Is there a good alternate keyboard for Android now? Gboard seems to now be completely random whether spacebar inserts a correction or not, and the suggested corrections have gone from poor to confusing. It's worse than useless. #Android

Great news!! A much waited Android forensics app was just released in beta version: Bugbane allows self-analyzing our devices for indicators of malwares such as Pegasus or the Cellebrite's ones, using Amnesty International's Mobile Verification Toolkit directly on the phone. Consider sending your feedback to the team!

https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/09/bugbane-simplifying-consensual-android-forensics/

#bugbane #forensics #infosec#android#MVT #phonesecurity #pegasus #cellebrite

Great news!! A much waited Android forensics app was just released in beta version: Bugbane allows self-analyzing our devices for indicators of malwares such as Pegasus or the Cellebrite's ones, using Amnesty International's Mobile Verification Toolkit directly on the phone. Consider sending your feedback to the team!

https://osservatorionessuno.org/blog/2025/09/bugbane-simplifying-consensual-android-forensics/

#bugbane #forensics #infosec#android#MVT #phonesecurity #pegasus #cellebrite

not being able to load your own software on an Android device is a GPL violation -- Denver

#ConservancyOnAndroid #Android

not being able to load your own software on an Android device is a GPL violation -- Denver

#ConservancyOnAndroid #Android

Ok my fellow nerds, #fennec, a #Firefox version compiled for #fdroid, doesn't load websites 80% of the time, completely randomly. I searched for solutions and concluded that since nothing works it must be #android itself that nerfs the competing browser.

My question is, how dumb is using something based on WebView, actually? I installed #Fulguris and it's blazing fast, seems to be working 100% of the time. It's open.

Since I have no experience with android development, is WebView chromium in disguise or is it fine? And I opening myself to all of the Google malpractice through it? I wish I could use Fennec but it turns literally useless, when I can't even load wikipedia most of the times.

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?

Monopoly monopsony...

#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android

Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/

This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?

Monopoly monopsony...

#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android

IYPS v1.5.6 is now available!

In this release:
- Android 16 support.
- UI enhancements.
- Fixed entropy calculations.
- Extended character set for password generation.
- Translation updates (contributed by the community).

Download:
https://github.com/StellarSand/IYPS?tab=readme-ov-file#download

Note: The F-Droid build is temporarily postponed, stemming from compatibility issues with their existing toolchain and the newest Android Gradle Plugin.

#Android
#OpenSource
#FDroid
#izzyondroid
#GitHub

ora avrei bisogno di aiuto..

Mio fratellino (storia lunghissima che racconterò, forse, un'altra volta) è ipovedente.
Purtroppo essendo nato sordo, non parla nemmeno. Grazie agli impianti cocleari sente e capisce quasi tutto, ma non emette suoni.
Grazie alla tecnologia, però, sta imparando a comunicare. Sa leggere e scrivere al computer, anche se solo su nostro input, mai in modo spontaneo.
Usa una tastiera fisica per ipovedenti, con tasti grandi e ad alto contrasto, e la gestisce discretamente bene.
Recentemente ci siamo dotati di una lavagna interattiva per supportare il suo percorso educativo e di sviluppo.
Ho collegato la tastiera alla lavagna, ma non vuole usarla: preferisce stare in piedi e utilizzare quella virtuale direttamente sullo schermo della smart board (o forse semplicemente associa la tastiera fisica al computer... poco importa!).

Problema: la tastiera virtuale dobbiamo ri-attivarla spesso, inserire il CAPS LOCK (sa leggere e scrivere solo in maiuscolo) e con certe app non funziona..
Ecco perché avrei bisogno di una tastiera virtuale — che rimanga sempre visibile, o almeno di facile attivazione, sullo schermo della smart board — ad alto contrasto e con lettere maiuscole. La lavagna è basata su android.

Grazie se qualcuno può aiutarmi

#tastiera #ipovedenti#LavagnaInterattiva#smartboard#AltoContrasto#android #supporto #sordociechi

ora avrei bisogno di aiuto..

Mio fratellino (storia lunghissima che racconterò, forse, un'altra volta) è ipovedente.
Purtroppo essendo nato sordo, non parla nemmeno. Grazie agli impianti cocleari sente e capisce quasi tutto, ma non emette suoni.
Grazie alla tecnologia, però, sta imparando a comunicare. Sa leggere e scrivere al computer, anche se solo su nostro input, mai in modo spontaneo.
Usa una tastiera fisica per ipovedenti, con tasti grandi e ad alto contrasto, e la gestisce discretamente bene.
Recentemente ci siamo dotati di una lavagna interattiva per supportare il suo percorso educativo e di sviluppo.
Ho collegato la tastiera alla lavagna, ma non vuole usarla: preferisce stare in piedi e utilizzare quella virtuale direttamente sullo schermo della smart board (o forse semplicemente associa la tastiera fisica al computer... poco importa!).

Problema: la tastiera virtuale dobbiamo ri-attivarla spesso, inserire il CAPS LOCK (sa leggere e scrivere solo in maiuscolo) e con certe app non funziona..
Ecco perché avrei bisogno di una tastiera virtuale — che rimanga sempre visibile, o almeno di facile attivazione, sullo schermo della smart board — ad alto contrasto e con lettere maiuscole. La lavagna è basata su android.

Grazie se qualcuno può aiutarmi

#tastiera #ipovedenti#LavagnaInterattiva#smartboard#AltoContrasto#android #supporto #sordociechi

Just discovered the thumb-key keyboard for #android! First impressions are excellent - intelligent, thoughtful design and #FOSS of course:

https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

Software translation failure: on Android (vanilla, pixel phone, latest 16) draging app icon gives both remove and uninstalled options as "Pašalinti" in Lithuanian. Good thing icons are still there.
Bad, Google, bad. Worse - it used to be different (or my memory is failing).

#Android#ux

Just discovered the thumb-key keyboard for #android! First impressions are excellent - intelligent, thoughtful design and #FOSS of course:

https://github.com/dessalines/thumb-key

Fire UX team in time, 2025 edition.

Using Android Studio (2024.2.2) after a while.
So I have "Run" button at the top and another one with just different color in sidebar. Both tooltip "Run", only differ in shortcut.
Difference?
First one runs the project. Second one opens the Run pane at the bottom, which happens to have yet another button to run the project.
You had good old school UI two years ago!

#programming#ux #Android #rant

Most documentation for printing from Android to a Linux print server (using CUPS) indicates that the printer should be autodiscovered, or that the IP address only can be specified. But Android 14 and 15 do not autodiscover my printer on a network server. The short note at https://miek.nl/2024/february/24/printing-from-android/ describes how the IP address and the printer name must be specified. The printer name should be as given by the 'lpstat' command on the print server.

#Linux #Android#Printing

Votre téléphone est sous Android ? Saviez-vous que depuis avant-hier, sans action de votre part, Gemini y est activé par défaut ?
https://next.ink/191556/tuto-comment-empecher-gemini-lia-de-google-dacceder-a-vos-applications/

#next #google#android #vieprivee #ia