🆕 blog! “Android now stops you sharing your location in photos”

My wife and I run OpenBenches. It's a niche little site which lets people share photos of memorial benches and their locations. Most modern phones embed a geolocation within the photo's metadata, so we use that information to put the photos on a map.

Google's…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/04/andro

#android #geolocation #geotagging #google #OpenBenches

Hey Android friends? Can anyone recommend a file manager app which is both Open Source *and* available on Google Play?

I'm trying to write instructions on how to bypass Google's photo-mangling. It would be helpful if I could recommend the same app for regular- and power-users.

#Android #FOSS #FDroid

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Material Files is really nice and has lots of features, including access to network drives and archive support. You can even use it as an FTP server.

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