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[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
I actually visit Buffalo from time to time (Toronto is only an hour and a half away after all). You should keep your eyes open for next years Droidcon NY though!
[Android Apps and Games] Ibuprophen:
I've been to Buffalo years ago... LOL!

I'm on the other side in a city called Glens Falls. It's approximately 45 minutes to an hour north of the state capital Albany.

Time to begin the Droidcon plans my friend... LMAO!!!

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I DO NOT PROVIDE SUPPORT VIA PM UNLESS ASKED/REQUESTED BY MYSELF.

PLEASE KEEP IT IN THE THREADS WHERE EVERYONE CAN SHARE
[Android Apps and Games] jimistixx:
Can't wait for a curated app for Pixel 2 XL.
[Android Apps and Games] pled:
Hi,

Not sure this is the right place for that question, but why can't I read videos without the official youtube app ? I have newpipe from f-droid installed as a lightweight youtube frontend, I was expecting I could at least choose it to play videos.

Note I have no Google account set on my smartphone, and that I get a message at startup telling me that FeedApplication will not work without Google Play services. Why that dependency ? :(
[Android Apps and Games] quincho54:
Just checked it out, works fine for me. It's from XDA store. I don't get any message from google.
[Android Apps and Games] pled:
Well not sure what "It's from XDA store" means, but here is the error I get when trying to play video from xdafeed...

Message says : "Download Youtube appli. That application will not work without youtube application, which is not installed on your device."

The 2nd image is the error I get when connecting with xdafeed.

Message says : "com.xda.feed.FeedApplication will not work without Google Play services, which are not compatible with your device.

I run LineageOS 14.1 without google account set.
[Android Apps and Games] quincho54:
Ckeck the app store in xda and download the app from there.

Maybe there is something wrong with your app.

I just disabled YouTube and started the newpipe again and it works perfect. Nothing wrong with it.
[Android Apps and Games] zelendel:
His issue is he doesn't have Google play services installed and without it many apps will not work. Mainly if they are built to Googles retarded guidelines.
[Android Apps and Games] quincho54:
Ok. But for sure I won't disable Google play service to find out. Google, once in a while act like a mimosa......
[Android Apps and Games] pled:
Yes, so it seems XDA Feed is developed using some Google APIs somewhere I guess. Too bad for me ! ;)
[Android Apps and Games] jcmm11:
Have you tried microG? (I haven't tried it, I'm just aware of it's existence)

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-microg-gmscore-floss-play-services-t3217616

Unofficial installer

https://xdaforums.com/android/development/microg-unofficial-installer-t3432360
[Android Apps and Games] pled:
Thanks for the information, I was not aware of microG, it looks very interesting : being able to use Google services without proprietary software...

But I have to install a specific ROM, a LineageOS including microG. Fortunately, it is available for my device.

Sure I will give a try, but I have to prepare the new ROM migration before ! ;)

Thanks again for the microG information.
[Android Apps and Games] zelendel:
All android apps use googles api somewhere. Using android without google kills alot of the options you have available.
[Android Apps and Games] pled:
Finally, I did install that new ROM easily : there is "dirty install" way in installation instructions allowing to install the ROM while keeping data and installed apps. I did it and all went fine. So now I have microG installed, and Google services activated.

I went back to XDA Feed, and was still unable to play video without youtube app ! But (may be my mistake ! :() this was because I tap on the video screenshot. Using the small icon in green (see picture) allowed me to choose my newpipe player.

So all this is may be because that mistake, it was probably the same with the default LineageOS ROM... :(

Sorry for that. But I learned about microG, so that was useful to me...
[Android Apps and Games] maarifa:
Thank you
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Really late to reply to this, my apologies. I'm no fan of Google forcing devs to use their APIs and services in their apps, but each year it gets worse for developers who choose not to use them.

For example now with Android Oreo you simply cannot have reliable push notifications (or any background services). The only way to get around this is to use GCM/FCM. If you use microG, you're not going to get push notifications.

