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- Saturday APPreciation (Dec 30 2017) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
- Google Adds Brotli Compression to Deliver Faster OTA Android Updates
- Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager
- Wireless Android Auto is hitting the road soon
- Xiaomi delivering its promise of Oreo Update to Mi A1 on the last day of 2017
- Best Android apps of 2017 for your new phone, tablet, or Chromebook
- Telegram updated to 4.7 adds multiple account and swipe to reply
- [PSA] HQ Trivia for Android automatically turns up media volume without user interaction
- Google Pixel 2 XL , Razer phone , LG v30 , galaxy note 8 , Galaxy s8+ , OnePlus 5T , iPhone X , battery draining test.
- XPrivacy dev is working on a new modular Privacy App for Xposed!
- Hermit 11 is now on Sale, with better Night Mode, more free Lite Apps, improved Reader Mode, and new Psycho-Kinetic powers!
- Mate 9 Camera Disappointing
- The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS
- Suggestion for Chromecast: Allow audio to play through phone's headphones while casting video.
- Commander One review: A superior alternative to Android File Transfer on Mac
- Does anyone really trust the install counts provided by the Play Store
- OmniROM starts 8.1 weekly builds, starting with OP3/T
- Android bug that causes downloads to fail while on VPN has been fixed
- OxygenOS Open Beta 1 (Android O) for the OnePlus 5T
- OxygenOS Open Beta 3 (Android O) for the OnePlus 5
| Saturday APPreciation (Dec 30 2017) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! Posted: 30 Dec 2017 03:10 AM PST Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community! ***NEW: Download the official /r/Android App Store based on our wiki! Note 2. Join us at /r/MoronicMondayAndroid, a sub serving as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom! Note 2. Join our Discord, IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Saturday thread is for: Rules: 1) If you are a developer, you may promote your own app ONLY under the bolded, distinguished moderator comment. Users: if you think someone is trying to bypass this rule by promoting their app in the general thread, click the report button so we can take a look! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Google Adds Brotli Compression to Deliver Faster OTA Android Updates Posted: 30 Dec 2017 09:56 AM PST
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| Ad targeters are pulling data from your browser’s password manager Posted: 30 Dec 2017 12:54 PM PST
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| Wireless Android Auto is hitting the road soon Posted: 30 Dec 2017 02:52 PM PST
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| Xiaomi delivering its promise of Oreo Update to Mi A1 on the last day of 2017 Posted: 30 Dec 2017 07:33 PM PST
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| Best Android apps of 2017 for your new phone, tablet, or Chromebook Posted: 30 Dec 2017 09:20 AM PST
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| Telegram updated to 4.7 adds multiple account and swipe to reply Posted: 30 Dec 2017 01:48 PM PST | ||
| [PSA] HQ Trivia for Android automatically turns up media volume without user interaction Posted: 30 Dec 2017 11:06 AM PST I didn't even know it was possible without special permissions, but it apparently is. The worst thing is, it does so even if you're not actively using the app, maybe it runs in background from time to time to check for notifications or whatever. This happens without the user noticing, you don't see the volume slider going up, and that may lead to some embarrassing situations, where you know you muted audio, only for it turning itself up to 70% in the worst moments. I'm using version 0.9.3 beta and already contacted the developers, but I thought it would be useful to share it to everybody, since someone may think it's an hardware issue with their phones (even though that should at least show the volume slider). [link] [comments]  | ||
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| XPrivacy dev is working on a new modular Privacy App for Xposed! Posted: 30 Dec 2017 05:02 PM PST | ||
| Posted: 30 Dec 2017 12:39 PM PST Wait, no, wrong 11. Anyway, Hermit version 11 is packed with lots of other goodies, and it's on sale throughout the rest of 2017. Begin 2018 with a faster way to browse your favorite content. Get it now New to Hermit? Lite Apps are fast and lean Web apps, tightly integrated with Android. With Hermit, you can create your own Lite Apps out of any Web site. Unlike a usual traditional browser, Hermit integrates Lite Apps into your Android OS, so that you can share from any other Android app to a Lite App, search from within the Lite App, get notifications via Atom & RSS feeds, and customize Privacy Settings, Content Settings, and Behavior for every single Lite App individually — features you won't find in any other browser. Hermit is proudly Android-first and Android-only, and follows Material Design guidelines to bring you a superb user experience backed by solid engineering & a commitment to your privacy: no personal data collection, no behavior tracking, all brought to you by a small California indie developer. OK, now back to what's new this week: Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements! No, we're not kidding! OK, maybe just a little. At Chimbori, we're always diligent with providing you detailed changelogs about every single new feature in every single release. In this particular release, we took extra care in perfecting and polishing the features we already have, and have addressed a lot of the feedback we have received over the past several months. Enhancements to "Free Forever" Mode We want to enable more of you to keep using Hermit without paying, so we've made changes to our Free Forever mode.
