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Apps that can make your Android System really safe + alot more privacy!

Hey all the Android-Users out there
Do you want your private data to be secure on your Android Smarthphone? CHECK THIS OUT!
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Many of us wouldn't run naked trough the city, would you ?
So if your privacy concerns you and you don't like to expose some of your dirty little secrets, just stay tuned.
Not only Google, Microsoft and Apple etc. like to get all your data, but everyone else likes your data too, especially some sneaky programmers..
Here are some Apps that can help you to optimize your system and to get some privacy and control.
Apps:
Root:
Superuser(ROOT) (no need to say how, use forumsearch)
App-Permission-Manager:
LBE Security Masterhttp://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=20914000
PermissionDog (free) (Market)
Firewall:
Droidwall (free) (Market) (+)
Adblocker:
Adfree (free) (Market)
System Apps Manager:
Titanium Backup Pro (Market) (+)
Root Explorer:
Rootexplorer (Market) or
Supermanager (free) (Market)
SQLite Editor:
SQLite Editor (Market)
Autorun Manager:
Autostarts (Market)
Taskmanager:
Autokiller (Market)
Multi App Management:
Android Assistent (free) (Market)
Ok, there are many apps out there, i just listed the best!
So just get the Apps above and now you need to use them properly.
The main app that will enhance your privacy the most is LBE Security Guard.
You'll wonder how many apps want your ID/IMEI or GPS or something, that the apps actually don't really need!
The others are also great apps with many function!
Now just learn how to use them.
For every app there are some tutorials and howtos out there, just enter the apps name and what you wanna do and you'll find it.
Just use the search function on the forum:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/search.php
or search on google or if you like use http://scroogle.org
So thats all for now, hope you will be a little saver with your private data.
ps: don't be shy to push the thanks button from time to time!
peace and have a great day!

If you want to get to this thread, just go to:
www.tinyurl.com/androidprivacy

Please post suggestions, what could be done to improve the Security of your android phone!

Mieow
Oh check out the Android Security Warning if you did'nt allready have.
And here is a new chance to see this thread! (threat!)

Changelog:
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-added market links
0.2
-added some more apps
0.1
-initial thread

Some great information and apps.. thanks a lot or sharing. Found a number of apps that were a little too nosey for my liking.
Installed LBE Security and AdFree.
Thankyou!

What on earth could Angry Birds want my IMEI/IMSI for??

Just some statistics from my own experience:
85~% of the apps you will ask you for permission to use your IMEI/IMSI!
40~% wants your position / GPS
30% ask to read your call logs / contacts etc.
...... but see it yourself!
Btw: If you find a good app, that I could add to this list, don't hesitate to post here.

I agree wholeheartedly. Privacy, and hence liberty, is being eroded at every turn. People just don't seem to realize how much information they're giving away, and don't care. What's the big deal about wearing a little yellow star someone once said. That is the evil insidious problem of Facebook. A generation ago people kept diaries under lock and key. Now people publish their every banal moment to Facebook. And, to be fair, most of these people are safe doing this. Most people are not criminals or terrorists and have nothing, or what they consider very little, to hide. But this is the thin edge of the wedge. I read 1984 in 1970. I also read Fahrenheit 451 and Brave New World. Although the authoritarianism of our present system is less overt and more insidious than that shown in these books, you really can see distinct similarities between these fictional times, and the way we live now. It is easy to find copies of these books, everyone should download them and read or re-read them. Yes, it might interfere with watching professional sport or dancing with quasi celebrities...but that which does not kill you makes you stronger. If you live in a free country it is your duty as a citizen to be informed, or else we wind up like we are now....rioting in the streets while our leaders ignore us, while they kowtow to the global financial elites.
And the above post is the saddest thing of all. If we want to use any app we have to give them blanket permissions. I'm sorry, I don't want them knowing who/where I am. Who my contacts are, what I'm doing. I miss the ownership of my data that the old Palm OS gave me. And I rue the day I was forced into the cloud. I don't want to see their ads. I don't want to help them in any way. That may seem unreasonable considering most of the programs are free, and you can call me selfish, but to me free is free period. If you want to charge for your app, and it is good, I'll pay for it, but if you're going to call an app free it should be just that, free. The "business is business argument" doesn't cut it with me, there is only one "thing" and that's the right" thing". Integrity is the only thing that sets regular people apart from the wealthy.
Thanks to the OP

Thank you very much.

