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.

**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.)

Hi All, I am not sure if this is post is ok here so please let me know if not. I did not see any other android community that was a decent size for development so figured there might be some devs in here. I recently forked an FOSS project that has an android auto component to it. I don't have a physical device to test with in my car so I need to set up an emulator. Challenge is, I am struggling to figure out how to do so, from what I can gather, it is either the same? or you can launch from a local device connected via usb and it launches to an emulator as if it was a head unit? I am clearly missing something and all the articles I've seen have not really gotten me over the finish line. Any links or tips appreciated!

I had been using the phenomenal Breezy Weather for quite a while. It has built in integration with my launcher, provides a variety of configurations, and looks great. Here's why I switched to Overmorrow. Overmorrow is on another level in terms of design. It uses well selected photos sourced from the copyleft Unsplash as the background, which indicate different weather conditions and times of day (and possibly other factors, like location, although I haven't tested it that extensively or examined the codebase). The background is responsive as you scroll the app, which is a nice touch. The minimalist icons used for weather and time of day make it easy to read at a glance at any size. To be honest, I was not a fan at first. They are almost *too* minimal for me. As I've grown accustomed to seeing them, it is clear the attention to detail that has been invested in each one. Unlike Breezy Weather, the icon pack can't be changed. Breezy is a more mature app, so it makes sense that it has a few more customizations and integrations available. Breezy offers over a dozen widgets, while Overmorrow offers just 5. The widgets available with Overmorrow cover all the basics, although I found one or two idiosyncrasies. The hourly mode could benefit from more configurability, and a weekly preview widget is missing entirely. For me that's not really a necessity, but might be a dealbreaker for others. Opening the app, it feels very much like a complete solution. The information offered is detailed and displayed extremely thoughtfully. There are obvious settings like units and weather sources, but also full control of what and in which order information is displayed. Put what's important to you at the top, and less important stuff lower down (or leave it off completely). Everything is snappy and intuitive. Colors can be customized or set based on your wallpaper, or the current weather conditions. The transitions between screens and updates are cleverly and subtly animated. The entire experience is crisp, smooth, and modern. My favorite feature is the radar view, which is just as snappy and intuitive as the rest of the app. Press play to see the recent radar animated, or tap to see it in full screen view and look around. It can be super helpful in looking out for incoming weather, or visualizing how quickly a shower will blow over. And it's something conspicuously missing from some other apps. Overall, the beautiful design, frictionless UI, and features make this one a winner for me. [Source code](https://github.com/bmaroti9/Overmorrow) [IzzyOnDroid](https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.marotidev.Overmorrow/) [Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.marotidev.Overmorrow)

Sorry for the all caps, but its the video title.

I fucked up and didn't think to get the Pixel 9 Pro unlocked before I switched to T-Mobile. ALREADY UNLOCKED

The open source project I stumbled upon that allows you to run Android apps on PC is Waydroid....it takes a container-based approach to running a full Android system directly on Linux Alas given how it works it only works on Linux.

The review may have waxed eloquent about the watch but Oneplus and Ticwatch still lasted way longer in terms of battery life (in fact, Samsung 's Tizen OS watches were hitting the 3 day mark). Second, and this is purely from personal anecdote of wearing of Galaxy Watch 6, that one thing smartwatches suck at is displaying time. The AOD (unless raise to wrist is awake) is so dim as to be useless in my area due to the intense sunlight.

