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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
/nIn , Ant
wrote: Even with a tutorial, they skip the steps I already did to set up VirtualBox and they skip the steps to integrate the mouse, screenshots, and clipboard. For example, the guest additions iso won't load. http://i.cubeupload.com/7nCcyp.jpg Yep, it is not easy. It looks like it is still not easy. BlueStack is still the best to me. As I said, the huge expense of freeware is in the mistakes until you find a good one. I think BlueStacks would have been a better approach, but I had *thought* that since I already have VirtualBox running with ubuntu, that it would be *easy* to just add Android. Sigh. If I don't get the VirtualBox Android to run well, I'll try BlueStack next, and if that fails, then Nox. |
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/nIn , Ant
wrote: BlueStack was the best one that worked for me. This is a tutorial for Bluestack which I will try if I don't like running the Android ISO inside of VirtualBox on Windows. https://www.howtogeek.com/97920/how-...th-bluestacks/ Apparently BlueStack is faster than the way I'm doing it now. |
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Joe Scotch wrote:
/nIn , VanguardLH wrote: I didn't bother to analyze the rest of your very long list as it is evident you have not inspected those Android apps to see if there are Windows equivalents or even a need on a PC for Android functions related to hardware features of THAT platform (smartphones). It would take too long to go through that list. I went through the installed apps and already characterized that the main things that are on Android but not on Windows on my phone are a. Simple sand timer style quick 10-minute timer apps b. Simple photo manipulation where you swish your finger over the photo c. Powerful Wi-Fi signal strength debugging tools (better than inSSIDer) All in all, I would agree now that I've done the same kind of survey you've done, that the software on Android doesn't have a lot over the software on Windows. The only two that I can think of that I want to port are the sand timers and the New Pipe YouTube Red clone. Maybe a few calculators - but that's about it. You mentioned AirDroid but that doesn't need an Android emulator to run on Windows. In fact, the point of using Airdroid on Windows is to bring over the phone's screen. That lets you manipulate your phone using your PC, like taking call on your PC. It's also easier texting on a real keyboard on the PC. For NewPipe, "Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services. NewPipe only parses the YouTube website in order to gain the information it needs". Screen scraping or element parsing is an iffy method to interface to a web site. It requires the underlying program or site to not change. Google will keep changing their services which means NewPipe has to catch up. I ran into the same situation with other screen scraper or element parsing softwa the moment the source changes, users are dead until the author gets around to making a fix which could be hours or many days or weeks. When something changes at YouTube, I've read where NewPipe users start complaining ""failed to decrypt video URL signature" or other problems. The same user complaints appear when Google changes YouTube and then programs that use youtube-dl (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) starts failing. At one time, I used YPOPs (YahooPOPs) to gain access to Yahoo Mail (in the USA, they discontinued POP access unless you paid). YPOPs worked as a local proxy: your e-mail client connected to the YPOPs proxy as though it were the mail server and YPOPs connected to the real server pretending to be the client. When Yahoo changed their web page layout (so screen scraping failed) or changed the definition of the object (elements) within their web pages (so element parsing failed) then YPOPs stopped working. All the YPOPs users had to wait until the author had some free time to work on his program to determine why it started failing and how to fix it. I've QA'd enterprise screen scraping sofware (to merge medical databases from different HMOs) and the requirement was the screens couldn't change on for the underlying programs that were getting merged. If the screens changed, it was pretty easy to redefine the new UI change but a change did have to get registered to get the screen scraping to work again. How big is the development team for NewPipe? Just one guy or a multi-member team that is worldwide (different timezones so different waking periods)? "Built by F-Droid" doesn't really say how many dev(s) are assigned to working on this project. F-Droid is a repository, not a software dev. Volunteers come and go. https://newpipe.schabi.org/ mentions "Team NewPipe". Well, we all know Internet lets entities bloat themselves. So just how many are on this "team"? From what I found in their blog, "Christian Schabesberger, initiator