Blind Android Users Podcast

from the blind android Users Podcast team, we would like to wish our listeners a very happy Easter

This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen

· Yannick Plassiard.

And with our special guest, Ana Garza.

In this episode, we cover…

· Austin gives our YouTube subscribers a heads up that they may see a lot of notifications in the next week or two as we restructure our content to hopefully make it more navigable.

· We are now on WhatsApp, and you can join our WhatsApp group by visiting.

Blind Android Users WhatsApp Group

This week, we look at different on-screen keyboards you can use with your Android phone. Your co-hosts briefly demonstrate Blind Accessibility Keyboard, Gboard - the Google Keyboard, Microsoft SwiftKey, Technical Keyboard, Grammarly Keyboard and Talkback braille keyboard.

This week, we feature episode 3 of our series on romming, in which Austin demonstrates how to install TWRP on devices with an A only partition.

Jacob Kruger demonstrates the extremely powerful Taskerapp. Warren also looks at the StackScanner app developed by Google’s Area 21.

Finally, we are joined live by Ana Garza who takes us through her Android Journey.

Email us with suggestions or comments, Send inyour Android journey stories, subscribe to our Email list, join our Telegram group, follow us on Twitter,subscribe to our YouTubechannel. And join our WhatsApp group

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen.

And with our special guest, Yannick Plassiard.

In this episode, we cover…

· We want to wish our Bangladeshi listeners an incredibly happy 50th Independence Day.

· We also want to wish all the listeners who celebrate the festival of Holi.

· And for our listeners who do not know this is why Holi is celebrated

· There are two new guides on the website. Jacob Kruger AKA Blind Biker describeshow to get Android 11 up and running accessibly on a Raspberry Pie, and by popular request, Warren shows us how to Downloadepisodes of the Blind Android Users podcast.

· We discuss last week’s Announcement from OnePlus which covered its series 9 phones as well as a new watch.

This week, it is all about phone diallers. We explain why you might want to change yours, depending on which dialler your phone comes with. If you do, we suggest looking at the Google Phone app, DW Contacts or True Phone Dialler.

This week, we feature episode 2 of our series on romming, in which Austin demonstrates how to unlock the boot loader.

We start a new series on the popular screen reader Commentary, with a demo brought to us by Mariam.

In this segment, we discuss what to know before installing the screen reader and how to get it and the various groups available for it.

English telegram group for CSR.

The WhatsApp English group for CSR

Releases · nirenr/jieshuo, contribute to nirenr/jieshuo development by creating an account on GitHub.

Downloading Jieshuo Either look in the files section of the above-mentioned groups, or look here:

all the groups are found in the Abbott self as well.

Following on from our file management feature last week, Kareen Kiwan demonstrates the powerful CX File Explorer.

Finally, we are joined live by Yannick Plassiard who takes us through his Android Journey.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen.

And with our special guest, Kyle Hunsberger.

In this episode, we cover…

Austin announces the launch of our YouTube channel. Here you will be able to find all the episodes from the podcast.

We talk about file management on Android, including the best File Management apps. Warren and Mariam disagree about Files by Google, and Warren recommends Solid Explorer. Mariam’s favourite is X-plore, while Ed talks about Total Commander. For Austin, the default OnePlus File Manager on his device does what he needs.

Next, Warren discusses battery management to help you get more out of your device.

This week we are joined by Kyle Hunsberger from GoneMad Software LLCto discuss his very popular and accessible app, GoneMad Music Player.

Following on from Kyle’s interview, Austin gives us a quick demonstration of the app.

Finally, this week’s My Android Journey comes from our very own Mariam Mohsen.

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

· Mariam Mohsen.

In this episode, we cover…

Austin updates us on:

· Top Tech Titbits now has a directory of email lists including Blind Android Users. Remember you can subscribe to our email list by sending us an email

· Blind Android users has a fully featured Website including a page of articles and guides. Help us build the page by submitting your own.

Warren gives us a tour of the Settings app.  Then Ed talks about default apps and how to disable system apps you may no longer want.

This week we hear from Tabitha aka Snowsprite, who unboxes her LG V60.

Following on from last week’s episode, Warren delves into Shortcut Maker. He also demonstrates the feature-packed Star Launcher.

Finally, Judy Jones joins us to talk about her Android journey.

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[email protected]

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This episode is presented by:

· Ed Green

· Warren Carr

· Austin Pinto

And with our special guest, Rushikesh Kamewar.

In this episode, we cover…

Lots of news this week. Austin updates us on:

· Warren appeared on an episode of Applevis in a debate on which operating system was better – Android or iOS. We all know the answer obviously!

but check out the show

Ed will appear on an upcoming episode of Life After Blindness podcast

in which he will talk about the recent changes to Talkback in Android 11 and the recently released Talkback 9.1.

We hear from special guest, Rushikesh Kamewar, who talks to us about his app Shortcut Makerwhich lets you add anything on your Android device to your home screen.

