Overview
I wanted an app that would use my phone's camera to monitor a particular area, and alert me via email if motion is detected. I thought it would be a good exercise to write the app myself - as well as being an interesting project, this would allow me to implement whatever features I wanted. The app is free, and there are no restrictions or ads. I won't go into all the features here as they are explained on the app's website.

The APK file and explanation of all features/settings is at:
http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/zonemonitor/zonemonitor.html

(I no longer publish my apps to Google Play since they made it mandatory to list my home address)

Permissions required:

• INTERNET - to send emails when movement is detected
• CAMERA - to take photos for comparison
• RECORD_AUDIO - the app supports taking videos as well as photos
• ACCESS_WIFI_STATE - required to set up the app's HTTP admin interface

Known issues:
I have tested this on a few different phones, and run it for weeks without restarting on an old Motorola device. It works fine on my Google Pixel as well, but on my OnePlus 3T it crashes quite frequently and I still haven't figured out the cause of this.

Feel free to give it a try and let me know if you run into any problems. There are quite a few settings that can be adjusted so it might be worth playing around with these to get the desired results.

Andrew Parkin
Main website: http://www.apdroid.byethost5.com/

(the original project name "Motion Detector" can still be found in various places within the app, I decided to rename it to "Zone Monitor" as there is already an app called Motion Detector; I will get around to fixing these at some point)

I hope I'm asking this question in a way that makes sense. Trying to google it has been a waste of time.
Before my S23 updated to Android 15 a few weeks ago, if I had 2 or more radio apps open (for example iheart and audacy), I could swipe down and both apps would be visible for me to swipe between them, if I wanted to switch from one app to the other. I'm not talking about playing both of them at the same time (which google seems to think I'm doing).
Since the move to Android 15, when I go from one app to the other, the first app disappears from the top of my screen, so if I want to go back to it, I have to open the app from my app list and start it over. Does anybody know if I can go back to the previous setting? Thanks.

What's a good private one that doesn't save to googoo? I suppose I shouldn't expect much from a Blu, but I do want to maximize what it can do. I don't want something that goes overboard with permissions.

When creating mobile or app designs, where do you usually get your images from?

Is it from Freepik, LottieFiles, Flaticon, Icon8 — or do you create them yourself?

Hard mode:
Name me a few of them without going to say "Nova launcher" or "Action", "Smart" or anything you can possibly look up,
I want a real independent one that I can simply modify everything.

My friend's washer smells to high heaven. She's blaming the pipes. I guess the laundry gets clean, but it doesn't pass the sniff test. Is there some cheap/easy/fast/magic fix?

Something I've noticed: whenever I copy some text I get the notification "Samsung Keyboard has pasted from your clipboard". However I don't use Samsung Keyboard (it's pre-installed on my phone, but I have always used 3rd party keyboards), and this happens straight after I copy the text, before I've had a chance to even go to where I want to paste it. So it raises the question why is Samsung Keyboard even accessing the clipboard and where is it posting the text to?

It might be harmless, some absurd, clunky design where all copies to the clipboard go through the pre-installed keyboard app (I'd not put that past either Google or Samsung). But it does create a distinct "Samsung keyboard is phoning home to the mothership even though you don't use it" vibe. Does anyone know anything about this?

vivo have begun rolling out the May 2025 security patch to their global, (FunTouch), models of the X Fold3 Pro. This update also has a number of bug fixes and optimizations for Android 15 as detailed in the screenshot.

This is the vivo X Fold3's 9th Android 15 update in 9 months.

My S23 updated to One UI V 7.0 a couple weeks ago. I have been able to change a few of the settings back to how there were before but I can't figure out how to configure the layout of my apps. I'm referring to the list of all my apps, not my home screen apps. When I would try to find an app, they used to be spread out over several pages and I would swipe right or left to view 20 apps on each page. Since the update, all of the apps are on one page and I have to scroll through the whole list to find the app I'm looking for. I pretty much had the location of my apps memorized so I could find an app easily. Is there a way to get this back the way it used to be?

Samsung have started to roll out the May 2025 security update to the Fold5.

I just noticed today that when I long press the home button, the screen flashes, I then tap the search box, then at the top of the screen, a see a search box, with a screen shot it just grabbed. Then if i say something it adds to it ,but only searches the image. I have the Samsung Galaxy s22 Ultra with Android v15, and my wife has the Galaxy s22 plus and her search works as expected. What I expect is I long press the home button, I see a search box and I talk to do a google search. ... thoughts

I don't have any special plans for the weekend beyond visiting the cemetery and calling a few vets I know. I will smoke something out Sunday more than likely. Rain is forecasted for my area all weekend.
Do you have any special plans? If you travel, do be safe. Please go out of your way to thank the veterans in your life for their service.

Jeez, been stuck not being able to login since last week!
2 factor authentication from the website was NOT sending me the authentication emails!!!!
Ugh!
Anyways, I'm glad to be back, my friends!

But if anyone else has that problem, please post so the admins can resolve this issue.

Can someone reach out to @Rob and tell him his tax shelter is having issues. I'm kind of done doing it.

Has anyone dabbled around with app, i was thinking about trying it but wanted to get a heads up about it ?

They just dropped a recent game like oh a spell ago, and was not aware of it called Mr. Rabbit Magic Happy Hour.

I have a friend who needs money to pay bills and get the house fixed. Would go fund me be a good choice? How does it work?

One of the beefs I've always had with Android (which is also present in Linux) is how dumb the shortcuts are.

In Windows, a shortcut take you to a file or folder. If the default app changes, the shortcut doesn't care. It goes to the file or folder within the shortcut with the new default. It doesn't require one to do up yet another shortcut for the gazillionth time when the app goes through an update. They remain forever static, which is absolutely great!

Is there a way, _please_, to work around this deficiency in Android? Can we create a shortcut to a file or folder that will live on through updates or even changes in the default app that opens any given shortcut?

Thank you for any help to this regard!

At long last, Samsung have released their Android 15 and One UI 7.0 update for the S21 series, G998B. Download 3,665.33MB.

Don't forget that this coming Sunday, the 11th, is Mother's day. We only get one mother and I suspect that everyone has a special loving person for a mother. It's been nearly 45 years ago that I lost my mother and I still miss the woman. I try to do something special for my wife for she was that special person to our four children. The mothers deserve more than a day of recognition in my opinion. I'll not let the day pass without special thoughts of my mother and and to show my wife how I appreciate the loving effort she invested in our children.

At long last, Samsung have released their Android 15 and One UI 7.0 update for my Fold4, F936B, on CSC code EUX. Download 4,657.88MB.