Mobile Newsletter - Android 14’s storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone

Thursday, November 09, 2023	View online

Welcome to this week's Mobile Development newsletter from CodeProject. Industry News Android 14's storage disaster gets patched, but your data might be gone It's the start of November, and that means a new Android security patch. Google claims this one is fixing a high-profile Android 14 storage bug that was locking some people out of their devices. Read more Ars Technica Google's "Web Integrity" Android API could kill "alternative" media clients Google is killing off its proposal for "Web Environment Integrity API" as a new web standard, though Android phones may still have to deal with it. According to Google's proposal document, the primary goal of the project was to "allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack"—basically Google wanted a DRM gatekeeper for the web. The project got widespread coverage in July and was widely panned. Read more Ars Technica Samsung expects the Galaxy S24 to sell like hotcakes thanks to AI AI is the hottest buzzword in the tech industry right now. It holds the potential to fundamentally change how we use many of our devices and services daily. Unsurprisingly, many Android manufacturers are in a race to integrate AI-powered features into their phones to entice more customers. Read more Android Police Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December If Firefox is your desktop browser of choice, you might have several extensions installed to avoid some common annoyances. Ads and cookie consent forms, for example, can be limited and managed through the use of Firefox extensions. However, Mozilla has featured limited support for these tools in the mobile version of the browser. Now, Firefox 120 is expected to launch in a much different direction. Read more Android Police NewPipe - The lightweight YouTube experience for Android NewPipe has been created with the purpose of getting the original YouTube experience on your smartphone without annoying ads and questionable permissions. The application is open source and you can check on it at GitHub. Read more NewPipe Verizon, AT&T Customers Sue To Reverse T-Mobile Merger, Saying It Raised Everybody's Prices We just got done noting how pretty much all of the criticism of the Sprint T-Mobile merger by economists and consumer advocates wound up being true. The deal has resulted in more than 10,000+ eliminated jobs, steady price hikes, annoying new fees, a weaker T-Mobile brand, and a lower quality product overall. Read more Techdirt Apple Delays Work on Next Year's iPhone, Mac Software to Fix Bugs In a rare move, Apple Inc. hit pause on development of next year's software updates for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and other devices so that it could root out glitches in the code. Read more BNN Bloomberg © 2023 The Code Project.  All rights reserved. This email was sent to vutunglampro@gmail.com. To stop receiving The Code Project Mobile Development Newsletter click Unsubscribe. CodeProject 20 Bay Street, 11th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5J 2N8 +1 (416) 849-8900 Please do not reply directly to this email. It was sent from an unattended mailbox. For correspondence please use webmaster@codeproject.com