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New Android Features - Google

beingbeetle
Android is announcing new features to help you improve productivity, connectivity and individuality as you go about your day-to-day life.

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  • With WhatsApp now available on your Wear OS smartwatch, you can securely send and receive messages, answer calls, and keep up with chats without having to get out of your phone.
  • Find new places, place information, and directions on your smartwatch.
  • The Assistant At a Glance widget uses AI to bring you helpful information like high-precision weather alerts, dynamic travel updates and upcoming event reminders on your home screen — right when you need them.
  • Image Q&A uses AI to generate image descriptions and answer follow-up questions that you can ask using your voice or typing. Use it on everything from images on social media to your photo gallery.
  • You can now hear your Fitbit or Google Fit data — like hours slept, sleep start time, and step count — in your personal Routines to help you stay on top of your wellness goals.
  • When Gmail detects you’ve received an email in a foreign language, you’ll be prompted to translate it to your preferred language, right from the mobile app.
  • Easily take calls on-the-go with a simplified mobile experience.
  • AI curation organizes your photos so you can revisit special moments.
  • Use effects to add some flair to the people or places in your frame.
  • oon, digitize and store your everyday tickets and passes for easy access.
  • Your Android device can now automatically detect and notify you of unfamiliar tracking devices (like Bluetooth tracker tags) moving with you, so you can take action to locate and disable them.
  • React faster with early earthquake alerts, available in 95+ countries.
  • Android Auto behind the wheel, Zoom and Webex are headed your way. With either app, you'll be able to start and join conference calls (audio only) and check your meeting schedules. Using Android Auto, you can mute your microphone when necessary and end the call when it's time to go.
  • New feature is a photo import for Google Wallet passes. With this one, you can add passes with barcodes or QR codes to Google Wallet by snapping a picture of them.
Source:- Stay productive and connected with these new Android features
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Help Help with Xperia companion

ocnbrze
qwnick said:
Help I used Xperia companion but it say to allow data access but can't enable it
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can you be more specific? what phone do you have? and where does it ask you about data access? on the phone or computer? can you explain in more details on what is going on? why were you using the xperia companion? were you trying to update the phone? or repair it? if repair it, what happened before this?

just remember, the more details you give us, the better we can help you.
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Samsung Messages app - exploit/security risk?

ocnbrze
sammysega said:
Hi, I wasn't sure if the scammers are spoofing a real person's number, so in case the number belonged to a real unrelated person I didn't want to plaster it on the Internet.

I've gotten plenty of spam texts before, but this was the first one where there wasn't actually a text, just the number showing up in my text message inbox.
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thats a good point.

yeah just blocks those or get a better spam blocker.
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Apps Characteristics of an Android App Development Framework

M
An Android app development framework should offer several key characteristics. It must support programming languages like Java and Kotlin, provide tools for UI design and layout, offer access to Android APIs, facilitate testing and debugging, and enable efficient app packaging and distribution. Additionally, it should have an active community, regular updates, and compatibility with various Android versions, ensuring developers can create robust, responsive, and up-to-date mobile applications.
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pre alarm tone plays before chosen alarm song starts

B
Samsamb said:
To remove the loud default alarm tone before your chosen song in the Android Clock app, open the Clock app, edit your alarm, and select "None" or "Silent" for the alarm tone. This will silence the default sound, allowing your chosen song to play without interruption.
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hmm I'm not seeing a separate alarm tone from the ringtone. And when I click on ringtone there's no "silent" or "none" option. There's an option to turn on vibrate, as seen in the screenshots above
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Help Can someone tell me if these Bluetooth services are normal even when I have it off

beingbeetle
These are the services you use only when Bluetooth is On, for example using headphones via Bluetooth, having calls from earphones via Bluetooth,
Provides the public APIs to control the Bluetooth HID Device profile, BluetoothOppService is a service that provides Bluetooth connectivity for your car and so on.

If you turn off your Bluetooth, it simply means you are not able to access these functions. In other words, Make Bluetooth enabled/disabled as per your need.
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kotlin/jetpack search list

K
I am looking for some advice on an app I have been developing over the last couple months. In an abstract explanation, the app's main screen (MainScreen()) shows items that the user has added. There is an add button which loads an add screen (AddScreen()) which by default shows all possible items that can be added. I have a search text field with a filter list underneath and have implemented some logic that has them work together to only show items that match both the search and filter criteria.

