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Ich hatte gestern die Chance, mir die Funktionsweise rund um den automatischen Upload bei der @… -Android-App erklären zu lassen.
Seither bin ich viel geduldiger, weil ich jetzt weiss, dass vieles, was ich sonst so ausprobiert hatte, nichts bringt.
Damit ihr nicht auch im Dunkeln tappen müsst, habe ich die Erklärung für euch zusammengefasst.

Adobe launches a Photoshop app for Android in beta for devices running Android 11 or later with 6GB of RAM, including core desktop features like layering (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/03/adobe-launches-beta-…

Adobe launches beta version of its Photoshop app on Android | TechCrunch
The app offers a similar set of editing tools as the desktop version, including layering and masking, but is optimized for mobile screens.

For Zotero users, the Android app is finally out of closed beta. It supports saving papers directly from the browser or other apps, which takes several steps out of my workflow for increasing my TBR pile.
https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-for-android/

Android: #Obtanium (instead of #FDroid app) is really awesome for managing app updates.
However, this method has an issue when the naming schema of the #apk files change on the server side, and you're using a…

Facebook got caught exploiting Android again to track you:
https://localmess.github.io

Meta und Yandex haben die Browsernutzung von Android-Nutzer'innen mit einer perfiden und bisher unbekannten Tracking-Methode deanonymisiert und damit die strikte Trennung von Apps ausgehebelt.
Das in Websites eingebettete Tracking-Script (also z.B. "Facebook Pixel") konnte sein _fbp-Cookie über einen internen Port (z.B. 127.0.0.0:12387) senden und die Facebook-App hat auf diesem Port gelauscht und das Cookie abgefangen. So wurde ein Webseitenbesuch, bei dem Facebook eing…

Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers
Abuse allows Meta and Yandex to attach persistent identifiers to detailed browsing histories.

Can Internal Software Metrics Predict App Popularity at Launch? Yeas! and Nays!
Md Nahidul Islam Opu, Fatima Islam Mouri, Rick Kazman, Yuanfang Cai, Shaiful Chowdhury
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02110

Can Internal Software Metrics Predict App Popularity at Launch? Yeas! and Nays!
Predicting mobile app popularity before release can provide developers with a strategic advantage in a competitive marketplace, yet it remains a challenging problem. This study explores whether internal software metrics, measurable from source code before deployment, can predict an app's popularity, defined by user ratings (calculated from user reviews) and DownloadsPerYear (yearly downloads). Using a dataset of 446 open-source Android apps from F-Droid, we extract a wide array of features, inc…

How spyware, posing as an app from a humanitarian organization, spread among Syrian army officers via Telegram, and fueled the collapse of the Assad regime (Mobile Hacker)
https://www.mobile-hacker.com/2025/06/05/an…

Analysis of Spyware That Helped to Compromise a Syrian Army from Within
This case demonstrates that effective smartphone espionage doesn't always require expensive zero-day exploits or the development of sophisticated, custom and undetected spyware. Instead, attackers can achieve significant intelligence gains using older, off-the-shelf tools like Android SpyMax—especially when combined

Adobe veröffentlicht Firefly-App für iOS und Android
Adobe hat eine Firefly-App für iOS und Android veröffentlicht. Sie erstellt Fotos und Videos mit der Adobe-Technik und Partnermodellen von OpenAI und anderen.

Anyone run Android apps on a PC - either under qemu or directly? I need access to wifi though in the guest and maybe camera.
(I want to try Samsung's smartthings app for configuring my washer but my phone is too ancient)

Ja, Sparkasse. Nein, Sparkasse.

