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0 pointsthrowaway114601y ago0 comments

Yep, but no way to replace the voice activated assistant. Hotword activation requires system permissions.

And if you want to do things like allow the assistant to see what's inside other apps, again not possible without system permissions.

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dmitrygr1y ago

Back in the day, you could (ab)use the accessibility api for screen reading. That’s still works, but now there is a proper “read screen contents” permission that the Google Lens app uses and any other app can request

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0 pointsthrowaway114601y ago0 comments

Yep, but no way to replace the voice activated assistant. Hotword activation requires system permissions.

And if you want to do things like allow the assistant to see what's inside other apps, again not possible without system permissions.

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dmitrygr1y ago

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