#android webview

[orestz]

SOBRE A SEGURANÇA NO ANDROID

Neste post apresento os princípios básicos dos conceitos de segurança do Android e a evolução que torna alguns dos meus posts obsoletos

08-Dez-2023 O Android é o sistema operacional mais popular do mundo, participando da vida de quase metade da população. Por suas escala e capacidades costuma atrair criminosos, fraudadores e golpistas que procuram roubar dinheiro de usuários ou de outra forma lucrar ilicitamente. Para entender a relação dos malwares com o Android, é preciso entender o modelo de segurança desse sistema…

[orteil42]

Several icons have been inverted for me since a few updates now. This is on both alpha and live. Genuinely have no idea why it happens or how to fix it. Already tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app and it didn't do anything. Can you help?

hey is your device in dark mode possibly. did android put out an update that makes dark mode automatically invert some images in webviews. those motherfuckers

[utopicwork]

Oh! I forgot: I set up Android Studio and Chaquopy and everything seems to be working so far so I should be able to run a local server on Android that has all the dependencies necessary to run the Pyodide version of the PierMesh code. I'm also working on a WebView so all you would need to do is click a button to start up the server and the WebView will load the web ui. This should be more accessible then having to punch in the url manually imo.

[weird-bookworm]

a tip for android users when random apps start glitching— your webview probably needs an update, and you don't need to delete 2 and a half dozen apps off your phone in a frustrated frenzy 😃

[kintatsujo]

there's a particular type of app that basically allows both email apps and Obsidian (and a number of other apps but those are the main ones I care about) to function properly on Android

and the term you'd be looking for is "webview" somewhere in the app's name

I disabled this one time because my phone let me do it for some fucking reason and promptly found out what it broke by doing that

it took me a bit to remember, more recently, but when Obsidian and email suddenly stopped working I ended up finding that the webview app I happened to have had its "put in deep sleep if not used" setting on for some fucking reason

so obviously I fixed it, fine, whatever

then about a month later the app got an update that just straight up broke it, even when I uninstalled and reinstalled it a few times

... knowing that this was the problem the last time all of my mail apps and Obsidian went down at once is what helped me to know that downloading an entirely different webview app might fix the problem

which turned out to be correct

Anyway yeah play with the settings on your devices

[autolenaphilia]

Thank fuck for that. I suspect the fact that this idea was a anti-competitive vendor lockout and privacy nightmare was why it was dropped. Not because Google cares, but this was so bad that it might fall afoul of antitrust laws (something Google is already being investigated for breaking) and the GDPR.

[ueberdemnebelmeerresources]

android apps masterlist

Universal Android Debloater GUI, for non-rooted devices

safe-to-remove samsung bloatware list

Fossify: privacy-focused FOSS apps (i.e. gallery, file manager, calendar, contacts, messages)

F-DROID CLIENTS

droid-ify, with material UI

Neo Store

FILE EXPLORERS

MiXplorer SD, FTP, Lan, Cloud and other storage explorers

Material Files

MANGA/ANIME (tachiyomi forks)

mihon: comic reader

aniyomi: reader + player

CAMERAS

Pixel Camera mod

Ghostcam: [REQUIRES ROOT] fake camera

MUSIC PLAYERS

[offline] AIMP ∗ Musicolet ∗ Auxio

[offline] Phocid ∗ Symphony ∗ Gramophone (N.B.: clunky queue & playlist management)

[offline] Metro i.e. de-googled RetroMusic

[offline] Oto Music

[streaming, yt music] SimpMusic ∗ rimusic / kreate ∗ Musify ∗ Namida ∗ OuterTune (syncs!)