I'd recommend Privacy Inspector to check what your apps can do. Full version Privacy Blocker can actually change applications so they would not be able to gather personal information about you.

thx for this help post, very much needed

You should really remove the Taskmanager (here for why) since they do more harm then good.. Now an app like Watchdog alerts you when apps are misbehaving and lets you kill them but other than that you should just leave them alone.. at least on 2.2+

ffcloud2000 said:
You should really remove the Taskmanager (here for why) since they do more harm then good.. Now an app like Watchdog alerts you when apps are misbehaving and lets you kill them but other than that you should just leave them alone.. at least on 2.2+
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This is a good one, didn't know that about taskmanagers.
But still, to kill some unwanted apps you need a taskmanager.
I will recommend watchdog now of course too.
btw. there is an update for lbe privacy guard.
I will add that soon in the 1st post.
stay tuned!

Hy, thanks for the post. The lbe guard seems nice, I was using "Permission denied" until now, but the interface was not that good xD
What's your opinion to virus scanner like lookout mobile security?
^^
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CM7 builds have added permission management- in manage applications > app name, touching on a permission will revoke it. This feature has to be enabled in Cyanogenmod settings...
Swyped from my HTC HD2 running CM7 (Gingerbread 2.3.5)

Tagged for future upload of image - kittens playing w/yarn.

thanks!!
i just want to say thanks for posting this information !!!! i clicked the thanks button for you also haha anyway i downloaded the lbe guard...its amazing it shows me everything!!!! and see some sketchy apps so i deleted them!!!! anyway thanks from thew newbie !!!

hey...
did the app u attach is the latest version???

Some good ones for you guys.
PDroid – The Better Privacy Protection is a program you can use to block acces to personal data. Read the link. Super! It doesnt do anything without paching the ROM youre using. But patching is fairly easy using pacher found at aplication thread. No ICS support yet . I suggest asking your ROM devs to implement PDroid patch. If we demand...
Edit: You find all instructions in the PDroid thread.
And then the other: Bloatfreezer. App that can freeze any other app in system. Freezing doesnt make system misbehave and it works on system apps too. You can freeze anything. Alot better than task killers. Author is Trey Holland who find the Carrier IQ in android systems. He has been sued by google from reveiling Carrier IQ which is app that sends all your data to somewhere. Even your key presses.
Carrier IQ is a spying app in millions of phones. Nokia, blackberry, android etc.
You can scan your system using logging test app by xda user Trey Holland; TrevE
Edit: Some thanks would be nice because these are gems here.

[APP/ROOT] CheatDroid - Shared Preferences Editor

Hi there!
In the last few weeks I developed a little toy which might especially be interesting for developers or "hackers". And since most of the users here are at least technically interested, I found that this forum might be the right place to introduce this app.
» Official Website
» XDA Labs App Page
A video says more than words:
» Demonstration Video on YouTube
Download
» https://labs.xda-developers.com/store/app/download/com.androidcheats.cheatdroid
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Push. Any comments or feedback is greatly appreciated.

Will this app work with drag racing?
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Why don't you try out yourself? However, I checked out Drag Racing and unfourtunately it seems like that game at least does not store money via Shared Preferences.
Anyway, I want to state again that this app is rather developed for scientific purposes and for those who are just curious. I think that quite a lot games unfourtunately do not use Android's Shared Preferences to store relevant data. Try it for such purpose, but I do not want to make any promises. I just emphasized that point in the hope of getting a little more attention, but people do not seem to be that interested in that app anyway.

Push again.

... and maybe once again. :/

Push once again. Can't believe, that people acually rate this app bad (two stars) because it needs root access! What the ****... However, I do not believe that it was someone from this forum. But anyway - kind of makes me angry, haha. :/

null0R said:
Push once again. Can't believe, that people acually rate this app bad (two stars) because it needs root access! What the ****... However, I do not believe that it was someone from this forum. But anyway - kind of makes me angry, haha. :/
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lol, just forget this kind of feedback mate...
all this kids with ZERO technical background, never ever willing/able to "understand" what they are doing/using
i like the app, will play arround with it before i post some feedback.
anyway thanks in advance and good luck with the app!

