Android Leftovers

• Android P: Cheat sheet

• Fuchsia Friday: Early thoughts on how Android compatibility could potentially happen

• Android Circuit: New Galaxy Note Confirmed, OnePlus 6 Leaks, Samsung Patents 'iPhone X Style' Notch

• Google's plan to fix texting on Android is really about the death of SMS

• Google Photos for Android reorganizes bottom bar to prioritize main tab & view

Linux Foundation Leftovers

• Cloud Foundry eyes China’s market with Alibaba Cloud’s membership

  Alibaba Cloud announced it is deploying Cloud Foundry on its infrastructure alongside joining the Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member.

• Cloud Foundry Remains Committed, Cautious on Kubernetes

  The Cloud Foundry Foundation continues to garner strong support from the developer community. But the ongoing surge in interest around the use of Kubernetes to exploit containers for cloud deployments has placed a focus on how the Cloud Foundry Foundation will evolve. The topic of Kubernetes integration with Cloud Foundry was part of several sessions and keynote addresses at this week’s Cloud Foundry Summit. While the organization has tangentially begun to integrate the container orchestrator into its work, it remains cautious on a stronger embrace.

• Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry grow closer

  Containers are eating the software world — and Kubernetes is the king of containers. So if you are working on any major software project, especially in the enterprise, you will run into it sooner or later. Cloud Foundry, which hosted its semi-annual developer conference in Boston this week, is an interesting example for this.

• Cloud Foundry PaaS shops hone software delivery process

  Enterprises that have deployed Cloud Foundry platform as a service found it catalyzed new thinking about the application delivery process and other organizational practices.

• Hyperledger bug bounty program goes public

  Hyperledger is an open-source project and hub for developers to work on blockchain technologies. The Hyperledger infrastructure is being developed in order to support cross-industry uses of distributed ledger technologies, most commonly associated with the exchange of cryptocurrency. [...] Over the past year, Hyperledger has formalized how blockchain projects can move from development to their first 1.0 release. This process now includes a number of security requirements, including meeting the demands of the Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), which sets "best practice" requirements for open-source project security. In addition, up to three members of a project must be nominated to the Hyperledger security team to help triage and resolve vulnerabilities.

• iconectiv Brings Device ID Expertise to the Linux Foundation

  The Bridgewater, New Jersey-based company iconectiv this week joined the Linux Foundation Networking Fund. iconectiv is perhaps most well-known as a Local Number Portability Administrator (LNPA). In this role the company handles the administrative work to enable people to port their phone numbers between different service providers. It operates as the LNPA for the majority of countries in the world. It was named as the LNPA for the United States in 2016, taking over the role from Neustar.

Android/Chrome: GNU/Linux on Chrome OS and Surveillance 'Apps' on Android

• Google’s Crostini lets you run GNU/Linux apps on Chromebooks without enabling developer mode

  People have been running Ubuntu and other GNU/Linux distributions on Chromebooks for almost as long as Chromebooks have been available. While some folks have replaced Chrome OS altogether or created dual boot systems, the simplest method is to use Crouton, which allows you to install a Linux distribution in a chroot environment, allowing you to run Ubuntu or another OS alongside Chrome OS and switch between the two environments without rebooting.

• What Is Google’s ‘Chat’ For Android? An RCS-based Alternative To iMessage?

• Exclusive: Chat is Google’s next big fix for Android’s messaging mess

• 10 Best Fitness Apps For Android To Track Your Workouts In 2018

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