Does anyone know how to setup a #devcontainer for #Android development with #dotnet and #JetbrainsRider ?

I can get the container running, and build the project, but can't get the emulator to work to add a virtual device, nor make my physical phone show in the devices panel.

#askFedi #androiddev #devcontainers

Forbes: Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages With Your Employer

As reported by Android Authority, “Google is rolling out Android RCS Archival on Pixel (and other Android) phones, allowing employers to intercept and archive RCS chats on work-managed devices. In simpler terms, your employer will now be able to read your RCS chats in Google Messages despite end-to-end encryption.”

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/02/google-starts-sharing-all-your-text-messages-with-your-employer/

#privacy #android

@jbz @element Will this screw over Android devices with non-standard firmware, such as Lineage OS and Graphene OS?

#matrix #android #grapheneos #lineageos #foss

Also, installing the f-droid apps store on my phone is literally changing my life. Having access to a curated ecosystem of open source androids apps is heavenly. That glorious feeling when software puts the user first.

#fdroid #android #lifehack

getting some kind of #gradle error when trying to build #helloworld #cordova #android #app in #proot #debian in #termux 😐

why???

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[...] FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * What went wrong: Execution failed for task ':app:processDebugResources'. > Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'. > Failed to transform appcompat-1.7.0.aar (androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.7.0) to match attributes {artifactType=android-compiled-dependencies-resources, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.dependency.bundling=external, org.gradle.libraryelements=aar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}. > Execution failed for AarResourcesCompilerTransform: /root/.gradle/caches/8.13/transforms/459cb14f885dfe9984b3b738a7946fbf/transformed/appcompat-1.7.0. > AAPT2 aapt2-8.7.3-12006047-linux Daemon #1: Daemon startup failed This should not happen under normal circumstances, please file an issue if it does. [...] Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 9.0. You can use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings and determine if they come from your own scripts or plugins. For more on this, please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/8.13/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings in the Gradle documentation. BUILD FAILED in 1m 32s 27 actionable tasks: 27 executed Command failed with exit code 1: /root/hello/platforms/android/tools/gradlew cdvBuildDebug

15 years fly by like last week, when you're the package manager for #Android, but you feel the technical debt more and more.

What to do? Rip it out and start over? Improve bit by bit? RiiR?

Find out how #FDroid prepares for the next 15 here: https://f-droid.org/2025/11/24/an-experiment-in-automated-building-from-source-15-years-later.html

We stumbled onto an interesting HackerNews submission about Graphene OS, the secure AOSP mobile OS. The topic is about the request for a GOS duress password feature that, instead of wiping the device (as it does now), unlocks a "decoy" user profile. A comment by a user claiming to be an official GOS community mod caught our attention. We would like to respond to the arguments of that user. [continue...]

#GrapheneOS #shufflecake #veracrypt #truecrypt #android #aosp #security #privacy #forensics

XScreenSaver for Android - Priacy Policy

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/google.html

This truly falls under "malicious compliance." LOL.

#google #privacy #android

@fuat2mb @AndStatus @android @fediverse

I only tried Friendica once, so I don't recall how well #Tusky worked with it, but have you tried Tusky?

It's the #Android client I keep going back to.

Also, #Fedilab is totally worth trying. It's still my favorite way of accessing #Pixelfed.

In the spirit of Follow Friday, what is your favorite underappreciated open source project? Answers with and without a Fediverse presence are valid, but website and/or source repo links are strongly encouraged.

I like LocalSend, it's a cross platform AirDrop work-alike for Windows, Linux, Mac, PC, Android and iOS.

https://localsend.org/

#followfriday #opensource #windows #linux #mac #ios #android #localsend

Vivaldi 7.7 on Android is here! 💪

✓ Add custom search engines
✓ Import and export bookmarks
✓ Long press to create search engines
✓ Dark mode tuned for comfy reading

Everything new: https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-mobile-7-7/

#Vivaldi #Browser #Android #App #Tech #Software #Technology

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Android phone showing the Vivaldi Browser version 7.7, displaying the new import/export of bookmarks feature.

This is the script of my national radio report yesterday on the serious new Android "Pixnapping" exploit, and related discussion of sideloading and the risks of agentic #AI. As always, there may have been minor wording variations from this script as I presented this report live on air.

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Yep, I really do wish that I could bring more good news but man when the tech world is sliding into darkness even faster you still gotta call them as they are and things do seem to be going in the wrong direction painfully fast.

So the latest bulletin item of interest is researchers have discovered a new exploit that could be used by malware in a particularly insidious way. They're calling it Pixnapping, and that is a very descriptive name. What this technique does is bypass Google's #Android and deep level hardware protections and reportedly could let malware basically read almost anything on the user's screen, including sensitive personal information, one-time codes from apps like #Google Authenticator and others. There are timing constraints involved and other details but overall it's pretty awful.

And what makes it even worse is that this not only appears to apply to pretty much any relatively modern Android phone, tablet, or other Android device, but there isn't a fix for it yet, and getting one that actually works -- keeping in mind the hardware involvement -- looks like a nontrivial matter. And that assumes you have Android devices that are still getting updates, which LOTS of people with even relatively new devices don't receive.

