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JayViiIzzyOnDroid ✅
Screenshot of a mail Android app developers are currently receiving, if they have apps at Google's PlayStore. Highlighted text: 
"Apps not registered by September 2026 WILL NO LONGER BE INSTALLABLE ON CERTIFIED ANDROID DEVICES in select countries."
No exceptions mentioned. Simply "register them – or NOBODY will be able to install them (on certified devices).

Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said? Don't be afraid, they said? Something something "we heard you"? Suuuure! Who would ever doubt it!

Attached the copy of a mail developers with apps in the PlayStore CURRENTLY receive. Please, read the text in the red box carefully:

"Apps not registered by September 2026 WILL NO LONGER BE INSTALLABLE ON CERTIFIED ANDROID DEVICES in select countries."

See an exception there? I don't.

#Google #Android #DeveloperCertfication

JayVii

#Webauthn and to some extend also #TOTP are really easy and quick to use with the #Nitrokey on my PC. It's amazing how smoothly this works.

Then regarding #Android, this thing is still a brick. They simply do not work together AT ALL. Real bummer and not at all as advertised. So I still need a #2FA app on my phone and have to enable two #MFA authorization schemes for every account. This is really not what I had in mind, when I bought this.

JayVii

So either I completely misunderstood how the #Nitrokey 3 NFC chip should have worked with #Android (at least supports fido2 and apparently PGP), or the #Fairphone 4 does not play nicey with this... Real bummer, because this is basically a brick for me 50% of the time now

JayVii

Anyone else with this ridiculous issue on the #FairPhone 4 #FP4? Struggling with this for MONTHS now. Relatively low usage today (ca. 1h screen time). Cellular data is pushing through my battery life like nothing else. I barely get a day out of it, even on idle. #Android

Image description: battery usage screen in android. The cellular data used 62% battery in the last 7 hours, display used 36% in the past 2.5 hours.
JayVii

#K9 on #Android/#FDroid is broken since yesterday (12.0). Simply crashes when trying to launch it. Downgrade does not seem possible either. So here's waiting for a quick fix 🙃

JayVii

My #Fairphone 4 is draining battery like crazy over the past few months. Surely, I should buy a new battery for it soon (software says, a full charge is around 3350 mAh instead of 3900 mAh it had back in 2021 when I bought it), but this cannot be the only issue here...

Not using it at all drains around 2-3%/h and simply web browsing or a short YouTube video sometimes drains 30%/h (extrapolating). Sometimes, the device is warm even when I haven't used it for hours. The Energy-consumption settings page lists cellular connection as the top consumer next to display (when using the phone). That is, even when the device sits motionless at a spot with perfect 4G or 5G connectivity. It is only bearable in energy-saving mode (1%/h).

I've been researching online, and it looks like a bunch of people have that issue. People are speculating it is a non-functional deep-sleep in some circumstances. I wonder if a factory reset (or switch to #LineageOS?) could help.

Did anyone have similar experience with #FP4 or even other #Android devices?

#Fairphone4 #Fairphone5 #FP #eOS #Smartphone

JayVii

The last update to #VLC for #Android improved the app substantially. A lot quicker and without that awkward buffering when starting song from the local music library. Very pleasant! #FOSS #Fdroid

JayVii

Because I am making some use of #S3 #ObjectStorage for both file storage and smaller backups, I am looking for #FOSS #Android Apps that can not only sync/put files to S3, but also gather data from there.

Is there anything like that out there? On #FDroid I only found two apps that can put data on S3 in a backup-style fashion. But I have not found an application that can download from there.

JayVii

#Fennec #FDroid has not been updated in months and apparently has known vulnerabilities. So which webbrowser are #privacy contious #Android users using these days? There is always #Mull & #Mulch from #DivestOS, I suppose. #Firefox

JayVii

For some reason, upon reboot, #Android reset all apps' permissions. I am not getting any notifications, unless i grant permissions again, apps cannot access storagespace anymore, etc. Did this hapoen to anyone ever before? #Fairphone