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How does everyone feel about Samsung phones?

Hold on tight, we are almost back…...

So, what's stopping you from getting a foldable? [Poll] (9to5google.com)

Foldable smartphones have reached their fifth major generation, as heralded by Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 5 and Fold 5......

What's your Google Maps open-source replacement?

I imagine certain features like Google Maps’ different busyness indicators might be missing because otherwise that would require telemetry?

Motorola is disabling Android phones purchased through unauthorized sellers in Mexico (9to5google.com)

Google Play to revoke fullscreen notifications permission from newly installed apps that don't provide calling or alarm functionality (nitter.net)

Users will be able to manually revoke that permission on Android 14 (already available in the current beta under Apps -> Special app access -> Full screen notifications);...

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 😁...

APKMirror now blocks visitors allegedly because of "adblock" (lemmy.world)

RIP the only reliable website for grabbing APKs. I don’t even actually have an adblock on my side....

78 desktop extensions available for testing in the Firefox Beta and Nightly Android builds (blog.mozilla.org)

Google Podcasts to shut down in 2024 (techcrunch.com)

No more YouTube recommendations on Android if video history is turned off (lemmy.world)

This is explained on this support answer...

Eternity v0.1.0 released! Formerly Infinity for Lemmy (codeberg.org)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/803336...

Saturday APPreciation thread (Jul 1 2023) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

Saw some users commenting that we should have these megathreads in here as well....

Bromite is dead, long live Cromite. (github.com)

The Bromite project has been inactive for the last 9 months or so. Today I found this fork of Bromite that’s well maintained and seems to work flawlessly. Hope it helps others who were looking for a replacement.

Android Community Reopening Announcement

We have received numerous reports from users about the closure of the c/android community. While we fully support the original community owners’ decision to move to another instance, it will eventually be necessary to open up the community on Lemmy.world. The beauty of the fediverse is that multiple communities on the same...

What's the 3 apps that you can't live without?

I’ll start, mine will be Google Notes, 1Password and WhatsApp.

Why does tech reporting seem so bad now?

Is everyone just using AI and not proof reading? I see this a lot lately. Even Tom’s Guide has bad editing, a good example is this article: www.tomsguide.com/news/pixel-8...

bringing back the windows home screen. (vlemmy.net)

Google updates privacy policy to train its AI on everything you post online (www.androidauthority.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/11955...

Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion)

Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn’t true on the Play Store at all....

Google delays launch of Find My Device network and trackers, benefiting Apple (9to5google.com)

Jerboa currently unusable for other people?

For the past day or so every time I try to open Jerboa it just crashes immediately without an error message why. Is there any scheduled update/fix for Jerboa? I'd like to be able to browse on mobile again and really enjoyed the app while it was working....

Do you think Android will one day become so restrictive that sideloading (installing apps outside of Playstore) will become extremely limited, or completely banned?

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