Apparently Google developed what they hoped was a fix for this, but the original researchers turned around and quickly found a way to bypass the fix. So that's pretty depressing.

Now there is some relatively good news -- such as it is. Currently this exploit apparently hasn't been seen in the wild, only in the hands of the researchers who discovered it, and they reportedly say they won't release the code for the exploit until there is a fix. But of course, once they release the code it could show up pretty much anywhere and people with unpatched devices could be vulnerable.

Is there anything users can do right now or if they have devices that never get the fix? Well yeah, it's pretty much the standard advice, which is to try stay away from dodgy apps and suspicious websites, in particular don't install apps from unreliable sources that might ultimately carry this exploit or other exploits as a payload.

I'll mention in passing that Google has been talking about blocking (except in a restricted set of cases) users from "sideloading" apps, that is, installing apps directly without going through their Play Store or other official sites for example. Apparently they've backed off a little bit on this -- the details aren't clear yet -- because while sideloading can be a vector for malware it also is important for people to be able to use to install perfectly safe and legal apps that perhaps Google or some government somewhere doesn't approve of and so isn't in the Play Store, etc. Apple's iOS, e.g. iPhones has always been very restrictive in this context and that's been a real problem for many completely legit users over the years.

And there's something else important I want to add here. We need to be thinking about this new exploit, and malware, and bugs in general in a new way due to Google and other firms pushing very hard -- Google is really at it for this holiday season -- for people to use their so-called "agentic" AI systems to browse the web for you and make purchase decisions for you and take all sorts of other potentially risky actions on YOUR behalf.

Because it's not difficult to imagine how agentic AI and the like could actually "supercharge" malware and bugs that could manipulate the AI in perhaps a wide range of very problematic ways that could cause users potentially a lot of grief, with no real confidence that the AI firms are willing to take full responsibility for any damage caused.

So in terms of what can go wrong with this tech, it's quite possibly the reality that much worse is -- unfortunately -- still to come.

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Tried installing another FOSS app from F-droid.

The previous ~6 installed smoothly and just plain do the work.

Not this one, need to install another app, or is that 3 more apps? and then download a data file.

Back to "Hobbyist level software masquerading as fit for domestic consumption".

#FDroid #Android #FOSS

librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem https://lobste.rs/s/vh4tzd #android
https://github.com/kavishdevar/librepods

@JSkier Meshtastic nodes are fun, but I've only used them with the flaky #android app. I have plans to flash them so they can do plain-old #AX25 and #reticulum.

The #syncthingFork for Android repo was deleted!?

#syncthing #android #foss

[The devil is in the details] #Google apparently backing off a bit on
#Android sideloading restrictions

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/11/google-will-let-android-power-users-bypass-upcoming-sideloading-restrictions/

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We'll see.

The Odysee app on Android was recently updated and apparently doesn't suck anymore

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.odysee.app

#Odysee #Android

Android developer verification: allow experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn't verified https://lobste.rs/s/zqhl3v #android
https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/11/android-developer-verification-early.html

Google Posts Device Trees For Booting Pixel 10 Hardware With The Mainline Linux Kernel https://lobste.rs/s/pqoimv #android #linux
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Pixel-10-Google-DTs

RE: https://sauropods.win/@futurebird/115525287260968483

one of the first things i do when i get an unrooted #Android device is:

1. install @fdroidorg
2. install degoogled substitutes for Calendar, Contacts, Camera, File Manager, Gallery, IMs, Youtube, GApps Services, Search & Maps
3. revoke all permissions to apps by Google, Samsung or Lenovo
4. force stop all previous apps, ESPECIALLY the GApps store
5. keep a list of the bloatware. USA phone companies get paid to install spyware in root, so “deleting” bloatware without root is theater 🧵

Android security bulletin: November 2025 patch fixes zero-click RCE https://lobste.rs/s/ni1qi1 #android #security
https://source.android.com/docs/security/bulletin/2025-11-01

Just noticed that CBP/ICE have posted an app publicly to the google play store that they say is meant to be used by partner policing organizations.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.dhs.cbp.mobile.identify.global

#Android #Google #ICE #DHS #CBP #ACAB #privacy #surveillance

Samsung hopes for "second golden age" of the smartphone business with Galaxy S26

Samsung is planning “second golden age” for its smartphone business in 2026 and aims to recapture past sales successes with the Galaxy S26 series and foldables.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Samsung-hopes-for-second-golden-age-of-the-smartphone-business-with-Galaxy-S26-11070624.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Android #IT #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Mobiles #Mobilfunk #Samsung #Smartphone #Geschäftszahlen #news

Keep Android Open
https://keepandroidopen.org/

This is important. We already have a basic duopoly in mobile operating systems, now Google is trying to lock down their platform even more. Nobody benefits from this other than Google's shareholders.

Whether you are a device owner, a developer, or a public institution, this affects you and should matter to you.

Everyone can meaningfully help to push back.

