🆕 blog post -- How to use Android App Streaming on Chromebooks
After announcing #Android app streaming on #Chromebooks in early 2022, the feature is finally here. Or at least it is for a few select Android phones. Here’s how to use Android app streaming on a #Chromebook and what the experience is like. I’m still not sold on it being that useful for me, but I realize that many others will be thrilled when it comes to their Android phone.
I am trying out @trunksapp, a new Mastodon client available in Early Access right now on Android. Fun fact, it's being developed by a person called Adnan Begović, and I presume he's got Bosnian roots due to that name. He's avilable at @Decad3nce.
@Mina@HistoPol@FediFollows Unfortunately, I seem to be literally the only person who is trying to discuss sexuality in an academic but explicit way. There is very little sexual education of any kind in our society. Certainly not on social media. So my content is put with porn. Many people (women I suspect) consider any explicit vocabulary to be suspect. Mastodon asks for CW on any erotic content. My images are non-pornographic but I use words like clitoris and orgasm so that is erotic!
I should add that back then, I was exclusively using the #Mastodon for #Android app, which kept crashing when adding #AltText to a 2nd pic, thus losing my hard work in image description time and again.
Exasperating.
I just finished the slightly nerve-wracking but very important task of flashing and sideloading the #LineageOS 20 release and recovery images (an upgrade from 19.1). All went smoothly. #heimdallflash and #adb served me well once again. As always, many thanks to the @LineageOS maintainers! 👍 #android#foss
The #google Pixel 7 Pro looks promising to me because of the extraordinary cameras without the high prices of #apple or #samsung
A downer is the just 3 years of OS updates.
Coming from the Apple universe mainly (I owned Android devices before) I still have concerns switching to #android. There remains some insecurity. Will it work for me? What happens after the three years?
I own my iPhone 8 Plus for over 5 years now. A long time for a device in use every single day. And it still works! ...
Android wird zum Tracker-Netz mit Warnung vor heimlichen Trackern
Google wird Apple auf einen Schlag überholen, was die Reichweite der Bluetooth-Tracker betrifft. Über 1 Milliarde Android-Handys hilft beim Suchen und Finden.
#applications#Android#gps#gratuit
Yeah! \o/
La nouvelle version de MagicEarth est sortie.
En plus du support AndroidAuto, il y a aussi diverses autres choses : support des traces gpx, meilleur affichage du relief, plusieurs styles de cartes disponibles, etc.
🎞️ Quickly resize a video with FFmpeg/Vaapi for Mastodon
— @paulox
「 Mastodon’s limitations on media files that can be uploaded have changed in recent months, but still remain stringent for media produced by some devices.
Here are the new limits:
maximum size: 99 MB
maximum resolution: 3840 x 2160px (4K UHD)
maximum frame rate: 120 fps
allowed extensions: .webm .mp4 .m4v .mov 」
I really need to start learning how to build Android apps! I have few ideas of projects that I have written down. And of course with high focus on privacy.
Any suggestions of what language to learn? Kotlin?
This is really cool, but this is also very much a solved problem with newer codecs like #jpegxl. If Google would just embrace JXL & push for widespread support, we might actually be able to move past JPEG instead of using hacks like this. #AVIF isn't going anywhere outside specific Web use cases, as much as I really like it due to its great coding efficiency for certain quality ranges.
Dictation - Google's Project Relate looks interesting. Google has you train your voice on 500+ cards, then creates a custom model for your voice. Particularly useful for anyone with unusual speech patterns.
Announced in late 2021, the Android app was released in January 2023. It sounds like the dictation accuracy (once trained) is better than current apps (Siri, Echo, Google, Dragon).
After spending about a year and a half with both iPhone and Android, I think I understand both operating systems very well. iPhone can do so, so much. A blind person even wrote a book about using the iPhone, on the iPhone with Ulysses and a Bluetooth keyboard. But as iOS ages, it looks more and more tattered, with some parts thinning, and others having large holes in it at times. Yes, those get patched up, but how long must we wait until then?
Android, on the other hand, is much, much smaller, but is smoothe and mostly clean, with very few thin patches, and if there are holes, they're not generally as noticeable, or can be worked around easily. So, the question is, do you want something they can do a lot but has, well, issues that will make you want to just throw it away sometimes, or do you want a mostly good experience that you can't do that much with?
And no, the analogy doesn't work very well, since on Android, even using voice assistants are a pain because you have to silence TalkBack or Google will be listening while TalkBack will be speaking. Really annoying bullcrap. But other apps, like Element and Telegram, work better on Android than they do on iOS.
But what really gets to me sometimes is that none of our issues at either company are handled equitably. If a sighted person opened their notification center, only to have their screen go blank, that wouldn't even have made it into a beta release, let alone production. If a popular keyboard and mouse only worked through USB and not Bluetooth as is the main use case, sighted people would be all over the Android team, asking why, and when. Instead, even though news orgs are on Mastodon, blind voices are still small, swept away, and drowned out.
Catching up on the new things announced at Google I/O; I used to really enjoy my few Nexus-branded Android devices back in the day, but wow I really don't even know what Android is anymore, other than not-iPhone. There's just nothing about that OS, design language or ecosystem that appeals to me anymore. It doesn't feel like it's going anywhere, it just … exists 😅 Really sad we never got to see a Windows Phone 11 with the new design direction. Material You is just a huge swing and a miss to me
Ok here's a thing I don't understand about #android.
#Apple devices get a regular cadence of updates, including major version updates, for years after purchase. You expect annual-ish major updates.
There are android devices on sale right now that tout that they come with Android 11 as a feature.
I don't understand how Android devices' relationship with OS versions works. (I do understand that there is no monolithic "Android" across vendors, so that's part of the answer.)
Unsere Analyse zeigt wie sich die Booking.com-App deiner persönlichen Daten bedient und damit deine Urlaubsträume in einen Datenschutz-Albtraum verwandelt. 👇🌴
I've been using #firedox on my #android tablet and #windows laptop for years. I desperately don't want to surrender to a #chrome only world. However, Firefox's bookmark and tab functionality on android suck plain and simple. There are no non-chrome options left, so if I were to lower my trousers and bend over the desk for #Google, which #browser should I try for a little while?