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    Android Help ARM's next Mali GPU will support updateable drivers via Play Store

    June 24, 2020

    Android Help ARM's next Mali GPU will support updateable drivers via Play Store

    ARM's next Mali GPU will support updateable drivers via Play Store

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 05:49 AM PDT

    Announced 8.5 mths ago, released 2 mths ago, and Google Buds v2 are still only in 1 country and 1 color

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:43 PM PDT

    Firstly I know COVID is a thing. But it wasn't a thing for the entire 3.5+ years since the first version. And Apple and Samsung have both launched multiple products over the last few months without significant issues.

    Google clearly has a problem shipping products and I'd be interested to know why this never seems to improve. I don't know how they expect to gain market share by consistently releasing things that are mildly over-priced, and unavailable to most of the world. You can't catch up by going slower than everyone else.

    It's not like this is their first swing at this. They've been shipping a huge variety of products for half a decade, and still don't seem to have this ironed out.

    It doesn't make any sense. Why do they keep spending all this time, money, and engineering effort building something and then knee-cap it on launch. It's like they want it to exist, but don't seem to care at all if it's successful.

    They have all the resources in the world to make this successful if they wanted to. They own the software, the hardware, and all of the services, and even the datacenters that the services run on. They have some of the best engineers in the world, they have been building their own servers and other hardware for a decade. They hold all the cards, and still do basically nothing.

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    UBports GSI brings Ubuntu Touch to any Project Treble-supported Android device

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 03:25 PM PDT

    Apple Music on Android now has gapless playback.

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 12:42 PM PDT

    Keeping your private information private

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 11:04 AM PDT

    With YouTube Music, Google is holding my speakers for ransom

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 04:00 PM PDT

    Google AI Blog: Sensing Force-Based Gestures on the Pixel 4

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 02:46 PM PDT

    [Video] Introducing Samsung’s Versatile New Image Sensor: the ISOCELL GN1

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:54 AM PDT

    Smart Reply - Not sure if it gets the deserved attention and appreciation

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 11:54 AM PDT

    Recently I was going through the Text Messages I had sent through the "Google Messages" App and I realized I've been mostly using the "Smart Reply" for most of the messages. I rarely use Text messages & I do not have many contacts who have RCS enabled/available, so I mostly stick to WhatsApp. Even, in Whatsapp, I started noticing that I've been using the Smart replies suggested by my phone is mostly Accurate & I'm just replying from the notifications, without even opening the app.

    I feel this is an under appreciated feature and deserves more attention.

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    I miss ticker notifications.

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:55 AM PDT

    Am I the only one who misses ticker notifications? They were so subtle and didn't take up any of your screens real estate. They were a huge 'selling' factor of Android to me.

    If you don't remember, they are the original notification style Android launched with and used until 5.0 Lollipop, which copied iOS in it's notifications. Example

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    [Android Authority] LG Velvet review: A second first chance

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 11:18 AM PDT

    Discover - A New Feature by Samsung

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:12 AM PDT

    https://imgur.com/gallery/TLFi6XJ

    Apps suggestions (Ads) in App Drawer. You cannot turn off notification or location access.

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    DISCUSSION - We need a way to keep apps installed but inactive

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 09:40 PM PDT

    Just like disabling system apps. The advantage is that at any point they will be locally available but won't be eating battery, pushing notifications, getting triggered upon events etc. until called upon.

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    [Dev] I finally managed to finish and release a game!

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 07:58 AM PDT

    (I got approval from the mods to post this).

    Hi everyone!

    This game took longer than I hoped because I have a full time job but I finally managed to complete my goal.

    My game is called Road Runner and it's about trying to dodge cars and trying to get as far as you can without getting hit, obviously don't try this in real life, it's just a game.

    The game is very simple but quite addictive, its a tap game and with each tap you cross the road to the next lane. You can't stay in one lane for too long or you'll get hit so you're forced to make your way through the traffic.

    The game is free and there are 3 upgrades to buy with in-game currency: extra life, clearing the road, and a reward multiplier. The currency is easily obtainable by playing but there are options to buy some if you so wish. You can spend the currency on the upgrades or new characters, my favourite character is the chicken because during testing I got my highest score on this game while playing as the chicken trying to cross the road. Ha.

    I don't really have anyone to share it with so not many people have played it, I would love for you to have a go and try to beat the high score!

    You can have a look at the game here on Google Play.

    If you have any questions I will be happy to chat in the comments.Thank you!

