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I trust the F-Droid maintainers more than J. Random app developer, honestly.
Care to elaborate? You're trusting the developer to write the source code and do all the debug builds, what's the problem with building the production build?
Sure, I'm on KDE desktop (have been since the late 1990's) so I'm aware I'm in the (tiny) minority, but the functionality is hard, perhaps impossible, to beat.
This kind of craziness isn't helping anyone.
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https://twitter.com/albertvaka/status/1107924636799504384 > I'm about to upload a version of KDE Connect to the Play Store with the SMS functionality removed. Google removes app from the app store until you upload new version. Not sure if you know, but for KDE Connect SMS access is part of core functionality, allowed use of the API, and author wanted to call explain it as written in [0] but there is nowhere to call.…
But are you sure it is an allowed use of the API? According to https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ... an allowed use of the API is "connected device companion apps that enable sending and receiving of SMS or calls ". Did KDE Connect allow sending and receiving SMS from your PC? The only thing I see in the app description is getting " notifications for incoming calls and SMS messages", which m…
This was actually one of the more recent features they were working on, afaik, yes.
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> it’s on every android device by default Amazon tablets do not have the Google Play store.
"Android device" as in devices marketed as Android devices. Context is not hard people. Don't nit because you can.
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Epic Games, apparently.
And whatever the Amazon Fire devices use as an app store.
My current phone has been falling apart for a while and I've already replaced the back 3 times and the camera. With the battery going out and the back starting to crack again under the case, I decided I'm getting sick of Android. My next device needs to be something I can easily run Plasma on. Maybe I'll pre-order a Purism phone. I want a real open source phone, similar to running a Linux distro on my PC in the late…
How does Android and cracked hardware fit together? No such thing as android hardware. Just buy a better one next time.
>I want a real open source phone
Purism isn't "real open source". Lots of locked down proprietary binary blobs in it and no way to no use them (modem for one). If you want it because of FOSS installing Ubuntu or LineageOS on any other phone would be just as good and no need to pay someone to do it.
Google have completely messed up this SMS policy. Someone senior needs to step in and fix this, it's utterly toxic for developer relations. The process is unreliable and doesn't work, and bluntly this sort of whitelisting of APIs for people "we think really need it" is a bad idea in the first place. Anything that is behind such a whitelist should be a userland permission, approved (or not) by the end user, not Google…
> Anything that is behind such a whitelist should be a userland permission, approved (or not) by the end user, not Google. You’re assuming that Google’s desire here is to protect the user. I don’t think that’s the case: I think that their desire is to control the user. Cf. how Android presents the user with a warning if he installs his own trusted HTTPS certificate (and how newer version of Android simply ignore his…
So KDE Connect (with all features) joins NewPipe, AdAway and other amazing Android applications that are on F-Droid and not on Google Play.
I'm using all of the above except AdAway and:
- Orgzly: Org-mode brought to your phone. I use it for capturing TODOs and push notifications for reminders.
- Revolution IRC: IRC Client
- Syncthing: Syncs files between my computer and phone. Mostly used for .org files
- Goodtime: Pomodoro technique time-management
- Loop Habit Tracker: Track habits (reading, exercise, etc.)
- Slide for Reddit: Reddit client
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The #1 reason I do not recommend Google to work with for anybody. The users are just accidental for them.
Youtube is another prime example of this. Just look how they've treated even their biggest content creators when it comes to copystriking and user comments (something they have no control over). Users are just a nuisance.
There's too many videos for a manual process, so Youtube has to rely on algorithms and that's always going to be a broad brush.
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An average person doesn't need to remove Play Store to install F-droid. But if that average person want to remove Play Store (and Play Services blobs) completely from his devices, he still can use and update the most of his apps using Yalp. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.yeriomin.yalpstor...
I had forgotten about Yalp. Wouldn’t you still encounter compatibility issues with apps that require Play Services functionality?
This stay true even for the games, although some functions like in-game purchases and 'social' things may not work.