Currently, I am using just a regular mutable list to hold items that should be displayed. If there's nothing in the search text field and no filters are selected than we just assign the entire list (defined in a view model) to the regular mutable list in AddScreen()

Code: 
val resultsList = mutableListOf<whatever>()
...
if (dontFilter && dontSearch)
    resultsList = viewmodel.itemMap.values.toMutableList()
else {
    // do search/filter logic
    resultsList.add(whateverItem)
}
LazyColumn(items = resultsList) {
...
}

the variables that are associated with the search text field (onValueChange) and filters (onClick) are all state variables but should the resultsList be a state variable defined in the view model as well?

I have a random bug that I am trying to find but cannot seem to reproduce when I try. It may have something to do with process death but after I have added an item from AddScreen and then click add to load AddScreen again, the list sometimes does not show all possible items (all of ItemMap.values in above example), even though the search text field and filters have been cleared.

I need to pay more attention to whether this happens after I am using an already running an instance of the app (and process death may have occurred) or if it is a new instance... I am thinking the former though because it always seems to happen when I am quickly trying to show someone else the app (naturally...) as opposed to me restarting an app while testing after a code change.

Any advice?
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How to recover accidentally erased Camera folder from Samsung S21 Ultra - Data Recovery Android 12 / Root?

S22
Dannydet said:
All I can say is to please have a back up plan in place waay before you reach several gigs worth of photos. The time it takes to be proactive in this matter is priceless...
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Like I said, I do have plenty of backup there were not years of pictures wich it unfortunately was for OP I just take a lot of photos haha. Thanks for input.
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Help YouTube thumbnail playlist is gray

nickdalzell
as of a month or so ago, my Note 10.1 from 2012 now only loads m.youtube.com in Chrome, despite it being one year older than the Samsung browser built-into it.. the Samsung browser skeleton loads now. I think whenever the thumbnails went rounded corner UX it broke the browser since it apparently fails at drawing them and gets into a javascript error loop in the background. If i go to Google on Samsung's browser and search for specific content under 'videos' it will load the video itself and even play it, but the rest of the site is still stuck skeleton loading, with blank icons everywhere, the player UX also not drawing the rounded corners even if it otherwise works, and pausing the video won't allow resuming, as audio continues but video is frozen at that point. the scrubber bar is also MIA.

Chrome version 24, from literally October of 2013, still works with m.youtube.com, and draws the exact same layout as Samsung internet once did, albeit with the rounded corners. Either they blacklisted Samsung Internet because it's not Chrome and because it's an otherwise AOSP-based browser, or the rounded corner UX broke it. But the fact that even the oldest Chrome version for Android, literally the first version APK works fine, leads me to believe the former.
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Not more goo

nickdalzell
they are large because they are modern versions. Or they got updated behind your back. I noticed once that even if I never set up Play Store, it still tried to 'update' specific apps, mainly Google apps. Even with updates turned off, they still update select apps, unless you disable download manager in system which breaks Play Store and is one of the first things I do on a new or used device.

CyanogenMod peaked at 7.1, based on 2.3 Gingerbread. Nothing Lineage makes even comes close to the level of deep customization baked into CM 7.1. Custom ROMs are mosly just unofficial updates at this point.

I still have my Nexus 6, which has VoLTE hardware support, but nobody makes a 2.3-based ROM for it. XDA laughed at the suggestion, even when I said I'd pay for development if needed. It's like everyone wants to forget that era of Android completely. Android today is a bad iOS clone. I mean, sure, I made a convincing imitation of Sense 3 + TouchWiz UX on my Z Flip 4, because Samsung bakes in a lot of stuff that comes closer to the baked in options in CM 7.1, but it's always going to be half done. I cannot get the Gingerbread lock screen, status bar style, or launcher UX.

How many people even bother with a Wii or 3DS at this point? Because a few devs managed to resurrect WiiNet24 and many of the built-in apps on the Wii, including Forecast Channel, multiplayer backend, and Everybody Votes, and on the 3DS they resurrected MiiVerse, muliplayer, the friends system, EShop, and much more in homebrew. The 90s internet is able to be browsed from a Windows 95 PC running Internet Explorer 5 for crying out loud thanks to the Old Net. So why can't I use Android 2.3 today? Or have someone bring back Android Market since it's not Google's but open source in the first place? I think it would have been great to have F-droid use Android Market and its UX for a front end. That's no different than having eshop back on 3DS because it just redirects the requests to a spoofed API that makes the app think nothing has changed.
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