**The Fairphone 4**, as nominated by [@[email protected]](https://lemmy.world/u/be_gt)! As promised, you will be receiving 1 Lemmy Silver, and of course, bragging rights.  But, we also have an honorary Golden Lemmy award, which goes to... **Every Android device that is not the Samsung Galaxy S22+**, as nominated by [@[email protected]](https://discuss.online/u/OpenStars)! You get 1 Lemmy Silver (and bragging rights) too!  That's it for this year's Golden Lemmy, folks! (Nomination thread is [here](https://lemmy.world/post/10291122) for future references.)

Previously: [Submission Statement Edition](https://lemmy.world/post/3297922) Haven't done these in a while, so let's get started. 1. Since we haven't really heard any feedback one way or the other, *rule 8 is now official*. To be fair, we've had a lot less microblog posts than I expected (only one Twitter/X post in the last month even after I waited longer than the initial 1-2 weeks expected, and that was a crosspost.) - Again, the rules are always a work in progress, feel free to give your two cents here whenever you like. 2. As you guys know, PipedLinkBot went completely insane 2 days ago and looks like it's temporarily shut down. So, I'd like to use this opportunity to explain why I banned the bot pretty much immediately after our community reopened. (And gloat a bit, of course) - Even though I do agree with the principle of using open source, privacy focused frontend instead of using Youtube directly, I have a real problem with using a bot to respond every time somebody posts a Youtube link. It feels like spam, and it doesn't feel like it serves any utility besides pushing an agenda (even though many people here would agree with it). Most people have seen it around here enough to use pipedvideo if they wanted it to use it already. - I think it's always been a rage inducing part of the reddit experience that you see you received a response to your comment, but only have it been a bot smugly correcting your grammar or tell you all your letters are in order or something useless like that. So, for this place, I would like to make sure that everyone you talk to here is a real person as much as possible, because people inspire people to be greater, but bots don't.

I want to know if it's reasonable to expect a degree of privacy with stock android.

This is probably why the last releases for Graphene were so uneventful, but its good to hear that all hope is not lost... Yet

Hi, I would like to forward automatically [Text messages](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sms). A couples of years before, I was doing it easily with some [FLOSS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free/libre_and_open-source_software) apps But none of those apps (I keep the apk ;) ) works anymore on "recent" AOSP[^1] phone 🤨 ( Thanks to g**gle, to not take care of retro-compatibility ).. So, I lost time to dig for new apps (FLOSS and not) - https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.pierreduchemin.smsforward/ The GUI is launching, but nothing happen.... not even an error message. - https://apkpure.com/sms-forwarder/com.frzinapps.smsforward in addition do not be FLOSS it weight 70MB XD !!! , no thank you. I'm willing to write a "Shell" script to run under Android, to just do that (I've never developed for Android, so if you have any advice I'm all ears ) or any other solution like - Linux phone ROM ( without systemd ) - or maybe a simcard dongle, to allow my Linux computer to receive/send text ? [^1]: a ROM that use [AOSP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_Open_Source_Project) is generally [gapps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Workspace) free 😍

This is in the native phone app. I'm in the US. Definitely didn't have this feature before. It announces when you start recording. I know it's been a thing with some other phones and in other countries, but hey it's cool to have it on my Pixel 8.

I noticed a new background image on the Android podcast app this morning. I thought one of my podcasts changed their icon art. Nope, it's a Logan Paul podcast. I've never listened to any of his stuff. I only heard about him when he challenged someone to an MMA fight I think? I only listen to Behind the Bastards, The Dollop, and Prosecuting Donald Trump, plus occasionally My Brother My Brother and Me. I figured maybe one of my kids had subscribed or I had hit a subscribe button on the home page. Well, in the app, when I unsubscribe it immediately re-subscribes. I saw where other users had the same problem and it went away after an hour. This was 11 hours ago. I pulled it up on the Web version of Google podcasts. It looks like it unsubscribes but if I refresh, I'm subscribed again. Any ideas? Is there a way to block a podcast? Edit: Problem still persists 24 hours later. I'm not allowed to turn on the explicit filter either. On the app or on the web interface. What's a good android program that will record video of my screen and highlight taps? I want to record this. I think I still have OBS studio on my computer to show the web behavior.

