Any #Android #developers out there who can help with missing descriptions/licenses – i.e. what the mentioned libraries are for? There are still a few gaps to be filled, and each single hint is helpful. Thanks ahead!

gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…

LibraryStats.md · master · IzzyOnDroid / repo · GitLab

The F-Droid compatible repo at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/

^GitLab

Gerade wenn jetzt vor Weihnachten wieder ein #Smartphone unter dem Bäumchen landet, ein Hinweis: Antiviren-Scanner-Apps auf #Android und #iOS benötigt ihr nicht. Diesen nutzlosen Hokus-Pokus kann man sich sparen - am Ende wiegt man sich nur in falsche #Sicherheit, obwohl diese Apps systembedingt (Sandbox und Co.) kaum etwas leisten. Im Gegenteil: Diese vermeintlichen Sicherheits-Apps sind meist vollgestopft mit #Trackern. Mehr Infos und wie man idealerweise vorgeht 👇

kuketz-blog.de/truegerische-si…

Trügerische Sicherheit: Virenscanner-Apps sind schlichtweg überflüssig

Die Sicherheitsarchitektur von Android/iOS schränkt die Funktionsweise von Virenscanner-Apps stark ein und macht sie im Grunde nutzlos. Schlimmer: Die vermeintlichen Sicherheits-Apps sind Datenschleudern.

^{Kuketz IT-Security Blog}

#AndroidAppRain brings you 39 updated & 2 new (*) apps at @fdroidorg plus at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid 2 updated & 1 (+) new:

* AgoraDesk: buy BTC anonymously
* Little File Explorer: a minimalistic file manager
+ aShell: ADB shell directly on your Android device

Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with #FDroid – and also with the #IzzySoftRepo

News ahead: soon starts the new millenium. F-Droid is close to 4k (3894), IoD close to 1k (986) apps. Who hits it first? Exciting times…

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Tja, da haben wir den mehrdeutigen Salat:

* F-Droid.org: im Screenshot angepriesener Katalog freier Apps auf gleicher Domain.
* F-Droid: kommt darauf an. Der Client, die Server Software, oder…
* F-Droid Repo: Einer der vielen verfügbaren Kataloge (Repositories). Wie das Fediverse, ist auch F-Droid dezentral – und es gibt zahlreiche Kataloge, die man nutzen kann. Bei NeoStore sind viele davon vorkonfiguriert, sonst gibt es noch Listen bei @mondstern und mir…

#FDroid #FOSS #Android

💬 Kennst DU den schon?

Manche #iOS-Nutzer:innen werden jetzt möglicherweise etwas neidisch schauen 🙈
f-droid.org/de/

@fdroidorg @IzzyOnDroid #Android #FOSS #ohneGoogle #AndroidApps

#Tusky für #Android hat ein neues #Symbol in der App erhalten, bei einem vergangenen Update. 😀

Eine hübsche kleine Zeichnung eines #Mastodon ziert nun die #App, anstelle jenes vorheriges abstrakten Zeichen. 🤩

Sehr schön gelungen, mag ich.
Anbei noch eine #Collage mit Vorher & Nachher, sofern Wer nicht weiß was gemeint ist. 😏

The path to bringing you a great email experience on Android devices begins with K-9 Mail, which joined the Thunderbird family earlier this summer.

As we work towards a modern redesign of desktop Thunderbird, we’re also working to improve K-9 Mail as it begins its transition to Thunderbird mobile in Summer 2023.

Read more about today's new release of K-9 Mail on the Thunderbird blog:

blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/t…

#Android #Thunderbird #K9Mail #Email #FOSS #OpenSource

Thunderbird Android Update: New K-9 Mail Adds Swipe Actions

In addition to Thunderbird Supernova, we're working towards improving K-9 Mail as it transitions to Thunderbird Android in Summer 2023.

^{Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Mobilní online hra #WorldWarII se podobá starým dobrým Call of Duty

👉 infoek.cz/mobilni-hra-world-wa…

#mobilnihry #hry #game #gaming #callofduty #cod #android #ios

Tired of your weather app violating your privacy, e.g. by instantly collecting your location data?

Worried because it has tracking software included?

You may try out the privacy-friendly #TinyWeatherForecastGermany , available at #fdroid :
f-droid.org/packages/de.kaffee…

This is a #floss #android #weather #app using precise and detailed #opendata from the #dwd (Deutscher Wetterdienst).

