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  • Coming back to this few weeks later, I actually had some experiences where I think this will be useful.

    I normally wear my fitness smartwatch but on some days decide to wear my regular watches. So on those days I don’t get any automatic step tracking, and I don’t have Google Fit installed only for step tracking as I use my watch manufacturer app.

    If Health Connect will write steps automatically without me having to install Fit, then my watch can read back the steps from there and I don’t have to see zero steps on my watch’s tracking for that day 🥲



















  • baatliwala@lemmy.worldOPtoAndroid@lemdro.idPocket Casts is getting ads
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    2 months ago

    Pocket Casts client is actually open source, server is not AFAIK.

    I am very curious if they are going to implement something like Google Ads in the future because I don’t recall any open source app ever having third party ads. Right now there is only a banner ad to subscribe to Premium but on clicking the X button there is an option to “report ad” so surely they are getting third party ads? I have seen locked down features with premium version having full features, but never ads really. Maybe the MPL license they have chosen is very lenient in that way.

    If someone forks the app and creates a fully FOSS version I will be fine using that.