I’m genuinely starting to wonder if I’ve misunderstood Android users.
I launched my app on both platforms. Same features, same pricing, same experience.
But the difference in interest has been pretty surprising.
It’s a health journaling app. Nothing that relies on Apple’s ecosystem or gives iPhone users an advantage.
So what’s going on?
Do Android users expect more from free apps? Is it a subscription thing? Or is the Play Store just terrible for discovering smaller apps?
I’m not here to argue that one platform is better than the other. I’m actually trying to figure out what Android users value that I might be missing.
And if you’re thinking “maybe your app just isn’t that good”, fair enough. I’d genuinely like to hear why.
The UK 🇬🇧
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I launched my app on both platforms. Same features, same pricing, same experience.
But the difference in interest has been pretty surprising.
It’s a health journaling app. Nothing that relies on Apple’s ecosystem or gives iPhone users an advantage.
So what’s going on?
Do Android users expect more from free apps? Is it a subscription thing? Or is the Play Store just terrible for discovering smaller apps?
I’m not here to argue that one platform is better than the other. I’m actually trying to figure out what Android users value that I might be missing.
And if you’re thinking “maybe your app just isn’t that good”, fair enough. I’d genuinely like to hear why.
The UK 🇬🇧
https://redd.it/1xkqp6f
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Google Messages, Phone by Google, and Google Contacts get new, updated icons.
https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/messages/updated-icons-messages-phone-contacts/
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Google Messages, Phone by Google, and Google Contacts get new, updated icons.
Google is updating the icons for Messages, Phone, and Contacts with a sleeker, cohesive design. See the new look for your home screen.
Mishaal Rahman: ⌚Wear OS 8 is bringing a system status bar! It renders the time & status icons (like active mic/location indicators, connectivity status, or battery info) at 12 o'clock across apps & auto-hides as you scroll.
https://x.com/MishaalRahman/status/2117287195233169729
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Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) on X
⌚Wear OS 8 is bringing a system status bar!
It renders the time & status icons (like active mic/location indicators, connectivity status, or battery info) at 12 o'clock across apps & auto-hides a…
It renders the time & status icons (like active mic/location indicators, connectivity status, or battery info) at 12 o'clock across apps & auto-hides a…
Google will let Android & iOS apps directly integrate Quick Share next year
https://9to5google.com/2026/11/02/quick-share-sdk-apps/
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https://9to5google.com/2026/11/02/quick-share-sdk-apps/
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9to5Google
Google will let Android & iOS apps directly integrate Quick Share next year
Google announced a Quick Share SDK that will let Android and iOS apps directly integrate its peer-to-peer file sharing capability.
The Internals of a Badbox Operation (MECOOL KM9PRO Android TV box pre-infected with malware)
https://synthient.com/blog/the-internals-of-a-badbox-operation
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Synthient
The Internals of a Badbox Operation | Synthient
Synthient’s investigation traces more than 1.3 million backdoored Android devices to Videostrong, revealing how the x.cpe backdoor distributes residential...
One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet
https://www.theverge.com/1024807/google-botnet-android-tv-shut-down
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The Verge
One of Google’s Android partners turned 1.3 million set-top boxes into a botnet
A manufacturer intentionally hijacked its Android TV devices.
I built Moto Battery – a battery monitor app designed for Moto phones
Hey everyone 👋
I've been working on Moto Battery, a battery monitor app designed to feel at home on Motorola phones. It follows the Moto "Hello UI" look, picks up your wallpaper's system colours, and adapts to any screen size and font size.
https://preview.redd.it/j8hdc7flwmyh1.png?width=1940&format=png&auto=webp&s=8188284a5bb99df8a63c506f29a73618edca8640
What it does
\- Live readings – level, current (mA), power (W), temperature and voltage, updated every 3 seconds
\- Battery health – estimated capacity vs design capacity, wear level, charge cycles and a green / amber / red rating
\- Sessions – every charge, discharge and idle period with speed, mAh, time and temperature, plus a "when you charge" heatmap
\- Alarms – charge limit (e.g. unplug at 80%), low battery and high temperature, with a short tick-tick sound
\- Status bar icon showing live level, current or temperature next to the clock
\- Home-screen widgets and a Quick Settings tile
\- Interactive charts – tap or drag to read exact values
\- Privacy – no internet permission at all; everything stays on your phone
Tested on: edge 50 neo (Android 16), moto g67 power 5G (Android 16) and moto g13 (Android 14). It works on Android 8.0 and newer.
