Accessing file system using Storages
Learn how to regain access to your files on newer Android devices using Floating Apps’ Storages feature.
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Learn how to regain access to your files on newer Android devices using Floating Apps’ Storages feature.
Hello, everyone, version 4.14 is out there, and over the past few weeks, we released several minor updates. There are things to fight as there are new requirements for Android 10 and Android 11 from Google. Mostly, we have storage issues, and we need to release several updates in the future to retain the full…
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The last few months were a bit crazy… you know it. The coronavirus hit the world and affected each of us in some way. For me, it means that I need to dedicate more time to other jobs to earn money for my family and thus don’t have much time for Floating Apps. But I’m…
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This post is about Localazy – a translation platform with unique features for Android developers. We initially developed it for Floating Apps and you can use it for your Android apps too. Localazy is also great for all users of Floating Apps as it helps me to improve translations, bring it to more languages and focus on…
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Samsung is just rolling updates to Android 10 for its phones, and it causes significant problems with the full MirrorLink as the new MirrorLink server uses an entirely different mechanism for mirroring screen content. Thankfully, there is a solution to this. It needs a bit of work and settings, but you get the full MirrorLink…
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Recently, Floating Apps was removed from Google Play due to violating YouTube terms & conditions. The app was, according to YouTube/Google, allowing you to download YouTube videos which is simply not true and you know it. Only solution to get the app back to Play Store was to remove YouTube apps. Don’t worry you can…
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Occasionally, we receive a request to fix one annoying problem – Floating Apps suddenly disappears with no error message. In the majority of such situations, it’s not a problem on our side. When the app crashes, there should be a dialog or popup window shown with our sincere apologies. In almost all cases, Android kills…
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Newer Android versions are trying to protect you against granting permissions with some overlay visible. Why? With the overlay correctly positioned on display, the developer could replace the text of the permission dialog, so you grant another (possibly more dangerous) permission instead. I’m not quite sure how anyone could achieve this reliably as the permission…
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Floating Apps is based on a long-running background service and those are required to show a notification. Many of you would like to get rid of it, and such an option was available in previous versions of Floating Apps. Then, Android O has changed the rules and we had to remove it. On newer versions…
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Version 4.11 is important for Floating Apps for Auto as we skipped 4.10. It was too unstable, and the added value wasn’t so significant to overweight it. For 4.11, we spent a lot of time testing it, improving tutorials and functionality. What started as an almost identical clone of original Floating Apps is now its…
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