As for your previous issue, it was likely due to using Google's YouTube API, which was blocked by the lack of Gapps.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Hey all, just pushed out a somewhat large update to Labs. Check it out here. Please test and let me know if there's any issues!
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Another hefty new build on Labs here. This will be pushed to Play soon if all is well!

Changes

[feature] Community tab (suggestions/rankings)

[feature] Users receive notices when suggestions are approved/denied

[feature] Users can resubmit denied suggestions

[feature] Users can share URLs to Feed from other apps (settings toggle)

[tweak] Mods can add notes to help submitters improve suggestions

[tweak] UI/animation improvements

[fix] Bugs in submit page

[fix] Avatar image resetting to default
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
New build out on Labs

Changes

[feature] Filter for your device

[tweak] Rankings info button

[tweak] Update translations

[tweak] Update deps

[fix] Suggest back arrow

[fix] Various bugs
[Android Apps and Games] mkl.xda:
Thank you so much. Will try this one:)
[Android Apps and Games] UFOZ24:
Is this compatible with Android 4.4 KitKat or are you planing to port the app to KitKat in the future:)
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Unfortunately it's not on the radar. KK and below don't offer some of the crucial APIs I'm using that are only available in the later versions of Android, so supporting those devices would mean a much more bloated app by having all that legacy code just to support a very small subset of users.
[Android Apps and Games] UFOZ24:
Ok thanks anyway:(
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Good stuff!

I've just installed and browsed through the app for a few minutes and it's definitely a keeper. Congrats to [MENTION=2637227]blk_jack[/MENTION].

I've also started reading this thread, but I'm not done yet... But with this in mind, here's an observation:

After reading many feeds and scrolling pretty far down the list (with one or two spinning circle to load more feeds), I noticed that exiting a feed seems to trigger a list refresh and (my less positive point here) a "to the top of the list" call. That means that I have a lot of scrolling (and waiting for download again) to do just to get back to the next unread feed I was up to.

It's not such a big deal when you consult the app often and there aren't so many screens of new feeds, but in this case of a new user, the scrolling was a little bummer.

So I don't know if this is on the roadmap or has been brought up or not, but I thought I would share anyway.

Otherwise thanks again at blk_jack for another great app.

Cheers
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
And one extra little thing.... on this screen, if choosing "forum thread", it opens it in the browser automatically even though I have a dedicated app for xda.

So I'm wondering if it wouldn't be possible to get an "Open with" dialog (with a remember button) so that can set it to use that app by default.

That's it and thanks again.

Edit: and btw, that screen popped up because I launched the app before having connectivity (wifi and data off): nothing wrong here and just explaining how to get it...
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Sorry for the 3 posts in a row here...

but just to illustrate my last point a little more, here's what I'd expect to see when clicking the forum thread link...

[and sorry to bring in the "T" word here - hehehe]

Edit: and btw, the same thing happens (browser only) when the "Comment on this post" link (at the very end of an article type of feed) is selected.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Thanks!

Hm, I wasn't able to reproduce this (though I did find another issue where it resets the page number and does an API request for the first page when scrolling further down).

After you return from loading a single feed item it does a hard refresh? Could it be a memory issue where the previous fragment is killed altogether and reloads? If you could get a log that would be helpful.

I also don't get this issue (See attached image). is it loading in Chrome for you? Can you try disabling "Open in custom chrome tabs" in Settings? I should mention that Firefox Focus is my default browser and I do have "open in custom chrome tabs" enabled in settings but I believe because chrome isn't my default it doesn't auto-launch to chrome.
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Thanks for your reply.

Well, the good news is what I thought was happening frequently is not so afterall. I did a few more tests and I could not trigger it. So grabbing a log might not be trivial, but I'll keep an eye out and experiment more.

Other thing I notoced though is that I might have been fooled by another glitch; when scolling down the feeds, I noticed that some feeds were repeated. For example: few feeds were tagged with increasing "time since published": 11h, yesterday, a day ago and so on. Then around Janyary 25th, there was a series of 4 or 5 feeds that I've noticed. Then I kept scrolling and once I reached feed of January 18, the same 4 or 5 feed were listed there again with the same Jan 25th tags. I've recorded a video of the scrolling, so I could clearly see it. So maybe, that feeds repetition made me think that I was brought back up when I wasn't. But it's a maybe and I also believe that xda have experienced some seriois technical issues these last few hours...

