Show Notes

* Android News

* Google’s CameraX Android API will let third-party apps use the best features of the stock camera

* App News

* Dark Skies acquired by Apple, will shut down Android version on July 1.

* Google Duo increases group calling limit to 12 participants

* In Other News

* Violating a Website Terms of Service is not criminal hacking

* Zoom Calls aren’t End to End Encrypted

* FCC will make carriers authenticate IP calls with  STIR/SHAKEN by June 2021.

Show Notes

* Hey, G…help me wash my hands.

* Google I/O now fully cancelled.

* Android News

* Google’s Advanced Protection Starts Blocking App Sideloading

* Android 11 may have the power menu be a lot more useful. New in-development API for quick controls.

* Android 11 DP2 offers:

* 5G State API

* Call Screening improvements

* Foreground service types for camera and microphone.

* Scope Storage updates

* Resume on reboot.

* Might Offer  Multi-Device Media Output and Switching audio to/from sources

* App News

* Introducing Camera Go.

* GitHub app now available.

* Snapseed updated for first time since 2018.

* APKMirror Installer in beta, helps install app bundles and APKs

* In Other News

* SanDisk launches Max Endurance microSD cards with a 3-15 year warranty

* Google pauses Chrome and Chrome OS development due global situation.

* Amazon adds profiles to Prime Video.

* Wyze launches $25 Band and $20 Scale

Show Notes

* U.S. needs to follow the EU in making it easier to repair phones

* Levi’s and Nintendo made Super Mario themed overalls.

* NBCUniversal switching to simultaneous theater and streaming releases

* Movies Anywhere  launching beta movie sharing feature.

* Real Time transcription comes to Google Translate

* Location Sharing taken from Hangouts

Show Notes

* Android News

* 2FA security keys for your Google account can now be set up from Android devices

* Samsung forces 2FA on all users

* The next Chromecast Ultra may be an Android TV device.

* Google Assistant supports smoke detectors and other sensor only devices.

* App News

* Official Facebook Lite app is only 252KB, provides notifications and messages.Little more than wrapper around mobile view.

* New Amazon Music feature might make the Echo more likely to play the song you asked for

* In Other News

* Google Search switching to mobile first indexing

* Law School gets YouTube takedown on video of talk on subject of music copyright

* The LinkNYC kiosks are not doing quite as well as promised

* Judge rules against Tulsi Gabbard in First Amendment case against Google.

* A British woman credits a Huawei phone for saving her life

 

 

Show Notes

* Android News

* Google I/O will be held digitally due COVID-19 concerns

* Android devices using MediaTek processors are vulnerable unless patched.

* Android 11 to offer misaligned wireless charging alert.

* Pixel March feature drop may include dark mode scheduling, Quick access wallet, etc.

* Rules rolling out as part of Pixel feature drop

* App News

* Moment gives up on its Android app

* Where equipped, Google Contacts will now allow you to sync contacts stored in internal storage.

* Home Assistant allows you to track CoronaVirus

* EPA has created a new program for the smart home

* Other News

* JIF weighs in on the GIF debate

* The Creator of the Konami code passes

* Freeman Dyson passes.

* Google introduces public profile cards for all.

* Let’s Encrypt issues one billion certificates

* Let’s Encrypt must revoke some certs due to bug.

Show Notes

* Android 11 Preview launches

* Dynamic Meteredness and Bandwidth Estimator API

* Dedicated Conversations section in notification shade

* Chat Bubbles

* Images in notification replies

* One time permissions

* Will not repeatedly ask for permissions

* Secure storage of identity credentials

* Call screening improvements

* Wifi/Passpoint enhancements

* Mute during camera capture

* Automatically enabled/disabled dark theme at sunset

* Screen recording is back

* If you are listening to audio, airplane mode will not turn off bluetooth

* You can now see what audio codecs bluetooth headphones support

* Quick Access Wallet feature

* Android News

* Background location will now have to be applied for

* App News

* Firefox releases Android app(invite only) for its paid VPN service

* Microsoft Defender coming to Android

* Google bans 600 apps for disruptive ads

* Larry Tesler, responsible for cut, copy, and paste, dead at 74.

* Wyze Band announced, supports Amazon Echo, fitness tracking, etc. Wyze also working on outdoor camera, scale, doorbell cam, and person detection.

