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Tldw: He mentions the new beta version of Ubuntu touch solved many problems. And he’s going to use it as a daily driver going forward.
The problems he had were banking apps, photo sync, copy-paste from waydroid to Ubuntu touch, and notifications between waydroid and Ubuntu touch. He shows the waydroid to/from Linux works in KDE. So, probably a relatively quick fix for those 2 problems.
Edit: spelling.
Don’t banks have websites he can log into?
Banks that are platform-agnostic should be favoured by the linux enthusiasts.
Do you know of any banks that are platform agnostic? I don’t think it’s a matter of the banks choosing to exclude other operating systems as much as a matter of internal resources to develop and maintain a secure app on an OS few of their users would use.
If you know of any banks that have apps that work on a Linux phone I think that’d be a great list to start and pin to the community.
Apps no but the web pages should be platform agnostic. I mean I have by far not used every bank but all that I have tested work fine on Linux.
The compatible list would be like GrapheneOS’s right? Apps that’ll work with MicroG without the full Google Play service. Both banking apps I use do. Only one of those two banks will let me login without the app however, the desktop website forces use of their app as an authenticator.
edit: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
It’s become easier to do many things without Play Services and even microg, as many apps have been adapted for Google-free Huawei devices :D
But we still need a lot more open APIs, then people can just build alternative software that’s FOSS.
This is so fucked up to read. Maybe we should all start going back to analog life for about 2 years. For the time it takes for a phone to become obsolete in features, we should just all decide to go back to analog life. Imagine how many stocks would plummet.
Man it would change so much and cause so many issues. Banks have way less tellers now then they used to and same can be said for a lot of places.
In my country they kinda force you into using their apps since you must use them as 2FA to login…so even if you try to use the website, you’re forced to use the freaking app…that many times does not work with custom Roms…I’ve been jumping around for 2 years, bank to bank app. Once it stops working I open an account at a different one and try to use the App…banking is the one thing that keeps people from leaving Google’s Android IMHO
They don’t support Goolges 2FA, which is an open standard.
In Finland bank apps are used as a form of digital ID / strong 2FA. You are pretty much forced to have it
Good video, also reinforces my decision to not install waydroid. I had it on my previous linux phone, and while it worked, it was a memory hog and quite slow. Which on the PPP made it even worse. Speed shouldn’t be an issue on my new FP6, but going trough all the trouble to get a linux phone and then installing android seems counterproductive. Ofcourse if you absolutely need an android app, it is better then nothing ofcourse. but ideally you wouldn’t need waydroid.
also am i the only one that finds the ubuntu sidebar while “fine” on desktop is even worse on phones? or am i too plasma biased?I found the same experience on the pixel 3a xl UT running Wayland. It’s too much of a bother to work with. I will make use of the Openstore library as is.
It’s a good video covering the good and bad.
I would give it a go if I could get my hands on a compatible phone here in Canada.