Regarding this, a also don't have a log yet (and might need deeper investigation as well since there is no real crash here either), but I did try to turn off the Chrome tab settings you've mentioned without see any difference. The browser I use is called Lightning browser https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser and although I believe it might have some (seriously stripped down) Chrome parts in, it's definitely not comparable.

I've also unsuccessfully tried: clearing Feed's cache and data, unfroze my stock browser (CM13 on a Nexus 6 - old I know...) and even installed xdalabs. I was never offered to open the comment on article links with anything else than my default (Lighting) browser - which is very odd.

Other than that, notification timing is set at every 6 hours, -if that can be of any help- and although I have a CMTE theme overlay applied for Feeds, all I've changed was a few bg colors (in the main colors.xml) and nothing in styles or other folders that could make the "open with" overlay buggy. So I'm really not sure was going on here...
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
I mentioned this issue in my last post but I've rolled out a fix in the new 0.30rc15 build.

As for articles, articles are always loaded in the browser. I'm not sure what other programs you'd like to use for them. Forum links however should load in Labs, unless you've told your browser to open all XDA forum links in Lightning by default.
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
You've mentioned an issue, but nothing explaining feeds repeating themselves, so I gave more details then less just in case it was different. But anyhow, I've updated Feed and don't see double feeds anymore: good/thanks.

But, 3 or 4 times now I've noticed something new: I go back to the app from the recent app list and all I'm given is 10 feeds: going back to the top of the list and swiping down to refresh OR returning to the last feed and trying to scroll more did not trigger the loading of more Feeds. Tried going to the community tab and back: still just 10 feeds. Only way to see more (older) feeds was to exit the app and relaunch it.

But that is again not always happening; I'll keep testing and try to find a way to reproduce (if possible).

OK, my bad for using the word "article" instead of "forum". In fact, I've wrongly assumed that articles that are Xda posts were always considered as a thread when we want to comment on them...

But I did find a feed tagged with "Thread" (there aren't too many around) and I could now see XDALabs as an option in the "Open with" dialog. But Tapatalk remains a no go and is never shown as an option.

Nothing as been set 'by default' in CM13 (Gello) browser nor with Lightning before.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
I noticed this once while testing but haven't been able to reproduce it myself since. If you can find a way to reliably reproduce it that would be super helpful!

I can't speak to tapatalk, but Feed is just throwing Android the open intent with an XDA forum URL. I wonder if tapatalk only opens http and not https? Either way it wouldn't be Feed affecting that if it's not even showing up since that's Android itself putting together a list of apps registered to handle the forum URL.
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
I will try.

The second part makes sense and especially since I use an older version of Tapatalk which now have problems finding Xda in its list of available forums (I have to restore an old 3rd party app backup of Tapatalk to get it set up).
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Hi blk_jack, I have another question: does the above also apply to Youtube videos? I mean is it Android that looks for the YT app or you could add other packagage names as valid apps for watching those videos?

I'm using a modded YT app with a slightly different name and it won't be recognized as YT player. Some other apps and even the Playstore have no problem playing the videos with that app.

Thanks for considering adding it if possible.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Yeah it embeds the YT video playback. Once Feed is open source somebody may want to creat an option to use some other player and not the built in one.
[Android Apps and Games] wutangkillabee:
Is this the same thing as the sea developers app?
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Why not install it and see?
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Labs != Feed
[Android Apps and Games] SacredDeviL666:
Thought of dropping a note here...

Use it if you want to and if you don't want to it's still fine.

If you think you could come up with something better please do so, else keep the sarcasm to yourself. Constructive feed backs are always welcome.

Devs doesn't owe anyone anything they will make an app the way they want it, simple as that.

All those said respect the developers on this site, if you cannot then this isn't the place for you :)

Peace.... :good:

Thanks

XDA Staff.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
0.30.1

Big update to the "stable" builds on Play. Here's a big ol' list of changes since the last release in July (!)