It's perfect.
I like i like.
Compliment.

Thank you, guys. That were finally some constructive and nice comments...
Unfourtunately, the majority of Android users, however, seems to be dumb. I just received another two comments. They both rated the app one star.
"scheise ...x" (which is german for "sh*t")
"f*cken root"
Well, thats some very constructive feedback, I love it. :/ Stupid idiots.

Great app , mate. I am really pleased about it. I'm glad that requires root. Not everyone should have this, if you know what i mean
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xyron_2k said:
Great app , mate. I am really pleased about it. I'm glad that requires root. Not everyone should have this, if you know what i mean
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users without shouldnt even have the posibility to rate such apps (wich need root to install)
as they can't try it why they should have a opinion?

True words. But what am I supposed to do else but checking if the app gets root access at the start and displaying an error if it doesn't? Unfourtunately, there is no option at the developer console to disable the download for unrooted phones. :/
But thanks for feedback.

Thank you very much for building this app - I thought it was just what I was looking for! However I have a problem although I'm not sure its necessarily the app's problem. Basically I'm editing the preferences for a live wallpaper which looks in a folder for photos to display. Using your app I can open the preferences file and edit the string relating to the path of the folder. However it has no effect on the app - regardless of whether I open,restart or manipulate the app - all that happens is the preference file gets overwritten with the previous values. Its almost as if the live wallpaper isn't doing a getpreferences call?

Hi privatesam. This might be too late to answer, but anyway... Well, I have no idea what could be the matter here. I would make sure that the wallpaper app is not running in the background. I don't know if that helps. I hope so.
Well, friends, I made a small update this sunday. Basically, I just improved the UI a little bit. And - to be honest - I included another monetization method than AdMob, since my income was that bad with those AdMob banners (eCPM at around 0,05 $...) and I put a lot of work into this app. I'm sorry... I hope, you are not mad at me. I just wanted to give it a try (for those being interested, this ad network is called StartApp Mod Edit: Link Removed. - read about it first, for example here).
Again, please don't be mad at me for trying out this more "intrusive" ad network... Most of you won't notice it anyway I guess (using AdAway).

Hi. Let's give this a push.

Toy defense 2
Hi buddy, can you tell me if or how can I use this for cheat in the Toy defense 2? I think it is imposibble, but I am LAMA thanks for response

I did a small update yesterday. I included some support/help texts and removed some intrusive advertisement due to lots of negative feedback and some false virus alerts (still using StartApp, though). And also because of the Google Play Store policy changes, of course.
A also found a video on YouTube. It does belong to me. I distance myself from its content and the shown use. It is somehow a proof, however, that my app works and how it works.
@honza.chlan:
Since no developer is forced to USE Shared Preferences, this app (Toy Defense 2) might use another way to store their settings. For example on some servers in the internet. CheatDroid does not work everywhere.

Push.

sharing my review onplay store here..
With android available as cheap as 50 bucks,dumb people are getting on the train, don't know what root is,andd blame the dev for it,ITS NOT A ROOT YOUR PHONE APP, NEITHER WORKS WITHOUT ROOT,and if you can't get these simple fkin lines in your mind,then God save the devs, BTW,hats off to dev for working,for making my gaming easier and yes it's your right to earn something you worked on by having ads and our right to block them by adaway,hehehe
FYI contributed my full thanks limit to you today,cheers