Supports #forecasts for over 5000 places worldwide, a rain radar and weather warnings for Germany.

Tiny Weather Forecast Germany | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Weather forecast based on open data from the Deutscher Wetterdienst.

^f-droid.org

#AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 8 updated and 2 new apps:

* Musicmax: a music player
* PDF Doc Scan: a PDF document scanner

(aren't we obvious today?)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Google publishes the source code for their TalkBack screen reader. GrapheneOS maintains a fork of it and includes it in GrapheneOS with the help of a blind GrapheneOS user who works on their own more elaborate fork. Eventually, we'd like to include more or all of their changes.

TalkBack depends on a text-to-speech (TTS) implementation installed/configured/activated. It needs to have Direct Boot support to function before the first unlock of a profile. Google's TTS implementation supports this and can be used on GrapheneOS, but it's not open source.

We requested Direct Boot support from both prominent open source implementations:

RHVoice: github.com/RHVoice/RHVoice/iss…
eSpeak NG: github.com/espeak-ng/espeak-ng…

eSpeak NG recently added it but it's not yet included in a stable release and their licensing (GPLv3) is too restrictive for us.

RHVoice itself has acceptable licensing for inclusion in GrapheneOS (LGPL v2.1), but has dependencies with restrictive licensing. Both these software projects also have non-free licensing issues for the voices. Neither provides close to a working out-of-the-box experience either.

Google's Speech Services app providing text-to-speech and speech-to-text works perfectly. Their proprietary accessibility services app with extended TalkBack and other services also works fine. However, many of our users don't want to use them and we need something we can bundle.

There aren't currently any usable open source speech-to-text apps. There are experimental open source speech-to-text implementations but they lack Android integration.

We also really need to make a brand new setup wizard with both accessibility and enterprise deployment support.

GrapheneOS still has too little funding and too few developers to take on these projects. These would be standalone projects able to be developed largely independently. There are similar standalone projects which we need to have developed in order to replace some existing apps.

AOSP provides a set of barebones sample apps with outdated user interfaces / features. These are intended to be replaced by OEMs, but we lack the resources of a typical OEM. We replaced AOSP Camera with our own app, but we still need to do the same with Gallery and other apps.

Google has started the process of updating the open source TalkBack, which only happens rarely. We've identified a major issue: a major component has no source code published.

github.com/google/talkback/pul…

Google has been very hostile towards feedback / contributions for TalkBack...

This is one example of something seemingly on the right track significantly regressing. Another example is the takeover of the Seedvault project initially developed for GrapheneOS. It has deviated substantially from the original plans and lacks usability, robustness and security.

In the case of Seedvault, GrapheneOS designed the concept for it and one of our community members created it. It was taken over by a group highly hostile towards us and run into the ground. It doesn't have the intended design/features and lacks usability, security and robustness.

All of these are important standalone app projects for making GrapheneOS highly usable and accessible. What we need is not being developed by others and therefore we need to the resources including funding and developers to make our own implementations meeting our requirements.

#grapheneos #privacy #security #android #mobile #accessibility #texttospeech #speechtotext #talkback #blind #backup

add Direct Boot support for Android so RHVoice can be used with TalkBack before the initial unlock · Issue #271 · RHVoice/RHVoice

More information: https://developer.android.com/training/articles/direct-boot https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_Updater is a trivial example of using this. You need to mark a sub...

^GitHub

Hi! I'm the Megalodon – the new name for my fork of Mastodon for Android. I exist because the official app is lacking many important features, which I intend to bring back!

Some features include:

• Unlisted posting
• Federated timeline
• Alt text viewer
• Bookmarks
• Pinning posts
• Handling follow requests

… and many more!

Visit my GitHub for downloads and more information:
github.com/sk22/megalodon#read…

#Introductions #Mastodon #Megalodon #Mastodos #MastoDev #Android #MastodonAndroid

GitHub - sk22/megalodon: Pink modification of the official Mastodon for Android app

Pink modification of the official Mastodon for Android app - GitHub - sk22/megalodon: Pink modification of the official Mastodon for Android app

^GitHub

👂🏽Do any #OpenSource #audio geeks know of tools for #Android and/or #Linux that can set separate equalization for each ear?

