Honestly, my problems with Apple go beyond just the privacy issues.
Interesting, I hadn't heard about this before. Thanks for sharing.
Soooo... Any Magisk module that allows one to bypass this?
I did not know about this line of phones, very interesting!
Probably not... It's old, at this point, and it never really took off when it was new as part of a relatively popular xposed module. (Though admittedly, rooting your phone has always been niche.)
Anyone who's installed custom roms on their older Android phones has probably heard of pie navigation. But this is a little post to share my love for it to those people who have never heard about it.
It's something I know from the old Gravitybox xposed module, where you slide from the side or bottom of the screen, and a small half-circle pops up with different pie pieces for the normal Android navigation bar buttons. This saves screen space, and needs less finger movement than all other gesture-based navigation I've tried. For me, it's the most comfortable navigation solution. I also think it looks quite pretty (though you can set the colors and icons and size to your own preference).
It's possible to add pie charts for apps and other stuff, but I've always just used the three for Back, Recent apps and Home. (In the past, there was a fourth little button for "Menu", but that's long since been deprecated.) When I hold the Recent apps button for a bit longer, I go back to my most recent previous app, for some quick multi-tasking.
After Gravitybox no longer really worked, there was an app called LMT, which provided much the same functions. These days, though, LMT also hasn't really seen any meaningful updates for a long time, and the best solution for Pie navigation seems to be this app on the Play store (unfortunately not open-source).
Disabling Android's built-in navigation solutions is needed for it to really work, though, as it replaces the built-in navigation default of just navigating Back. When rooted, your best bet is to just set the normal navigation bar and then using the NavTweaks Magisk module. There's a number of other workarounds I've had to use over the years, but I've always managed to replace the normal navigation style with my beloved pie navigation.
Have you ever used pie navigation and do you miss it? If not, what made you switch to the alternatives?
They're not too hard as a little sewing project, too! There's a wikihow page on making it floating around somewhere.
We've just played a bit more this evening! Worked on buying some new animals mostly and having Robin build a second barn. Also just walked around town some. We use a large amount of mods, and there's plenty of new places to explore and quests to be done. And a lot of cutscenes to watch, of course.
That's amazing, for software to be able to cause that!
You made me smile.
I mean, be nice if the US didn't turn into a dictatorship in a few months. Don't see any company-unfriendly laws going in effect there any time soon. But perhaps in Europe there's still some chance of this happening.
Almost makes you want to raise the ol' flag of yarr, huh.
Came here to say this! Also Bastion, kind of the same generation of indie games, I feel.
Ho, ik zie al gelijk een taalfout op p. 6 van je handleiding: goes off is met dubbel f.
Ik ook, ik ook en ik ook :) Je hebt de dingen zeker niet ook in het Nederlands toevallig he? Ik speel het liefst in het Nederlands omdat ik eigenlijk een beetje een taalpurist ben en al die Engelse RPG-termen al snel een beetje pijnlijk vind worden. Ik waardeer erg dat de barman Maarten heet, bijvoorbeeld 😁
De Verdronken Maan, zou ik sowieso de herberg in mijn spel noemen. Klinkt ook uitstekend, in het Nederlands