Changes

[feature] Community tab (suggestions/rankings)

[feature] Filter for your device only

[feature] Users receive notices when suggestions are approved/denied

[feature] Users can resubmit denied suggestions

[feature] Users can share URLs to Feed from other apps (settings toggle)

[tweak] Mods can add notes to help submitters improve suggestions

[tweak] Icon shown for tagged content

[tweak] UI/animation improvements

[tweak] Update translations

[fix] Bugs in submit page

[fix] Avatar image resetting to default

A big thank you to all the translators and testers!!! <3
[Android Apps and Games] axiel7:
OnePlus 3/3T version is usable if I have an OnePlus 5?
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Yep but just go w/ the All Devices build. They're the same
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
0.30.3 bug fix update is live on Labz

Changes

[fix] Clickable URLs always defaulting to browser

[fix] False positive user logged out errors

[fix] Crash when re-submitting a video suggestion

[fix] Vanishing menu icons on app resume

[fix] Other crashes, stability issues
[Android Apps and Games] mikej73:
Not working

The app stopped functioning.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
We had a brief outage 'thanks' to our hosting provider but it was fixed shortly after. Is this what you mean?
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Hey blk_jack,

Nothing important or that I won't be able to fix myself for my setup, but just a little esthetic thing I've noticed with the app: one of the styles is calling on an "android:style" for the navigation bar.

So in my case, it ends up using a semi-transparent navbar bg which kinda looks weird with the rest of the app...

Do you think that this should be defined in one of the app's style so that the navbar background is as the statusbar bg no matter what theme people are using?

That's it, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
Hey AL was following this until the "navbar background is as teh statusbar bg no matter what theme"? Could you dumb that down for me? Thanks :)
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Hehe, thanks for following up on that. Well, that post of mine was before I had enough caffeine in me, but yes: instead of just calling an android style, maybe the navbar background could have its own color defined and/or use the same as the one for the statusbar background color.

Well, this answer ain't much different than my last post isn't it.. But once my kids leave me some time on the PC this afternoon, I'll give you specific the attributes/styles and that should clear things up.

So, to be continued...

Edit:

I haven't verified all this yet, but I believe that this attribute:

<item name="android:navigationBarColor">?colorPrimaryDark</item>

(or any other choice of colorS for both the light/dark themes)

Could be added to these 2 styles:

<style name="Platform.V21.AppCompat" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.NoActionBar">

... />

<style name="Platform.V21.AppCompat.Light" parent="@android:style/Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar">

... />

On my phone's theme, that "android:navigationBarColor" is set as a semi transparent color (#90000000) in the "Theme. Material" style and I believe that's why the navbar is translucent in Feed.
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Unfortunately, I can't seem to be able to verify this yet as although I can compile Feed without errors, my modded apk installation fails (could give the logcat's error code later if required) and modifying my theme Feed's overlay would be quite tedious in order to modify those 2 styles many attributes.

Anyhow, I hope it is now more clear as of an explanation...
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
OK, I took a little bit of time to play with this and I finally succeeded in getting a black navigation bar background by modifying my phone's theme for Feed.

I'll attach the changes I made for Feed's styles here; it should now be obvious what was missing.
[Android Apps and Games] pilag768:
:o

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[Android Apps and Games] kibria.mgk:
Please add option for manually setting up current device to view and suggest threads.
[Android Apps and Games] blk_jack:
You can achieve this by suggesting via the website. :good:
[Android Apps and Games] Raiz:
Hi there

I wanna say first that feed has evolved very well from the beginning of his development . Good job everyone !

But I faced an issue :

This app Force Close when I go to rankings and I scroll till the 17th name (I suppose that's the end of the ranking).

Please tell me if a logcat is needed or if the issue is reproducible on all phones.

Version : 0.30.5 Debug

Edit #1:

Fixed Itself
[Android Apps and Games] [] AL []:
Yo!

