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Sven Jacobs

@svenjacobs@androiddev.social

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#Android developer at #ReweDigital writing apps for grocery store customers, #Germany, #Kotlin, #JetpackCompose

Tooting mostly about #Technology and #SoftwareDevelopment in #English or #German

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Site	https://svenjacobs.com
GitHub	https://github.com/svenjacobs
Pronouns	he/him

🚀 New AndroidX updates (June 18, 2025)!

Includes:
🔹 Compose 1.8.3 & 1.9.0-beta01
🔹 Activity 1.12.0-alpha03
🔹 WorkManager 2.10.2
🔹 Room 2.7.2
🔹 Navigation3 & more!

Stay updated 👉 https://developer.android.com/jetpack/androidx/versions/all-channel#june_18_2025

#AndroidDev #Android #AndroidXReleases #JetpackCompose

Arthur Charpentier ⏚ 🇨🇦3d ago

Toronto, 100 Adelaide St. E. – March 1989 / April 1998 by Patrick Cummins https://www.urbanspacegallery.ca/event/full-frontal-t-o/

Meredith Whittaker 3d ago

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project

With the release of Android 16, Google changed how it developed Android. Development is now taking place behind closed doors, with the code dropped after the corresponding version has been released to Pixel devices. Well, it turns out this wasn’t the only thing Google has changed about Android development.

https://www.osnews.com/story/142553/rumour-google-intends-to-discontinue-the-android-open-source-project/

Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews

That fancy new #glass style of #macOS #Tahoe 26 or the improvements to #Apple apps don't get me hyped, but the native #Linux #containerization surely does!

#container #OCI #macOS26

DJM (freelance for hire)Jun 12

Indeed...

#QOTD #Quotes #Quote #AI #IA

At the moment it's unclear if this was intentional or there's just a delay in releasing the Pixel source code. There are also rumors that this might have something to do with current antitrust investigations and the demand to break up Google to separate products like Chrome and Android.

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There has been some unsettling change in the recent release of #Android16 to #AOSP.

As custom ROM makers found out by surprise, #Pixel device-specific source code is missing this time. The code was usually released together with AOSP. Without this device-specific code it's not possible to build or run AOSP 16 on any recent Pixel device. Therefor custom ROMs for Pixel devices based on AOSP 16 cannot be built.

https://calyxos.org/news/2025/06/11/android-16-plans/

#Android #Google

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Android 16 and Pixel Support

Android 16 and Pixel Support

Christina Warren Jun 11

Behold the billionth repository created on GitHub. It’s absolutely perfect.

Did #Raycast just get #sherlocked by #macOS Tahoe 26? A response by Raycast's CEO Thomas Paul Mann.

https://nitter.net/thomaspaulmann/status/1932406174344757379

#Apple #macOSTahoe #macOSTahoe26 #macOS26 #Tahoe

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Meredith Whittaker 3d ago

Use Signal. We promise, no AI clutter, and no surveillance ads, whatever the rest of the industry does. <3

Sexy Techy 𝕐 3d ago

@Mer__edith Not accessibility wise

Nick Silkey 🪓🪵 🪣💧1d ago

@Techgirl1232 @Mer__edith lean in. Use it where you can. Talk about your experience on accessibility. Feedback the only way anything improves amongst us humans. It demonstrably works. It's how we have built everything together. We can do so much together. ✌️💙

Shawn Webb 3d ago

@Mer__edith Use Signal. Use Tor. Use Signal behind Tor. :-)

Cdrik ⏚🌻3d ago

Thanks for sharing @Mer__edith

Do you have a link ?

Alexandre 3d ago

@Bristow_69 @Mer__edith Probablement ces 2 liens / These 2 links https://about.fb.com/news/2025/06/helping-you-find-more-channels-businesses-on-whatsapp/ https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/whatsapp-is-adding-ads-to-the-status-screen/

Helping You Find More Channels and Businesses on WhatsApp

We're introducing channel subscriptions, promoted channels and ads in Status to WhatsApp's Updates tab.

Meta Newsroom

Blue Luma 3d ago

@Bristow_69 @Mer__edith probably https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook

WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook

Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebook

noyb.eu

@Bristow_69 Signal's account is linked in her profile, and that has a link.