Because of #COVID, I have #hearingLoss in my left ear and I would like to boost higher frequencies to get it somewhat equal.

Thanks for any ideas. Please boost if you have audio-smart followers that might have ideas for me, and please wear a mask so this doesn't happen to you.

#AndroidAppRain today brings 38 updated apps at @fdroidorg plus 8 updated & 1 new apps at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid

* Traditional T9: T9 IME for Android devices with hardware keypad

Enjoy your #free & #foss #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Here's a screenshot of #K9Mail's current message view. And two more showing what the NEW message design will look like! 👀

We've added some comments in the margins explaining some of the new features and UI elements.

Thunderbird for Android is taking shape, and it should be here before Thunderbird Supernova releases next summer!

(Note: This is by no means final, still a lot of polish and work to do)

#OpenSource #FOSS #Email #Android #Thunderbird

#Tusky je výborný klient pro sociální sítě Mastodon a Pixelfed

👉 infoek.cz/tusky-mobilni-aplika…

#mobileapp #mobile #phone #android #androidphone

Jak se přihlásit ke svému #Mastodon účtu v aplikaci? Lze mít i více účtů

👉infoek.cz/jak-se-prihlasit-do-…

#mobileapp #android #ios

#AndroidAppRain today with 27 updated apps at @fdroidorg plus at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid 8 updated & 2 new apps:

* Buckwheat: a budget manager
* Mastodos: a fork of the official Mastodon app with a lot of features added

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

@fdroidorg There's a fork of the official Mastodon app that adds a ton of useful features; it's called Mastodos. It's really quite nice — and is GPL3.

But they need help adding it to F-Droid.

Can anyone help them out? (Thanks in advance!)

Issue @:
github.com/sk22/mastodos/issue…

Website @:
sk22.github.io/mastodos/

#FDroid #Mastodon #Mastodos #Android

F-Droid · Issue #47 · sk22/mastodos

Mastodos with the latest updateis simply amazing, thanks ! Why don't you put this app in Fdroid? Mastodos can be more visible.

^GitHub

#AndroidAppRain today at @guardianproject (updated Tor Proxy), @fdroidorg (32 apps updated) – and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 10 updated & 2 new apps:

* Sensor Server: stream phone's motion sensors to websocket clients
* Symphony: a lightweight, elegant music player that enhances your offline music experience

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

The official Mastodon app seems to have a bug when posting an image. Sometimes it will let you compose the post but when you add the image, the Publish button is greyed out. There are other apps that are good, for example, Metatext and Toot! on iOS, and Tusky on Android.
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There is an Advanced web interface that looks like Tweetdeck. You can enable it in Settings, Appearance.
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Putting plain text into the 'Search or paste URL' box at the top left of the web interface shows results from your own posts or posts that you have boosted, favourited, or been mentioned in. You can also search for user names, display names, and hashtags located in the body of posts. Putting a hashtag into a Content Warning doesn't work. It won't be clickable and might not be searchable unless someone else has used it in the body of a post.
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If you find a post on another Mastodon instance and want to boost it on your own instance, click the … menu and then Copy Link. Go back to your own instance, paste the link into the Search box and press Enter. The post will appear below the Search box, and you can boost it from there.
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You can create Filters to block posts containing certain pieces of text from being displayed in your Home feed. If you want, the filter can hide the post behind a Content Warning so that you can decide whether to view it or not.
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In the Advanced web interface, you can search for a hashtag, click the result and it will appear in its own column. You can then click the column settings icon at the top right and Pin the column. You can add more tags to the same column, if you like.
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If you boost a post and the author edits it, you will get a notification so that you know that it has been edited.
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It's the custom on Mastodon that if you're posting about Mastodon itself, you put a context warning (CW) of "Meta" so that people's timelines aren't flooded with things they don't want or need to see. Likewise, posts about Twitter can be hidden behind a CW: Twitter (or birdsite, birbsite, hellsite, tw). "CW: meta, bird" should be an obvious one.
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When you're writing hashtags that are a combination of several words, please use "camel case" (#CamelCase) so that screenreaders used by people with impaired vision can pronounce them properly.
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Mastodon has its own thread unroller: mastodon.social/@threadunrolle…
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If you go into Settings in Mastodon's web interface and click on Other, you'll see a list of languages at the bottom which you can use to control which posts you'll see.
This works well if you select which language your own posts are in. If you make a post in a different language from your default, select that language using the button at the bottom of the edit box before you post. This way, it can be filtered out on other people's feeds if they choose not to see posts in that language.
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When posting images, please add Alt Text. This allows sight-impaired people using screenreaders to know what is in the pictures. Let's keep the Fediverse friendly to everyone.
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Please use a strong password to log in to your server. If you haven't already done so, make sure you have activated 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) in your Settings. This will keep you and everyone else safe. There are a number of good 2FA apps available in the Apple and Google app stores. In fact, iCloud Keychain on an Apple device can be used to generate 2FA keys. See this article for details: appleinsider.com/inside/icloud…
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#MetaText #Toot #iOS #Android #Tweetdeck #searching #hashtags, #ContentWarning #filters, #boost #notification #meta #CamelCase #ThreadUnroller #languages #AltText #security