[stream from cloud] MusicSync

[deezer mod] Refreezer

VIDEO PLAYERS

MX Player, plays DVD files too

mpv player

[stream from cloud] Bubbleupnp

YT FRONTENDS

Tubular: NewPipe fork implementing SponsorBlock

Grayjay: aggregator via plugins for YT, Peertube, dailymotion, bilibili, twitch, patreon, nebula, soundcloud, apple podcasts

AUDIO/VIDEO DL

Spowlo: spotify downloader via youtube

Seal

YTDLnis: video/audio downloader from more than 1000 websites using yt-dlp for Android 7.0+

HOME MEDIA SERVER UTILITIES

Bookcamp: audiobooks for Plex

Symfonium: music player

Fintube: music player for jellyfin

MAPS & TRAVEL PLANNERS

google maps webview wrapper. blocks access to google trackers (navigation is not available, only turn-by-turn direction list)

osm2gmaps: convert OpenStreetMap-based application links into Google Maps, Apple Maps or other links and viceversa

[OSM-based] OsmAnd ∗ Organic Maps ∗ MapFactor Navigator

[OSM-based] MagicEarth: turn-by-turn navigation, Crowd-Sourced Traffic, Offline maps and Transit

Mapy.cz: maps with elevation profiles for hikers & cyclists, offline

iOverlander

Citymapper

öffi for public transport (coverage here)

[🇯🇵] Japan Travel by NAVITIME ∗ Gourmet Navigator

MISC

[cross-platform alternatives to AirDrop] Xender ∗ LocalSend

ImageToolbox

ffshare: compresses image, video and audio files through ffmpeg before sharing them; also edits metadata

Material Notes: offline notes app

Nunti: RSS reader

Shelter: isolate and run multiple instances of apps, depends on the Work Profile feature of the Android system

Quikshort: adds shortcuts to home page

AdAway: ad blocker

NetGuard: block access to the internet per app

aliucord: discord app mod (which is against the Discord ToS) with plugin system, no root needed

Redomi: song.link client to open songs from different platforms to your favourite one

[eightyonekilograms]

It took like 10 years but iOS finally has widgets that are competitive with what you can get on Android (widgets were first introduced to iOS several versions ago but they sucked ass, then in iOS 16 they were somewhat-usable, and now in iOS 17 they're actually good), and I finally have a phone homescreen/lockscreen widget situation I'm happy with.

What's pretty cool is that Sonoma now lets you run any phone widget on your desktop as well, which might finally fix my longstanding widget problem.

Widgets on desktop operating systems, for me at least, is like the eternally-arriving disappointment. I feel like I've been trying to use them in one form or another since the 90s, and they've never worked out. I tried the OS-native widgets on both early OS X and Windows Vista, I tried Rainmeter (remember when you got forum e-penis points by having the coolest-looking Rainmeter setup that?), I tried Gnome Extensions, I tried these little webviews that you pinned to your desktop, and always ended getting rid of them. I think the reason why is twofold:

The maintenance question never got solved — people would make a widget, and then it became abandonware so as soon as the upstream API changed/broke, it was useless.

Some of the stuff I want widgets for is system info, but a lot of it is tied to particular products or services, and if they didn't make their own widget (and why would they), you were stuck. If you got lucky, hackers would make their own using the API, but then you were back to problem 1 above.

But when you can add phone widgets, both of these are basically solved, since the widgets are usually maintained by megacorps with enough interest in keeping them functional. So now I at last have a desktop widget situation I like as well.

[freegiveawaysthings]

How to Remove Action Bar in Android app

[kennak]

独立行政法人情報処理推進機構（IPA）および一般社団法人JPCERT コーディネーションセンター（JPCERT/CC）は8月24日、スマートフォンアプリ「すかいらーくアプリ」におけるアクセス制限不備の脆弱性について「Japan Vulnerability Notes（JVN）」で発表した。三井物産セキュアディレクション株式会社の金子俊介氏が報告を行っている。影響を受けるシステムは以下の通り。Android アプリ「すかいらーくアプリ」バージョン 6.2.13 およびそれ以前iOS アプリ「すかいらーくアプリ」バージョン 6.2.13 およびそれ以前　株式会社すかいらーくホールディングスが提供するスマートフォンアプリ「すかいらーくアプリ」にはアクセス制限不備の脆弱性が存在し、ユーザの端末に��ンストールされた他のアプリを利用し当該製品の WebView 上に任意のサイトを表示され、不正なサイトに誘導される可能性がある。　JVNでは、開発者が提供する情報をもとに、最新版へアップデートするよう呼びかけている。 《ScanNetSecurity》 ソース・関連リンク JVN

