Yup!

This has to be for commercial applications. I have a gaming rig and a server very comfortably running off a single 1200 W PSU.

Yes. I went to my first Google I/O 10 years ago and my second today.

2014: Introduced Android L, Android Wear, Android TV and Android Auto.

2024: Gemini Nano… still not publicly available to app developers. 💀

How exactly is AOSP not FOSS and debloated?

Kinda hard to take any of this seriously with those claims…

Yes, worst clickbait title I’ve seen in a while. Health Connect was announced 2 years ago…

Not to be a dick, but how/why is that useful? It’s not a package I need to physically go get or something. It’s deposited into an account (super fast if you do your taxes early). This also assumes I’m getting a refund.

I switched to Bluetooth earbuds long before phones started removing the headphone jack…

You can hide them with the normal app. Just click the “x” on your main feed.

Rumor is this one (the G4) is the last one based on exynos. G5 is allegedly completely custom and uses TSMC fab.

I know exactly what you are talking about. I’m just hoping they come to their senses and go back to the better form factor of the original one for the 3rd (that will presumably have the completely custom Tensor G5)

To me it’s all about height so foldables are the way to go. My Pixel Fold is significantly shorter than my partners Pixel 8 (not pro).

I have an 8 Pro just sitting on my desk unused because the Fold is just so much more manageable. I can’t go back to something that tall.

I respect what they are trying to do here. I just replaced the batteries in my Sony WF-1000XM4 earbuds… it was not a trivial process.

I think he is referring to the rumors that the Tensor G5 (not the G4 releasing year) will be a complete redesign built on TSMC’s 3nm instead of Exenos.

Doesn’t that exist in the OnePlus Watch 2? The new Wear OS “hybrid interface” is the reason its advertised “100 hour battery life” is significantly better than the first one.

Again, you appear to be misinformed…

Currently, existing apps (across mobile, Android Auto, Android TV) must target API level 31 or above by August 31, 2023 (target API 30 or up API level 33 for Wear OS). Otherwise, they will stop being discoverable to all Google Play users whose devices run Android OS versions newer than your app’s target API level, as your app wasn’t built to meet the safety and quality standard that these users expect from newer Android OS versions.

• Apps with a target level of Android 11 (API level 30)* or lower will not be available to new users running the Android OS higher than apps’ target API after August 31, 2023.

• Apps with a target level of Android 10 (API level 29) or lower have not been available to new users running the Android OS higher than apps’ target API after November 1, 2022, or May 1, 2023, if your app had an extension.

Source

Again, this has literally nothing to do with the play store. This is API 22 and below we are talking about here… you can’t even find apps that target API levels below 30 on the play store today afaik lol.

Keep in mind this isn’t the minimum supported version, it’s the target/compile version which is typically pretty trivial to update. 99.9% of users in 2024 will never need to install an app that targets a version of Android released 10 years ago.

You seem to be misinformed about what’s actually happening here. If there is a super old app you need you can still install it via adb.

This has absolutely nothing to do with the play store and its requirements. This is about preventing malware (which is typically written to target super old API levels to exploit things that weren’t patched yet) from being installed unknowingly by the user.

The design here is good. If you are tech savvy enough to use adb you can install anything you want. But this protects somebody that mistakenly thinks they are installing something safe from accidentally infecting their device.

Fair enough. The OS should handle these characters automatically based on the selected language and I would expect Android to; I just don’t know for sure that it does.

My point was simply that these characters/symbols are Unicode so a keyboard running QMK or similar should be able to send them directly. However, you are correct that it shouldn’t be necessary.

They added a bunch of keyboard shortcuts last year.

And wouldn’t the OS take any keycode you type? Any keyboard worth using should let you type non English characters if you want.

Then you are fine. Marshmallow, API level 23, is the minimum. This would be a problem if it targeted API 22 or lower.