Usando el relay de #FediBuzz puedo añadir tags como si fueran usuarios.

Por ejemplo, si quiero seguir la etiqueta #StarWars, no tengo más que seguir al usuario que la representa en el relay:

@StarWars

También descubrí que se pueden añadir instancias concretas siguiendo, de nuevo, su usuario en el relay. Ejemplo:

@frikiverse.zone

Esto hace que los tags y el contenido publicado en otras instancias aparezcan como boosts en mi home y como toots en mi TL federada. ¡MAGIA! Acabo de aumentar la cantidad de instancias con las que la mía está federando y recibo el contenido que deseaba. O puede que demasiado de él.

¡Horror! Hora mi home estaba experimentando un movimiento excesivo y se me estaba haciendo bastante incómodo el poder leer su contenido. Pues bien, la solución para esto es tan sencilla como acceder al perfil usuario que añadí usando el relay de #FediBuzz y silenciar sus boosts en mi home. Ahora solo los veo como toots en mi TL federada.

Ahora mismo recibiendo contenido de #Mastodon, #Pleroma, #Akkoma, #FireFish y otros sucedaneos de #Misskey desde aquí.

¡Listo! Ya tenemos nuestra instancia de #GoToSocial instalada, funcionando y correctamente federada.

Si no te montas una es porque no quieres 😜

#Fediverse #GoToSocial #ActivityPub #Relay #InstanceMigration

Home · Pinafore

An alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.

^{pinafore.social}

steve mookie kong

2024-04-25 04:48:32

One of the things about being on a single-user #fediverse instance is that outside of the posts from those you follow, no other posts come into the instance.

On #Mastodon, I could add relays tracking specific hashtags (like #StarWars or #StarTrek) using https://relay.fedi.buzz.

On #GoToSocial, there's no way to add relays (yet). But, there is a way to follow hashtags via relay.fedi.buzz. To do this just search for users on relay.fedi.buz with the hashtag in the username. For example the user for #StarWars is:

@tag-starwars

#fediverse

#FediBuzz Relay

The buzzing ActivityPub relay service

^{relay.fedi.buzz}

This article about Google shutting down Google Fit API (and probably Google Fit) is giving me a headache trying to wrap my head around where #Android and #Google #FitnessTracking is heading.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-fit-apis-get-shut-down-in-2025-might-break-fitness-devices

Edit: someone made an illustration - thank you internet, I love you.
#GoogleFit #Fitbit #HealthConnect 😵‍💫

Oh yeah, can't forget about Mastify.

whitescent/Mastify: A Mastodon client built with Jetpack Compose

[WIP]https://github.com/whitescent/Mastify

#Android

GitHub - whitescent/Mastify: A Mastodon client built with Jetpack Compose [WIP]

A Mastodon client built with Jetpack Compose [WIP] - whitescent/Mastify

^GitHub

This is another Mastodon app for #Android I've been watching. It has a nifty "catch up" feature similar to Phanpy.

"Rodent - A Client for Mastodon"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=social.rodent

Rodent - A Client for Mastodon - Apps on Google Play

Rodent is a client for Mastodon, a social network similar to Twitter.

^{play.google.com}

#TMobile USA sends mobile phone usage data to #PushSpring, which T-Mobile acquired in 2019.
T-Mobile assigns a unique ad ID to your cellphone and gathers app usage data.
To opt out and remove all data of you, there's an app - "magenta advertisements platform".

For me it's horrible that they do so without telling and that the app is somewhere hidden - no one would come up with that name!

#mobile #advertising

For #Android (I don't know whether they do it on iOS, too):

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pushspring.preferences

#RISCV support in #Android just got a big setback

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-drop-risc-v-kernel-3438330/

#OpenSource #Linux #Kernel

RISC-V support in Android just got a big setback

The Android Common Kernel is about to remove support for the RISC-V architecture, which is a big setback for RISC-V support in Android.

^{Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)}

#Google Removes #RISCV Support From #Android

https://hackaday.com/2024/05/03/google-removes-risc-v-support-from-android/

Google Removes RISC-V Support From Android

Last year the introduction of  RISC-V support to the Android-specific, Linux-derived Android Common Kernel (ACK) made it seem that before long Android devices might be using SoCs based around the R…

^Hackaday

Gugal - a search app for Google and SearXNG #Android

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/com.porg.gugal/

Gugal | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

A clean and lightweight web search app.

^{www.f-droid.org}

RiMusic - ad-free YouTube Music #Android

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/it.fast4x.rimusic

„RiMusic“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

A multilingual Android application for streaming music from YouTube Music.

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Shiori - bookmarks manager #Android

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.desarrollodroide.pagekeeper

„Shiori“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Bookmarks manager

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Aves - gallery and metadata explorer #Android

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/deckers.thibault.aves

„Aves“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Gallery and metadata explorer

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

I'm going to share some #Android apps today that I think are interesting. Not necessarily ones I use.

Transistor - Simple Radio App

https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.y20k.transistor

„Transistor - Simple Radio App“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Transistor is an app for listening to radio stations over the internet.

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Kitsune - discover new anime and manga #Android

https://www.f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.drumber.kitsune/

Kitsune | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Discover new anime & manga and manage your Kitsu.io library.

^{www.f-droid.org}

Fuck this absolute garbage, Google Play Store.

#PlayStore #Android #Enshittification #Faciverse