[APP][2.0+]Phonechievements

Phonechievements is back
Phonechievements (latest version 1.35)
About
Phonechievements brings achievements to the mobile phone. For those who are gamers the concept isn't new, for those who are not, achievements are just rewards you get for accomplishing a goal. You don't get an actual prize, it's just a form of reward that you get in writing. Moreover, this app allows you to brag on Facebook with them (for now).
Open the app and navigate through the list. Each achievement has a description on how you can unlock it. Want to let everyone know how you master the phone? Share on Facebook the unlocked achievements. Just open the app and go to the achievement and a Facebook logo button will allow you to do that.
With each update new features and of course new phonechievements will be added.
If you like the idea and want to help me improve or have any suggestions for new achievements, please check it out.
The app is available for Android 2.0+. If you find any issues please let me know so I can fix them.
Thank you.
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Google Play Download Link
Current Features
More than 70 unlockable achievements in 6 categories (more to come)
Share unlocked achievements on Facebook, Twitter or Google Plus
Show/hide unlocked achievements
Statusbar notification on phonechievement unlocked
Possibility to hide individual achievements
Option to switch GPS query ON/OFF (if you keep GPS on from android settings the you most probably want tot keep it OFF in the app)
Sync your profile online (check what you have synced on http://phonechievements.com/profile/yourchosennickname/) - for now an ugly 10 minutes of code website will appear. The nice one is under construction. This is just for checking purposes
Share online profile with most of the sharing apps installed
Profile forum signature:
E.g.:
Code:
[PLAIN][URL="http://phonechievements.com/profile/Nightfly89/"][IMG]http://phonechievements.com/profile/Nightfly89/sign/[/IMG][/URL][/PLAIN]
Social
Follow on Facebook
IMPORTANT
IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT YOU ALWAYS USE THE SYNC OPTION BEFORE DOING AN UPDATE AND ALSO ON A REGULAR BASIS. AFTER YOU UPDATED THE APP IF YOU EXPERIENCE LOSS OF STATS OR ACHIEVEMENTS USE THE SYNC OPTION AGAIN TO RECOVER THEM FROM THE SYNC SERVER
Other projects by us
SOZ Game

New update
Two new phonechievements have been added: Stalker and Meta. Check them out in the next update

Just installed. Seem fun.
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Cool app!
I downloaded it and it's cool, always went for trophies on games and used to brag about them to friends

Lol @ phoneception achievement
Also, can you give the app an ICS/JB theme for GB users? Thanks in advance!
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Sounds interesting

This sounds like a lot of fun. I'll definitely try it out.

This is an awesome idea. Installing now.

Love the idea, installed it, shared it. I really love this idea.

Thank you guys. Please let me know if there's any crash or any problem with the app. I see there's a general request for a JellyBean / ICS theme therefore I will be working on this alongside with the new features and achievements. The theme should be out soon so stay tuned. In the meantime enjoy the achievements and if you think of some new ones, please let me know and you could see them in the app.
Also I would appreciate some feedback regarding battery usage, memory usage and stuff like that. I got to test it on some friend's phones while on BETA and it was reported as ok, but the more data the better.
Thank you.

A friends list would make this epic... a way to compare your lists with people you know
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looks interesting, testing

UntamedDeviance said:
A friends list would make this epic... a way to compare your lists with people you know
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Yes. That would definitely make it better. I added this to the TODO list... quite on top. This will be available on a unique username base and you would be able to add friends using their username. Also a profile webpage would display all your unlocked achievements and as you said allow you to compare with other users you know or share your profile link anywhere you want.

Can we change the "Oops, I did it again"? Lol
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New version published on Google Play
Just published a new update on GPlay. Give it some time to actually get it.
What's New:
* Added three new Phonechievements: Well Informed (Apps), I Always Take The Bus (Power Wizard), The Alternative Approach (Power Wizard)
* Minor bug fixes
* Battery usage reduced
Work in progress:
* Just started implementing the Twitter integration (a share button will be available next to the Facebook one).
* Another thing I started working on is a profile webpage. You will be able to choose a username and get a unique profile URL to share with your friends... and brag . Also a compare tool will be available so you can show your frinds that you have more phonechievements
* This is just the beginning as this webpage could easily be developed and improved. The way you will be able to update your profile is either automatically (setting) or manually.
* I also got a lot of complains about battery draining when GPS is on. I know what the problem is and it will be fixed in tomorrow's update
* AND THE BIG ONE COMING IN TOMORROW'S UPDATE: RandomChievements : The are phonechievements, yes they are ... but a little special. They are inactive most of the time, meaning you can't unlock them even if you accomplish the goal (by accident ). They become active randomly, at any time. You will get a notification that the randomchievement has become active. From that moment on you have a random amount of time to complete it. Sometimes it might be almost impossible to do it. But if you miss it , there's no worry, it will get active some other time. Randomly, of course. The only known fact is that it can not tell you to unlock it in less than 15 minutes. This is the lower limit. The upper limit is 6 hours. There will be a new category called Randomchievements where this new type of phonechievement will take its rest.
Last but not least... if you experience any issues , crashes , please report them so I can try and fix the issues.
Thank you.
P.S.
Rican Bx Bomba said:
Can we change the "Oops, I did it again"? Lol
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Do you have a suggestion ? Anyway.. I am considering this change for next version

You should add some sort of badge system - like with foursquare! But great idea - installed it now : )

xy90 said:
You should add some sort of badge system - like with foursquare! But great idea - installed it now : )
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This will be added in the future, when the profile website will be available.

slackydroid said:
This will be added in the future, when the profile website will be available.
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Oh - and maybe some sort of friendsystem or social integration?
Edit: Nevermind... Saw your post now
New thing though - You should hide what makes the achievement unlock - and only show descriptions, so that the exploring is more fun!