Researchers found that both #Meta snd #Yandex link(ed) IDs between browsers and their native apps by local communication on #Android devices.
E.g. the

Iola Walker: A Mobile Footfall Detection System for Music Composition
Will James
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01211 https://arxiv.org/p…

Iola Walker: A Mobile Footfall Detection System for Music Composition
This project is the first of several experiments composing music that changes in response to biosignals. The system is dubbed "iola walker" in reference to a common polyrhythm, the hemiola. A listener goes for a walk, and the Iola Walker app detects their walking pace. Iola Walker picks up footfalls using a foot-mounted accelerometer, processing the signals in real time using a recurrent neural network in an Android app. The Android app outputs a MIDI event for each footfall. The iola walker pl…

Hey @…, found your keyboard
:fdroid: https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.dkter.aaaaa

aaaaa | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
a minimalist keyboard

Google quietly released an Android app called Google AI Edge Gallery on GitHub, letting users run some AI models from Hugging Face locally on their phones (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/31/goog

Google quietly released an app that lets you download and run AI models locally | TechCrunch
Last week, Google quietly released an app, Google AI Edge Gallery, that lets users run a range of openly available AI models from the AI dev platform Hugging Face on their phones.

Weiß eins ob die #NextCloud App für #Android auch die Option bietet, alle Bilder immer hochzuladen nach dem Fotografieren. Die iOS-App kann das und ich schiele echt auf ein #FairPhone
Vermutli…

Not building offshore wind power in #NewJersey is so sad.
https://ww…

Sobre clientes XMPP, en Android he estado probando Monocles Chat, que a mi gusto tiene todo lo que una app de mensajería instantšnea requiere: multicuentas, cifrado e2e, envío de imšgenes, archivos, audios, llamadas y hasta permite importar stickers de signal. Ademšs tiene widgets/extensiones que permite agregar mas funciones como encuestas y algunos juegos.
Creo que es una app ideal para promover xmpp.
#XMPP

Sabem o que era porreiro?
O que era porreiro era que a malta que fez a app fogos.pt a atualizasse. Desde que comprei este telemóvel que não a consigo instalar porque "foi concebida para uma versão anterior do android".

At a certain age, the paperwork you have at home is enormous. Official letters, invoices, prescriptions... But, of course, there is a self-hosted application that helps you manage all that clutter.
At the moment, I already have Paperless installed on the server using Docker. I'll leave for the weekend its configuration, testing its ocr (wow!) and its app for Android.
#selfhosting

Sega is discontinuing support for 9 retro games that were ported to iOS and Android years ago -they've made them all free and removed in-app purchases. I just grabbed Crazy Taxi, Golden Axe Classics, Super Monkey Ball - check out the list here and grab them in the app stores asap before they disappear, there's Streets of Rage and Sonic too, etc:

Download these now free retro mobile games before Sega removes them
Sega is discontinuing nine more retro games on iOS and Android, but you can now download them for free until they’re gone.

For me, the great @… is the number #1 #Mastodon app on Android.
It also works with #peertube and

Intewesting! Via Wired:
Fender's GarageBand Rival
Fender has announced a new cross-platform app called Fender Studio that will let users easily record, jam, and release music from anywhere. The free app is available for iOS, Android, PC, Linux, and macOS, and looks to take on Apple's GarageBand for free recording app supremacy. It can use your phone's microphone or any compatible interface, and includes modeling for classic amplifiers, effects pedals, and mixing plug…

In recent time, my #Android is annoying me with the home gesture (swiping from the bottom upwards.
E.g., when I'm in #Tusky (Mastodon app), it not only jumps to the home screen but before that, it scrolls a couple of messages backward so that I need to re-find my previous position when I switch to T…

Sorry for the super bad quality, but I wanted to show you how easy it can be to submit any url to a server - on android - without the need to code any app, here you can see how easy it is to submit a reddit URL to my summarizer, to get a few seconds later a notification via pushover, telling me, the summary is ready - which can be opened with one click in the browser....

Initial impressions of the #Immich #Android app:
- the webinterface (even on mobile) is *much* more responsive and fluid than the app
- setting up the syncing is... weird. It keeps forgetting settings, gets stuck half way, doesn't continue after screen lock, seems to always upload everythi…

Google launches Doppl, an experimental AI app to let users virtually try on outfits by generating videos from photos, available on iOS and Android in the US (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/goog

Google launches Doppl, a new app that lets you visualize how an outfit might look on you | TechCrunch
Google is launching a new experimental app called Doppl that uses AI to visualize how different outfits might look on you.

