Cette semaine, l'actu a été rythmée par les séries ! Des nouvelles du très attendu comeback de Buffy contre les vampires, science-fiction à la carte sur Netflix et nouveau look d'Android à venir sur les prochains smartphones : voilà ce que vous ne devez pas rater cette semaine.

An anonymous reader shared this report from Ars Technica: Nextcloud, a host-your-own cloud platform that wants to help you "regain control over your data," has had to tell its Android-using customers for months now that they cannot upload files from their phone to their own servers. Months of emails and explanations to Google's Play Store representatives have yielded no changes, Nextcloud . That blog post — and media coverage of it — seem to have moved the needle. In an update to the post, Nextcloud wrote that as of May 15, Google has offered to restore full file access permissions. "We are preparing a test release first (expected tonight) and a final update with all functionality restored. If no issues occur, the update will hopefully be out early next week," the Nextcloud team wrote.... [Nextcloud] told The Register that it had more than 800,000 Android users. The company's blog post goes further than pinpointing technical and support hurdles. "It is a clear example of Big Tech gatekeeping smaller software vendors, making the products of their competitors worse or unable to provide the same services as the giants themselves sell," Nextcloud's post states. "Big Tech is scared that small players like Nextcloud will disrupt them, like they once disrupted other companies. So they try to shut the door." Nextcloud is one of the leaders of an antitrust-minded movement against Microsoft's various integrated apps and services, having filed a complaint against the firm in 2021.

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Longtime Slashdot reader mprindle writes: Nextcloud has been in an ongoing battle with Google over the tech giant revoking the All Files permission from the Nextcloud Android App, which prevents users from managing their files on their server. After a blog post and several tech sites reported on the issue, "Google reached out to us [Nexcloud] and offered to restore the permission, which will give users back the functionality that was lost." Nextcloud is working on an app update and hopes to have it pushed out within a week.

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La mise à jour Android 16 va introduire un nouveau langage de design sur les smartphones et les tablettes : le Material 3 Expressive. Une couche visuelle déployée dans un second temps, puisque Google va d'abord déployer un Android 16 qui se concentre sur des nouveautés techniques.

Nextcloud has accused Google of sabotaging its Android Files app by revoking the "All files access" permission, which the company says cripples functionality for its 824,000 users and forces reliance on limited alternatives like SAF and MediaStore. The Register reports: Nextcloud's Android Files app is a file synchronization tool that, according to the company, has long had permission to read and write all file types. "Nextcloud has had this feature since its inception in 2016," it said, "and we never heard about any security concerns from Google about it." That changed in 2024, when someone or something at Google's Play Store decided to revoke the permission, effectively crippling the application. Nextcloud was instructed to use "a more privacy-aware replacement." According to Nextcloud, "SAF cannot be used, as it is for sharing/exposing our files to other apps ... MediaStore API cannot be used as it does not allow access to other files, but only media files." Attempts to raise the issue with Google resulted in little more than copy-and-pasted sections of the developer guide. "Despite multiple appeals from our side and sharing additional background, Google is not considering reinstating upload for all files," Nextcloud said. The issue seems to stem from the Play Store. While a fully functional version is available on F-Droid, the Play Store edition is subject to Google's imposed limitations. Regarding the All files access permission, Google's developer documentation states: "If you target Android 11 and declare All files access, it can affect your ability to publish and update your app on Google Play." Nextcloud is clearly aggrieved by the change, as are its users. "This might look like a small technical detail but it is clearly part of a pattern of actions to fight the competition," it said. "What we are experiencing is a piece of the script from the big tech playbook." [...] Are there nefarious actors at play here, an automated process that auto-rejects apps with elevated access requirements, or is it just simple incompetence? "Either way," Nextcloud said, "it results in companies like ours just giving up, reducing functionality just to avoid getting kicked out of their app store." "The issue is that small companies -- like ours -- have pretty much no recourse," it added. Nextcloud went on to criticize oversight processes as slow-moving, with fines that sound hefty but amount to little more than a slap on the wrist. "Big Tech is scared that small players like Nextcloud will disrupt them, like they once disrupted other companies. So they try to shut the door."

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À une semaine de la Google I/O, le géant du web dévoile officiellement Android 16, la prochaine grande mise à jour du système d'exploitation le plus utilisé au monde. Il introduit une nouvelle identité visuelle : le Material 3 Expressive. Au programme : des animations, de la transparence, de la personnalisation et beaucoup de couleurs.