Martin Rocket 1d ago

@Bristow_69 There you go: https://noyb.eu/en/whatsapp-getting-ads-using-personal-data-instagram-and-facebook
The screenshot by @Mer__edith shows an article by @noybeu

https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114693494985013191

WhatsApp is getting ads using personal data from Instagram and Facebook

Meta is expanding its ads business on WhatsApp using your data from Instagram and Facebook

noyb.eu

I know. #Signal is #fantastic and #adfree. Forget #Whatsapp !

Cassandrich 3d ago

@Mer__edith And you can also promise not being owned by nazis with VC brainworms looking for the first opportunity to sell out their users. Unlike SimpleX.

Please, if you can, try to focus on some of the selling points they're using to dupe folks onto their platform, some of which really matter (like anonymous sign-up).

aburka 🫣3d ago

@dalias @Mer__edith The ability to use my signal account on a burner phone would be amazing (and obviously technically feasible, since the desktop app exists)

@aburka 🤔
Interesting, I can see a (legitimate) use case for that, like travelling to certain countries where they feel the excessive need to search your phone.

An option to limit the address book and chat sync, managed from your main device, could be useful in that scenario too.

@dalias @Mer__edith

#Signal #SignalApp

Penelope Gwen 🏳️‍⚧️2d ago

@aburka
If you mean adding your burner phone as a linked device to your Signal account, I've been able to use the Molly client on Android to achieve this

aburka 🫣2d ago

@pogmommy nice, hadn't heard of Molly but will look into it. Not entirely sure how to feel about unofficial signal software... witness the US govt's usage of a signal client that was MITMing all the comms. Of course they did that on purpose but a malicious client could do the same

Penelope Gwen 🏳️‍⚧️2d ago

@aburka don't blame you at all. All I've seen about Molly seems to indicate high safety/security- it appears to be well-regarded in the grapheneos forums/community. Its selling point is being a hardened fork of the official Signal client, featuring things like at-rest encryption, ram wiping, etc. And if you install Molly-foss (the only version available in Accrescent store) it replaces proprietary blobs that Signal depends on for notifs/location services with secure, open-source alternatives.
their website is https://molly.im & the link to the project's git repo is https://github.com/mollyim/mollyim-android
fwiw, I'm not a dev or contributor to the project, just a satisfied user. definitely look into it yourself before trusting it with your data & access to your signal account.

Molly

Molly is an improved Signal app for Android

aburka 🫣2d ago

@pogmommy high regard by grapheneos users is a strong recommendation!

@dalias @Mer__edith I'd prefer it without the cryptocurrency bullshit too.

maybe official clients for operating systems not controlled by google or apple

CC: @dalias@hachyderm.io @Mer__edith@mastodon.world

👊🇺🇸🔥2d ago

@mansr @dalias @Mer__edith It's just a wallet. Don't turn it on and you'll never see it.

@Avitus @mansr @dalias @Mer__edith Proof: I use Signal and have no idea what they're talking about. 😅

@kaiserkiwi @Avitus @dalias @Mer__edith This: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360057625692-In-app-Payments

4 Strings and a Pint 1h ago

@kaiserkiwi @Avitus @mansr @dalias @Mer__edith exactly what I was going to say 🤷‍♂️

@Avitus @dalias @Mer__edith Any association with cryptocurrency is suspicious.

👊🇺🇸🔥1d ago

@mansr @dalias @Mer__edith Even though it does nothing by default because it's off by default? Strange logic.

Cassandrich 1d ago

@Avitus @mansr @Mer__edith Yes it's sus, but I imagine it's a significant source of well-diversified donations from users. Which is much better than being dependent on just a few big funders. I don't care that it's there as long as it's easy to ignore and not trying to dupe folks into treating it like an investment rather than just a way to transfer money.

Derek Morr 23h ago

@mansr @Mer__edith @Avitus @dalias it’s not a source of donations. It’s really a failed experiment,and I wish they’d remove it. Their token, MobileCoin, isn’t used anywhere. A year ago, Techlore made a video of them trying and failing to buy it. https://youtu.be/0DSGq9FQKU4

We Tried Signal's MobileCoin So You Never Have To...

YouTube

👊🇺🇸🔥6h ago

@derekmorr @mansr @Mer__edith @dalias MobileCoin wasn't "their token". It was a partnership with the company MobileCoin. All Signal did was build an opt-in wallet compatible with it.

@Avitus @derekmorr @Mer__edith @dalias Such details are irrelevant. Any association with cryptocurrencies makes using the app feel a bit like eating at a restaurant that has good food but you know is a money laundering front for the mob.

Blue Luma 3d ago

@dalias @Mer__edith can you share a link about this please ?