and maintainer of NewPipe". So it's just one guy. Well, he works, eats, and sleeps so he won't be available at all times to work on his app and being just one guy means it'll take longer to analyze the change that makes his app fail and time to implement a fix. Since his app is not distributed via the Google Play Store, you won't be getting an automatic update if and when a fixed version is available. Google's service APIs are free. Don't know why the author didn't design a different UI to YouTube but continue to use the API interface which is stable and well defined. No site publishes documentation on the construction on their web pages (because the web page is the document). Seems the author doesn't want to rely on local libs nor write his own own code to issue the commands to the service API. The YPOPs author had to use screen scraping because Yahoo didn't have a service API for mail. He got stuck having to scrape Yahoo's webmail client to deliver and send the e-mails to/from a local e-mail client. With a service API available, that seems the more stable method to access the service while providing whatever custom UI you want for your client. Parsing a web site is not the most reliable method to access that site. "NewPipe is a YouTube player that does not use Google Play Services or YouTube API". Hmm, so the author thinks they need to use the client-side library to issue commands to the service API? Since Windows programs can issue commands to the YouTube API, and since neither Google Play Services or the YouTube app are on Windows, the service API gets used by the Windows software. Not only can Windows programs access the service API, so can web sites (so they can present YouTube videos at their site). See https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/. Present whatever UI you want for your custom player while accessing content from YouTube using the service API. I've seen several times where NewPipe is listed as ad-free. That might only apply to the app itself. At one time, if you use a video stream capture tool (e.g., Jaksta or Applian Replay Media Capture), it would recognize separate video streams: the movie stream would get halted to play another stream for the in-movie ads. A stream capture tool would snag the streams separately so you could capture the movie without any ads. As I recall, Google changed that (I know other sites did) where they merged the ads into one stream. Since there was only one stream, you got stuck with the ads in the captured movie. One of the features of NewPipe is offline watching of a video. That means capturing the video. There are TONS of web browser extensions or proxies that can capture streamed video on Windows. I gave up on extensions and paid for a more robust and highly maintained proxy - which also means it will capture the stream as fast as the server will deliver plus I don't need to leave the web browser (or whatever client connected to the stream) constantly loaded. A 4 hour movie probably takes 10 minutes to capture and I can be doing other stuff with the web browser or even close it during the capture. I know lots of other users employ extensions in their web browsers to capture media streams (mostly from Youtube). However, with in-movie ads where the movie and ad streams are merged, no capture tool is going to avoid the in-movie ads. They can still perform separate capture of separate streams, like when the movie and ads are different streams. |
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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
VanguardLH wrote:
You mentioned AirDroid but that doesn't need an Android emulator to run on Windows. In fact, the point of using Airdroid on Windows is to bring over the phone's screen. That lets you manipulate your phone using your PC, like taking call on your PC. It's also easier texting on a real keyboard on the PC. Well, said another way, you don't need an Android emulator on your Windows host if all you want to do is see and use apps on your Android phone but on your Windows host. Enable USB Debug Mode, plug the phone into a USB port, and AirDroid running on your Windows host can see the phone. You can then use the AirDroid UI to use phone apps. You don't need to root your phone, either, to use AirDroid (requires the AirMirror plug-in on the phone and USB Debugging to send/receive data to the AirDroid program on the Windows PC). There are similar Windows programs to bring the phone's screen to the Windows host but I decided on AirDroid. It worked well. The apps were running on the native platform (hardware+OS) for which they were designed at at full speed (not inside an emulator). I eventually dropped AirDroid because my Android smartphone sits on my desk where is my Windows host. I could see the apps inside of AirDroid running on my Windows host or I could just pick up the smartphone and use it. Was simpler to just pick up the phone to use it. There is a web interface using AirDroid so you could be on any host running a web browser to access your Android phone wherever it happens to be. Instead of installing software on your Windows PC, you use whatever web browser is already on it. I suspect a client app must be installed on the phone so the web service can access the phone. Obviously response will be dictated on the Internet access speed the phone has at the time. The USB connection was always fast. |
