As the app support and exchange is available now, I wanted to create a topic with purely technical aspects how the devices can be used the best way right now. Please do not discuss about Jollas communication or future payment models here, there are already other topics about that. I will edit this post with your answers, but this could also be used as a community wiki if someone can set this up.
You can use the v4b Android 13 binaries instead of the Android 14 ones
(Use this only for 10 V:fastboot flash oem_a SW_binaries_for_Xperia_Android_13_5.4_v4b_zambezi.img)
Camera Not working at all right now. Is camera2 API a solution? Are there any example codes or documentation how to integrate the camera or how to develop on camera2 so some community developer could play around with it?
Fingerprint sensor Not working at all right now.
Missing predictive text input
As alternative there exists the open source alternative presage at openrepos in different languages.
Long boot and reboot times
When the device starts up there is a unusual long time that nothing is happening and the screen is just black. Simply wait for a few minutes before thinking about a reset of the device.
In the PR you use make libdroidmedia to compile the library, but there is no makefile in the repo, it seems to use meson. Using meson setup build && cd build && meson compile I just was able to create a libdroidmedia.a, what are the correct build instructions?
Thanks for this, I was able to build the library with a lot of try-and-error now.
Sadly the library did not change anything on my 10 V. @rainemak is it possible that your camera kill-switch also disables camera2 even if it could work? Is there an easy way to re-enable the camera to try it out?
I never expected that you can tell me that, that’s why I wanted to try it out. Thanks a lot for your helpful hints, I will comment the missing parts to get it build to the PR this evening when I’m at home.