Cassandrich 3d ago

@blueluma @Mer__edith See the links from the post I'm replying to here: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/114631010411924253

Beware: vile transphobic comments if you click thru to the birdchan link. I've intentionally linked to a point where folks can navigate to it but won't inadvertently open it up without several click-thrus.

Cassandrich (@dalias@hachyderm.io)

@Ember@blobfox.coffee Thanks for the citation. For those who don't need to actually see the vile receipts (don't click thru unless you really do), the lead dev of SimpleX posts vile shit on birdchan (of course) in favor of abuse of trans children. DO NOT USE SIMPLEX. DO NOT PROMOTE SIMPLEX. CALL FOLKS OUT WHEN THEY DO.

Hachyderm.io

MightyPirate™ 🏳️‍🌈1d ago

@dalias @Mer__edith

"Unlike SimpleX.

Please, if you can, try to focus on some of the selling points they're using to dupe folks onto their platform"

Do you have a source for that accusation?

Anne Ominous 3d ago

should i turn off push motifications for Signal to make it even more secure?

Derek Morr 3d ago

@rustoleumlove @Mer__edith message content isn't included in Signal's push notifications.

Anne Ominous 3d ago

yet, i can see that content in the notification.

Mehdi Kharraz 3d ago

@rustoleumlove @derekmorr From my understanding, Signal's push notifications just act as a way to wake up the device. Then, the app fetches the encrypted content from Signal's server, decrypt it locally, and generate a local notification with the decrypted content.

Anne Ominous 3d ago

thank you so much for that explanation.

Derek Morr 3d ago

@imkh @rustoleumlove that's right. The push notification had an empty body. So all Google or Apple sees is that you got a message on Signal at a certain time.

👊🇺🇸🔥2d ago

@rustoleumlove @derekmorr Meredith addressed this 18 months ago https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111563865413484025

Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith@mastodon.world)

PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/

Mastodon

Rosbeef Andino 3d ago

@rustoleumlove @Mer__edith #molly from @fdroidorg . you can self host #ntfy and #mollysocket simply with @yunohost to get selfhosted notification service.

@Mer__edith
Or better yet, use decentralized Software.

@zwecki @Mer__edith What do you recommend as a decentralized, privacy aware chat app, available on all major platforms?

florian_a 2d ago

@gatogatogato @zwecki @Mer__edith Matrix is great (@matrix). Although Signal remains the gold standard for encryption.

Claudius 2d ago

@zwecki I'd be open to suggestions as long as it's not the dumpster fire that is called Matrix/Element.

@claudius I guess XMPP? 😅😬 @zwecki

Sebastian "spaetz" Spaeth 2d ago

@claudius works fine here 🙂

👊🇺🇸🔥2d ago

@zwecki @Mer__edith They did that once. It didn't go well.

"In May 2016, Moxie Marlinspike wrote that federation with the CyanogenMod servers had degraded the user experience and held back development, and that their servers will probably not federate with other servers again."

Moxie also did an entire presentation about why it's inferior: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdM-XTRyC9c

36C3 - The ecosystem is moving

YouTube

Fritz Adalis 3d ago

@Mer__edith @Viss
While I appreciate the overall sentiment, "no surveillance ads" seems oddly specific, like something is in the pipeline that needs that wording.

Matthew Sainsbury 3d ago

@FritzAdalis @Mer__edith @Viss https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/002/659/979/108.png

Fritz Adalis 3d ago

@mattsains @Mer__edith @Viss
Eh, maybe. I hope it's nothing and I'm just being a jerk.

kainisenni 3d ago

@FritzAdalis
I think that Signal's requests for donations can count as ads, hence the wording. If they were planning something evil they'd just lie.
@Mer__edith @Viss

Fritz Adalis 3d ago

@kainisenni @Mer__edith @Viss
I mean Mozilla didn't when they finished jumping the shark, they could have left in "we'll never sell your data" and claimed it was an oversight when they got caught.

Misuse Case 1d ago

@FritzAdalis @Mer__edith @Viss Almost all ads on the internet are surveillance ads, which is why it’s notable that Signal doesn’t have them.

Francesco 3d ago

@Mer__edith How’s that DMA interoperability with WhatsApp coming along? Will people ever be able to use whatever app they want without worrying about network effects?

@Mer__edith could you move the foundation outside the USA?

Derek Morr 3d ago

@aroom @Mer__edith what jurisdiction would you prefer?