Category Archives: Sécurité

Android without Google and GNU/Linux with APK

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* GNU/Linux on your phone now
* GNU/Linux with Android APK compatibility layer
* Managing APK of a device
** Listing APK installed on the device
** Dumping an APK installed on the device
** Installing an APK onto the device from the computer
** Removing closed source spywares from your current Android system as a transition phase

Android will move from Linux kernel and open specs APK format to a more closed package format and to their closed source Fuschia kernel going away from Free Open Source software (FOSS) that make Google, Android, ChromeOS grow, but also that are used on most of the internet servers, on most of supercomputer in the world, on most spacecrafts, on most internet boxes, TVboxes, etc…

You can easily remove any package of your Android device, ever without root access, using adb from your computer (see full article for more details):

adb shell pm list packages
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gm

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An ultra-portable medical equipement based on Rockchip RK3288

Found on the excellent CNX-Software site, a portable medical device (a tablet with Rockccip RK3288 SoC), which support digital equipments like scanner for echograph, analyse of blood pressure etc.

Should allow to reduce the cost of medical equipments, and allow to have this kind of analysis on places far from hospitals and cities. Could help a lot emergency people, for a first diagnostic before doing anything. The product is in conformity with medical rules.

SanStar WS-3A Medical Board Runs Android 5.1 on Rockchip RK3288 SoC.
* Official page of the SanStar WS-3A Medical Motherboard.