スマートフォンアプリ「すかいらーくアプリ」にアクセス制限不備の脆弱性 | ScanNetSecurity

[ailurinae]

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Don't do that. At best you are just slowing things down, at worst some of these may be actively interfering with each other. AdGuard and uBlock Origin (uBO) is redundant, just use one. I use uBO, but AFAIK Adguard is ok too... Anyway, double classical browser adblockers is almost always a bad idea. (One classical and one DNS-based is fine)

Don't bother with the DDG extension for Firefox, just set DDG as your search engine. Delete Google and other unwanted search engines from the list if you want to make sure you don't accidentally select them. They claim to do other stuff, but it isn't doing anything you can't get with uBO and native FF features (set to Strict, etc). It might do stuff that you can't natively do on Chrome, but uh. Don't use Chrome.

The DDG app for Android mentioned above just links to the DDG Android browser. It does not make any claims to increase privacy or deal with ads in other apps. It is just a web browser. And it is just a Chrome/WebView wrapper as most non-FF browsers are. It isn't going to offer you anything you can't get with FF on Android and uBO.

Mullvad is a fine VPN (you can also use Mozilla, which is a branded version of Mullvad's infrastructure, and will help Mozilla survive), but there is very little to no reason to use a VPN for most day-to-day web browsing. Even more so now with encrypted DNS lookup options in the form of DoH (DNS over HTTPS) and DoT (DNS over TLS).

There could be some limited value to a VPN when on public WiFi (Starbucks etc), and a VPN is good to keep the MPAA off your back when torrenting. Or if you want to get around geo-blocks by selecting a VPN endpoint in another country.

Sponserblock is nice to skip the sponsor segments on YouTube, but do remember just regular uBlock Origin will block the YouTube-inserted ads, and Sponserblock has nothing to do with blocking trackers or the like.

For Android, start by using FF for Android (iOS situation is different), very many extensions work just fine on mobile now, including uBlock Origin. And then use mobile website (and PWAs, Progressive Web Apps) rather than Android apps where possible. "Apps" are always going to have more power to track you than websites (obviously there are "good" apps, especially many open source ones, that don't track you, but the possibilities are greater).

Since I use open source apps and websites wherever possible, and I use FF with uBlock Origin on Android, I haven't felt a need to use other ad/tracking blocking stuff on Android, but if you want to, the best bet is DNS based blocking with an open source app.

Some do it locally, like PersonalDNSfilter, DNS66, AdAway and Blokada 5, with a host file setup (either directly on rooted device, or with a fake VPN workaround for non-rooted). Others like AdGuard for Android, Blokada 6, RethinkDNS and NextDNS use external DNS servers on the internet and route your DNS requests through them. Some of those listed require subscriptions (though the clients are Open Source) or require varying amounts of manual setup. Also apparently some people are using the AdGuard DNS server without the app and therefore no subscription (presumably then needs more manual setup)? Don't know much about it. Can't recommend any one of these as I haven't used any of them, but plenty of discussion on Reddit etc.

Not sure what the Host File or alternate DNS situation is on iOS. And iOS browsers (ALL of them) are just skins over WebKit (the Safari engine), so not much they can do, and no extensions. The EU might force Apple to open that up though at some point...

i hate seeing people now making fun of those who care about privacy online. i've seen people saying things like "well they already have your data. what are companies going to do with it" and it's like, that's not the point. it's that companies /shouldn't/ be able to have my data and sell it. am i aware they probably already have my data? yes, absolutely. but i'm still going to try and keep them from monetizing it any further, why are we defending companies selling data they shouldn't have to begin with though?

[globalresourcesvn]

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