android

Overmorrow (github.com)

Another weather app for android. Modern design, take a look. 👀

Is there any permanent risk to the phone itself if you install graphene OS?

Back in 2007-ish I told my Mum all about how you could jailbreak iphones and unlock them to make the phone with other carriers. I helped alleviate any concerns by convincing her and myself that if there are any problems after the procedure, nothing physically has been changed on the phone and as long as I made a backup first, we...

Why aren't apps updating in the background? (lemmy.ml)

This has started showing up for some reason, suggesting that instead of updating my apps in the background, Google Play is waiting until I open an app to check for updates. Is there like a setting somewhere I need to change?

How do I confirm if a certain phone supports VoLTE?

You’d think this would be easier than it seems to be in reality. I am interested in getting a Sony Xperia 5V or Xperia 1V. Where I live, phones can’t make calls unless they support VoLTE. The phones in question support basically all the bands I need them to support and I’ve found several encouraging Reddit posts from...

If GSM arena lists a certain band frequency as supported by a phone but says - USA at the end of the list, does that mean the same phone won't work in another country operating towers on that band?

I’m trying to make sure that if I import a phone to my country, it will likely work pretty much wherever I may go here. Most phones I’m looking at support every 4G band operated here, but I’ve noticed that on the GSM arena website, they will often give a list of supported bands for a given phone followed by a dash and a...

Best Android wifi calling option for kids

I want to set up a ‘home phone’ network for the kids in a couple of different households. The kids are too young to have their own phones, but are currently dependent on parents to contact each other in the way we did when we were kids...

PSA: Lawnchair 14 Beta has begun (feddit.cl)

github.com/LawnchairLauncher/lawnchair

FOSS app locker

I’d like to harden my device and put some of my apps (mail & chat mostly) behind an additional layer of security. I found this app, that comes pretty close to what I had in mind....

How do you make the 'video' tab in VLC only display local videos on the internal memory?

This used to just be how it worked, I don’t know what changed. I have for a long time used VLC to navigate to files on my computer in the other room so I can stream video to my phone that are stored on the computer....

Open-source launcher without drawer?

Is there an iOS-styled launcher that is open-source and conforms to Material You? I find drawers a little bit inconvenient.

Camera filter app for children

Does anyone know of a free privacy friendly camera app with funny filters and/or vignettes I can give my children to play around with?...

Is it possible to disable Google Play update popups in other apps? (lemmy.zip)

Enable Firefox's revamped tablet interface on Android (archive.is)

is android studio open source? i get different results from every website.

google never says it’s foss and it makes sense why theyd not foss it, extend and extinguish. flathub says proprietary, wikipedia says both, im very confused

Google has just removed #Conversations_im from the Play Store (gultsch.social)

cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11894091...

How are security updates applied?

They seem too small and consistent in size to just be bundles of system apps that got security fixes the past month. Are they like differential patches or something? How are they applied? And what happens while the ‘finishing system update’ notification is shown? (as far as I can tell the phone remains unlocked while...