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    Android Help Saturday APPreciation (Mar 03 2018) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    March 03, 2018

    Android Help Saturday APPreciation (Mar 03 2018) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    Saturday APPreciation (Mar 03 2018) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:10 AM PST

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    This weekly Saturday thread is for:
    * App promotion,
    * App praise/sharing

    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!

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    Spotify takes down Spotify Dogfood

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:49 AM PST

    Samsung stops security updates for 2016 models of Galaxy A3, J1, and J3; many new devices only get quarterly updates

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:39 PM PST

    Google is working on adding an Android Go image to the Android Studio Emulator

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:19 PM PST

    Hi /r/android, I made Crankshaft - a turnkey free software that turns a Raspberry Pi into an Android Auto head unit

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:06 PM PST

    Hey there,

    I am Huan, a grad student, a free software developer, and a blogger. I'm a big Android fan and you might have read some entries I wrote about Google Maps and Google Talk that were discussed on /r/android in the past.

    So I have been wishing to have an Android Auto unit for my old 1998 car for a while but they were expensive. Moreover, when I looked, none fits in my single DIN slot. Lately, I saw /u/f1xpl releasing his OpenAuto app to the public, I thought it's the perfect idea because I could easily get a Raspberry Pi and a touchscreen for a cheap price and my dream would come true.

    But one would need to compile it then add a bunch of configuration to make it work well, etc. It is a lot of tedious steps and I thought maybe I could make other people's life easier. So I created Crankshaft, a turnkey distribution that you can just download and put it in your Raspberry Pi 3 with its touchscreen and it will "just works." Last week, I pushed the idea to the /r/raspberry_pi crowd and they liked it. Many people tried and provided feedback. I have been working days and nights to make it much more polished, and I'm very pleased to see its progress and state now ("it's pretty dope!"). Now you can actually more or less mount it on your dash and use it as an Android Auto device.

    After a dozen feedbacks or so with different phones after a week, I'm more confident that it will likely work with your phone (check here for reports). I'd like to invite you to try. It's still very early in the development stage, so don't be disappointed if that doesn't work for you (yet - hopefully). But if you have a Pi 3 and its touchscreen laying around, I'd like to ask you to help me test it. It's free as in gratis too - so I guess there is little to lose.

    If you're feeling extra lucky and generous, go to Microcenter and buy a Raspberry Pi 3 and its touchscreen and a case, then try Crankshaft, and you tell me the bugs - as you can see there are a few of them already.

    Always keep in mind: This is not a finished product. It is not something you'd expect in a product that sells for hundreds of dollars. This is an experiment to have fun: It's like something we do in the garage for the weekend and show to our spouse/mom and they would say "Oh honey, you're so smart and high tech!" So please take it lightly - both for successes and failures. Instead of thinking of it as "a cheap way to have Android Auto," think of it as "a cheap way to experiment with a Raspberry Pi and have Android Auto as a swag." Don't pour money into it. Don't drive to the hospital with it.

    If you have anything you want it to do, please don't hesitate to reply here. I have a tip and tricks page for you to try as well. I hope y'all have fun with it like I do when making it. If it works for you, please spend some time to report back and add your project pictures to the Google Photos group.

    Thanks for your time, and be safe driving!

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    With all the recent iPhone X clones, Samsung deserves a standing ovation

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:08 AM PST

    They are one of the last phone manufactures to remove the head phone jack, they still have one of the highest screen to body ratios and didn't need to sacrifice the top bezel for a notch, they have worked pretty hard to optimize (to a fault) TouchWiz despite all the bad feedback it has received over the years, and at the end of the day, it is one of the sexiest phones on the market.

    Good on Samsung. As a previous Nexus owner, I never thought I'd be writing this. If they continue this trend, they have my money.

    Long live jack!

    Edit: let's not forget about the expandable storage as well

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    Possibly First Known Android Q Feature Detailed: Assisted Dialing for All

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:15 AM PST

    Since 2018 is the 10th year since the first Android phone (HTC Dream G1) was released who thinks Google should bring these wallpapers back in Android 9.0.

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:16 AM PST

    What happened to UFS cards?

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:03 PM PST

    I remember hearing about UFS cards a couple years ago - with much higher speeds than microsd cards. Why don't we have any phones with them yet? It seems like speed was the main disadvantage of microsd storage expansion. Most phones use ufs internal storage, so it should feel more seamless.

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    Evleaks: "Android P Developer Preview 1 is targeting a mid-month release"

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:29 PM PST

    Build with Android Things

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:55 AM PST

    Asus responds to cloning criticism (Taiwanese article)

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:44 AM PST

    Source: http://3c.ltn.com.tw/news/33103 (Liberty Times, one of the three main broadsheet outlets.)

    TL;DR-

    Asus did (or claimed to have done) the research. This is what their target audience wanted. Quote from their VP of Global Marketing: "We cannot refuse to make the design our customers wanted."

    Commentary from the journalist:

    1. The Verge has a pro-Apple bias, take their view with a grain of salt.
    2. If this design proves to sell, of course Asus would do it even if it means being criticized for copying Apple.
    3. This might be one of the first among a stream of Android handsets with an Apple notch. When that happens, this will be one among them all, instead of the single copycat product.
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    Google Photos Auto Face recognition is amazing

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:53 PM PST

    This app is ridiculously accurate. I just had a baby recently so I have been taking a lot of pictures. I was shocked how quickly it picted up my infant son, and how it didn't mix him up with pictures of my nephew who looked very similar to him at the same age.

    But what really shocked me was when I added 2 infant pictures of my sister to Google photos, Google photos was able to identify those 2 pictures as being her even though. One of them was literally the first picture ever taken of her at birth.

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    In your experience, how long do you think it takes for google to "roll out" features?

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:57 AM PST

    I've been anticipating a rollout and that got me thinking, I have no idea how long these take. I won't mention what it is, because I don't want this post to sound like I'm whining. But what's the longest you've waiting for a rollout? Any guesses on how long they take? Do you think each one is completely different?

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    Since notch copying is a hot topic right now, it's time to slow down and look at what it accomplishes.

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:59 PM PST

    Alright. I've seen more posts on /r/android about the iPhone X notch in the last 2 days than ever before. Somehow, it got stuck in everyone's head that the camera sensors on the iPhone X are cutting into the screen and taking away content real estate. It's 100% the complete opposite. All Apple, and now several other manufacturers, did was eliminate the extra nothing-bezel surrounding the sensors on the top of the phone. This design ADDS screen. There would otherwise be nothing there but black plastic shit that can't display time, notifications, etc.

    I figure since most people bust a nut over the design of Samsung's new phones it would help illustrate that more screen is good. I spent a whole 5 minutes making a mockup of the GS8/9 with the top bezel removed.

    Hopefully now the Internet can move on.

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    Samsung Galaxy S9 camera: judge for yourself

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:15 AM PST

    Banking Trojan Found in Over 40 Models of Low-Cost Android Smartphones

    Posted: 02 Mar 2018 09:09 PM PST

    Andy Rubin on that late Saturday Twitter.

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:24 AM PST

    Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus vs iPhone X - Speed Test! (4K)

    Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:51 PM PST
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