How to set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain

You can balance both account security with the convenience of autofill when you set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain. Here's how to do it.

^{Darryl Boxberger (AppleInsider)}

A little #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 7 updated and 1 new app:

* Yubico Authenticator: use your Yubikey for 2FA

(note the app going by the same name & package name at #FDroid comes from the source repo of this app's pre-decessor and wasn't updated since 2019; the new one is a little Flutter monster 🙊)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

#Android without #Google made easy – with @shiftphones

android.izzysoft.de/articles/n…

(the little gap with "Rooting" aka Magisk will be filled soon™)

#noGoogle #googlefree #privacy

Android without Google: Shiftphones

Like the well-known Fairphones, Shiftphones are modular devices. Right from the shop they ship with no bloat, just the minimal set of Google Apps are installed.

^IzzyOnDroid

Google muss für Ortungs-Schwindel nicht einmal 400 Millionen zahlen

Jahrelang hat Google Aufenthaltsorte von Android-Nutzern für Werbezwecke gespeichert, obwohl die User das abgeschaltet wähnten. 40 US-Staaten geben billig bei.

heise.de/news/Google-muss-fuer…

#google #android #standortdaten #werbung #smartphones

YouTube: Datenschutzfreundlich & ohne Werbung? Ja, das geht! Bspw. mit #Piped oder #Invidious. Und mit den Apps #LibreTube und #NewPipe auch direkt auf #Android möglich. 👇

kuketz-blog.de/empfehlungsecke…

Empfehlungsecke

Die Empfehlungsecke beinhaltet aktuelle Empfehlungen zu Messengern, Browser-Add-ons und weiteren Themen • IT-Sicherheit aus Karlsruhe

^{Kuketz IT-Security Blog}

Today's #AndroidAppRain brings you 30 updated apps at @fdroidorg – and at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid 12 updated plus 1 new apps:

* Clock 31: Clock + Calendar combo widget (for those who remember cLock from old LineageOS versions: look-alike). JUST 40k APK SIZE! Always awesome, Federico…

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Due to an emergency update for Aves, you now get a minor nightly #AndroidAppRain with 1 updated and 1 new app at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid now:

* Iconify: customize your boring Android UI

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo – and give Aves a try if you're looking for a great gallery app!

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

#AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 8 updated and 1 new apps:

* NewPipe preunified: NewPipe with the classic interface (but the recent features)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Oof. Looks like the Nominatim Backend of UnifiedNlp (f-droid.org/packages/org.micro…) is no longer working (their issue-tracker mentions that in multiple places but no fix, no release since 2017). Does anyone know about an alternative? Or at least some #foss #app for #Android updating those details in the photos' Exif/IPTC/XMP data where missing?

#ShoutOut

NominatimNlpBackend | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

UnifiedNlp geocoding provider (MapQuest Nominatim)

^f-droid.org

A little #AndroidAppRain again at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 4 updated and 1 new apps:

* Scale Practice: helps musicians practice their scales

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

"In jedem fünften Ei!" – Äh… ⁉️

Mittlerweile ist jede fünfte App aus meinen AppListen in einem #FDroid Repo zu finden

🇺🇸 Meanwhile every 5th app of my #Android #app listings can be found in an F-Droid repo

Walled gardens not needed 😜

android.izzysoft.de/applists

App-Listen

Android App lists grouped by topics, together with useful links and more

^IzzyOnDroid