Stupidity at its finest. The whole point of cheap 3rd party apple accessories is to use workarounds to get past apple DRMs and use them without paying the apple tax.

Blame apple foremost for creating such a market in the 1st place. You don't need such workarounds in other phones because they just work.

That was almost a decade ago or even before. I remember adockers recommending white listing search engines or recommending to disable non-instrusive ads to support websites.

What good are 5-7 years of updates? If you don't let us repair our phones when we need. Assuming, everything else is fine.

It's high time Custom ROMs and users alike did this. I cannot run a custom ROM on my primary device due to play integrity shenanigans some apps may have.

I disagree. If google hadn't opened up, manufacturers wouldn't have bothered. We also have great UIs like oneui with useful quality of life features not found in stock android. Not to mention a longer update cycle than even Google the developer of android.

"I'm Kevin Barry, the original creator and primary developer of Nova Launcher. This week Branch parted ways with some employees including people involved with Nova. We recognize this decision is a blow to individuals who have done great work at Nova and Branch and will do great work in the future. We thank them for all their hard work and we wish them the best. I personally really learned a lot from so many of my coworkers and treasure my time with them.

There has been confusion and misinformation about the Nova team and what this means for Nova. I'd like to clarify some things. The original Nova team, for many years, was just me. Eventually I added Cliff to handle customer support, and when Branch acquired Nova, Cliff continued with this role. I also had contracted Rob for some dev work prior to the Branch acquisition and some time after the acquisition closed we were able to bring him onboard as a contractor at Branch. The three of us were the core Nova team

However, I've always been the lead and primary contributor to Nova Launcher and that hasn't changed. I will continue to control the direction and development of Nova Launcher."

– From Kevin Barry the Lead dev of Nova launcher.

This is the whole blog post from the Nova blog.

The firm’s first device running Esper Foundation is the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70a, an all-in-one desktop PC fitted with an up to 12th-Gen Intel Core i9 CPU, alongside 16GB DDR4 RAM and up to 512GB SSD. It’ll be followed by the Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q, M90n-1 IoT, and the ThinkEdge SE30 v2 machines by the end of 2023.

What are you going to do on such a device running android?

Esper Foundation is based on Android 11 and has customizable branding, peripheral compatibility, quarterly security patches, and three years of support. The MDM system, meanwhile, remotely deploys, manages, and updates devices from a single view.

It's based on 3 years old android. Promises quarterly security updates and provides only 3 years of support. I fail to see why any business in their right mind would get this instead of a decent specs chromebook or even a windows computer.

Android already has a setting for that. Disable battery optimization for apps you want to run in the background. Samsung goes much further with their sleeping, deep sleeping, and never sleeping lists.

Absolutely, unacceptable. Shouldn't have been made to stable at all. I guess OS versions being higher quality than previous ones did not start at all.

Android is catering to the general public. The average user would easily understand fast, slow and normal. 20w, 68w, 5w not so much. But, I agree not having to use apps or 3rd party cables just to see the charging watts would be great. Even a Dev flag to enable the feature would be cool.

You need to drill a 3.5mm hole to get it

I'm a paying YouTube premium subscriber and use adguard. But, I have been experiencing the YouTube app being slow in loading comments for some reason.

The fuss is that 3rd party apps need a persistent notification to stay alive. But, because Google owns pixels, it can skip that step and be less intrusive/visible, which others can not.

This is for the Google play system updates. Not the Play services app.

You can check your version in settings, security and privacy, Google play system updates. It should say November 2023 as the latest. Those on January recived the bad update.

Pebble was the best smartwatch maker to date. It's unfortunate no one is capable of replicating the features, battery life, and community support like them. I like snazzy fast displays like anyone else. But, I also like weeks long battery life. A pebble like smartwatch with E-ink displays should be resurrected in the near future some day.

Authy is the last thing a security minded person should ever have been using. Counting the not so recent security breach and all.

Yeah, they could've bought this in 2020. Even the budget smartphones were strong enough to do this.

TL;DR

• The Google Play Store’s subscriptions page is getting a UI revamp later this year.
• Under the revamped subscriptions UI, you’ll see all your active and expired subscriptions, as well as checklists of benefits that you currently have access to or are no longer getting.
• Google demoed a mockup of this new UI at its private Play Summer Press Event that we attended.