Does anyone know any FOSS app for sports and live scores?

Hey guys, I'm using Home Assistant to set alarms on my phone and its working fine. I can set alarm time with a message using this string in my yaml file: `"android.intent.extra.alarm.HOUR:{{8}},android.intent.extra.alarm.MINUTES:{{15}},android.intent.extra.alarm.SKIP_UI:true,android.intent.extra.alarm.MESSAGE:Take Medication"` Now I'd like to add a daily repeat or for example repeat every Wednesday. From the same source I found it should be possible using EXTRA_DAYS. I couldn't find any example so I was trying every combination that came to my mind like: ``` android.intent.extra.alarm.DAYS:{{Calendar.SATURDAY, Calendar.WEDNESDAY}} android.intent.extra.alarm.DAYS:{{ [Calendar.SATURDAY, Calendar.WEDNESDAY] }} android.intent.extra.alarm.DAYS:[Calendar.SATURDAY, Calendar.WEDNESDAY] etc. ``` How to shape that android.intent.extra.alarm.DAYS properly? Documentation says the values should be `ArrayList<Integer>`: [Documentation is on this link](https://developer.android.com/reference/android/provider/AlarmClock#EXTRA_DAYS)

> Google appears to have quietly rolled out a feature to the Play Store that allows users to remotely uninstall apps from other devices.

With fewer phones including stand-out features, I'm curious to know what everyone thinks the best phone for an android enthusiast/power user is nowadays? Your definition of a power user is obviously up to you, but I always thought of one as someone who experiments with third party apps, is open to flashing, sideloads apps, debloats, etc in order to get the most bang for your buck, and the first thing that comes to mind is the Pixel series (but what do i know?) What do you all think?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3365629 > The app that synchronizes multiple lemmy accounts so you can migrate and keep backup accounts across instances, it's opensource and free, currently working in android and windows. > > It's in homologation now and anyone can test, any feedbacks are welcome as always. > > If you find any bugs please report > > [Github Source](https://github.com/gusVLZ/lemmy_handshake) > > --- > ## [Download now](https://github.com/gusVLZ/lemmy_handshake/releases/tag/beta) > --- > >  >  >

Hey folks, Does anyone know of an app (FOSS or otherwise) that has a built-in REST-server to get current device info? I'd like to be able to hit the API from within my local network to get info including: - Free space vs used space - Battery percentage Why? I have an old Android device that sits in the closet as a Syncthing node. It does some other random stuff too. I don't really want to have to get up and look at it to find out certain information. I already have a VNC server running on it. I even have a (sketchy) SSH server on it that I currently call `df -h` on to programmatically get free space info. The SSH server has some weirdness where it seems to stop working after some time, among other oddities. Also it can't get battery level afaict. I imagine this is possible using ADB, but I don't really want to have to always leave the device in wireless ADB mode or manually put it in that mode each time; unless that is easier than I think. Thanks!

I’m planning to get a Pixel 8 this month after using only iPhones since my first iPhone in ~2010. I used to be a big Apple fan, so I have a good understanding of iOS, good iOS apps, etc, from years of Apple blogs, podcasts, etc. I have nowhere near the same level of understanding of Android. For instance, I was just watching a video recommending a particular app and it mentioned ABD permissions, which I had to go look up. I’d love any recommendations y’all might have for good, ideally not boring resources that I can use to get a good understanding of the Android system, power user concepts, good apps, etc. Thanks!

Does anyone happen to know the reset network connections script or command that runs when I hit the network reset button? Or how I can achieve a similar result?

Evening, all. Looking for recommendations for any Android games that you enjoy which can be played completely offline without a data connection of any sort. These used to be super common once upon a time, but these days it seems every single game I try just doesn't function if you are totally out of service area. Would appreciate any tips! Thanks in advance. EDIT: Some great suggestions in here! That will keep them busy a while. Thanks so much everyone.

