Episode 444 – Let’s Get Political

By | June 5, 2019

Show Notes

  • Android News
    • Storage Access Framework is the only way for apps to work with files in Android Q and its terrible
  • App News
    • Google adds Play Store policies to make apps safer for kids
    • Google tightening up Play Store policies on sex, loot boxes, and hate speech
    • Google ending support for the Trips app on August 5th
    • Live Transcribe now recognizes sounds
  • Other News
    • Google still intends to kill the APIs that support Adblocking in Chrome.
    • Chrome Web Store will ban extensions with deceptive installation tactics starting July 1st
    • Chrome Extensions are now required to use the minimum set of permissions necessary when asking for access to data.
    • Gmail’s confidential mode coming to G Suite for all users beginning June 25th
    • Google Fi went down on Monday.
    • Here’s why a bunch of Google Services went down on Sunday