It’s alright. Personally, I use LocalSend. It’s a neat app which is 16mb download vs 57mb for plainapp.

The links you shared are broken for fdroid and source code.

Yeah, alongside that. Phones also have focus mode, digital wellbeing to limit usage of distracting apps. You can even turn on super power saving mode to limit phone use further and use it for basic functions like phones, messages, web browsing, etc.

You can test by tapping yourself. But, nothing. Only the version for unlocking developer options.

Smart launcher has auto app categorizing. You can add a catergory for work apps and put their work related apps in there.

Yes, its a known issue since v142.0. You will have to wait or try workarounds to get around this issue.

Samsung blocks installing apps outside Playstore if you enable their advanced blocker mode. Xiaomi also warns and shows a pop-up for 10-30s preventing it.

Pixel’s advanced protection mode does the same.

Also, when i metioned that I was talking about OEMs forking android and making it harder to use per your needs. Which would mean modifying android which could mean failing some CTS tests for play services. Boot loader unlocking is already on the verge of being killed. Installing apps and other things you currently do on your android could be next if OEMs were allowed free reign.

I received quite a few responses about apps when I wanted to Highlight the bootloader unlocking, custom ROMs, root, etc. I guess my comment was not too clear.

I never said it was. Not sure what you mean.

There are very few things the chinese government does right. This may be one of them.

It was done for previous pi https://hackaday.io/project/195370-raspberry-piphone-a-diy-android-smartphone

https://hackaday.com/2022/10/10/a-raspberry-pi-phone-for-the-modern-era/

Don’t you mean the Adguard android app?

They need to maintain compatibility with play services to access apps on play store.

Also, starting with OnUI 8 bootloader unlocking is no longer supported. On OxugenOS 16 its only allowed with restrictions. The hardening is already started.

You think other companies would provide sideloading like samsung, and oneplus? They would lock the OS hard and make it difficult to even unlock. Making android more closed than before.

Apparently, realme has also been testing a 15k mAh battery in a phone also another phone with built in cooler and temperature based color changing backs. According to this beebom youtube video: https://youtube.com/shorts/f_gU5fZOImE

The browser seems interesting and exposes many useful options to the user in settings.

Container tabs is good.

It’s currently in Alpha and has some noticeable bugs. I would wait a while before using it as a primary browser.

I also experinced some bugs.

The notice says its in alpha. So, I would be careful about using it for secure banking and personal sites.

The setting is not obvious but you can enable CRlite in secure connections. That’s Mozilla’s new certificate revocation system which downloads the revocation details for all websites without needing to query any 3rd party for sites you visit.

Github is not a trusted source. Anyone can dump apk files over there.

I keep play protect enabled in case I download anything unsafe.

They already consider you a criminal if you use grapheneOS on a pixel. It’s not a joke.