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    [TechAltar] Why Samsung puts nothing new into flagships anymore

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 03:05 AM PDT

    Apple recently unveiled new privacy features in iOS, such as opt in access to device identifiers and alerts when the clipboard is being accessed. Android should apply these same features and ensure all apps provide transparency into how user data is used

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 03:19 AM PDT

    Apple recently posted an article explaining new user privacy and data controls.

    Here's what they say, in brief:

    With iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14, you will need to receive the user's permission through the AppTrackingTransparency framework to track them or access their device's advertising identifier.

    I am amazed this isn't a joint effort between Apple and Google (lol, I know), to try and enforce an industry standard to afford the user basic controls over what information they share with third parties.

    Android's advertising ID system should be ruled illegal, simply because I cannot opt-out at any time via the settings.

    Users should understand each and every piece of data accessible to a third party application. For example, a full list would include every possible data structure an application can access both with and without consent, such as for fingerprinting purposes (and, without asking for any permissions, a regular application can access a lot of information freely and use it to profile your device by making a fingerprint).

    This would include things like free system memory, device model, language settings and all other information that can be used to generate a "hash" or representation of who "you" are uniquely. OS prompts like iOS would then be provided for control where information falls into certain categories.

    Do you consent to this application accessing identifying information? They want to access your first name, last name, device model...etc

    If it was 50 data structures long, it would potentially reduce the chance of the user accepting but also hopefully encourage less richer requests to this information. Perhaps grading which information is more sensitive can also be useful to guiding the users choice.

    Full transparency should be provided too; if your app uses any SDK's, such as the Facebook login SDK, then that should be made clear to users before installation and consent provided for FB to access any information on the device (without consent, it returns all 0's). It should be possible to, natively, refuse FB access to any of my information from my Android device without my consent, which is simply not possible today.

    Right now apps on Android exist in a 'wild west', where it's a free for all to access any information you want, for as long as you want, and the user has absolutely no choice but to accept because the OS doesn't allow them that choice. The current permissions are not granular enough and don't provide rich insight into what information apps are accessing and how it's being used.

    Here's some links to changes letting users know which apps are spying on their clipboard:

    r/privacy with a thread explaining the clipboard changes. It's over on r/apple too.

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    Galaxy Fold 2 final design

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 04:52 PM PDT

    Announcing Microsoft Defender ATP for Android

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 04:02 AM PDT

    Forgot how awesome Google Voice is

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 01:47 PM PDT

    While finally transferring my parents' landline number to Google Voice, I finally realized how damn useful it actually is. First off, this had the ability to answer and make calls/texts from any device years before we had Messages for Web. On top of that, the fact that it can port your own numbers over is a godsend. I can see the huge appeal for why so many would want to use it as their primary texting and calling number.

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    Android needs to improve widgets

    Posted: 24 Jun 2020 05:23 PM PDT

    Now that iOS 14 has introduced widgets, we can no longer say android has widgets while iOS doesn't. In fact, I believe iOS does it better in some certain ways. Its definitely time that android widgets needs to improve.

    I also want to say this has nothing to do about if iOS is better than android or vice versa. I'm simply explaining how in some ways, iOS widgets are better. There are also ways android widgets are better, but that is not the point of this post. Now on to some things I like about iOS widgets.

    First, smart stack. Having multiple widget in the space of one is extremely efficient. For example, weather and calendar can be put into a single 4x2 smart stack. I really believe this makes the user experience a lot better, and android is missing out by not having similar.

    Second, the overall look. This one is definitely a lot more subjective, but I'll give my opinion anyways. On ios the widgets all have the same square and rectangle with rounded corners look. You can have a 4x2 calendar at the top, and then a 2x2 weather below, and then another 2x2 weather below. It looks like this. https://i.redd.it/rqobl26jur651.jpg and https://i.redd.it/mc7jea78xs651.jpg They all line up perfectly, and it looks uniform and clean. However, when I tried on my s9 plus, it was really messy. The shapes are all inconsistent, and I cant get the size 2x2 on many widgets. Furthermore, almost all the widgets only have black or white background, which doesn't look too good. This is the best I could do. https://i.redd.it/8fltbvk0dy651.jpg I couldn't put a music widget because it cant go to 2x2. It also shows how only having white backgrounds doesnt look good. I know you can mess with transparency, but it doesnt help too much.

    Third, some widgets on iOS are better. The main one I've noticed is calendar. I've always wanted to use a calendar widget on my s9, but none of them work well. The 4x2 calendar on ios shows you the whole month, the current day, as well as events on the current day. You can see the second link I posted to see what I mean. None of the widget options on my s9 are anywhere as good as that.

    These are just some things I've realized so far. I really think android should improve their widgets. I'm also curious what you guys think! What do you want android to do with widgets? Also how do you use them?

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