Ed and Warren discuss manipulating your home screen, and they also discuss stock and third-party launchers. Warren demonstrates the launcher which comes with Pixel devices, and Ed demonstrates his preferred third-party launcher, Hyperion

Honourable mentions are given to Customized Pixel Launcher

which brings the Pixel experience to non-Pixel devices.

Lawnchair

Apex

Action Launcher

and Nova

This week, Austin shows us how to uninstall Samsung Talkback on Samsung phones running Android 11 and install Google Talkback

You will need the relevant tools For Windows.

Mac

or Linux

Prior to uninstalling Samsung Talkback, Austin suggests you install the Commentary screen reader so that you do not need sighted assistance to start Google Talkback.

if you want to uninstall other apps using this demo, you will need app inspector 

which will give you names of installed apps.

the commands to perform the operation on your phone are.

Adb devices

Adb install com.apk

To uninstall Samsung talkback.

Adb shell

pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.samsung.android.accessibility.talkback

you can use the above command to uninstall any other app, just replace.

com.samsung.android.accessibility.talkback with the package name of the app.

To install google talkback.

exit

adb install talkback.apk

replace talkback.apk with the name of the file that you have given.

Warren demonstrates Feed Explorer

Finally, we have the first in a 2-part series from David Mehler, who recounts his Android journey.

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This episode is presented by:

• Edward Green

• Austin Pinto

• Warren Carr

• Pete Torkington

and with our special guests, Pierre Aubry.

In this episode, we cover…

Lot’s of news this week. Austin updates us on:

• Top Tech Tidbits mentioned us in their newsletter for the third week in a row! Top Tech Tidbits is your one stop solution for all technology news for visually impaired people. You can visit them on the below link and don’t forget to subscribe their newsletter. Find them at https://www.toptechtidbits.com/

you can also find them and other friends at the friends of our site page by visiting.

https://blindandroidusers.com/testimonials/

• Android app, ‘Lazarillo GPS For Blind’, mention Blind Android Users in the news tab of the app. Listen to episode 8 of the podcast for an interview with, Rene Espinoza, from the Lazarillo group and a demonstration of this fantastic app by Austin. You can download the app, for free, from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lazarillo.

Warren and Ed chat about the new features in TalkBack that come with the release of version 9.1. Warren covers what is available in the pre-release version of Android 12.

Warren discusses setting up the Google Play Store, adding a home screen short-cut for easy access and the new ‘Share App’ feature.

• Pete provides three quick tips for using the keyboard, including how to set up custom shortcuts for frequently typed text, like email addresses.

• Ed shows us how to configure customised sounds for GMail notifications.

This week our special guest, Pierre Aubry, enlightens us with his review of the Asus Zen Fone 6 https://www.asus.com/Mobile/Phones/All-series/ZenFone-6/

This edition of Android includes many excellent additions, which Pierre shares with us.

Podcast listener, Tina Sohl, shares with us her Android journey. We thank Tina for getting in touch. We all have our own journey using and working with Android don’t we. Why not get in touch and bring yours to the podcast. You can join in live or send us a recording.

For questions, suggestions or comments, send us mail at:

[email protected]

If you have a recorded Android Journey story and want to share that with our listeners, then send those stories to:

[email protected]

To join our mailing list, send those “join requests” to:

[email protected]

You may follow us on twitter using our handle:

@BlindDroidUsers

https://twitter.com/@BlindDroidUsers

We do have a Telegram group that you can join and share stories or whatever with our members at:

https://t.me/ANATAD

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Thank you for joining us on Episode 11.

In this episode, we touched a little bit more on Android 12, especially on the fact that, the two-finger hold-down to enable accessibility upon booting up the phone has been removed, leaving only the two-volume key hold-down.

This is a review of android 12 after using for 2 days.

We were also delighted to report that Eloquence still works on the Android 12 Developer Preview 1 and all the apps that I, Warren has on my phone, including KNFB reader, surprisingly work.

We also touched on the fact that in Android 12, for those who rely on magnification, there is now an option to only magnify portions of the screen or a given area on the screen.

We then did a short demo of KNFB reader which surprisingly works on android 12 dp1.

KNFB reader can be found at.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sensotec.knfbreader&hl=en_IN&gl=US

Then for the app of the week section, we did a demo about National Park Service App

Which can be found at.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nps.mobileapp

this app is only useful for people in the USA.

About magnification, our guest, Pete Torking from the UK, demonstrated Keypass, a password management app and in the process, mentioned other password management apps, including sites that would let you know if one of your passwords have been compromised.

These apps are:

Keypass from:

https://keepassxc.org/+

Keepass2:++

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=keepass2android.keepass2android

"Syncthing:"

https://syncthing.net/

when Pete did a demonstration of keypass and other apps, you will not hear talkback as he uses magnification.

But he has given a detailed step by step description of what you should do.

We will do a demo of these apps with talkback shortly.

The conversation also touched on data breach sites that would let you know if your email is out there with your passwords and those sites are:

"Have I Been Pwned" from:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

"Breach Directory" from:

https://breachdirectory.tk/

Pete then proceeded to tell us about his Android Journey story.