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John Doe is a known troll: nymshifter, starts bait threads, insulting or
flippant replies, attacks respondents that don't agree, feeds other trolls, cross-posts into dump/garbage/unrelated groups. |
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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Joe Scotch wrote:
/nIn , Ant wrote: Even with a tutorial, they skip the steps I already did to set up VirtualBox and they skip the steps to integrate the mouse, screenshots, and clipboard. For example, the guest additions iso won't load. http://i.cubeupload.com/7nCcyp.jpg Yep, it is not easy. It looks like it is still not easy. BlueStack is still the best to me. As I said, the huge expense of freeware is in the mistakes until you find a good one. I think BlueStacks would have been a better approach, but I had *thought* that since I already have VirtualBox running with ubuntu, that it would be *easy* to just add Android. Sigh. If I don't get the VirtualBox Android to run well, I'll try BlueStack next, and if that fails, then Nox. Yeah, I gave up on Android VMs. I also thought it would be easy like Linux and other OSes. Please kindly let us know your progress. -- Quote of the Week: "The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant." --Indian Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
In alt.comp.os.windows-10 Joe Scotch wrote:
/nIn , Ant wrote: BlueStack was the best one that worked for me. This is a tutorial for Bluestack which I will try if I don't like running the Android ISO inside of VirtualBox on Windows. https://www.howtogeek.com/97920/how-...th-bluestacks/ Apparently BlueStack is faster than the way I'm doing it now. Way faster and easier. Also, there are a few annoying things for free users. It likes to install apps to make up the costs. -- Quote of the Week: "The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant." --Indian Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org / /\ /\ \ Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- | |o o| | ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and URL/link. \ _ / ( ) |
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/nIn news
There are similar Windows programs to bring the phone's screen to the Windows host but I decided on AirDroid. It worked well. I tried *all* the possible solutions, from Kies to AirDroid, but what I ended up using, which works for me, is this: a. I rooted the phone using KingoRoot (because the USB port is broken so the phone can never be tethered successfully). b. I put F-Droid "FTP Server (Free) on it (which has a payware knockoff on Google Play) after testing *all* (and I mean all) the FTP servers on Android (dozens - maybe even two score). c. I "can" use the Windows networking URL "ftp://192.168.1.2:2121" but I've found out, over the years, that WinSCP and then FileZilla were far more reliable than Windows in the situation where I turn on and off the FTP server and I come back and re-use an old connection. Windows file explorer just screws up completely in those circumstances, where both WinSCP and FileZilla work fine (so it's just Windows screwing up). Since the phone is rooted, I copy the HOSTS file easily from Windows to Android, and since all the phones in the LAN have the FTP server and App Backup & Restore freeware, I easily copy any APK from one phone to another so that I can install them even though I myself don't have Google Play or anything Google on my phone that I could delete as root. |
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/nIn , VanguardLH wrote:
You mentioned AirDroid but that doesn't need an Android emulator to run on Windows. In fact, the point of using Airdroid on Windows is to bring over the phone's screen. That lets you manipulate your phone using your PC, like taking call on your PC. It's also easier texting on a real keyboard on the PC. I agree with you in that you've convinced me that there really isn't much on Android that isn't already on Windows. About the only thing I can say, interestingly enough, is that the functionality of New Pipe isn't yet on Windows. The functionality of New Pipe is on Windows in multiple pieces, but not in a single app (as far as anyone knows). For NewPipe, "Lightweight YouTube frontend that's supposed to be used without the proprietary YouTube-API or any of Google's (proprietary) play-services. NewPipe only parses the YouTube website in order to gain the information it needs". I agree that seems to be what it does. NewPipe uses the public API. I think that's