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 doesn t 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 isn t allowed to delete and restore files without explicit user consent anymore. Luckily, there s a fix for some phones.
The problem
If you use Google Photos on Android 11, you may have already run into the new Allow Photos to move this photo to trash prompt when you want to delete something. That s because apps targeting the latest Android version need an explicit user confirmation before they re allowed to move, edit, or delete files. While that new prompt isn t too big of a deal, the problem becomes more severe when you routinely edi