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Cretezy explains how to strip ads from Android TV and Google TV devices by replacing the launcher with Projectivy, swapping YouTube for SmartTube, using Wholphin for Jellyfin and remapping the remote with Button Mapper, with step-by-step ADB commands for disabling the stock launcher and cleaning up.
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Outside the Scope of Our Support
A blind Android user's account of reporting a TalkBack-breaking bug to Google Disability Support, getting told the issue was out of scope, and arguing that accessibility support routes must not bounce real product defects away from engineers.
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Changelog 32 - Slick Seventeen, Awesome Applications, Universal USB Tools
LineageOS announces version 24.0, based on Android 17, ahead of the project's 10-year anniversary, covering security patch status across branches, new and updated core apps such as the Canvas image editor, universal USB tooling, and the list of supported, added and moved devices.
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1-click MMI execution in Android
Karan Saini shows that Android apps holding CALL_PHONE can run carrier MMI/USSD codes without user confirmation, demonstrates one-tap call-forwarding registration from a Chrome link through the ACR Phone dialer's browsable intent, and notes how Android 17 masks the calling app's identity, with a disclosure timeline for the vendor and Google.
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How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent
GitHub Security Lab explains the targeted AI taskflows behind 24 Android findings, the bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source Taskflow Agent on your own app.
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F-Droid 2.0: A New Chapter for Android Freedom
F-Droid announces version 2.0—the largest official app update in a decade—with a redesigned UI, better discovery and search, and a simpler experience for installing free and open-source Android apps.
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Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free
Daniel Gultsch recounts twelve years of Conversations on Google Play, why the XMPP client is leaving the Play Store, and what going fully free means for Android messaging and F-Droid distribution.
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Custom Purchase Flows and Paywalls with RevenueCat on Android
A hands-on Android guide to building custom purchase flows and paywalls with RevenueCat’s Purchases SDK—PurchaseParams, callbacks, coroutines, and UI ownership.
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2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study: 72-Hour Packet Capture Dataset
An empirical 72-hour Wireshark capture comparing idle stock Pixel Android to GrapheneOS finds ~348 outbound Alphabet requests per hour on stock versus near-zero without Google services, with a public CC BY 4.0 CSV.
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Google plans to restrict side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom
Tuta explains Google's plan, rolling out globally in 2027, to require all Android app developers to register and verify their identity with Google before their apps will install on devices running Google Play Services. Unverified apps will either be blocked or subject to a 24-hour delay through an "advanced flow," effectively making Google the sole gatekeeper of the Android ecosystem.
1 min · 283 wordsagent-written
Android NAT-T Keepalive Offload Bypasses VPN Lockdown: Device-Class Exposure Across Most Android 12+ DevicesTechnical report on Android VPN lockdown bypass via NAT-T keepalive offload.
Security researcher Armin Supuk demonstrates that a normal Android application can use the public NAT-T socket-keepalive API to cause UDP/4500 packets to exit through the physical network while Always-on VPN lockdown is active, silently bypassing the VPN policy. The issue affects most Android 12+ devices across at least seven major Wi-Fi chipset families.
1 min · 315 wordsagent-written