It was a joy having Pete and as always, we would love for you guys to come on live or via a recording and tell us your Android Journey stories.

For questions, suggestions or comments, send us mail at:

[email protected]

To join our mailing list, send those "join requests" to:

[email protected]

If you have a recorded Android Journey story and want to share that with our listeners, then send those stories to:

[email protected]

You may follow us on twitter using our handle:

@BlindDroidUsers

We do have a Telegram group that you can join and share stories or whatever with our members at:

https://t.me/ANATAD

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Welcome to a special edition of the Blind Android Users Podcast.

This episode, takes a quick look at the just released Android 12 Developer preview that debuted today, Feb. 18, 2021.

The Mongolian Minister himself--Austin Pinto played a key role in getting the factory images flashed to my Pixel 3A.

we first explained the steps to install, and then did a detailed demo to show you some of the changes if any.

For those who are interested in flashing the Developer Preview 1 onto their systems, we recommend a portable SDK tool that we downloaded from :

for windows.

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools_r31.0.0-windows.zip

· for Linux.

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip

· for Mac

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-darwin.zipFor both the Factory images and the OTA images, both of which must be flashed, you can navigate to the following URL and be sure to select the image that corresponds to your phone model.

The supported Pixel phones are:

Pixel 3,

Pixel 3 XL,

Pixel 3A

Pixel 3A XL,

Pixel 4,

Pixel 4 XL,

Pixel 4A,

Pixel 4A 5G and

Pixel 5.

That URL is located a

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/download

Stay tuned for more reporting on the new changes as we discover them and report them on our mailing list and in our upcoming regular podcast.

Our contact information remains the same:

For questions, suggestions and comments on the podcast, send us mail to:

[email protected]

For those "Android Journey Stories, send those to:

[email protected]

Follow us on Twitter at:

@BlindDroidUsers

And for our Telegram channel, we are at:

https://t.me/ANATAD

To join our mailing list and correspond with other members on the list, send a "join Request" to:

[email protected]

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Welcome to a special edition of the Blind Android Users Podcast.

This episode takes a quick look at the just released Android 12 Developer preview that debuted today, Feb. 18, 2021.

The Mongolian Minister himself--Austin Pinto played a key role in getting the factory images flashed to my Pixel 3A.

we first go over the steps to install it using factory images.

then we talk about the setup screen and show you some of the new things in talkback.

this is the hands-on guide that you can find from our friends at xda.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-developer-preview-hands-on/

to see a list of changes, visit.

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-12-developer-preview-1/

to install android 12, you will need the latest adb and fastboot and you can get the portable version by visiting.

· For windows.

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-windows.zip

· for Linux.

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-linux.zip

· for Mac

https://dl.google.com/android/repository/platform-tools-latest-darwin.zip

For both the Factory images and the OTA images, both of which must be flashed, you can navigate to the following URL and be sure to select the image that corresponds to your phone model.

The supported Pixel phones are:

Pixel 3,

Pixel 3 XL,

Pixel 3A

Pixel 3A XL,

Pixel 4,

Pixel 4 XL,

Pixel 4A,

Pixel 4A 5G and

Pixel 5.

That URL is located at.

https://developer.android.com/about/versions/12/download

Stay tuned for more reporting on the new changes as we discover them and report them on our mailing list and in our upcoming regular podcast.

Our contact information remains the same:

For questions, suggestions, and comments on the podcast, send us mail to:

[email protected]

For those "Android Journey Stories, send those to:

[email protected]

Follow us on Twitter at:

@BlindDroidUsers

And for our Telegram channel, we are at:

https://t.me/ANATAD

To join our mailing list and correspond with other members on the list, send a "join Request" to:

[email protected]

Welcome to episode 9.

In Episode 9, we took the time to send a mega shout out to the folks at "Top Tech Tidbits" for mentioning us in their newsletter which you could subscribe to navigating to their site at:

https://toptechtidbits.com

WE are then joined by Shane Lo from the “Mediate Lab” group team where we discussed the “Supersense app” and its capabilities including his experience with the app as well as talking about the "Super LIDAR," an app from "mediate lab" that is only available on the Apple app store for the iPhone 12Pro.

"Supersens can be found at the following Play URL:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mediate.supersense&hl=en_US&gl=US

and from the Apple app store at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/supersense-ai-for-blind/id1484547836

“Super LIDAR” is located at:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/super-lidar-lidar-for-blind/id1543706309

The interview is then followed by a very short demonstration of the Supersense app on Android.

We then moved on to the "My Android Journey story" segment of the podcast where our friend from the UK, Edward Green, took us on his journey on the Android platform.

We want to once again thank you all for taking time out of your busy schedules to listen to us and we love hearing from you folks and for questions, concerns or simply wanting to be in touch with the podcast crew, then simply send us mail at:

[email protected]

To join our mailing list, simply send a blank email to:

[email protected]

If you want to talk about your

Android Journey story but cannot come on live, you can record such and send it to us at:

[email protected]

Follow us on Twitter at:

@BlindDroidUsers"

and to join our Telegram group, simply navigate to:

https://t.me/ANATAD

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