Something I've noticed regarding in-article pics on this news: https://www.xda-developers.com/xiaomi-black-shark-gaming-phone-announced/

If we click on one of the 2 side-by-side pictures, the displayed pic is then larger than the width of my phone and there is no way to zoom in/out to see it in full. Same thing happens in landscape view and even worst, unlike in portrait, we can not return to the article by swiping down to refresh. So the only way possible is to return to the main view by pressing the phone's back button and re-select that article again.

I hope this description is clear (and that it is not something already known... )

Cheers

pic attached shows the landscape view once one of the picture is pressed.
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] StonyD:
Hello,

Can one please upload the Firmware 34.2.A.0.333 Customized German please?

I try till yesterday to create the downloaded files from Xperifirm but everytime the Flashtool app frozes!

Thx

And can i get OTA's After flashing a Firmware with Flashtool?
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] Kuba5262:
OTA is available

usually after flashing with flashtool I do repair device with xperia companion - just for sure :)
[Sony Xperia X Compact Questions & Answers] ch3mn3y:
Does it have to be Germany? There really is no difference, even for Xperia Care.

If You need German, try downloading through XperiFirm. However do it now, as tomorrow there can be 34.2.A.2.47 not 32.2.A.0.333 available for this region.

If it doesn't matter, here You will find ftf for GreeceL

http://www.xperiasite.pl/topic/24789-f5121-342a0333-greece/

And Yes, after flashing with Flashtool Your device is exactly like bought with flashed region, so any OTA it will get, You will be able to download.
[Huawei Watch] shahidchuhdry:
Huawei confirms the original Huawei Watch has NFC and Android Pay is being tested on it​

The rollout of Android Wear 2.0 has brought about a couple of interesting tidbits, including what we find to be a massive new piece of information about the original Huawei Watch: it has NFC.

The original Huawei Watch, which is set to receive it’s Android Wear 2.0 update soon, will be getting an additional piece of functionality in that an update will soon enable a dormant NFC chip in the watch.

In a statement to Ausdroid, Huawei has confirmed that the original Huawei Watch does have NFC, with Android Pay functionality currently in testing by the Android team at Google. The update to enable Android Pay on the original Huawei Watch may not go live straight away with the update to Android Wear 2.0, with a time-frame of Q3 given for the Android Pay functionality to go live.

The statement was given alongside confirmation that the Hauwei Watch 2, which will launch in Australia later this year alongside the Huawei P10 also has NFC built-in with support for Android Pay, but that support is functional out of the box.

The original Huawei Watch is still one of our favourite Android Wear watches available here at Ausdroid, and they’re getting cheaper as the launch of the Huawei Watch 2 approaches. In terms of functionality, it’s a massive step forward for owners of the original Huawei Watch.

SOURCE
[Huawei Watch] Magic_Knight:
Ausdroid is neither an official nor a reliable source. Huawei Watch does not have a NFC compatible hardware... its hardware has already been analyzed long time ago and though MSM8926 processor on some units migh have NFC support it doesn't have other hardware components required to use it.
[Huawei Watch] bmg1001:
AFAIK, they said the same thing about the speaker. I'm still skeptical, however.
[Huawei Watch] nano303:
Ah man get that BS out of here! This is just an excuse to take more ****ing time!!! They said they EXPECT the new update to hit before the end of MARCH. It's APRIL!! IL be dammed if i get another Huawei product!! Real **** now ORIGINAL LG watch urbane got there android 2.0 update while Huawei still sitting there with there hands up their ass!!
[Huawei Watch] raider2k9:
Calm down.. It was planned for march, but delayed because of an new bug.. they are actually optimizing the new bug-free AW 2.0.. it should be available in few days, an employee from HuaweiGermany told me
[Huawei Watch] rusty.gh:
still hoping, but reality says no...

Yeah, sure would be nice, however it's highly un probable.

then there is this: http://www.androidcentral.com/huawei-watch-nfc-nope
[Huawei Watch] internest:
It could explain why is taking too much time to release the update. I have latest preview version in my watch and is working fine.
[Huawei Watch] NeedleGames:
Article was recalled.