#FuckGoogle #Android #FOSS #Mobile

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115225922791811080

so, am testing the #quoot or #quotepost feature in the app and it’s working.

been using it by opening posts in a browser, so it’s nice that i can do it directly from the #android app. i almost exclusively toot from my tablet these days.

the thing is… this isn’t a quoted post à la Twitter.

all we had to do was to copy & paste a link to the tweet for it to appear embedded with the javascript & html magic of the Oembed protocol.

what @MastodonEngineering created here is something else… 🧵

BACK TO QUOTED TWEETS

taking snapshots of a tweet and posting them was a way of circumventing the blockquote conundrum with the 250 character limitation; BUT there was another limitation: CELL PHONE DATA PLANS.

there was no #Android when Twitter was first created. mobile posting wasn’t by way of an app. we posted via text messaging.

how much media you included in a mobile tweet was limited by your phone’s data plan. i certainly was, and that’s why my QT was optimized for texts… 🧵

I'm curious to hear from folks running @GrapheneOS : how has it been dealing with play device integrity API issues for apps that you use. Have there been apps that you can't run on your phone that you need for day to day life? How have you worked around it?

#graphene #android #foss #degoogle

Is there a tool for sanitizing links in the clipboard so that the tracking information is stripped out for Linux and Android? To see what I mean, look at a random Etsy link. Everything after the question mark is tracking information.

#privacy #linux #android #sysadmin

I think my dalliance with #android may be coming to an end. I bought this titan 2 phone backing a kickstarter. It has been very unreliable. Maybe it is android 15. Maybe it is my wacky settings (i try to log out of google and do as little with them as possible). I restrict or remove permissions on a lot of stuff. It could be instability in the maker's mods to android. I don't know. But i deal with crashes. A lot

The fact is that two email programs (Thunderbird and K-9) won't run. They literally crash when opened. ProtonVPN crashes as soon as i tap "sign in". I cant remember the last time i dealt with this on my #iPhone. With this android phone it's a daily thing. I used the built-in gmail app and even it crashes sometimes.

I still don't have all my #nextcloud services integrated. I have installed TWO helper apps already (DAVx and IMAP notes) to get contacts, calendars, and notes. I STILL don't have reminder lists working. All these things were effortless on IOS. On android it's not supported out of the boxand i have to search for a workaround.

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And frankly, the physical keys are nice for some things but they're much more work to type. I'm slower, less accurate, and my hands get tired. Today is Sunday and i got it Wednesday night. IM not sure i will last a week.

Goddamn:every time i type "I'm" i have to slow down and fix it. See that "IM" in the sentence above? if i type I M space, fucking assistive typing will insert IM by default. By now it should have learned that i mean "I'm"

I'm constantly looking for the non-Google option for stuff, like photos, contacts, email. The possibility of a non-proprietary app store was attractive in theory. In practice my bank, and major apps i use are only in the Play store. I can't control where they publish.

I'll thread more later. My hands are tired.
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#android #IOS #apple #titan2

@GOKUSHRM Maybe you didn't read the thread. I already use F-droid and my complaint is that major apps aren't there. Aurora will get me the major apps, exactly as they are in the Play store, so I don't see the relevance. (I get why Aurora is better than the Play store, but that isn't what I'm complaining about)

I have self-hosted email, self-hosted calendar and contacts, self-hosted reminders and tasks, and self-hosted notes. I'm not looking to stop using what I have and switch to services provided by Tuta or anyone else. And if that markdown editor for notes doesn't use IMAP to read and write the notes that I already have, it's not useful.

I am not getting started. I have 20 years of mobile phone history and usage. 27 years hosting my own email. I'm trying to change my phone. I'm not trying to change all the online services that I use for my digital life in order to make #Android work.

Defeating KASLR by Doing Nothing at All https://lobste.rs/s/ckuhmd #android #security
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2025/11/defeating-kaslr-by-doing-nothing-at-all.html

Too bad there is no #Rakulang package for #termux on #android. Has anyone figured out a way to get it to build in that environment? #programming

When we say #OpenSource, we mean business. That's why ALL Tuta apps are published on @fdroidorg

While Google & Apple monitor all push notifications, your data is safe when choosing Tuta Mail. 🔒

➡️ Learn why Tuta Mail is the only email provider app on F-Droid: https://tuta.com/blog/open-source-email-fdroid

#FOSS #Fdroid #Android #deGoogle

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Binoculars with the Google and Apple logo in each lens.

Zapstore https://lobste.rs/s/pr4aqv #android
https://zapstore.dev/

»Sideloading - F-Droid wirft Google Falschaussage vor
Die Macher von F-Droid teilen weiter gegen Google wegen der kommenden Entwicklerregistrierung aus: Google verbreite Falschaussagen.«

Ich halte mich mit meinen Kommentaren mal raus, denn Rechtlich habe ich so gut wie keine Ahnung aber ich stehe auch 101% hinter @fdroidorg und hoffe dass das positiv für sie entwickelt.

📱 https://www.golem.de/news/sideloading-f-droid-wirft-google-falschaussage-vor-2510-201639.html

#android #google #frdoid #apps #app #opensource #falschaussagen #mobile #smattphone #sideloading

What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading https://lobste.rs/s/ckm3vb #android #mobile #security
https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html