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How will the mandatory implementation of this affect apps that rely on a third party as the data storage system? For example https://moo.do stores everything in Google Drive, if they have to implement Sign in with Apple the app won't function

Maybe I'm missing something here but what can't you do on Android without logging in (other than Google services of course)? You can download apps to do pretty much anything you want without even touching the Play Store, as far as I'm aware you need an iCloud account to download any apps on an iPhone.

And that's why I buy Google phones. The processor being slightly slower doesn't matter to me if I prefer the overall experience

I've been having the exact same problems. Been trying to use Firefox primarily for the past few months but it gets frustrating having to restart it all the time.

From my understanding YNAB at least is already using Plaid - every service I've used that uses Plaid still needs username/password for the financial institution.

The information from that App Actions session does make things a little confusing. In the All About Android podcast, Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson from the Android team says that the suggestions are done with on-device machine learning [0] (around 19:00).

My best guess right now is the contextual suggested actions (ex. call a specific person) that show up in the launcher are done with on-device machine learning as she says, but more generic actions (ex. open the dialer to call somebody, not a specific person) that show up in search results would be done with something like Firebase App Indexing and would require those actions to be submitted to Google.

[0] https://www.twit.tv/shows/all-about-android/episodes/368

Looks like they've optimized it fairly well to prevent battery drain: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-google-pixel-2-now-playin...

Personally I've only ever seen "Pixel Ambient Services" show up on my battery list once, and that was 1% usage after a fairly long day out.

I don't know if that's a fair comparison since Google Services are running on the vast majority of Android devices (except in China) but Logitech or HP don't have that same market share for those respective products.

I get that it's annoying if you choose not to run Google Services. But from a developer perspective if 99.9% of their target market does run Google Services and they make development of the app easier or provide useful features, I can see why they would choose to rely on them.

Yes, I've found it to be much faster than it used to be and they've added a lot of settings to simulate different environments. They also recently added quick boot in the preview (https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/emulator.html) to improve the boot times.

I get that prompting for an iCloud password again adds an extra step, but if someone has your unlocked phone they probably have enough (email, SMS, phone) to take over your iCloud account anyway.

It looks like they did it on the Rinkeby Testnet for that demo so they wouldn't have to spend real Ether.

Looks like they have a few examples here, not all of them have download/source links yet though: https://experiments.withgoogle.com/ar

I think a lot of major changes are in Google's apps, not Android itself. For example a big update to the Photos app would be part of a major OS update in iOS but just another regular app update on Android.

Looks like they do hash matching to automatically scan for copyrighted content: https://torrentfreak.com/google-drive-uses-hash-matching-det...

How are you supposed to force companies using open source software to update it immediately?

From what I can tell, looks like it's built with Angular 1.

Yes, it runs on the JVM and is 100% compatible with Java code. While it was fairly easy to use Kotlin with Android before, Google just announced first-class support for it at IO.

Personally I use Amazon Cloud Drive for the unlimited storage, there's a guide to set that up here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...

Then once you have Sonarr and/or Radarr setup for TV/Movies you can use something like Ombi to allow family/friends to request content and have it automatically downloaded and added to Plex.

I would assume bootloader unlocked, I believe that causes SafetyNet to fail and can't imagine why a carrier unlocked phone would.

Haven't tried it but Coincube seems to do this already: https://beta.coincube.io/indexes

The same author has an article on this subject as well: https://www.troyhunt.com/password-managers-dont-have-to-be-p...

Intellij IDEA has a free community edition, but yeah, nothing free for commericial development. https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/download/

Like others said you should be fine, people have stored much much more without issue. Just make sure it's all encrypted.

With this setup you run your own Plex server and mount ACD as a filesystem.

You can mount ACD as a filesystem in Linux and run your own Plex server, I've been doing it successfully for a few months now. I followed the instructions at https://amc.ovh/

EDIT: More up to date instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...

For those wishing to use Amazon Cloud Drive with their own Plex server https://amc.ovh/ has some great instructions. I've been doing this with very little issues for a few months now.

EDIT: More up to date instructions at https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/58uhmo/guide_to_using...

I think a lot of people (myself included) use password managers to manage very long and random passwords. Typing in 100 random characters every time I need to login to something (especially on a phone) would be pretty annoying.

I've been using mintty and it's been pretty nice so far https://github.com/mintty/wsltty

From the documentation, they also support Amazon Echo style actions such as "Tell Personal Chef to find me chicken recipes" or "Ask $name to $action_phrase".

See https://developers.google.com/actions/distribute/invocation-...