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I don't understand the comments to this post. Don't people use firewalls anymore to limit internet access only to the apps really needing it?
I mostly stopped using these types of apps and switched to F-Droid alternatives.
This is interesting. I thought granting internet access to apps is not avoidable on Android. When an app does not request internet, is it really guaranteed that it cannot talk to the outside world? Or is it having other avenues like opening a browser or some other component with a custom url or something? Update: I just asked Gemini, and it does not look good: An Android app without the INTERNET permission is not gua…
> If two apps from the same developer share a User ID (sharedUserId), they run in the same process and share all permissions Good grief. What a huge vulnerability. Is there some benefit that justifies this?
sharedUserIds cannot be applied blindly, they need the app to be signed with the same key, both need to declare their sharedUserId to be the same, etc.
Can you add odt, ods, etc support? I use libreoffice viewer but it would be nice to reduce the number of apps on my device.
Fixed in the manifest just now, it'll be in the next build.
odt and odp dont work at all. odt is a fair ask.. its the same shape of problem as docx so it's doable. Less sure about odp though.. the pptx renderer is already the weakest part of this.
And yeah, fewer apps on the phone was pretty much the whole reason I started building this.
I don't understand the comments to this post. Don't people use firewalls anymore to limit internet access only to the apps really needing it?
I don't understand the comments to this post. Don't people use firewalls anymore to limit internet access only to the apps really needing it?
Great. You built an excellent tool to solve a real-world problem: being able to open files on the fly without granting internet access and without having to install 400 MB bloated suites that track everything.