AirGuard VS Taskbar

That's true for Apple's Tracker Detect app, but any thief could simply use the free and open source AirGuard app, which has more functionality than both Tracker Detect and the AirTag features built into iOS:

https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

For example, AirGuard lets the user activate the alarm on any AirTag in range immediately without waiting any period of time. iOS and Tracker Detect only lets the user do this if it determines that the AirTag is following the user, and Tracker Detect adds another 10 minute waiting period for no good reason.

Good time to remind people that AirGuard exists.

Apple doesn't develop the Android OS, it's up to the Android developers to integrate tracking bluetooth low energy devices if they so choose. They could simply integrate the open source project AirGuard, for example.

use something like apple's tracker detect app or airguard (github) to check for other air tags, in case theru was more than one, then follow bigbadbuff's advice.

Yes! https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

Not natively. You need to install a specific app, for example:

- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.trac...

- https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

The beacons should just use BLE. For Android there's an app that lets you detect beacons tracking you. You can check out the source code to see how they parse the packets https://github.com/seemoo-lab/AirGuard

Or does Android maybe already work this way? I am not aware of any desktop-mode launchers. I am aware of Taskbar, but as far as I recall, it does not provide everything that a desktop environment does. I could be wrong though.

I was using LineageOS for a long time with core google services + android auto. I have a Toyota Yaris (2022) and I was getting used to Android Auto, especially for Maps. Now I 'm going for grapheneOS and pixel phones and I 'm in the transition of moving away for anything google. What I 'll miss the most is Android Auto on my car's dashboard and the safety it provides in terms of design (big buttons etc). I tried to use Miracast but it's not available when the car is moving. I found this app called (Taskbar)[https://github.com/farmerbb/Taskbar] which imo is the best replacement for android auto. You can pin your apps you want and they are always visible to switch them. Is there anyway that can improve my situation? Taskbar is good, but is out there anything better?

For that, the device that you would be developing for needs Android 10+ and you would be making a launcher. Check out Taskbar, libtaskbar and the xda developers article mentioning it.

Taskbar (version 6.2): Use a start menu to access apps

However, you can still install the regular version of Taskbar alongside the bundled Android-x86 version, and just use that version instead. You can either install it from the Play Store or grab the apk from here. It should behave mostly the same as the bundled version, just without the option to only display currently running apps (since that requires a permission that only system apps can use). So I'd say give that version a try and see if that fixes your crashing issue, if it doesn't, let me know.

Has anyone tested taskbar on an external monitor on the Duo2? https://github.com/farmerbb/Taskbar

Here's one

Check out Taskbar on Github here to get started. That's all I can suggest, other than to say Android 9 is pretty old with respect to external display features.