When I switched to iOS, the biggest pain point for me was Apples stranglehold on background processes meant file syncing didn’t work very well. Now it looks like Android has completely killed it?
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Tl;dr: Google being anticompetitive by hampering third-party cloud sync via permissions (while themsleves are not affected).
Unhappy with the recently uploaded file feature load function occasion app…? Would you like… BETTER recently uploaded file feature load function occasion app…?!
I use FreeFileSync and it syncs whatever files I point at it, not just videos and music. I installed it from the Play store.
Yeah this is Google cockblocking
oh so thats why it stopped working.
So, all the family phones that are using this feature for handset backups. They're just gonna stop backing up?
Thanks, Google. Thanks for protecting me from free software that scans files on my own phone and transmits it across my own network to my own server. Such a privacy nightmare. /s
Guessing they want you to use Google One, eh.
I'm assuming that Nextcloud handles all it's moneymaking outside of the app (indeed it appears to be free if you host the server yourself).
If Google were making 30% on a ton of in-app purchases, they'd let it harvest your fucking organs.
F-droid bitches
Google works on making Android shit for the past few years. For example idiotic green dot showing me "something is using gps". Why don't I have a choice to remove it? Or not allowing apps to get a process list? It will end up dumb as iOS to within couple years.
To be fair, not allowing the user to remove an indicator that something could be tracking them is probably not the worst idea. Otherwise it'd be too easy for someone to install an app like that and hide it.
It's been in the corner of my amoled screen practically nonstop for 3 years now. I'm really surprised that i don't have burn-in in that corner.
I never use a Play Store version of anything I can find on F-droid or other repos I trust. Then I try it using Aurora Store. Only as a last-resort I try Google. Play Store is only for things I cannot obtian or replace another way.
Learned the hard way that android auto compatibility (on GrapheneOS) works only with the playstore Version of an app because andoid auto checks the install source. Thats the same gatekeeping at play...
Thanks I hate it.
AA is also EXTREMELY vpn-unfriendly. It fails to work period of I've got a wireguard VPN without app restrictions, even if there are only a handful of routes using the tunnel. Then, if I restrict the VPN to just certain apps, it'll still give me the big ol' middle finger running those apps via AA, which means I can't stream from my home media host over VPN while using AA because Papa Google apps no.
Only map apps, though? I know it Android Auto works fine with sideloaded music player.
Some other sideloaded apps work but everything with a map seems to be blocked. I had EV charging apps not show in Android auto.
You can fake the install source
Can't fake googles key signature
Link to how to?
Obtainium has a toggle to set the install source to Google Play. It uses shizuku
Yeap, same. I have given up on Android Auto because of that. I am not going to let Google hold my phone hostage so they can force me to pay ransom (with my data.)
Great news. Maybe someone else will think about the rejection of Google.
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