I'm a web developer, mostly with Python and have close to zero Java or Kotlin experience, but I want to build a bunch of tools for my phone where I can `Share` a URL (for example) to an app that simply takes that URL string and sends an HTTP POST request to a pre-arranged URL with some pre-arranged headers or POST data. So basically I'm looking for an app that: * Lets you define a series of endpoints * Accepts share intents from other apps to then bring up a selector asking *"Which endpoint do you want to send this to?"*, sends it, and exits. It seems a little nuts that I should have to develop a separate app for each endpoint, when the app experience isn't really something I'm interested in. Can someone here point me to an app that already does something like this? I'd prefer a FOSS option if possible, but at this point I don't even know what to search for. Example use-cases: * Send a YouTube URL to a service that downloads said video and stores it on a share on my VPN * Send a text snippet to a service that stores that snippet as a Markdown file for use as ideas for future blog posts * Send an article URL to a service that strips the ads and images out and saves a Markdown file for future reading.

**Made a new icon pack for Breezy Weather users** 🌤️ If you’re using [Breezy Weather](https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather), a customizable open-source weather app, I’ve put together an icon pack featuring Google’s **official Weather Icons v4** set.   **What’s inside:** - 🌞 **80+ weather icons** from Google’s collection - 🌙 **Day & night variants** — works like the built-in [Pixel/Flat/Geometric packs](https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather-icon-packs) - ⚡ **Simple setup** — install, select in settings, done **⬇️ Download:** [v1.0.0 Release](https://github.com/mbatthew/GoogleWeatherIconsV4Pack/releases/tag/v1.0.0) **📂 Source:** [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/mbatthew/GoogleWeatherIconsV4Pack) Free, open source, and fully attributed. Enjoy the new look! ☀️🌙 

>The cyber defender, which specializes in disrupting bot attacks, digital fraud and abuse, said it impeded a “key monitization mechanism” of a number of criminal operations involving **“backdoored” off-brand mobile and CTV Android devices sold to end users through retailers in China**. Guess you have to think twice before buying a no-name Android device from Aliexpress from now on 👀

I've been using SwiftKey since before the Microsoft acquisition, but now I want to move on because it's pushing copilot. What do you recommend? I'm fine with the play store or F-droid, and I'll pay for a good one if necessary

As you can see in the picture, version **code** looks apparently different from version number. So how do I find?

> But the company is “reducing elements on the ads player.”

GSIs sound like a way to [reinvent the square wheel](https://wikiless.funami.tech/wiki/Reinventing_the_wheel?lang=en) when it comes to uefi

> Google messages is making its double tap to heart gesture available to all users with a new server-side update to the app.

Please include a link to homepage/Play/F-Droid.

I am thinking of trying a new OS on my Pixel 8 pro, and I’m wondering if switching will require me to inform or update my cell service provider, Verizon, in any way to stay connected. When I just moved my SIM card from one device to another, I learned that it activates an anti theft feature after a couple of days of working normally. This was easily fixed with Verizon support, but it was a hassle since I’m still on my parents’ phone plan. Am I likely to have this or a similar issue after installing a new OS, or should my cell service and data continue to work?

Hi, I created another user on my custom rom Android (aka Multiple users) Unfortunately when doing so the system do not adapt the permission of the sdcard and some other directory, thus the new user can't access them :/ So I wanted to "remote" terminal into my android device from my computer. How are you achieving this ? ( without 3thparty apps please ! ) Thanks.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18741199 > Last year, the document scanner in Google Drive got a big update and the tool on Android can save uploads as JPEG files.

> An in-development change to the Google Calendar app on Android reveals how Google could simplify event creation with multiple calendars.

> Android 16 DP1 adds a new feature called Even Dimmer that lets the screen be dimmed below the lowest level of the brightness slider.

> After debuting in beta earlier this month, Google is now rolling out the Android Auto 13.8 update to users, but...

Please let me know how I should deal with my banking apps in the future. I used LineageOS and Magisk to convince SafetyNet that everything was as it should be. Now I read that SafetyNet was depreciated and LineageOS would become a red flag for banking apps (in Germany). What is the way forward? How can I use up-to-date firmware (i am fine with using something besides LineageOS) and still use my banking app on my phone?