Une semaine avant la Google I/O, le géant du web fait plusieurs annonces sur son écosystème Android. La marque acte le début de la fin de Google Asisstant, remplacé par défaut par Gemini dans Android for Cars, Android Auto, Wear OS 6 et Google TV.

Oh la fatigue : Il semble qu'il y ait de l'eau dans le gaz avec OrganicMaps, et du coup 💥POUF💥apparition d'un fork (sachant qu'OrganicMaps était déjà un fork de MapsMe) : https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-05-12/3/
(Note : à l'heure où j'écris ceci, les applications ne sont pas encore disponibles.)
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[Deal du jour] Le Galaxy S25 Edge, le nouveau smartphone haut de gamme de Samsung, arrive enfin. Le fabricant coréen ne propose rien de moins que son smartphone le plus fin, avec seulement 5,8 mm d’épaisseur.

Cinq mois après son annonce, le Galaxy S25 Edge, premier smartphone « slim » de Samsung, arrive enfin. Une petite prouesse technologique qui risque d'attirer les clients en magasin, mais qui nous laisse très sceptiques sur la stratégie de la marque.

[Deal du jour] La gamme des smartphones Honor 200 comprend le modèle Pro, une version haut de gamme, et le modèle basique proposé à un petit prix. Ce dernier est encore plus intéressant lorsqu'il tombe en promo.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google's accelerated Android release cycle will soon deliver a new version of the software, and it might look quite different from what you'd expect. Amid rumors of a major UI overhaul, Google seems to have accidentally published a blog post detailing "Material 3 Expressive," which we expect to see revealed at I/O later this month. Google quickly removed the post from its design site, but not before the Internet Archive saved it. It has been a few years since Google introduced any major changes to its Material theming, but the design team wasn't just sitting idly this whole time. According to the leaked blog post, Google has spent the past three years working on a more emotionally engaging vision for Android design. While the original Material Design did an admirable job of leveraging colors and consistent theming, it could make apps look too similar. The answer to that, apparently, is Material 3 Expressive. Google says this is "the most-researched update to Google's design system, ever." The effort reportedly included 46 separate studies with hundreds of sample designs. The team showed these designs to more than 18,000 study participants to understand how the user experience would work. In these studies, the design team used a variety of metrics, including the following: - Eye tracking: Analyzing where users focus their attention - Surveys and focus groups: Gauging emotional responses to different designs - Experiments: Gathering sentiment and preferences - Usability: Seeing how quickly participants could understand and use an interface "The result of all this is an interface that appears much more varied than the previous Material Design," writes Ars. You can check out 9to5Google's article, which preserved many of the blog post's visuals before they were removed.

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Google a lancé une nouvelle initiative, baptisée 100 Zeros. Elle vise à financer des projets de films et de séries pour imposer les smartphones Android à l'écran. Aujourd'hui, on voit beaucoup d'iPhone, sauf dans les mains des méchants.

Pour Amazon, ce sont les French Days, mais la plateforme célèbre aussi ses 25 années sur le territoire français. Pour l’occasion, le géant de l'e-commerce propose de nombreuses offres alléchantes. Numerama a fait un tri des meilleures disponibles.

Google a lancé une nouvelle initiative, baptisée 100 Zeros. Elle vise à financer des projets de films et de séries pour imposer les smartphones Android à l'écran. Aujourd'hui, on voit beaucoup d'iPhone, sauf dans les mains des méchants.

Google s'apprête à dévoiler Material 3 Expressive, une nouvelle interface pour Android et ses applications. L'entreprise a publié par erreur un billet de blog présentant la nouveauté.

[Deal du jour] Le fabricant britannique Nothing revient avec une nouvelle gamme de smartphone, les Nothing Phone 3. Le modèle 3a profite en ce moment d'une petite promotion toujours bonne à prendre.

Avec son MoGo 3 Pro en forme de canette, Xgimi s’adresse à un public de plus en plus nomade qui ne veut pas de télé à la maison. Le vidéoprojecteur, avec son format ultra-portable, peut être déplacé facilement et embarque Google TV pour accéder à l’intégralité des services de streaming avec un simple partage de connexion. Nous l’avons testé pendant deux mois sur un grand mur blanc. 

Une astuce permet d'obtenir 24 sabliers booster gratuitement dans Pokémon Pocket. Vous êtes à quelques clics d'ouvrir 2 boosters sans attendre.

[Deal du jour] Le nouveau smartphone milieu de gamme de Google à la très bonne fiche technique constitue un excellent concurrent à Apple et son iPhone 16e, surtout en promotion pour les French Days.