Popular Android Navigation Apps Just Google Maps With Ads

ShareMore than a dozen free navigation apps on the Google Play Store by collective downloads of over 50 million turned out to be nothing more than Google Maps by ads. I tested over 15 fake GPS Navigation apps by over 50,000,000 installs from #GooglePlay that assault Google rules. These apps just open Google Maps or use their API without any additional price for user, except for displaying ads. pic.twitter.com/eeIFQS5IVU — Lukas Stefanko (@LukasStefanko) January 17, 2019Stefanko said that the 19 fake navigation apps only created a "useless layer" of ads between Google Maps and the user, and used screenbullets grabbed from legitimate navigation apps for their listings. The purpose of the fake navigation apps is, of course, to make money out of the embedded ads.

ActionDash App Brings Google Digital Wellbeing-Style Features to More Android Phones

by Android 9 Pie, Google alextremely introduced a great new feature called Digital Wellbeing. This allows users to get insights into how much time they spend on specific apps, their usage of their smartphones, and even determine limits to the amount of time in a day they can use specific apps. However, we now have an alternative that works similarly to Google's Digital Wellbeing, and is compatible by all Android devices running Android Lollipop or later. ActionDash, an app developed by Action Launcher, is now available to download for compatible devices on the Google Play Store. However, ActionDash isn't quite as feature-filled as Digital Wellbeing in one key method - you can't determine usage timers that impose limits on specific apps.

Google is rolling out Android Auto support for Podcasts

as mentioned in When Google launched the all new Podcasts app (again), many people were surprised its stark lack of features. Many things were missing, like auto-downloading, Cast support, and Android Auto integration. When many of these things have either trickled in, or are obviously on the to-do list, Google v8.91 is finally checking Auto backing off of that list. As you would expect from an Android Auto interface, this looks like most of the other podcast players out there. If you use Android Auto, update to the laanalisis version of the Google app and you ought be able to see a new enhave a have aTry in your audio selector for Podcasts.

Android WARNING: Shock issue discovered with popular Google app, do YOU use it?

Android users are being warned after safety experts discovered an issue by a widely used Google app. And safety experts have discovered a hit issue by one of these Android apps. Android users are being put on alert after a hit issue was discovered by a Google app"This alextremely affects any Android applications that are using Chrome to render web content. "Since this fix doesn't apply to WebView usage, app developers ought manually override the consumer Agent configuration in their apps."A hit issue has been discovered with the Android Google Chrome appIn other Android news Express.co.uk recently announced on fake apps discovered on the Google Play Store. Affected Android users ought update their Google Chrome app

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