Overriding Bedtime mode with priority alerts
Is Bedtime mode on Android using Do Not Disturb mode to silence alerts and notifications? That’s unclear, if you’ve got the Samsung Digital Wellbeing app.
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Google’s mobile operating system is the world’s most popular operating system.
Be wary of file sync conflicts with KeePass apps on Android
An investigation and comparison into how KeePass-compatible password manager apps for Android handle external changes to an unlocked password vault database.
Review of Firefox “Daylight” for Android
The new Firefox version for Android comes with big changes under the hood, but also drops support for thousands of extensions, and is less configurable.
Everything you need to know about Night mode in Samsung Internet
Night mode in Samsung browser explained. How it breaks page contrast and accessibility, pastelify SVG colors, and why web developers can’t do anything about it.
What is Samsung Secure Wi-Fi?
Secure Wi-Fi is a VPN service from Samsung and McAfee. Here is what it does and how to stop its adverts and remove it from your phone.
Unobtrusive sleep tracking app for Android
Sleep Debt Tracker is a simple Google Fit-compatible Android app that assumes you’re sleeping in the hours when you don’t use your phone at night.
Android apps time out connections after setting up a PAC proxy
An over-aggressive power-savings system causes Android devices configured with a PAC proxy configuration file to lose networking.
Use Xiaomi Mi Band as a continuous heart rate monitor with Google Fit
How to sync your continuous heart rate monitoring data collected by the Xiaomi Mi Band 4 or 3 fitness tracker to the Google Fit app.
Why I prefer using Instapaper on the web over their Android app
The Instapaper app for Android has several issues, but its mobile web app is mostly okay. I chose the latter even though link-saving is more difficult.
Contour Diabetes app, Bluetooth, and why we can’t have nice things
The Contour Next glucose monitor and its companion app communicate with each other over Bluetooth. Well, they try to anyway.
Work-around extension popout-tab refusing to close on Firefox Android
window.close() closes a Firefox WebExtension pop-out window on desktop. That doesn’t work on Firefox for Android, causing many extensions to misbehave.