Episode 477 – Next Stop

By | February 19, 2020

Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Essential Phone and its subsidiaries are dead.
    • Google details how it fought malicious apps in 2019
    • Incremental File System may make its way to Android.
    • Chromebooks continue to grow as an option for Android development
  • App News
    • Home Assistant Companion for Android adds actionable notifications, requesting location updates, and additional sensors.
    • Mozilla’s new Firefox for Android will have limited add-on support at launch.
    • Microsoft rebrands Swiftkey to be more prominently Microsoft in latest update.
    • The best free and open source alternatives to Google Keep
    • Tasker Beta adds full DND customization and Sensor actions
    • Microsoft’s new unifed Office app is ‘spectacular
  • In Other News
    • MWC 2020 cancelled due CoronaVirus
    • Dotcom registrars concerned about rate hikes.
    • An Anker USB-C charger might be more powerful than the Apollo 11 guidance computer
    • Gmail might be getting travel bundles, the Inbox feature.
    • Ring to make 2FA mandatory.