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Although it’s not a particularly well advertised feature, the Amazon Fire TV and the Amazon Fire TV Stick allow for sideloading of Android applications. With a little effort you can easily load apps on your Fire TV that aren’t available in the Amazon Appstore.

How to get rid of Google Photos out-of-sync changes prompt on Android 11 Android 11 introduced a new file accessing API, Scoped Storage. It essentially doesnt allow apps to access all files on your phone anymore, which is great for security. However, Scoped Storage also comes with some unwanted consequences. Non-Pixel phones running Android 11 have to ask users to confirm that they want to delete or restore images in Google Photos since the app isnt allowed to delete and restore files without e...