Looking for testers and contributors
I'd love feedback from people on other Moto models – especially razr, edge 40/50 series and older G phones. If you're interested in testing or helping improve it, comment with your model and Android version or send me a DM. Code contributions are welcome too; every change is reviewed before it goes in.
What would you want from a battery app on your Moto? Feedback welcome! 🔋
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Motorola – just a Moto fan who wanted a battery app that matched the phone.
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Hey everyone 👋
I've been working on Moto Battery, a battery monitor app designed to feel at home on Motorola phones. It follows the Moto "Hello UI" look, picks up your wallpaper's system colours, and adapts to any screen size and font size.
https://preview.redd.it/j8hdc7flwmyh1.png?width=1940&format=png&auto=webp&s=8188284a5bb99df8a63c506f29a73618edca8640
What it does
\- Live readings – level, current (mA), power (W), temperature and voltage, updated every 3 seconds
\- Battery health – estimated capacity vs design capacity, wear level, charge cycles and a green / amber / red rating
\- Sessions – every charge, discharge and idle period with speed, mAh, time and temperature, plus a "when you charge" heatmap
\- Alarms – charge limit (e.g. unplug at 80%), low battery and high temperature, with a short tick-tick sound
\- Status bar icon showing live level, current or temperature next to the clock
\- Home-screen widgets and a Quick Settings tile
\- Interactive charts – tap or drag to read exact values
\- Privacy – no internet permission at all; everything stays on your phone
Tested on: edge 50 neo (Android 16), moto g67 power 5G (Android 16) and moto g13 (Android 14). It works on Android 8.0 and newer.
Looking for testers and contributors
I'd love feedback from people on other Moto models – especially razr, edge 40/50 series and older G phones. If you're interested in testing or helping improve it, comment with your model and Android version or send me a DM. Code contributions are welcome too; every change is reviewed before it goes in.
What would you want from a battery app on your Moto? Feedback welcome! 🔋
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Motorola – just a Moto fan who wanted a battery app that matched the phone.
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Snapseed 4.2 is rolling out now: Preset & LUT Import, Community Looks, Motion Blur, Depth Lens Blur, and more! (x-post r/Snapseed)
https://www.reddit.com/r/snapseed/comments/1xmc7g9/snapseed_42_is_rolling_out_now_preset_lut_import/
https://redd.it/1xmclh1
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https://www.reddit.com/r/snapseed/comments/1xmc7g9/snapseed_42_is_rolling_out_now_preset_lut_import/
https://redd.it/1xmclh1
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Why does Android get so much hate on social media?
Genuinely curious. Whenever Android comes up I see people hating on it, but from what I can tell it’s not that bad? You can customize basically everything, there are phones at every price point, the file system actually lets you do stuff, and stuff like sideloading and default apps just works. Google’s apps are solid too.
Is there something I’m missing? Is it the update situation, the fragmentation, the “green bubble” thing, or the app quality compared to iOS? Or is it just the “Android bad” reflex?
Not trying to start a fight, just trying to understand the hate. Would love to hear from people who’ve actually switched between them.
https://redd.it/1xj05qe
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Genuinely curious. Whenever Android comes up I see people hating on it, but from what I can tell it’s not that bad? You can customize basically everything, there are phones at every price point, the file system actually lets you do stuff, and stuff like sideloading and default apps just works. Google’s apps are solid too.