The update keeps crashing for me. Going to bed, I'll get more info out tomorrow if I can.
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I turned on the app at my house and almost got the first altitude achievement! Haha, love this app, such a simple idea that I am sure was a pain to program! I love all the devs that put everything into their apps for me to enjoy!
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[APP] My Convoy - Your Geographic Intelligence System

Easily share your location & more, in real-time!
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Hello! I made this app over the course of 8 months by myself. I quit my job at EMC Corp/Dell to pursue my dream of having my own software startup. Please share and support!
https://www.facebook.com/myconvoyapp/
https://myconvoy.org/
United
Add your friends, family, colleagues, whomever you like to your Convoy and allow them to see your location in real-time.
Easy
Simply toggle someone whether you want them to receive location updates from you.
Universal
This application does not prioritize any specific individuals or use cases. The vast flexibility of features and options allows everyone to use it however they find it useful.
LIFE ENHANCEMENTS
• College Students - On a night out, add your group of friends to your Convoy incase you get split up. Set a home zone to automatically notify your group that you've made it home safe.
• Restaurant Hopping - Never lose your group of friends again on a lengthy 'restaurant' hop.
• Lonely Walks - Not to worry, your Convoy has your back on those lonely walks home.
• Businesses - Electrical contractor company can track their employees out in the field.
• Families - See where your family members are at all times, e.g. elders, children, parents, etc.
• Outdoor Activities - See your hiking party on the map and activate emergency mode if lost or in danger.
• Large Gatherings - Never feel lost in a large crowd again, e.g. music/art festivals, concerts, parades, etc.
• Disaster Organization - My Convoy will provide you an easy way to locate and communicate with those you care for during a disaster.
FEATURES
• Toggling - Ah, the simplicity of toggling. It's as simple as toggling a comrade whether you want them to receive location updates from you or not. You can even toggle yourself which will start/stop location tracking completely.
• Desktop App - Find your lost phone or use Convoy at the office or even on your Smart TV.
• LIVE - Everything is real-time happening right on the screen and fully automated
• Security - All data is encrypted using latest technologies in cryptography.
• History - View history for eternity. Or until the user deletes their history.
• Emergency Mode - Send an SOS or activate emergency mode. Your Convoy will be notified, PLUS every My Convoy user in a 100 meter radius.
• Efficient - Utilizes the latest and greatest native features provided by Android. Plus a battery saver mode!
• Zones - Draw zones on the map however big or small you like. Assign them to yourself or your comrades to be notified on enter or exit.
• Shout - Shout a message on the map your Convoy can see.
• Chat - Share messages and media live.
• Contacts Sync (optional) - Sync your existing phone contacts to see who you know is using Convoy.
My Convoy will provide you, your friends, family, and colleagues, peace of mind wherever they are.

Looks and sounds great. Reminds me of Google latitude. Been looking for something like this. Unfortunately play store tells me it's not available in my country (Germany). Could you provide the apk, then I'll give it a shot

why is shows "This app is incompatible with all of your devices." i have nexus ????

Hi, tried your app for a few minutes, but I realized that you are focusing on your home country, I am sitting in Germany and could not verify my account. But I must say, the setup and the UI is wonderful. Just the way I would love to see such an app. Way better then google latitude and all the other alternatives. If everything functions as described, then this is really an outstanding well coded app.
I will keep an eye on your app and as soon as you go global I am sure its worth a try. Also if you need a translation into German, I'll translate the strings for you.
Another question I have, what happens after the one month premium test subscription, which option still function after premium subscription ends?

