Voyager released to Google Play!
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2613340...
New "it's all good" campaign by Google targeted at iPhone users (pixel.tchncs.de)
Subsequent 15 sec videos trying to convince iPhone users by focusing on:...
Best Nextcloud note apps?
I’m looking for a simple note taking app for Android, which can sync with a Nextcloud server (or similar decentralyzed software). Thanks in advance!
Navigation bar or gesture controls?
Wanted to see how everyone in the community felt about the using the android navigation bar buttons vs using gesture control....
Change file save path for camera app
Hey guys, Im looking for solution to change default save path from /DCIM/Camera to another folder (that syncs with selfhosted cloud). I tried 2 versions of gcam, opencamera and few apps from play store, but cant find a way how to change save path. I also want to use non google galery, enjoying simple galery pro atm....
Android’s unknown tracker alerts are starting to go live (www.androidpolice.com)
The Unknown tracker alerts detection system went live for one of our tipsters on a Pixel phone running Android 14 beta with Play services 23.26.55. With Google saying the rollout commenced at the end of July, unknown tracker alerts should go live for more users in the next few days and weeks....
Best lightweight note-taking app?
Looking for an app for note-taking with the following features:...
ChatGPT app is available (*in the US) (play.google.com)
Why do most newer phones other than pixels have little to no support for custom ROMs ?
I know that most customizability features that were once exclusive to custom roms are available for use right out of the box these days....
Sources: Best Buy will soon offer Google Pixel repairs at select stores (9to5google.com)
Bluetooth paired speaker brings back forced stopped apps
Every time my phone gets connected to bluetooth speaker, messaging apps automatically come out of forced stop state and start running in the background....
Sync for Lemmy is live on Google Play Store (play.google.com)
What is your opinion on material you?
Use Google's New AirDrop Clone to Share Files Between Android and Windows (www.cnet.com)
Google has rolled out the Nearby Share app for Windows, which has been in beta since March. The new tool lets you easily send and receive files – photos, videos, music documents and more – between nearby Android devices and Windows computers....
Smuggled Promotional Notifications: Will Google do anything to stop app authors from doing this?
A couple of times I’ve been presented with notifications from commercial apps downloaded from the Play store that are very clearly promotional material. Thankfully, Android allows me to block particular notification channels if I swipe the notification lightly and hit the gear icon. I can disable the particular “Promotion”...
My haphazard review of the Motorola Razr+
Apologizes in advance for the wall of text....
Is there a way to use biometrics + pin with a password as fallback?
I hate how every phone uses biometrics as a bypass to a pin/password instead of being used in conjunction with a pin/password. With biometric + pin, someone needs both your pin and fingerprint. And there can be a prompt for a longer “fallback” password if there is X number of incorrect attempts or at restart. Is there such a...
What's your favorite email app?
I’m tried of how terrible Gmail is. Id like an email client with folders or categories. If it can sort them automatically (like how Googles now defunct inbox app used to) that would be even better....
Banner proposal (AI made, more in the comments) (lemmy.world)
I’m obviously late for the banner contest but I still think this awesome community also deserves an awesome banner 😁...
What cloud drive?
Hello there,...
Pocket assistant: ChatGPT comes to Android (arstechnica.com)
On Tuesday, OpenAI released an official ChatGPT app for Android, now available in the Google Play Store in four countries: the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with more coming soon. As a client for OpenAI’s language model family, the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 models run on the cloud and provide results to your Android device. It...
Irregularly Updated Community Feedback: Re-opening Edition
Well, we’ve sure had a doozy of a week here on the newly reopened !android....
How to encrypt an external flash drive?
I am looking for a way to encrypt flash drives so that my computer and phone can both use it. The only thing I have found so far that works is Veracrypt/EDS but the app is buggy and slow. Are there any good apps that can encrypt drives such that my computer can also open them?