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Subject: Re: There is zero app functionality on iOS not already on Android
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have no doubt Android can do automation and probably better than iOS,
it can't.
Hehhehheh... nospam is _desperate_ to hide these huge flaws in iOS...
It's clear nospam spends about two seconds on his posts, where, like all
iKooks, he's _desperate_ to excuse the obvious fact that it's Apple who
crippled iOS such that iOS is not only the least secure smartphone in
history in terms of constantly ever increasing zero-day holes, but also
in terms of Apple's zero days being exploited more than others (due to
the primitive stone-age iOS update monolith), and, as a result of Apple's
restrictive app policy - iOS users enjoy far less app functionality.
By controlling iOS, like a dictator controls a country, the users lose
because Apple _never_ has the consumers' best interest in mind.
*Apple is like a tobacco company in almost every respect.*
but I had trouble finding anything in those links which addressed
Android's capabilities in a similar fashion to the Accessibility
features of iOS hearing aid support. Manufacturer apps just don't seem
to tap into the additional functions available at the OS level, but
admittedly my sample size is only one...
that's because hardware manufacturers generally are not good at writing
software, even with some of the larger companies who have the budget to
do so, with camera companies being one of the more common examples.
if their apps are cross-platform, they are limited to features common
between both and ignore anything unique on only one platform.
Hi badgolferman (via nospam's inelaborate desperate mere excuse above)...
I do on Android anything that I want to do on Android, whereas on iOS,
Apple severely cripples what anyone can do, so the images below are only
for Android - but they are all mine - so I've done everything I claim.
(Unlike nospam, who elevates himself to "developer status" even as that's
clearly a brazen lie as he has never written a line of code in his life.)
Since nospam's response was a classic "I wish iOS could do the things iOS
clearly can't do so I'll just claim that iOS is better without any facts"
Unlike nospam, who doesn't even own the Android devices he claims to know
so well (hell, nospam doesn't even own a modern iPhone), I not only own
a modern Android device, but I've created Shortcuts to Activities on them.
Hence, I will provide to badgolferman some images I have in my archive
of things I've done, along the lines of creating shortcuts to do things,
some of which are similar to what badgolferman wants for switching radios.
1. Accessing network modes which are hidden from an unknowing user base.
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> Hidden Network-Mode Activity
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> Hidden Band-Selection Activity
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> Band selection options
2. Creating Shortcuts to any Activity inside of any Android app or setting.
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> Custom Shortcut icons
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> Creating URL Shortcuts
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> Creating FOLDER Shortcuts
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> Editing Shortcut icons
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> Choosing custom icons
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> Squaring the custom icon
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> Finding icons to extract
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> Extracting icons to PNG
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> Net icon, before & after
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> Copy net icon to Android
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> Select & edit custom icon
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> Custom screenshot icon
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> Set custom icon on Android
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> Sample custom Shortcuts
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> Open phone to the keypad
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> Open to ANY app Activity
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> Find all hidden Activities
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> Set opening tab yourself
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> Avoid all Google Activities
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> Determine # of Activities
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> Open app to a page you want
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> Disable Google Activities
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> Elevate to homescreen
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> Create custom Shortcuts
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> Add Shortcuts to homescreen
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> Much Shortcut functionality
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> Access any app Activity
3. Creating a shortcut to a setting deep inside the Android settings.
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> Shortcut to battery status
4. Create a Shortcut to "ps -aux | grep <PID> & kill -9 <PID>" on Android.
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> Native widget results
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> SettingsCreator results
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> ps -aux | kill -9 <PID>
5. Create a Shortcut to power off the phone & test it easily.
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> Shortcut to turn phone off
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> Test your custom Shortcuts
6. Access Activities inside an app to kill running & bg processes.
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> Kill a running service
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> App info force stop
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> Recent apps force stop
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> Activity kill running <PID>
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> Activity kill a bg <PID>
7. Creating custom Shortcuts to all Activities & even to all Intents.
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> Custom Shortcuts folder
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> Powerful Intent customization
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> Tremendous Shortcut power!
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> Change "open with" options
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> Intercept Open-With dialogs
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> Example intercepting Intents
8. Finding information about missing Activities and Shortcut targets.
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> App is no longer installed
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> Shortcut knows what it is
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> App is found in Aurora Store
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> App is found in F-Droid
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> App is found in Aurora Droid
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> App is installed from F-Droid
9. This basic changing of default Shortcuts is _impossible_ on iOS!
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> Android changes DEFAULT icons
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> Edit default Shortcut icons
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> Change the name and/or icon
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> iOS is crippled & can't do this
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> Android gives you full control
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The main reason iOS has far more security holes than Android, and far more
exploited security holes, and far less functionality is due to Apple's
strategy of controlling every aspect of the operating system & app choice.
It doesn't help that Apple's R&D spend is the lowest of all tech companies.
(HINT: Apple is no different than soda or tobacco companies in product.)