Android day Four: Equality Achieved I complete Android customizations bringing me what feels like equality with IOS, at least for the base system. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/05/28/android4.html
@fastfinge lets see here. for an easy to use recorder, I use three different ones. ASR, HI-Q voice recorder, and EZ Voice recorder. I have personally paid for all three. it is a toss up which one is my favorite between ASR and Hi-Q voice recorder. both can save to google drive, and dropbox. now I will say that for Hi-Q you do need to have the latest version. I am not sure if the version I am using has come out of beta yet or not. if not, you will want to sign up to have access to the beta, because they fixed the dropbox part. ASR I paid for not only because I like it, but to get the adds out of the way. joining the beta for Hi-Q is very easy. once you are on its page in the playstore, just look for the heading that talks about the beta, and you will find a join beta button.
@fastfinge let me do some double checking into this, but I think the first two do, I don't know much about EZ voice recorder, as I mainly use that one only for my watch, as that one has a watch app, and the other two don't.
@fastfinge ok, ASR does support one drive, but it looks like it might only be business. I of course could be wrong though. here is what I see in its cloud services when I click the add button. there are 10 different things.
@JamminJerry Thanks! If only Android had some kind of files API the way Apple does. These days, on IOS, it doesn't matter what an app supports, because it all gets accessed via files anyway.
@fastfinge ok, here you go. I had to remove my google drive account from EZ voice recorder to see what it can do as it only lets you upload to one account, unlike ASR where you can have it upload to multiple ones, and HI-Q you can upload to both google drive, and dropbos, the two it supports, but when I did delete my google drive account from EZ voice recorder, here is what I see that I can do. google drive dropbox microsoft OneDrive
and that is it, so yes, that one does support OneDrive.
@fastfinge most people probibly don't need to know what phone something was recorded from as they probibly only have one android phone. I have three of them. smile.
@fastfinge hell no! I barely use the IPhone I have! smile. grin. I really like how the notirfications are on it over android anyday though. I really wish android would have done them that way. it sounds small, but that is one of my biggest gripes about android. at least on samsung phones, you can put your newest notifications near the top though. even though you can only see a few notifications. not like the IPhone where you can scroll threw all of them.
@fastfinge me personally I don't mind this as I just set it, and forget it. when I hit stop, it just does its thing. I really like ASR, because not only can I have it upload to a lot of different services, one thing you can have it do is automatically make folders, and one of the folders it can do is what phone the recording is from. so for example. here is the path and filename of one of my recordings from ASR. G:\My Drive\com.nll.asr\Pixel 9 Pro XL\2025\04\18\2025_04_18_22_47_22.mp3
@fastfinge I really like that blog and find it interesting even though I use android for months now. Interested if you will find something good for Miniflux, I'm also searching. Also luckily I have enough vision to, in an emergency, call 112 without a SR, but still I get that absolutely. Also I'm still with TalkBack because Yishus settings, as you mentioned in post 3, were just too overwhelming to me. I like the clean organized TalkBack, I have set it up how I want it to be, but yeah responsibility of the typing and some other stuff is nothing compared to my iPhone. And at this point I'm recommending a hybrid approach. I still use my iPhone now and then, cuz it's just faster for some things or I'm more used to. I wouldn't carry it around everywhere (I know people who do), but especially on longer trips or so I tend to have both for whatever might come. But I still prefer Android as main because of some great features and Apps.
@jonathan859 I'm glad you're enjoying the series! I carry too much junk already when traveling; I'm not sure I can manage two phones at once LOL. Jieshuo is really overwhelming at the start, but once you get it going, it's way faster than TalkBack. You've just gotta spend a day at it. Now if only it would stay enabled...
@fastfinge so as for GPS apps on android this is something that has not bin very good, the only 2 i found are lazarillo and goodmaps, neither are as good as i remember soundscape beeing
