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Since I mainly browse on Android Firefox and Chrome on my Android 16 phone, are there any ways within these browsers or the phone itself to highlight a section of text and have the option to search it ...
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I’m looking for an Android app that can reliably alert me at 1% battery. On older Android versions, the system showed a clear “Shutting down soon due to low battery” warning, but on my current device ...
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I am looking for a game that works as follows: At the start of the game, a character is hung to the back by a short rope from the ceiling. Then a kid on the left starts throwing in balls, that spin. ...
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I have a BG Smart Power Adapter (Part No. AHC/U SF SKU 124 GV). To set it up you need to install the BG Home App from Google PlayStore. However, this app won't install on new and recent versions of ...
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I need an app with the following features: Set reminder/alarm in multiple different time zones at the same time I can choose day of week (Mon-Fri) Get Windows 11 notification and android ...
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On my desk, I have a Linux PC and an Android tablet. I want to share the same keyboard/mouse (wired) I use on that PC with that tablet. What I have looked at: scrcpy is not what I want: I don't want ...
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Every time I want to transfer photos from my Smartphone (Samsung Galaxy A23) to my Windows PC, I have problems like this: Or this: Or it hangs forever (more than 4 minutes for 400 MB) like this: I ...
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I would like a calendar app for android with the option to set my phone into DND (do not disturb) mode during the event. I usually remember to silence my phone during a concert or lecture, but ...
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I am undecided about whether this post should be migrated to hardware recommendations. Is there any software that runs Android that can be used to have a smartwatch (such as one using Android wear) ...
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I am looking into mobile development frameworks for a project at work. Our main environment is PHP–Laravel-based, so I was hoping to be able to use NativePHP for a new mobile app we are planning to ...
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I am a heavy Google keep user, been using it for several/many years. As I use it I find the following functionality is missing: After searching for a note (in the upper part of the note in the search ...
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I'm looking for a customizable keyboard for Android. I want to write specific characters. Almost everything on the Play Store is quite glitchy, or it's not formatted well to the screen. I'm trying to ...
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In Android 16, Google has currently limited the number of immediately visible Quick Settings icons to just 4 (ugh). As such, please recommend an Android app/widget/tool that will always show the ...
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On the Google Clock alarm date selection page it would be good if on the calendar, one could: click on week days: this would select all days under that week day horizontally click a begin button, ...
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On my Android phone I have tons of technical documentation about my car. When I get a technical problem in the mountain, I can search them using PDF and .txt viewing apps. It works but takes a lot of ...
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Please recommend a phone call recording app that is compatible with Android 16 on non-rooted Google Pixel phones. Google has made changes to Android to make call recording even more difficult, but ...
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I wonder if is there a Calendar, where can create an event an assign to elements of my grupo. Then filter or have Combined views. Eg: Family of 4, target users. Create event1 for Mother and boy. ...
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Is there a free open-source software (FOSS) alternative to Clothona: AI Clothes Changer? Or does such a model exist on, say, HuggingFace?
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I am looking for an application that will let you test out and try out all of the features of the Google Calendar application by providing the Android (developer/developing) user with a try out ...
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I am looking for the following functionalities in Android table widgets: 1. select a bunch of cells (optionally, the GUI may enforce that all the cells lie in the same row or in the same column. This,...
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I currently look into switching from iOS to GrapheneOS. Is there a good option for a Google-free Apple Health equivalent (best case with importer from Apple Health)?
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I've installed Neo Backup on my Android phone which allows me to do (scheduled) backups of my applications data to device's file system. Now what I want is to use my PC as a storage for that backups, ...
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I'm looking for a new Calendar app, to replace my existing VueMinder. I am fine with paying, either monthly or up-front. A couple of caveats: No Google products. I'm already stuck with the phone, I'm ...
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I’m looking for a drawing or drafting software to be used in a technical or construction-related workflow. The software must allow me to build and annotate diagrams interactively. Here are the key ...
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I was wondering whether I can configure my Android system to ring upon receiving notifications from specific users in specific apps (or, perhaps, even by having my Android system amalgamate all ...