Is there something I’m missing? Is it the update situation, the fragmentation, the “green bubble” thing, or the app quality compared to iOS? Or is it just the “Android bad” reflex?
Not trying to start a fight, just trying to understand the hate. Would love to hear from people who’ve actually switched between them.
https://redd.it/1xj05qe
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If your car's GPS antenna is broken, Android Auto navigation is ruined. Let's get a "Force Phone GPS" toggle by +1'ing this Google Issue!
Hey everyone,
We all know that Android Auto defaults to the car's built-in GPS antenna. But here is a massive design flaw: when a car's GPS antenna fails, your navigation goes completely crazy.
Depending on the car model, repairing or replacing a built-in GPS antenna can cost hundreds of dollars, require dismantling the entire dashboard, or be completely impossible. Meanwhile, we have perfectly working GPS receivers right in our pockets, but Android Auto doesn't allow us to default to the phone's GPS.
I've created an official Feature Request on the Google Issue Tracker asking for a simple "Force Phone GPS" toggle (even if it's just hidden in the Developer Settings).
If we get enough votes, Google's triage team will have to notice it.
How you can help:
Click this link: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/577213793
Click the +1 button at the top right of the title.
🚨 Important Note: Please DO NOT leave comments like "Me too" or "Please fix" on the tracker. Google engineers consider "me too" comments as spam and they might lock the thread. Just hitting the +1 button is exactly what we need to increase its priority.
Thanks for the support! Let's hope we can get this basic quality-of-life feature added.
https://redd.it/1xid4lt
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Hey everyone,
We all know that Android Auto defaults to the car's built-in GPS antenna. But here is a massive design flaw: when a car's GPS antenna fails, your navigation goes completely crazy.
Depending on the car model, repairing or replacing a built-in GPS antenna can cost hundreds of dollars, require dismantling the entire dashboard, or be completely impossible. Meanwhile, we have perfectly working GPS receivers right in our pockets, but Android Auto doesn't allow us to default to the phone's GPS.
I've created an official Feature Request on the Google Issue Tracker asking for a simple "Force Phone GPS" toggle (even if it's just hidden in the Developer Settings).
If we get enough votes, Google's triage team will have to notice it.
How you can help:
Click this link: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/577213793
Click the +1 button at the top right of the title.
🚨 Important Note: Please DO NOT leave comments like "Me too" or "Please fix" on the tracker. Google engineers consider "me too" comments as spam and they might lock the thread. Just hitting the +1 button is exactly what we need to increase its priority.
Thanks for the support! Let's hope we can get this basic quality-of-life feature added.
https://redd.it/1xid4lt
@reddit_android
Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8 sales jump over 20% in Korea after iPhone Duo launch
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10924160
https://redd.it/1xmw4uz
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Samsung's Galaxy Z Fold8 sales jump over 20% in Korea after iPhone Duo launch
Samsung Electronics' Galaxy Z Fold8 sales in South Korea rose more than 20 percent following the launch of Apple's first foldable iPhone, industry sources said
Google is testing an iOS-style Family hub on the Pixel
https://www.androidauthority.com/google-pixel-family-hub-test-ios-style-3729970/
https://redd.it/1xmvyyn
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Android Authority
Google is testing an iOS-style Family hub on the Pixel
Google may be making Android family sharing less of a hassle on Pixel phones with a new hub similar to iOS.
Qualcomm Snapdragon chips will support Android's Linux terminal
I was catching up on old news last week, and came across a Google blog post that seems to have fallen under the radar.
>MediaTek recently announced support of the pKVM-backed On-device AI seal on MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets will also support our architecture via AVF as we expand across the broader silicon ecosystem.
For context, the Linux development environment on Android allows you to run Debian in a non-protected virtual machine on supported hardware (Tensor, select Exynos, and select Mediatek chips). Snapdragon chips don't support running non-protected VMs because they use Gunyah as the hypervisor. Switching the hypervisor to pKVM means that Snapdragon chips will support running non-protected VMs, allowing for the Linux VM to work.