If you clicked the link. It says experimental technology. It's not mozilla's fault Chrome is adding features that are not standard. Sites like Discord for utilizing non standard API's.

Android will continue to support RISC-V. Due to the rapid rate of iteration, we are not ready to provide a single supported image for all vendors. This particular series of patches removes RISC-V support from the Android Generic Kernel Image (GKI).

Basically, they still support it. But, won't provide a GKI. So, vendors will need to do more work if they intend to run android on a RISC-v CPU.

Don't base security on what one firm can and cannot do.

The same article links to graymagnet from graykey fully supporting the IOS 17, S24 series and pixel 6 and 7 smartphone. Notice the lack of pixel 8 series smartphone. Does that mean pixel 8 is more secure than anything on this planet? Not quite.

Smartphone security is a continued endeavor. There will always be something that can break it to some extent one way or other. That's why you have monthly security updates to fix security issues as they continue pop. The cellebrite article also mentions IOS 17.4 support soon. It's just a matter of time. I wouldn't fret too much.

Your whole existence revolves around peddling ads before people can watch the ads they want.

Ah, what. Who wants or likes to watch ads at all?

It's there so the repair technicians can check if your phone works fine without actually getting access to your personal information.

Cue the imminent Play Store mass app deletion which Google has just previewed and confirmed is now just six weeks away: “We’re updating the Spam and Minimum Functionality policy to ensure apps meet uplifted standards for the Play catalog and engage users through quality functionality and content user experiences.”

From August 31, the type of apps in Google’s crosshairs will include those “that are static without app-specific functionalities, for example, text only or PDF file apps, apps with very little content and that do not provide an engaging user experience, for example, single wallpaper apps, and apps that are designed to do nothing or have no function.” Of which there are literally millions—some no doubt on your own phone.

For developers, Google warns apps must “provide a stable, responsive, and engaging user experience… Apps that crash, do not have the basic degree of adequate utility as mobile apps, lack engaging content, or exhibit other behavior that is not consistent with a functional and engaging user experience are not allowed on Google Play.”

According to the article, it launched with android 10. So, just android 11 and android 12L. Giving an android 13 update was the least they could've done, considering android 14 is around the corner. Oh, well. Do not buy products from companies that do not guarantee to provide one.

The cryptic part being this is not talked about much. Or manufacturers choose to skirt this issue. If you read online this issue can randomly happen to any device after a software update without physical damage. With phones getting 4-7 years of software updates this becomes a serious issue when updating especially when you are out of warranty.

Idiot google policy banning a 12 year old account, which doesn't even violate its policy. Maybe something a human review could've helped to cross-check if it really needed a ban. Either way sucks for the dev.

You didn't get lucky. They pulled the update. The news is atleast a day old. Here's mashaal's toot on it: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111807173437858958

Lemmy is the new way of life. Reddit is the toxic ex.

Fuck this copilot/gemini shit. At this rate I will need a filter in my social media and news sources to remove everything related related to them.

Not just root. Some even detect if you have usb debugging enabled and warn or refuse to work unless you turn that off.

You can if you check his mastodon: https://androiddev.social/@MishaalRahman/111942706749831438

Yeah, lol. Who has the time to type a passcode or pattern unlock when a single click or glance can unlock your phone within a second.

Who is watching YT videos through this app?

The general populace at large? The amount of ads getting plastered and blasted makes me cringe when I see the non-premium YouTube app. I use adblock and also have premium courtesy of YT music subscription so I'm immune for the most part.

But, non-techy people do not know addblock is an option and also prefer not paying for subscription.

5 years of hardware support with 8 years of software support is starting to approach desktop class software updates. It would be superb going from android 13 to android 18, 19, and maybe even 20. The snapdragon should easily hold out for at least 5-6 years.

Good. Hopefully, samsung smartphones can enjoy this QOL improvement.

Stupid if you ask me. Youtube is not, should not be the platform for games.

That would be a liability, and they would go after the parent company crying foul play.

Games, apps, music, media and all that need storage. I can make do with 256gb if it's expandable. Otherwise, I need high internal storage space to make it work.

The camera should be better. But, what midrange smartphones still provide a headphone Jack? I have all but seen it disappear alongside fading sdcard support.