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I've recently come to Android from iPhone and I really miss the simple, elegant interface of Apple Music. The music player apps I've tried have all looked bloated or fiddly. I don't care about EQs, ...
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Is there an Android app that works on the latest stable version of Android and allows me to create animated GIFs from images on my phone's storage, while offline? There are apps like Giphy that let me ...
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I need an app that will prevent you from turning off or changing Private DNS as soon as it's set as Device admin app. I also need to disable turning off developer options so that USB debugging and ...
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So I need to boost the volume of all my devices in a way that whatever device or media is playing using the default volume controls, without interacting with any third party utility software or ...
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I'm looking for a fax app on Android that uses the fact that the device is a phone to send a fax. Thus keeping anything that I send private as possible. I've done some searching, and the internet is ...
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I am looking for an app for Android to measure my blood pressure without a cuff. Preferably by finger. I would like to be able to save the values and generate a report from them.
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Is there any Android app for kids where text is displayed with images among the text and the kid has to read the words corresponding to the images (the software reads the text and pauses, waiting, for ...
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What are your favourite apps for optimizing a rooted phone? I'm currently running a bot on an apk file and I need the app to run as fast as possible. I'm already speeding things up with GameGuardian, ...
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I have a collection of music files, such as MP3s, stored in a folder. I'm seeking a method to play each file a specified number of times—ideally twice—before moving on to the next one. This would ...
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Is there a role playing 3D game, where you can take a train or a plane and go to different countries to interact with real or chatgpt-powered characters to communicate and learn to speak different ...
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I have a simple spreadsheet that I'm keeping on Dropbox that I need to access and to edit from Windows, Linux, and Android platforms. Currently I'm maintaining the spreadsheet as a simple comma ...
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I have my own VPS in different regions. I also use them for VPN (using https://github.com/hwdsl2/setup-ipsec-vpn package). Is it possible to require these custom scripts and just use SSH connection to ...
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I'm looking for Android app that can replace a block in an image with a solid color (not a mosaic). Any license, price and language is fine. Example: Before: After: I replaced the ad with the a ...
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The Open Source Initiative released their definition of open source AI: https://opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition Incidentally, I need to embed an LLM in my Android app for summarization/etc ...
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I am looking for a software solution for the following problem: I want to create SVG files. So far, I’ve tried using GIMP and Inkscape, which are great tools, but I’m running into a specific issue. ...
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I'm using Microsoft SwiftKey for my Android phone but it has a problem. I type in 4 different languages, and the corrector shows word suggestions mixed for all languages. I'd like to find an Android ...
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Context Expensive phones like the most recent high-end Pixel/Samsung/Motorola/Xiaomi/Realme devices have embedded LLMs accessible to apps via Android's Google AI Edge SDK / AICore, they can reply to ...
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I am looking for a role playing game where the main character had various ideas about what to do (which may result from their former studies or former life) but the game shows what destroys the ...
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I am looking for a software, that, allows, users, to embed themselves into the following line of thought (as, per, the various stages, of the game): you select your character you select your ...
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I am looking for an API that will allow parents to interface with the availability of apps on children's phones, actually, the Family Link so already does this. But, what would be useful, to parents', ...
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I received bitcoins from a bankruptcy but in real life following a trial, my computer no longer have ram (manufacturer refused lifetime warrenty) and I have only about 30€ left. So I only have my ...
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Recommend me some existing app(s) that can do it, or how to write it myself. There can be many media players opened the same time. Only one can play. They all have items in the notification area, each ...
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I am looking for an alarm application centered about doing good things for people (reminds you of the person, and prompts you for thoughts or good things to do that will benefit that person that comes ...
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I wonder whether there are any family-centric role playing games, out there. In these games, each of husband and spouse has a job, and, you can choose to be one or the other during the game, or any ...
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I'm looking for an Android app that is able to show me the screen of Android TV v12 on my Android phone v7.1 and of course this shown screen needs to be interactive, e.g. I would need to control the ...
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