why Google hasn't shut them down, since it would be simple for Google to read the New Pipe source code and then just change things on the Google side so that New Pipe fails to work. Screen scraping or element parsing is an iffy method to interface to a web site. That's probably true. But it has been working for years now. And Google certainly knows about it and can read the source code. And Google certainly knows how many hits they get from new pipe users. It requires the underlying program or site to not change. Yup. Google will keep changing their services which means NewPipe has to catch up. I've been using New Pipe for years, so, they've been keeping up. I ran into the same situation with other screen scraper or element parsing softwa the moment the source changes, users are dead until the author gets around to making a fix which could be hours or many days or weeks. Yup. Look at how Google killed that free phone app years ago? Was it "Viber"? I forget which app it was, but a single change in the API by Google killed their business model (as I recall). When something changes at YouTube, I've read where NewPipe users start complaining ""failed to decrypt video URL signature" or other problems. Oh. Hmmm.... you seem like an accurate poster so I believe you. New Pipe has had hiccups (they call it beta after all). And you have to realize there are *knock offs* to New Pipe. Let's not confuse the knock offs with the original source-code app. The same user complaints appear when Google changes YouTube and then programs that use youtube-dl (https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) starts failing. We have to remember that the URL above is to an app that I think *sucks* so we have to keep in mind that there are different things which have the same name. This, for example, is the youtube downloader I use: https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe These, I think, suck. https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui https://www.videohelp.com/software/youtube-dl-gui https://bitbucket.org/qwertz19281/yaytdlfrontend/src etc. Likewise, this is the New Pipe opensource tool I use: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ These knockoff of the same name, I think suck: https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...k.new.guidepip https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...ii.new.guidepp https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...pips.netonline etc. How big is the development team for NewPipe? Just one guy or a multi-member team that is worldwide (different timezones so different waking periods)? Don't know. Here is their web page: https://newpipe.schabi.org/ Doesn't say much about "them" though. It's just about the app. https://newpipe.schabi.org/ mentions "Team NewPipe". Yes. I agree. Not much there about "them". I can say I've been using it for a few years now (don't remember exactly how long) and it's been fine - but I fell for the Google Play knockoffs for a while and was disgusted with them before I realized that the only New Pipe to use is the one we're talking about here. Well, we all know Internet lets entities bloat themselves. So just how many are on this "team"? From what I found in their blog, "Christian Schabesberger, initiator and maintainer of NewPipe". So it's just one guy. Hmmm... you found good information that I didn't know. Well, he works, eats, and sleeps so he won't be available at all times to work on his app and being just one guy means it'll take longer to analyze the change that makes his app fail and time to implement a fix. Since his app is not distributed via the Google Play Store, you won't be getting an automatic update if and when a fixed version is available. Those are red herrings. It's like saying you shouldn't buy a house because the garage door spring can break on you. I don't even have Google Play on my Android phone, and I removed *everything* that had anything to do with Google (e.g., the Advertiser ID and Google Framework and anything I could). So, an "automatic update" is the least of my issues. Philosophically, I never upudate (did you watch Sideline go down the tubes, or ES File Explorer?). The less you update, the better, IMHO (philosophically). Google's service APIs are free. Don't know why the author didn't design a different UI to YouTube but continue to use the API interface which is stable and well defined. No site publishes documentation on the construction on their web pages (because the web page is the document). I think Google "might" publish its API. For example, I once geolocated my wife's phone simply by knowing here SSID, and then asking a developer to run his code (each query is logged and recorded by Google to prevent abuse), and it geolocated her instantly - just by sitting in our pajamas from a computer. So, it's a fact you can geolocate anyone if their phone has an SSID and if you guess where they may be located (so you have the second SSID) since the