I've been recently interested in custom ROMs for the past 2 weeks. And amongst them, **Project Infinity X** caught almost all my attention. The customization features it provides swayed me away. But it struck me hardly in my heart when I checked their device support list on their official website. My phone's model wasn't mentioned there. Not only that, I tried to search for other _Popular_ ROMs and they too didn't have a version for my exact model. Then I posted in fb, some dudes told me to try gsm ROMs, or searching for ROMs with the exact codename for my phone. I didn't know what a codename is, they told to install an app from play store and then to check the codename. I still didn't understand what is a codename. Given below is a screenshot taken from that app which I think is the codename. When I researched about gsm ROMs, I came to know that, almost all the gsm ROMs gonna cause at least one hardware-software integration problem. SIM card, or wifi, battery etc. Then I came to know about XDA forums. I couldn't comprehend The website's UI at all. What I gathered that, the website was a place for unverified/unofficial versions of custom ROMs. Labeling that as **unsafe**, I couldn't trust the site. [ **Edit:** As xda forum being unsafe, I meant, since it provides unverified/unofficial ROMs made by random developer, It could be buggy and unstable. So much so that it can be worse than gsm ROMs. ] Only then, I stumbled upon LineageOS, as much as it pained me knowing that unfortunately they too, don't have a version for my exact phone, I came across all sorts of content where the uploader claimed that, they installed an older version of LineageOS in their phone which is also not cited in the official website's page, but the ROM just worked fine for their case. So I was wondering if the same is possible for my exact model. Not only with LineageOS, but with other ROMs too. My phone model is **Redmi Note 13 5g.** Came with MIUI, android 13( I think, because I forgot ), then after 2 updates, it is now running android 15 on HyperOS UI.

I've seen many people talk about how they really like using YouTube ReVanced as their main way of watching YT on their phones. I've also seen people talk about NewPipe aswell. Personally, I use NewPipe because I can't stand the YouTube app, and I don't want to set up ReVanced for it. I just want something that works. So to you Lemmy users, which do you use and why? What is about your choice that you like?

How do yall backup your phone? Trying to de Google as much as I can but that means I wont have the ability to sync everything again if I drop my phone in a lake. Preferably a program that can run on linux or a NAS that auto backs up over wifi. Id be fine with cable backup too if I had to.

Because Bluetooth is sooooo slow *yawn* Edit: And I already tried OTG. Its slow as fuck because of the USB 2.0 bottleneck makes it take 3 hours whereas Quickshare would've taken like, idk maybe 15 minutes or less. Ironically wireless is faster, but I also need it to work for non-certified / custom roms.

Edit: This is the stage where LineageOS logo appears.  I have an 8 years old OnePlus 5 running Lineage OS 22.2 as a secondary phone alongside my iPhone. Yesterday the phone froze, turned off and refused to go past the Lineage loading screen — where it froze and some weird colourful squares in a single line appeared before turning off. I tried factory resetting it as well from recovery but no success. Today morning I turned it on again and it booted w/o any issues. I think the UFS might have started to show its age — which was used heavily with heavy games, RAW photos, Lightroom processing, continuously running KDEConnect, Syncthing, multiple factory resets and multiple custom ROM installs. So I was thinking to dedicate it to do something else like an Immich slideshow display, a clock, a controller or something like that. Is there any lighter than LineageOS custom ROM which can allow me to do something like that?

Adding fonts to an OS is ancient, so it is baffling to me to have such trouble finding any resources on how to add my fonts to Android. How many fundamentals do they have to turn decades backward?

Not sure if this is the correct place to post, but I just wanna kinda rant a bit. I'm not the only one that hates this, right? An app can just do a "This App Does Not Allow Screenshots"? Like... wtf? Like, its my phone, and some app can just decide to disable a fuction of my phone. It's my phone and if I wanna take a screenshot, I'm taking a screenshot. I don't care about whatever "security" the app developer wants. Imagine if every online shopping app whether fast food or amazon, just used this to block you from taking a screenshot so you can't save the records in case of a dispute. Which android developer thought it was a good idea to let an app disable a function on your phone. Even iPhone doesn't have this stupid concept. Sorry for the rant. Anyone wanna share your stories? (P.S. I have a cheap secondary phone to take photos of the screen. "This App Does Not Allow Screenshots" my ass lmao, I'm taking the screenshot whether the app wants it or not.

cross-posted from: https://lemdro.id/post/14305957 >Per the GitHub readme: > > > This app is discontinued. The last release on Github and F-Droid will happen with the December 2024 Syncthing version. Interactions (issues, PRs) are limited now, and the entire repo will be archived after the last release. Thus all contributions are preserved for any future (re)use. The forum is still open for discussions and questions. I would kindly ask you to refrain from trying to challenge the decision or asking "why-type" questions - I wont engage with them. > > > The reason is a combination of Google making Play publishing something between hard and impossible and no active maintenance. The app saw no significant development for a long time and without Play releases I do no longer see enough benefit and/or have enough motivation to keep up the ongoing maintenance an app requires even without doing much, if any, changes. > > > Thanks a lot to everyone who ever contributed to this app! > > This is extremely disappointing news. I have been using the [Syncthing-Fork](https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android) version, but since it is based on this app, this may be the end for that app as well.