The app says not compatible with OnePlus One running stock Android 5.1.1
Looking forward to try it out

I currently use Glympse for this. I am always open to try another app. This sounds like it is more like what I need. I have 3 teenage daughters. I also use the LOCATOR app provided by SPRINT APP store. This allows me to locate, but, it does so with all sort of notifications and emails, which are not able to bypass. Sometimes I just need to know where my daughters are and not send them a text message saying so without my doing so.

Thank you all for the feedback!!!
I developed this app on Nexus 7,9,10 so I'm not sure why it's saying they are not compatible.

Looks like I need to make this available in other countries!

Cybertron™ said:
why is shows "This app is incompatible with all of your devices." i have nexus ????
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roblav96 said:
Looks like I need to make this available in other countries!
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Please do would love to test it with some other folks here in Germany. Could you also tell me what happens after the premium test month is over, what functions are premium and which aren't and how much it costs.

GerManiac said:
Please do would love to test it with some other folks here in Germany. Could you also tell me what happens after the premium test month is over, what functions are premium and which aren't and how much it costs.
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I'm going to be reworking the entire premium stuff. Currently when premium expires, you have to manually press a refresh button to get the latest data. more of an inconvenience for the user.

roblav96 said:
I'm going to be reworking the entire premium stuff. Currently when premium expires, you have to manually press a refresh button to get the latest data. more of an inconvenience for the user.
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Makes sense, if you want to live from this great work of yours, then inconvenience is a must, in order to have users buy premium.

GerManiac said:
Please do would love to test it with some other folks here in Germany. Could you also tell me what happens after the premium test month is over, what functions are premium and which aren't and how much it costs.
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We are removing the premium features completely in the next release. This application will be entirely free. forever.

I would like to try this app but I live in France and playstore says that I can't download it. I tried with a vpn or evozi downloader, nothing work :/ If someone is able to provide me the apk I would be grateful
Edit : I managed to get it thx to someone on xda forum apk, if someone need it I can provide the link !

[APP][6.0+] Looxie: Location-based photo requests

Get Looxie from the Play Store!
Looxie is a location-based photo request app that I released back in 2016. The premise is simple: you go on the map, select a location you want a photo from and send your request to that location. Any users within one kilometer will receive the request and they can respond by sending you a photo.
The big twist? They can only send photos by actually taking them with their camera: gallery uploads are not allowed. Practically, this means that any photo you receive was taken seconds earlier and essentially is a real-time depiction of that location. The practical applications are numerous (Is the sea choppy? Is the bar I want to go to packed? Is there a lot of traffic on the A2? What's up in the Mongolian steppe right now?) but it's also really exciting to simply know that the photo you got depicts something at the other side of the world as it is right now.
Late last year, I decided that the app looked positively archaic, so I went ahead and rebuilt/redesigned it from the ground up to make it prettier and faster. I think the redesign is very successful and the app is indeed much faster and much easier to use.
Here is what it looks like:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
I will probably be adding some premium features as a very cheap subscription (full-res photo downloads, for example) in the hopes that they'll at least cover the Firebase costs but anybody who registers an account by August 9th, 2019 will get all premium features for free.
I will be happy to answer your questions and read your comments!

Bumping the thread with actual links. I'll be around to answer any questions and respond to comments.

Really liking this app. Now I am getting requests one after the other from the same user. It would be nice if there was a cool-down time, I'd say, once every 2hrs between requests times from the same user

Amazing idea but..
1. When I use the search function, I can't actually click on a photo to be able to view it and zoom in. All it does when I click that it switches to the next photo and the same happens with Sent Looxies.
2. No full screen viewing available!
3. Settings is grayed out and I can't access it?
4. I can't view the likes of a certain image!
5. I am getting a ton of requests of user NewbieTown, is it a bot?

When i click the camera button to take a picture it opens the stock camera(xiaomi) but I don't really like the pictures from it so I use a google camera port , do you think it's possible to choose from the camera app?