I believe I have managed to prove my ID in order to comply with the new laws that say I have to prove my ID to own the business I own that I'm sure already asked me to prove my ID when I registered it.
First we tried the on-web version, but that apparently relies upon the corporates having managed to profile and track me, because it told me they had no questions upon which to base identification. Good I guess? My avoid-tracking systems must be working at least a bit?
Next we tried the android app, but apparently the phone I tried that with is too old and the app won't install.
So next option is turning up at a post office with a printed letter. I don't own a printer though, so had to have them post that to me.
Took the letter and a driving licence up to the post office today and "It's not going through" they said, pointing to a stalled progress bar on an android app on a tablet.
Um. Okay. So?
Just wait longer apparently. About ten minutes and it finally proceeded and the post office man took a photograph of me after asking me to disrobe of my robe, strip down to a teeshirt and jeans.
Not sure in what sense this has proven my ID any more than it was already proven to get the driving licence or company registration in the first place?
Apparently I now have government logins for "One Login" and for "government gateway" and they are not the same thing? But sort of are the same thing?
Can't say I really understand it. Expect they'll introduce a third government login when they do these Digital ID cards they're talking about.
God knows how I'm supposed to know which to use when the company tax records need updating in a few months.
#id #government #oneLogin

How to slowly but surely log-off. I have been using a custom #launcher on #Android, Pro Launcher, which inserts a little break (and wants a confirmation) every time you open a social media app. This, and family life in a European summer 🌞.

Here's an accessibility tip for Fedilab, an Android app for Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, and GoToSocial.
There are two settings that hide the top bar and compose button when a timeline is scrolled down. This helps to make the UI less cluttered for sighted users. But it makes these controls unavailable to screen readers. (Continued in reply.)
#Android

So here's a question: Is there an app for #Mastodon that plays videos from #Peertube directly in the timeline?
I'm on #android, but others would surely appreciate suggestions for

Here you go a fork of @… know as @… is now on @… .

#wusstestDu man kann in seiner #Nextcloud eine Newsreader App installieren und mit #Android und #iOS

I've been happily using #Obsidian with my own self-hosted sync server. This week, I am trying #Joplin with my own self-hosted sync server. Sync works on Desktop but crashed the Android app. Switching the sync server from self-hosted to

Adobe releases iOS and Android apps for Firefly, letting users generate images and videos using text prompts and experiment with popular AI photo editing tools (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/688080/adobe-firefly-…

Adobe made a mobile app for its Firefly generative AI tools
The all-in-one platform for Adobe’s Firefly generative AI models is now available on iPhone and Android devices.

Ladet euch jetzt Signal runter. Ihr findet mich unter gratian.37
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcrime.securesms
iOS:

Signal – Sicherer Messenger – Apps bei Google Play
Wir leben Datenschutz.

I've been working on a full calendar app upgrade to the Discordian date widget I made years ago for Android. It's nearly ready for release, just got a bug or three to fix first.
#discordianism #discordiancalendar

Mainstream social media apps spy on you. This isn't even the first such revelation. All social nedia works just fine in your web browser, which defeats a lot of those shenanigans.
If you really want a separate app, consider a second web browser. Also, Mastodon apps should be fine (but be careful with the less popular ones).

Meta pauses mobile port tracking tech on Android after researchers cry foul
: Zuckercorp and Yandex used localhost loophole to tie browser data to app users, say boffins

Google rolls out the ability to upload videos in the Gemini app for both free and paid accounts across Android and iOS; the feature is not yet live on the web (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/17/gemini-app-video-upload/

Gemini app rolling out video upload and analysis
Besides the new navigation drawer and 2.5 Pro going stable, the Gemini app is rolling out video upload and analysis. 

If you are like me, then you might have installed the #GoogleAuthenticator app, back in the days when it was the only solution out there for #TOTP #2FA.
But that is long ago. Since …

The United android app is hilariously bad. I think it is stuck in 2015.

Place your bets please; Will the #AAOS build for Pixel Tablets become a thing in the #AOSP, or will #Google consider the #Automotive

@…
On my Android phone, the app is just called "Settings".