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This post follows my latest experience with Play store. (medium.com)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I have been wondering for a long time what we independent developers can do to improve our position.

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Google’s Pixel storage issue fix requires developer tools and a terminal (arstechnica.com)
 

Automatic updates broke your phone; the fix is a highly technical manual process.

What's New in WebGPU (Chrome 121) | Blog | Chrome for Developers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

https://kbin.social/m/androiddev is more appropriate for this type of post.

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Google agrees to settle $5 billion lawsuit accusing it of tracking Incognito users (www.engadget.com)
 

The 2020 lawsuit said Google was deceiving people into thinking that they could control the information they're willing to share.

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Google to pay $700 million and make tiny app store changes to settle with 50 states (www.theverge.com)
 
  • For 5 years, Google will let developers offer an alternative in-app billing system next to Google Play (aka “User Choice Billing”)
  • For 5 years, Google won’t make developers offer their best prices to customers who pick Google Play and Google Play Billing
  • For 4 years, Google won’t make developers ship titles on Google Play at the same time as other stores and with feature parity
  • For 5 years, Google won’t make companies exclusively put Google Play on a phone or its homescreen
  • For 4 years, Google won’t stop OEMs from granting installer rights to preloaded apps
  • For 5 years, Google won’t require its “consent” before an OEM preloads a third-party app store
  • For 4 years, Google will let third-party app stores update apps without requiring user approval
  • For 4 years, Google will let sideloaded app stores use its APIs and “feature splits” to help install apps
  • For 5 years, Google will turn its two sideloading “scare screens” into a single user prompt which will read the equivalent of this agreed-upon language: “Your phone currently isn’t configured to install apps from this source. Granting this source permission to install apps could place your phone and data at risk.”
  • For 5 years, Google will let User Choice Billing participating developers let their users know about better pricing elsewhere and “complete transactions using the developer’s existing web-based billing solution in an embedded webview within its app.”
  • For 6 years, Google will “continue to allow developers to use contact information obtained outside the app or in-app (with User consent) to communicate with Users out-of-app”
  • For 6 years, Google will let consumption only apps (e.g. Netflix, which doesn’t let you pay on device) tell users about better prices elsewhere, without linking to an outside website — example: “Available on our website for $9.99”
  • For 6 years, Google “shall not prohibit developers from disclosing to Users any service or other fees associated with the Google Play or Google Play’s billing system.”
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Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight (www.theverge.com)
 

Victory Royale.

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Activision Blizzard had a plan — or ploy — to launch its own Android game store (www.theverge.com)
 

Candy Crush would have been the gateway drug.

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A secret Google deal let Spotify completely bypass Android’s app store fees (www.theverge.com)
 

Spotify’s “unprecedented” popularity justified the deal.

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Testing the Limits of Anti-Competition (commonsware.com)
 

Google keeps piling on restrictions for distributing apps via the Play Store, which is an issue when they have an effective monopoly

Question: Android version 12 - Call sound audible in vibration and silence mode in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Swap screen down from the top of the screen - like when you want to see a notification: different devices acts differently, in some you have to swap from upper-right to see the tiles. You can also edit the tiles to add, remove and re-arrange, in order to have the ones you use more often in the first page.

Question: Android version 12 - Call sound audible in vibration and silence mode in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Do not disturb" option should be available as a quick setting tile, which is more complicated to activate from a button combination, but not too hidden in the device settings.

Question: Android version 12 - Call sound audible in vibration and silence mode in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (4 children)

For "Do not disturb" (if this is what you ask) you can configure it in device settings: Sound > Do Not Disturb > section "What can interrupt do not disturb".

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Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone (arstechnica.com)
 

Google's "solution" can't do anything for bootlooping devices.

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Google’s “Web Integrity” Android API could kill “alternative” media clients (arstechnica.com)
 

Web Integrity pivots to Android, could permanently kill YouTube Vanced-style apps.

One of the bigger changes to Android 14 is that Google is completely banning old app installs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

You have the obligation to use it since the manufactures doesn't gives updates to various versions of the OS, for example, if the device has version 13 and there is an update for 14 if you choose to not get the newer version you'll not get security updates for version 13. Also, newest devices will get only version 14 (or newer) and with the boot loader locked you can't install a different version of the OS.

One of the bigger changes to Android 14 is that Google is completely banning old app installs in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

For me, the question is whether I have the right to use a device I bought as I want or not. There is, rightly, a lot of talk about "right to repair," but now the issue is becoming "right to use".
Can I install an old application that I still find useful or should be the operating system to decide if i can use it, without there being an incompatibility issue?
Can I decide what permissions I want to give an application or should the Play store (and protect) decide without appeal what I can do?

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One of the bigger changes to Android 14 is that Google is completely banning old app installs (kbin.social)
 

But it is for security reasons - it is always about security reasons when old devices and now even old apps have to be thrown away.

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Android 14 review: There’s always next year (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Android 14 offers a lightly customizable lock screen and not much else.

(Does anybody care about Android 14?
Currently, those who will end up with a bricked Pixel phone.)

We are 3000 members! in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Both are allowed.

Stadia's death spiral, according to the Google employee in charge of mopping up after its murder in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • Kotlin: "are you talking to me?"
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

They do it for your privacy :)

Don’t look up: Google’s meteor of incompetence will kill thousands of apps in four months in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me, too, this was the point that triggered my reaction.

[DEV] shell4kbin - v.1.3-16 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This could be useful. I will add it in the to-do list.

Android 14 'Upside Down Cake': Everything you need to know about Google's big update for 2023 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Time is relative :)
This is an updated article, but since it contains a lot of information grouped together I thought it might be useful.

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