Show Notes

* Android News

* Essential Phone and its subsidiaries are dead.

* Google details how it fought malicious apps in 2019

* Incremental File System may make its way to Android.

* Chromebooks continue to grow as an option for Android development

* App News

* Home Assistant Companion for Android adds actionable notifications, requesting location updates, and additional sensors.

* Mozilla’s new Firefox for Android will have limited add-on support at launch.

* Microsoft rebrands Swiftkey to be more prominently Microsoft in latest update.

* The best free and open source alternatives to Google Keep

* Tasker Beta adds full DND customization and Sensor actions

* Microsoft’s new unifed Office app is ‘spectacular‘

* In Other News

* MWC 2020 cancelled due CoronaVirus

* Dotcom registrars concerned about rate hikes.

* An Anker USB-C charger might be more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computer

* Gmail might be getting travel bundles, the Inbox feature.

* Ring to make 2FA mandatory.

Show Notes

* Android News

* Android to get Share to Print feature.

* Autofill code from Messages feature spotted

* App News

* Netflix begins streaming AV1 on Android to save user’s data

* Facebook Messenger is the only thing keeping me from delete my Facebook account

* Androidify Avatar Maker retired.

* Google Play Music finally migrating music locker feature to YouTube Music.

* AllCast now can stream from SMB and shared folders

* Home

* More protection for Nest accounts

* Amazon dominates smart speaker market in 2019, although dropped from 72.9 to 69.7. Google went from 30.4 to 31.1.

* Home Assistant deprecates old UI, continues to iterate, adds safe mode.

* Maps

* Google Maps turns 15, gets new icon and refreshed layout.

* The Last 15 Years

* The Next 15 Years

* In Other News

* Someone upscaled an 1896 video to 4K quality using neural networks

* Chrome removes three types of video ads: Non-skippable pre-roll of over 31 seconds, mid-roll interrupting the original content, image/text that covers more than 20% or in the middle 1/3 of the player window

* Dashlane password manager removed from Chrome Web Store

* Google Podcasts gets a web UI.

* Google to offer Titan Keys to US political campaigns

Show Notes

* Android News

* Android 11 will harden API restrictions and remove meta-reflection bypass

* Google offers web app to assist in flashing updates

* Google now offering Android support via hashtag on twitter.

* Developers have earned over $80 billion in total from the Play Store

* App News

* Wine 5.0 now available for Android, Linux, etc.

* Find My Device prepares to add support for finding Bluetooth Fast Pair accessories

* Support for copying/pasting images coming to GBoard.

* New licensed version of Tetris released.

* Ring App for Android packed with third party trackers

* Home Assistant Companion for Android released.

* Google is working on yet another unified messaging app.

* Google Translate to add real time language transcription.

* Home Automation

* With Sonos killing older product compatibility, should Google release a new Chromecast Audio?

* In Other News

* Saudi crown prince allegedly infects Jeff Bezos’ phone via Whatsapp?

* Terry Jones dead at age 77.

* FCC shuts New York out of Broadband fund.

* Ting isn’t dropping GSM as planned…Verizon as a provider coming in 2020.

* Google released new multi-room media controls from smart displays

* Doomsday Clock is 100 seconds to midnight

* Prime has more than 150 million members, and they watched a lot of TV

* UFS3.1 promises speedier smartphone storage.

* EU votes to

Show Notes

* App News

* Researchers find 17 apps that bombard users with battery draining ads

* You can now use Duo without a phone number

* Google Phone app might add call recording support

* Open Source Alternatives to Google Maps

* WhatsApp only the second non-Google app to hit 5 billion installs

* gesturePlus customizes the Android 10 Gestures.

* Google might let you teach it how to pronounce names in your contact list.

* In Other News

* Google starts the process necessary to allow Fi and Voice on the same account

* Smaller tech companies warn Congress that Amazon, Google, and Apple are killing competition

* Carousel of Progress marks its 45th anniversary at Disney World. From 1967-1963 it was at Disneyland, prior to this, the World’s Fair.

* NBC Peacock service launches this spring and will be free for Comcast and Cox customers, as well as an ad supported free tier.

* We now suspect that Wyze Person Detection was terminated because Apple bought the provider.

* All new Chromebooks will get at least 8 years of automatic updates