No more Demogorgons in Night Mode! We apologize that the previous implementation of Night Mode was buggy, and we completely re-wrote it for this version. We gave up on Google's recommended approach and simply rolled out our own. We've slayed the last remaining Demogorgons. Dark CSS Style for Alternate Dimensions: When turning on Night Mode, the default page CSS is automatically set to Dark. It's like being in an alternate dimension. Hermit has always used the Dark CSS approach for Night Mode (instead of the inverted-colors approach which fails miserably on pages that are already dark), but today's update changes the CSS automatically for you instead of requiring an extra step on your part. If you missed setting this in previous versions, check out Lite App > Customize > Behavior > Night Mode Page Style & pick from one of the 10 available ones. Travel to the Upside Down: Screen Orientation can now be set for each Lite App separately. Prefer to always use your music synthesizer Lite App in landscape mode? Or Google Maps Go with your screen flipped so that the charger cable can be at the top? Yep, Hermit can do that now! Estimated Reading Time in Reader View: When reading any article on the Web, Hermit automatically computes Estimated Reading Time and offers a quick shortcut to clean up the page and view it in Reader View, including fonts, formatting, and images. Unlike other browsers that show you a single paragraph of text without formatting, Hermit's Reader View is based on our own Crux Extractor (which we open-sourced!) which preserves basic formatting and makes articles more readable. Instant Reader View: Hermit reuses the same HTML that was already downloaded for the page by your browser: this makes it instant, saves network costs, and includes JavaScript-generated content automatically. Automatic AMP Redirection is gone, just like Barb. Users reported several navigation problems with AMP sites that had not configure their redirects correctly. Many AMP pages are broken in the wild, leading to a worse user experience than with the regular non-AMP page. We recommend Hermit's Reader View as the recommended replacement, which works better for all pages (AMP and non-AMP). Save Usernames and Passwords with AutoFill: This one has been a huge request from all of you, and Android Oreo finally makes it possible to save passwords without resorting to any unsecure methods or practices. Note that sites have to enable support for AutoFill, so if some of your favorite sites aren't working in Hermit yet, let them know and point them to this article from Google. Usability & Visual Improvements
Internal Improvements
See https://hermit.chimbori.com/changes for the full details! More about Hermit
The bottomline is, if you value your privacy at the price of a sandwich, then Hermit is for you. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 30 Dec 2017 05:02 AM PST So I bought a mate 9 on Black Friday to upgrade from a Moto E4. 90% of the motivation to upgrade was for the camera. I've been using the mate 9 for a month now and I was looking back at some of the my pictures and realized I actually struggle to differentiate between the mate 9 and E4 pictures which just shocks me based on the reviews. I'll post a couple side by side comparisons later today but Im just looking g for a guy check, is something wrong with the mate 9 or could the E4 actually have a comparable camera? Here is a link to a comparison picture of the backyard. https://imgur.com/a/FrzfE [link] [comments]  | ||
| The Pixelbook is being used to test Google's Fuchsia OS Posted: 30 Dec 2017 08:34 PM PST
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| Suggestion for Chromecast: Allow audio to play through phone's headphones while casting video. Posted: 30 Dec 2017 05:57 AM PST I just thought of a cool idea for the Chromecast, having the option while casting video to have the audio from the video play through the headphones connected to your phone, with the video on the Chromecast. That would give you the benefit of the large screen but still allow you to listen privately without having the audio playing for everyone in your house. Having the headphones connected to your phone instead of your tv allows you to move around without taking the headphones off, similar to how the PlayStation 4 controller works with the inbuilt headphone jack. What do you think about this? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Commander One review: A superior alternative to Android File Transfer on Mac Posted: 30 Dec 2017 05:08 AM PST
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| Does anyone really trust the install counts provided by the Play Store Posted: 30 Dec 2017 08:07 PM PST Looking at the bottom number of downloads on Minecraft which is 10 million and costs $6.99. I wonder. Did the app really make $69,900,000? WTF? AND it's reporting 10 million to 50 million downloads. For all we know it could be in the 40's and that means it could be $279,600,000. That's insane! (- fees etc) And the play store lists in app purchases between $0.99 and $49.99. Can't even imagine that. Does anyone really believe download installs listed on the play store? [link] [comments]  | ||
| OmniROM starts 8.1 weekly builds, starting with OP3/T Posted: 29 Dec 2017 10:37 PM PST
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| Android bug that causes downloads to fail while on VPN has been fixed Posted: 30 Dec 2017 07:56 PM PST
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| OxygenOS Open Beta 1 (Android O) for the OnePlus 5T Posted: 29 Dec 2017 11:55 PM PST
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| OxygenOS Open Beta 3 (Android O) for the OnePlus 5 Posted: 30 Dec 2017 06:45 PM PST
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