The Snapdragon X Elite Dell and HP Googlebooks also serve as real-life examples of this. All Googlebooks support a pKVM hypervisor, and the Linux terminal app is present and functional on the aforementioned laptops. Additionally, we can verify support for pKVM and non-protected VMs using adb. Here's the output from a Dell Googlebook:
adb shell /apex/com.android.virt/bin/vm info
Both protected and non-protected VMs are supported.
Hypervisor version: 0.0.1
/dev/kvm exists.
/dev/vfio/vfio exists.
VFIO-platform is supported.
Assignable devices:
Available OS list: "microdroid"
Debug policy: Ok(DebugPolicy { log: false, ramdump: false, adb: false })
Updatable VM is supported.
The only question left is whether devices with the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 chips support the Linux terminal app. If you have one of those devices, feel free to test it and report back in the comments.
Lastly, in related news that probably doesn't deserve its own post, I was able to test and confirm the Samsung Galaxy A08 4G (Mediatek Helio G99) supports running non-protected VMs. Unfortunately, the Linux terminal app is unable to connect to the VM just like the Galaxy Tab S12 series. To my knowledge, it's the first Helio G99 device to support it. Notably, other devices with the Helio G99 don't support it, including older Samsung devices on Android 16 like the A07 4G, and A17 4G.
Lastly lastly (I promise), I was also able to test and confirm the S26 FE supports the Linux terminal. There weren't any doubts about the Exynos 2500 having support, but it hasn't been tested and confirmed until now.
https://redd.it/1xmzzq6
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I was catching up on old news last week, and came across a Google blog post that seems to have fallen under the radar.
>MediaTek recently announced support of the pKVM-backed On-device AI seal on MediaTek Dimensity 9600 Pro, and Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chipsets will also support our architecture via AVF as we expand across the broader silicon ecosystem.
For context, the Linux development environment on Android allows you to run Debian in a non-protected virtual machine on supported hardware (Tensor, select Exynos, and select Mediatek chips). Snapdragon chips don't support running non-protected VMs because they use Gunyah as the hypervisor. Switching the hypervisor to pKVM means that Snapdragon chips will support running non-protected VMs, allowing for the Linux VM to work.
The Snapdragon X Elite Dell and HP Googlebooks also serve as real-life examples of this. All Googlebooks support a pKVM hypervisor, and the Linux terminal app is present and functional on the aforementioned laptops. Additionally, we can verify support for pKVM and non-protected VMs using adb. Here's the output from a Dell Googlebook:
adb shell /apex/com.android.virt/bin/vm info
Both protected and non-protected VMs are supported.
Hypervisor version: 0.0.1
/dev/kvm exists.
/dev/vfio/vfio exists.
VFIO-platform is supported.
Assignable devices:
Available OS list: "microdroid"
Debug policy: Ok(DebugPolicy { log: false, ramdump: false, adb: false })
Updatable VM is supported.
The only question left is whether devices with the latest Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 and 8 Elite Gen 6 chips support the Linux terminal app. If you have one of those devices, feel free to test it and report back in the comments.
Lastly, in related news that probably doesn't deserve its own post, I was able to test and confirm the Samsung Galaxy A08 4G (Mediatek Helio G99) supports running non-protected VMs. Unfortunately, the Linux terminal app is unable to connect to the VM just like the Galaxy Tab S12 series. To my knowledge, it's the first Helio G99 device to support it. Notably, other devices with the Helio G99 don't support it, including older Samsung devices on Android 16 like the A07 4G, and A17 4G.
