Notices tagged with android

I find #Riot really nice to use on #Android/Linux. It's a shame it's so ugly on GNU/Linux. Maybe something to do with fact it's a website wrapped in #Electron bloat? I'm really looking forward to a native #Matrix app for GNU/Linux, with a less eye-abusing GUI. Hopefully the work being done on apps for mobile GNU/Linux devices like the #Librem5 will also lead to more native app for the desktop.

#Anbox allows a full #Android/Linux OS to run inside a sandboxed container on a GNU/Linux system, so that Android apps can be run on the desktop (or potentially touchscreen GNU/Linux) without the extra weight of full emulation:
https://github.com/anbox/anbox

#Fedilab does not make sense and it makes me angry. Why is there a "35" notification, but no new messages? Why does it sometimes scroll back one message, then pretend that the message it moved off-screen is new and unread?

#Android 6

WTF?! My non-rooted phone had #Google Maps pre-installed, but I only use #OSMand for navigation etc.

Yesterday, I walked to a local restaurant, without using my phone, and had lunch there before walking back.

I never opened #GoogleMaps.

Today, I find a notification from Maps:
How was {restaurant name}?
Rate places to get smarter recommendations.

So it tracked and calculated where I ate without even opening my phone or the app.

Definitely time for #Pinephone / #LibreM

#privacy #Android

#TuxJam 67 - Pondering Podcrawl is available for download. Andrew (@mcnalu), Dave (@thelovebug) and Kevie discuss the recent Podcrawl in Glasgow, as well as looking at OSM Tracker and Bierverkostung on #Android. As well as plenty of #linux and #ccmusic talk #podcast https://tuxjam.otherside.network/?p=447

bad habit of the day: using incognito tabs in #android #firefox because I have lots of regular tabs. this bites me in the ass when the inevitable crash happens.

Italian 🇮🇹 translation for @pixart updated!

PS: thanks for developing this client! 🤗

#PixArtMessenger #xmpp #android

Italian 🇮🇹 translation for @pixart updated!

PS: thanks for developing this client! 🤗

#PixArtMessenger #xmpp #android

#Silence is an #Android app for encrypting ordinary text messages (#SMS and #MMS), so only the sender and receiver can read them (#E2EE). After about a year of working on setting up their own infrastructure, independent on GH, the developers behind Silence are releasing new versions again:
https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.smssecure.smssecure/

After about a year of working on setting up their own infrastructure, the developers behind #Silence are releasing new versions again. Silence is an #Android app for encrypting ordinary text messages (#SMS and #MMS), so only the sender and receiver can read them.
#E2EE

Nexus 5 arrived! 😍
Can't wait to install #ubports on it!
Does someone knows if i have to update it to #android 6 (last avail for this phone) before doing the procedure or i can go right now?

Boosts welcome 😁

#nexus #nexus5 #askfediverse #askfedi #ubuntutouch #ubuntu

It was already known that Gear VR is dead, but Google confirmed to me that its Daydream VR platform won't come to the Note10 either. #android #vr

https://www.androidpolice.com/2019/08/13/the-galaxy-note10-marks-the-end-of-google-daydream-and-gear-vr/

@succfemboi As for 4, it looks to me like a petty nitpick. The pitch of the /e/OS project includes giving users an OS and remote services that are not controlled by Goggle. #MicroG is not controlled by Goggle. It's a #FreeCode project that allows people to use the handful of otherwise free code #Android apps, which make the mistake of depending on Prey Services. If you don't use any of those apps, and don't want MicroG on your device, /e/OS gives you root, so uninstall it. What's the big deal?

If clients like this were developed for mobile GNU/Linux like #PureOS, #eOS, #PostmarketOS, as well as for #Android and #Sailfish, it could be a game changer. Although it would work better if creating a webmail account on a community-hosting service automatically created Jabber and Jami accounts associated with them. Which would require hosts to run an #XMPP server and a Jami ID #blockchain node.
https://jami.net/the-jami-blockchain-switches-from-proof-of-work-to-proof-of-authority/

#Jami does an amazing job of allowing two or more people to do #voice or video chat without any centralized servers involved. But I'm having a lot of trouble getting it to sync my contacts and text messages between apps on different devices, even when I have them open and running at the same time for quite a while. It's also too easy to lose your account if users remove the apps from all their devices without making a backup, and that doesn't seem to be possible with the #Android app.

@abby have you looked at the forums available using #Briar? The big downside is that it's only available for #Android, but it's totally #P2P and #E2EE encrypted. Briar is mainly a text chat client, but it can do forums and blogs via the same P2P network.

@clacke Jami = #Ring. New name. When did you try it last?

> This is a conundrum for p2p communications

... with devices that depend on battery power. True. Although I think it has as much to do with the efficiency of subsystems that handle things like push notifications as the apps themselves. I suspect grown-up GNU/Linux coming to mobile devices will lead to improvements in this that aren't possible with kindergarten OS like #Android.
@AmarOk @nurinoas @teaneedz