I am using neo backup often i run into storage issues so i am wondering if there is a possibility of backing data with git, root, Termux, Tasker . Edit: solved some issues - storage issue was fixed by not enabling unnecessary backup options. It created massive difference for most applications, eg anki was over 1 GB, now its 9 KB. - Some application's backups were not working( After restoring applications were crashing), for them, rather than backing up whole data, we can copy relevant data. Eg for element, we can backup by `cp /data/data/im.vector.app/shared_prefs/im.vector.app_preferences.xml %ConfigBackupLocation/element` # you need root for this

Starting in 2026, sideloaded apps will have to come from "verified" developers.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17792695 >After slowly phasing the app out in some regions, Samsung has announced that it will no longer pre-install Samsung Messages...

Basically the title. I would rather not get scammed.. :) The idea is to move to GrapheneOs as my next step, but I don't necessarily need the newest device. Edit: yeah I was being too generic, Austria is were I am.

I'm annoyed by *Play Protect* and finally want to turn it off. Comes every time with absurd, complicated to circumvent warnings about privacy-friendly services like Exodus, F-Droid, etc. from which no threats emanate, but on the contrary protect against threats that Google delivers. What are the experiences with alternatives? Can anyone maybe even recommend a malware scanner for Android?

> The Home Controls screensaver coming with Android 15 now shows the temperature and current weather condition...

Hi all. I recently got a Pixel 8, and it's my first ever Android phone. I'm loving it so far and glad I switched over. One thing that's honestly driving me crazy though is the photo picker. On iPhone it was easy to pick a photo directly within the Messages or any other app, either a recent one, a favorites one, or one from an album, with just a few taps. When I use the photo picker from within the Messages (or other app) on my Pixel, though, it feels incredibly convoluted. First it pulls up a grid of 5-ish recent pictures, followed by rows and rows of seemingly random pictures from the past 20 years. To get to my favorites, for instance, I have to tap on the folder icon, then tap the three dots, tap browse, tap Photos, tap Photos again, then tap favorites. Is this really how it's supposed to work, or is there a setting I can change somewhere? I've double checked that Messages has permission to access all photos and videos. Thanks in advance for any help!

I'm looking for some advice, recently my pixel 6a and a pixel 8a both have the same annoying behaviour, periodically the three bottom buttons stop working or lag to an extreme degree, so the back button, home button and app switcher. I suspect it's related to 3rd party launchers, I use Action Launcher but was able to replicate it on Lawnchair as well. I've currently got the default Pixel/Nexus launcher selected as a test (I hate it), so far it seems to be immune from this issue. Are 3rd party launchers all suffering from the same issue? Anything I can do? EDIT: Thankfully the pixel launcher also started doing this eventually so I can happily switch back to action launcher while I choose a new phone! If you think the fairphone 6 is a silly choice, please persuade me otherwise as that's what I'm currently thinking, with a view to a 5 year+ phone

Hello, I was looking to make a custom ROM for my device as a hobby project however I have zero knowledge of Android. I have never compiled AOSP myself nor used a custom ROM for a long time. It would be great if we have a Android wiki like we have Arch wiki Thanks in advance!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18873916

> As of Thursday afternoon (PT), more Gemini app users on Android are seeing Astra's Live camera and screen sharing capabilities.

Hey. I want to buy a phone. My priorities are: camera >>>> performance >> battery I found the Mi 11 refurbished (excellent condition) for that price which I thing is VERY good for a phone that was a flagship and the camera seems to be EXCELLENT. Is there a better phone I can buy for that price? (Highest I can go is 250/300€) If possible, it should have custom ROM support (so probably Snapdragon cpu). I live in Spain. I recommend looking at prices in kimovil.

> Android’s unknown tracker alerts feature is getting an update that makes it easier to stop people from tracking you.