Lastly lastly (I promise), I was also able to test and confirm the S26 FE supports the Linux terminal. There weren't any doubts about the Exynos 2500 having support, but it hasn't been tested and confirmed until now.
https://redd.it/1xmzzq6
@reddit_android
Google
Android's Next-Gen Enclave for On-Device AI
Devices are shifting from collections of standalone apps into proactive, personal assistants that anticipate needs, streamline complex tasks, and act on our behalf. To m…
Xiaomi HyperOS 4 Rollout Schedule [Android 17]
https://x.com/XiaomiHyperOS_/status/2117572511168860262
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Xiaomi HyperOS (@XiaomiHyperOS_) on X
The Xiaomi HyperOS 4 official version starts rolling out! 🎉
Eligible users will receive the OTA update in phases from today!
Enjoy exploring the new features, and don't forget to share your feed…
Eligible users will receive the OTA update in phases from today!
Enjoy exploring the new features, and don't forget to share your feed…
Global Smartphone Revenue Defies Shipment Slump, Rising 3% YoY
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-smartphone-revenue-defies-shipment-slump-rising-3-yoy
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Counterpoint Research
Global Smartphone Revenue Defies Shipment Slump, Rising 3% YoY; Apple Records Highest-Ever Q3 Revenue
Counterpoint Research Insight
Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 review – Premium tablet with a 4K screen and excellent battery life
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-Tab-Plus-Gen-2-review-Premium-tablet-with-a-4K-screen-and-excellent-battery-life.1439437.0.html#c17505066
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https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-Yoga-Tab-Plus-Gen-2-review-Premium-tablet-with-a-4K-screen-and-excellent-battery-life.1439437.0.html#c17505066
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Notebookcheck
Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 review – Premium tablet with a 4K screen and excellent battery life
Notebookcheck.com review of the Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2. This fast, powerful 13-inch tablet looks great, and Lenovo has also fitted a large battery. The Lenovo Yoga Tab Plus Gen 2 can be purchased directly from the manufacturer, although other online retailers…
Upgraded Sleep Apnea Feature Now Available on Galaxy Ring Following Regulatory Approvals From US FDA and Korea MFDS
https://news.samsung.com/global/upgraded-sleep-apnea-feature-now-available-on-galaxy-ring-following-regulatory-approvals-from-us-fda-and-korea-mfds
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https://news.samsung.com/global/upgraded-sleep-apnea-feature-now-available-on-galaxy-ring-following-regulatory-approvals-from-us-fda-and-korea-mfds
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Samsung Global Newsroom
Upgraded Sleep Apnea Feature Now Available on Galaxy Ring Following Regulatory Approvals From US FDA and Korea MFDS - Samsung Global…
Building on its US FDA clearance received in July 2026, the upgraded feature earns approva
Honor's 14,000mAh smartphone battery can reportedly last a week
https://www.gsmarena.com/honors_14000mah_smartphone_battery_can_reportedly_last_a_week-news-75326.php
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GSMArena.com
Honor's 14,000mAh smartphone battery can reportedly last a week
The battery is currently in the trial production phase, according to the leak. Back in June, a tipster claimed that Honor was developing a smartphone with...
ProCraft is now available for Android
https://github.com/surfrpt1/procraft
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GitHub
GitHub - surfrpt1/procraft: ProCraft: an open-source, clean-room raster painting studio in pure Rust (layered painting, brushes…
ProCraft: an open-source, clean-room raster painting studio in pure Rust (layered painting, brushes, canvas). Inspired by pro workflows; all code and assets original. - surfrpt1/procraft
Snapdragon chipsets confirmed for the Samsung Galaxy S27 Pro and Ultra, but there is a catch [S27 Pro = 8 Elite Gen 6, S27 Ultra = 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6]
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Galaxy-S27-series-chipset-details-leak-with-a-surprising-entry-for-the-Pro.1441625.0.html
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https://www.notebookcheck.net/Galaxy-S27-series-chipset-details-leak-with-a-surprising-entry-for-the-Pro.1441625.0.html
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Notebookcheck
Galaxy S27 series chipset details leak with a surprising entry for the Pro
New import-export records name the chipsets in the international variants of all four Galaxy S27 models, with the Pro being powered by an unexpected chipset.