Google API won't give you the location of the phone unless you have two SSIDs in proximity to each other. "NewPipe is a YouTube player that does not use Google Play Services or YouTube API". Hmm, so the author thinks they need to use the client-side library to issue commands to the service API? You seem to understand New Pipe far better than I do, since I only use it. I'm not skeptical of it - but skepticism is good. All I know is that it does what no other app does, but New Pipe, unfortunately, only works on Android (not on iOS nor on Windows). I've seen several times where NewPipe is listed as ad-free. You must be careful here - because there are MANY apps that seem to have taken the New Pipe sourcecode and did what they wanted with it, including adding their own ads! There was one called "AT NewPipe" which I can't find anymore on Google Play, but I had it - and it sucked - and I didn't know that this was just a knockoff. So we have to be careful that the "real" New Pipe is what we're talking about. The real New Pipe has no ads anywhere - which includes the videos but which also includes the app ads. The knockoffs have ads and they break a lot (from my experience with the AT New Pipe knockoff at least). All in all, your information is fantastically factual, well researched, based on intelligent assessment and logical. I don't really see, given I'm similar to you, why you seem to suspect what I seem to love, but maybe it just boils down to the fact that your suspicions will eventually be borne out to be true. |
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/nIn news
John Doe is a known troll: nymshifter, starts bait threads, insulting or flippant replies, attacks respondents that don't agree, feeds other trolls, cross-posts into dump/garbage/unrelated groups. Oh. OK. I'll plonk him then. I thought he was serious at first, but then he went off the edge pretty quickly. I'll stop responding to him. Thanks for responding to my list of Android apps, where, I hadn't thought about it much before you responded, but you proved to me that there's really not a whole lot on Android that isn't already on Windows. The one thing, I think, Android has over Windows, is the *simplicity* of some apps, such as the sandtimer hourglass egg timer apps. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alaskalinuxuser.hourglass I have never found that simplicity on Windows yet. |
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/nIn news
This, for example, is the youtube downloader I use: https://youtube-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl.exe These, I think, suck. https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui https://www.videohelp.com/software/youtube-dl-gui https://bitbucket.org/qwertz19281/yaytdlfrontend/src etc. Likewise, this is the New Pipe opensource tool I use: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/ These knockoff of the same name, I think suck: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id m.hozidevrock.new.guidepip https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id m.adamistii.new.guidepp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id m.newpips.netonline etc. There is a point in the above list that the immense cost of freeware is not so much in the cost of learning how to use the one good one that works, but in all the costs involved in testing and then throwing away the ones that failed. That's why reviews are sometimes good - but only when the *same* apps (such as Nox or Bluestack) keep coming out on top (which is, sadly, rarely the case - which tells us that the reviews have a problem). It's also why *asking* here is almost always a good idea, even if we've read the reviews (e.g., Bluestacks seems to come out above VirtualBox). The cost in freeware, I posit, is in the mistakes. |
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Joe Scotch wrote:
VanguardLH wrote: John Doe is a known troll: nymshifter, starts bait threads, insulting or flippant replies, attacks respondents that don't agree, feeds other trolls, cross-posts into dump/garbage/unrelated groups. Oh. OK. I'll plonk him then. I thought he was serious at first, but then he went off the edge pretty quickly. I'll stop responding to him. I don't delete unwanted posts. I flag them as Ignored and then use a Hide Ignored default view that hides ignore-flagged posts (and their subthreads - if I don't care to see some posters then I also don't want to see replies to them). If someone mentions something in a hidden post, I can simply switch to the All Messages view. Sometimes I also switch to the All Messages view to check my filters are working without false positives. My client lets me test on all headers (overview and non-overview) versus other clients that only let you test on the overview headers, plus I get to use regex (regular expressions) to better focus my filters on the targets to reduce false positives; however, false positives do happen so I may have to tweak my regex