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 Here's a first look at Android's upcoming all-in-one Terminal app, which downloads, configures, runs, and interfaces with an instance of Debian running a virtual machine! Currently, the Debian images are hosted on a Googler's GitHub, but Google plans to host these images themselves soon. For more info on this Terminal app, check out this article: https://www.androidauthority.com/android-linux-terminal-app-3489887/ (Thanks to an anonymous dev for sharing this!) Breaking: the Judge in the Epic v Google case has just issued his final ruling, which states that Google must open up its Play Store catalog to 3P app stores and distribute those 3P app stores within Google Play. The judge also ruled that Google can't require Google Play app billing, stop developers from telling users about other ways to pay, stop developers from linking to alternative distribution methods, and more. 
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   @MishaalRahman could always go nuclear and just ban Android altogether, citing "security concerns" RIP Ferrochrome launcher: Google is killing its one-click app that would've let you easily run Chrome OS in a VM on your Android device. Imagine having an app that automatically downloads, configures, and runs Chrome OS in a VM for you, on like a Pixel Tablet. More details on what we're missing out on can be found in this article on Android Authority: https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-os-android-launcher-killed-3487486/ Never thought to try reverse wireless charging an electric toothbrush...but it might actually work lol. Also neat: Just found out you can use the cover screen of the Galaxy Z Fold 6 while you're wirelessly charging another device! There's a caveat with charging an electric toothbrush using your phone, though: Your phone might not detect that something is actually being charged and so to save battery, it'll automatically turn off reverse wireless charging. So unfortunately I don't know if you can actually fully charge an electric toothbrush this way. Even if you could, you'd need to constantly turn reverse wireless charging back on, which is a huge pain.  Thank you for sharing. My brain isn’t wired that way but I so appreciate those of you whose brains are. The first Android 15 beta is HERE! Android 15 Beta 1 is rolling out today to users enrolled in the Android beta program. Supported devices include the Pixel 6 and newer, as well as the Pixel Tablet and Pixel Fold. Here’s what’s new in Android 15 Beta 1, according to Google: (1/6) * As I first reported, apps targeting Android 15 are now displayed edge-to-edge by default when running on Android 15! This means apps won’t have to call the edge-to-edge APIs to show content behind system bars in Android 15, though they should call those APIs to do so in earlier releases. To assist app developers in supporting edge-to-edge, many Material 3 composables handle insets for you. (2/6) @MishaalRahman do you have any word on the corruption issue? I’m not installing squat until I hear about that, even though I want this thing so badly I can just about start hopping around right now. I played with developer preview one until someone alerted me of a horrible bug affecting the pixel seven line that caused the corruption thing anytime you rebooted your phone. It's official: Google I/O 2024 takes place on May 14! I'll hopefully get to be there again. @MishaalRahman meh, with the way and type of announcements, I wouldn't go even if I had the ability, rather just stay at home and watch all the stuff on demand (especially considering multiple sessions running side-by-side) I was cleaning out some boxes in my closet last weekend when I discovered I still had these phones. Man, what a blast from the past. Left to right: Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 6P, Pixel XL, Pixel 2 XL
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@MishaalRahman This post inspired me to dig into my ‘drawer’. Historically was using Android as my daily until the release of iPhone 13 mini. A few have been either stolen or traded in along the way, but: HTC Aria, Moto E 2nd gen, Galaxy S6, Moto G Play, Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S. The iPhones prior to the Xr were all inherited for specific uses. Xr is a work phone. Last pics are first, biggest, current. Somebody please make me a modern full screen phone in an Aria form factor.  @MishaalRahman same happened to me last week (but it was a couple of flip phones) and one had a swollen battery 🤣 FINALLY! Gboard is preparing to add an "undo" function so you can recover deleted words/sentences. Here's a demo of the feature in the latest beta release. Credits go to Akos Paha from the Rboard Themes Telegram group for discovering this! I recommend following the Rboard Themes group if you want to keep up-to-date specifically about the Gboard app! Here's a link: https://t.me/rkbdigboard One of the features I was expecting to see in Android 14 was the ability to turn your phone into a USB webcam for your PC. Google hasn't talked about this feature yet, but I hope they still plan to ship it! Here's some tidbits about Android 14's USB webcam feature 👇 So back in February, I discovered (https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1621194700790054914) code changes in AOSP that hinted at a new "DeviceAsWebcam" service (which upon re-reading the code changes I now believe to be a separate system app) that "turns an Android device into a webcam." Android devices that support the UVC gadget mode (ie. the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_USB_CONFIGFS_F_UVC=y) can be set up to send camera frames to a /dev/video* node that a host device supporting UVC webcams can read from. |
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does this work like the Chromebook Terminal app? (Does it add the installed apps from the VM to the launcher?)