Imagine accessing your favourite web-only tools as native apps on your Android smartphone. Or, better yet, having separate instances of the same app logged in from two or three different accounts. That’s just scratching the surface of what’s possible, and there’s a complete guide to how it’s done in the linked article below!
It’s true actually that this type of access does give a clean interface vs opening the same site in a browser tab. You lose all that extra fluff that the browser shows.
This is really worth considering if you have some services you have to open regularly which do not have a native app. Even if they do have an app, for some services, you may not want to install and have their app running in the background on your device (for privacy or tracking issues). This is an answer to that problem too!
In case there were any lingering doubts, 2020 swooped in hard to remind us all that life is now mediated through devices. The ongoing pandemic, protests, etc: We've navigated these public health and political upheavals, with varying degrees of success, through screens. The linked article has a list of apps…
Did you know that once you grant access to your phone's camera or microphone to any third-party App, they can use it silently in the background? And do you feel envious about the new iOS 14's privacy feature - shows an indicator whenever camera or microphone is accessed?Presenting Access Dots…
/e/ Android operating system is a privacy oriented, Google-free mobile operating system, fork of Lineage OS and was founded in mid-2018 by Gaël Duval, creator of Mandrake Linux (now Mandriva Linux).Despite making Android an open source project in 2007, Google replaced some OS elements with proprietary software when Android gained…