filters, plus trolls will nymshift or sockpuppet so I need to see all messages to make sure the regex is more accurate. I was checking my filters for false positives by using the All Messages view when I saw you started to get snagged by John Doe. As with all trolls, sometimes they forget to troll or decide to nice for an hour or two. That is, even trolls might [accidentally] help. Hard to be nasty all the time. Someone wanted to nominate me as a MVP (Microsoft Valuable Professional) for my contributions in Usenet for almost 20 years. Nah, sometimes I decide not to be nice and didn't want to tarnish the MVP community. I declined but appreciated the offer. As you can see, there is no dearth of trolls as evidenced by Burford exposing himself in his reply to me. He took his nym (but [overtly] mispelled the first name) from the the idiot sheriff in "Smokey and the Bandit"; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buford_T._Justice and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY13jS9X9Lk. His nym is appropriate and self-condemning. My filter's comment on him: # BurfordTJustice: Floods with drivel/political/racist/flame posts, cross-posts to garbage groups, feeds other trolls, picked a nym to exhibit his deliberate moronity. Thanks for responding to my list of Android apps, where, I hadn't thought about it much before you responded, but you proved to me that there's really not a whole lot on Android that isn't already on Windows. The one thing, I think, Android has over Windows, is the *simplicity* of some apps, such as the sandtimer hourglass egg timer apps. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id m.alaskalinuxuser.hourglass I have never found that simplicity on Windows yet. While not a robust timer (i.e., a simple one with a basic digital display, no fansy cutsy graphics), I've used FreeWatch for a long time, especially during online tech chats or tech calls to time how long they put me on hold. http://www2.whidbey.net/gordonf/FreeWatch/ It doesn't do much but then I've not needed a timer to do much. I've seen stopwatch programs that let you have multiple timers going. There should be loads of timer and/or alarm programs (some have portable versions so you don't have to install to test the programs). http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search....rch_term=timer http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search....rch_term=alarm You might want to see my reply about using AirDroid. That eliminates using an Android emulator and instead runs the Android app on its native platform but lets you view it on your Windows PC. You run the Android app on the smartphone. You can view it on Windows (or any platform and anywhere by using a web browser using their web access method). |
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Joe Scotch wrote:
the functionality of New Pipe isn't yet on Windows. What is missing? Just the ad-blocking? On Windows with ABP or uBlock installed, I never see them, in fact it wasn't until I used the Android youtube app that I realised ads before or during youtube videos even existed. |
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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
/nIn , VanguardLH wrote:
I don't delete unwanted posts. My Usenet interface is comprised of three things: 1. A telnet backend 2. A vi frontend 3. Scripts galore ported over the years from platform to platform I have to manually put someone in my killfile, which is literally a dictionary lookup file (like everything else), so, once I plonk someone (which I rarely do), they're gonna be in there forever. As an aside, you'll understand that a telnet approach to Usenet doesn't care about nntp-related "headers"; headers are just a complication that is randomly pulled out of a dictionary lookup. The dictionary itself is not random, as I have to create those files by hand, but they are simply lines inside of one of the many feeder files: Here's a tiny snippet of the user-agent dictionary lookup, for example: flnews/0.14 (for AIX) Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.5.1 slrn/0.9.8.1 (FreeBSD) tin/1.4.5-20010409 ("One More Nightmare") (UNIX) (SunOS/5.10 (i86pc)) Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) Xnews/2009.05.01 MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 XPN/1.2.6 (Street Spirit ; Linux) Thoth/1.9.0 (Mac OS X) Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.3790.1830 etc. Come to think of it, I probably should update that list as they're getting old and that will hurt my anonymity from the aggregator bots. http://www2.whidbey.net/gordonf/FreeWatch/ Nice and simple, I agree. It's a stopwatch, not an alarm timer, but I wasn't clear so that's understandable. I like that it runs on any Windows and that the user interface is fast and clean. At first I wondered why there was a "description" field but then I realized it runs as many as you want concurrently so that's how to tell them apart. It's a keeper