Blind Android Users Podcast

Welcome to Episode 309.

This episode is dedicated to the Sandfly Screen Reader, where we meet its Developer, Aaron Hewitt.

We had a lengthy discussion on the Sandfly Screen Reader, where Aaron talks about its strengths and what it brings to the table that sets it apart.

Right now, the Screen Reader is only available on GitHub, meaning it has to be sideloaded.

To contact Aaron, email him or find him on Mastodon at [email protected].

APP OF THE WEEK

In our “app of the week” segment, Jerry Jicha demonstrates a powerful File Manager, called “AnExplorer” that simplifies the installation of APKs on WearOS devices.

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Welcome to Episode 308.

This episode is dedicated to you loyal listeners of the podcast and the great developers that have chosen to make their apps accessible.

Below is the list of some of the Developers that joined us today with their email addresses:

1. Philip Heyse from Blind Accessibility Keyboard,

Email,

1. Matt macosko from Realtime AI Cam:

Email,

1. Emin Lahham from Obook:

Email,

1. Steven from ProofFlick:

Email,

1. Download ProofFlick for Windows or Mac from the main site,
2. Get your free license key by entering your email.
3. Tommi Mäkelä from Sight Buddy:

Email,

1. Joe Thomas from Easy Elm--Use your phone to voice type on your computer or use it as a mouse:

Email:

1. Aaron Hewitt from Sandfly:

Email.

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Welcome to Episode 307.

We have some codes for “Lexo Keyboard” as a giveaway for lucky listeners.

Our 4th Quarter Open-listener/Developer episode is this weekend, Saturday Oct. 31 at 9AM Pacific time. Mark your calendars and join us for the Episode.

Google pushed out Android17QPR3Beta2 for qualifying Pixel phones and Samsung ramps up its roll-out of the One UI 9 to its qualifying phones.

For this week’s “Spotlight,” our focus is on the “RealTime AI Cam” where we meet its Developer, Matt macosko.

Google continued the roll-out of Talkback17.1 as more and more folks get the update which includes the “Guided Vision” and some other features. Our sister site, Accessible Android, features an article, spotlighting the 3 main features of this release.

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Join our final quarterly listener and developer session for 2026 on 31 October at 4 PM GMT and 9AM Pacific, links to follow.

We’re joined by the developer of Lexo, Ben Solwitz.

Listener Riz brings us a demonstration of Nested Folder Notes. Please do submit app contributions and we’ll be glad to include them.

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Welcome to Episode 305.

We edge towards our 4th Quarter open-listener/Developer session as we have 21 more days to get to October 31 when listeners and developers come together. Mark that on your calendar.

The qualifying Honor phones get a test of the upgrade to Android17 and alongside with that, we highlight some of those changes.

This week’s focus is on the rise of phone prices, thus, giving the episode its title above.

Your faithful crew discusses these price hikes.

For this week’s “App of the week,” our friend Aaron Hewitt introduces us to his app, “Shortcut Menu,” an app intended for the switching of Screen Readers on the fly. He also mentioned an app one could choose to use in grabbing the ADB command using “ADB AppControl.”

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• Jieshuo has 20% off until 5 October, find out how to subscribe.
• Join our final quarterly listener and developer session for 2026 on 31 October, timings and links to follow.

We discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release 3 Beta 1.

We’re joined by Tommy Makela, developer of the Sight Buddy app – an AI assistant.

Warren demonstrates the keyboard app Voice Cursor.

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Welcome to Episode 303.

In this week’s episode, we caught up with the Developer of ProxVision (from proxmaq), where we discuss what “ProxVision” is and its impact is an app intended for the blind for use in addressing the day-to-day chores of life as folks living with visual loss.

With the rise of “Rambler” from Google wherein, voice-dictation has taken on a new form, more and more developers have jumped onto this trend, via creative methods of bringing similar experience to those using phones that are not Google 11-series. Thus, for this week’s “app of the week,” we meet “Lexo Offline AI Voice Keyboard” a keyboard that works offline.

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Welcome to Episode 302.

In this week’s episode, our spotlight is on the “What’s New” of the ToBeSaid TTS Engine as it expands to both Windows and the Apple Platform. Lookman intimates us with the changes on Android, as more and more languages are added and concluded with the expansion of the app on both Windows (Via the Microsoft Store),  where both the free and Pro versions are found on the App Store.

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Welcome to Episode 301.

In this week’s episode, our spotlight is on BookFusion Voice TTS, where Duane Campbell from the “Fusion” group intimates us with both the Systemwide BookFusion TTS and the BookFusion Epub and PDF reader.

For the app of the week, our focus is on an app from the UK by our friend Tommi Mäkelä in the way of “Sight Buddy.”

Kareen brings us another entry from the Jieshuo features, where she demonstrates the “Focus Delay” feature, something similar to what we find in Talkback.

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We discuss what’s new in Android 17 Quarterly Platform Release 2 Beta 4.

We’re joined by Philip Heyse, developer of the Blind Accessibility Keyboard.  Subscribe to the mailing list and visit the website.

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