Hey! You should be able to use any camera app you want. I'm almost never using the stock Pixel camera, instead I use something some effects, like Vignette or Cameringo.

lNOFXl said:
Really liking this app. Now I am getting requests one after the other from the same user. It would be nice if there was a cool-down time, I'd say, once every 2hrs between requests times from the same user
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Hey, thanks! Totally my fault for not communicating this more clearly in the app but each of these requests are actually from a different user. Whenever a new user signs up, they have the option of sending a first contact request, ie. send a request to every user in the world (just once).
So what happened is that with the sudden influx of users (due to the XDA feature) LOTS of people got to use their first contact requests and everybody was flooded with those things. I should absolutely find a way to combat that but I don't want to take the first contact functionality away from new users. The problem will eventually solve itself, of course, when things go back to normal, with 3-5 registrations per day.

zombiezoom said:
Amazing idea but..
1. When I use the search function, I can't actually click on a photo to be able to view it and zoom in. All it does when I click that it switches to the next photo and the same happens with Sent Looxies.
2. No full screen viewing available!
3. Settings is grayed out and I can't access it?
4. I can't view the likes of a certain image!
5. I am getting a ton of requests of user NewbieTown, is it a bot?
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Hello there.
You are right on every count, the app is pretty frustrating right now. This is partly down to the fact that it's a ground-up rewrite, so some functionality that was there in the old app is still missing but also due to the fact that I'm a lone developer working on it after 10-hour marathons in my day job, right after I manage to put my 2-year old son to sleep. I still love it, though. Let me answer your questions one by one.
1. All of the functionality you're describing is coming within the month. I'm taking a much-needed two-week off from work so I'll be able to focus on Looxie almost exclusively.
2. Also coming soon!
3. I know I sound like a broken record, but also coming soon. I have quite of bit of stuff to put in there, it won't take too long.
4. At this point you know the answer.
5. Nope, totally not a bot. It's new users signing up and using their first contact request (which they can use only once). Thingss should go back to normal, with about 5 first contact requests per day. Just give it a bit of time.
Thanks for your comment, I wanted to clear some of this stuff up anyway!

Antonis427 said:
Hello there.
You are right on every count, the app is pretty frustrating right now. This is partly down to the fact that it's a ground-up rewrite, so some functionality that was there in the old app is still missing but also due to the fact that I'm a lone developer working on it after 10-hour marathons in my day job, right after I manage to put my 2-year old son to sleep. I still love it, though. Let me answer your questions one by one.
1. All of the functionality you're describing is coming within the month. I'm taking a much-needed two-week off from work so I'll be able to focus on Looxie almost exclusively.
2. Also coming soon!
3. I know I sound like a broken record, but also coming soon. I have quite of bit of stuff to put in there, it won't take too long.
4. At this point you know the answer.
5. Nope, totally not a bot. It's new users signing up and using their first contact request (which they can use only once). Thingss should go back to normal, with about 5 first contact requests per day. Just give it a bit of time.
Thanks for your comment, I wanted to clear some of this stuff up anyway!
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Thanks for the quick reply, I've edited the Google Play rating of the app to 5 stars.
However, you should've mentioned that the app has features that are still being optimized.

Possible to run on microg?
Love the app, just switched to a phone with lineageos 16 and microg. When I enter my username and password, it just hangs logging in. I then tried backing up the app on my old phone with adb backup then restored it to my new phone. The first time I started looxie, I was logged in and could see the feed. Now everytime I start the app, I get an empty feed that never updates. Also, my username is not displayed in the menu. Any ideas on how to get it working with microg?
Jeff

jebaker said:
Love the app, just switched to a phone with lineageos 16 and microg. When I enter my username and password, it just hangs logging in. I then tried backing up the app on my old phone with adb backup then restored it to my new phone. The first time I started looxie, I was logged in and could see the feed. Now everytime I start the app, I get an empty feed that never updates. Also, my username is not displayed in the menu. Any ideas on how to get it working with microg?
Jeff
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Hey Jeff! I've never tested the app on a device with microg, unfortunately. Unless the microg package includes an implementation of FirebaseAuth, I cannot see it working. I'll need to check and see though, so stay tuned. If you're the Jeff from the app, it's nice to see you here, thanks for all the awesome photos :good:

Antonis427 said:
Hey Jeff! I've never tested the app on a device with microg, unfortunately. Unless the microg package includes an implementation of FirebaseAuth, I cannot see it working. I'll need to check and see though, so stay tuned. If you're the Jeff from the app, it's nice to see you here, thanks for all the awesome photos :good:
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Thanks, It looks like microg doesn't support FirebaseAuth currently, there are a few issues in github for it. I'll try agian when they have it supported.
Jeff