for a stopwatch - but not a 10-minute type alarm timer. http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search....rch_term=timer http://www.softpedia.com/dyn-search....rch_term=alarm Aaauuurrrgggghhh! Lists of lists of lists of lists of lists of lists. The high expense of freeware is in all the mistakes in those lists! You might want to see my reply about using AirDroid. That eliminates using an Android emulator and instead runs the Android app on its native platform but lets you view it on your Windows PC. I saw that, and I appreciate the level of care, concern, and detail you put into your very factual answers. I deplore these types of solutions, where, really, all I really ever wanted was a New Pipe port to Windows. I didn't really "want" to use an emulator - it just happened to be the only solution that would run all of which New Pipe does, in a single app, on Windows. BTW, to prove that I can "learn", I did put AdBlock in my Windows browser and I was amazed at how simple it was to do a before and after of YouTube where those little yellow advertisement bars disappeared! So AdBlock has its place - but I don't generally watch YouTube in a browser, and I generally deplore browser-specific solutions. But it does work. And it is simple. So kudos to AdBlock for that! You run the Android app on the smartphone. You can view it on Windows (or any platform and anywhere by using a web browser using their web access method). I think I used to do that with stuff like Kies and some Samsung Play apps and my Motorola did that long ago (Motorola RAZR - that's how long ago it was), but I deplore that approach philosophically. |
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What free Android emulator do YOU use on Windows for running F-Droid APKs?
/nIn , Andy Burns
wrote: the functionality of New Pipe isn't yet on Windows. What is missing? Just the ad-blocking? On Windows with ABP or uBlock installed, I never see them, in fact it wasn't until I used the Android youtube app that I realised ads before or during youtube videos even existed. That's a good question, which is valid, and which I appreciate. What is missing? With the "real" New Pipe (the one from F-Droid), you get this: https://newpipe.schabi.org/ * Simple way to watch videos * Extended privacy (does not use the YouTube API nor Google Play Services) * Background player (choose our player or any other player) * Subscriptions (never miss new content) * Open Source (it's not a secret how it works) * Download media (download the audio or the video) * History (go back in time and enjoy your favorites again0 * Free (no in-app purchases, no ads either) When you click on each description, you get more details such as: * Extended privacy NewPipe does not use the YouTube API nor the Google Play Services. This means that we do not share any data except the video URL with YouTube or Google. Also the app does not save any data from you or use services that analyze your usage behavior. * Background player (skipping stuff) we only download the audio so you don't waste data. * Download Media (skipping stuff) the app offers different file formats and resolutions * Subscriptions (skipping stuff) subscriptions are saved locally without a Google account * Video Pop-Up Want to check your emails while watching a video. No problem. With the pop-up mode you can do whatever you want and keep watching. The pop up is movable and resizable- it won't be in your way. We promise. * 4K Support Up to 4K and 50fps but also fits normal phones with any resolution * Open Source How it works is not a secret. NewPipe does not use the YouTube API nor the Google Play Services. This is one reason the app is free of proprietary software. Notice one thing important to me, which is privacy. As you know, I don't have Google Play on my Android phone, nor Google Framework updates, nor anything that says Google that I could delete (I'm rooted). So, of course, YouTube doesn't work for me, and there is no advertiser ID on my phone, and no accounts for *anything* (it's a rule with me that I never log into anything ever, on a phone). So, for me, New Pipe is *perfect*. Anyway, that doesn't answer your question - but what we can do to answer your question is look at what Google says is the value of YouTube Red. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube_Red "It provides advertising-free streaming of all videos hosted by YouTube, offline play and background playback of videos on mobile devices, access to advertising-free music streaming through Google Play Music, and access to "YouTube Red Original" series and films." I'm not sure what a "YouTube Red Original" is, but other than that, doesn't New Pipe do what YouTube Red does? And how much is YouTube Red? This article says that, over a five-year period, you'll pay $600 for YouTube Red, which is an entire really nice Android phone! https://www.pcmag.com/article/355611...the-difference |
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