News & Articles

How Fulldive VR Plays 360 and 3D Video on Android

How a 360 video player on Android handles 3D VR video, Cinerama mode, and in-app browser playback, based on Fulldive VR repository history.

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Rebuilding Fulldive VR: Unity Migration and Legacy Repairs

Fulldive VR history from feed restoration and portal VFX to build fixes and the 2024 Unity migration, drawn from three repositories.

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VR Media Discovery: Reactions, Comments, and Bookmarks

How Fulldive VR added video reactions, comments, and bookmarks to mobile virtual reality entertainment, traced through Unity repository history.

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Limits

What a Mobile VR App Can and Cannot Do in 2026

An honest look at what a mobile VR app on Android can and cannot do in 2026: device sensors, headset support, video sources, and store availability.

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Why Mobile VR Apps Need Headset-Specific Work

How an Android VR app adapts to Cardboard, WaveVR, and Vive SDK shifts, with permission, localization, and video scaling fixes from Fulldive VR history.

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AI-assisted claim checking and trend review

WizeUp (formerly FD Browser)

WizeUp is the renamed Fulldive Browser. These articles cover the rebrand, AI claim checking, personalized feeds, and performance engineering.

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Use Case

Checking News Before Sharing: The WizeUp Workflow

How to check news before sharing on Android: a step-by-step WizeUp workflow for reviewing a trending claim with AI Chat and primary sources.

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Deep Links and the App Info Screen in WizeUp

How the WizeUp browser handles wizeup:// deep links, the App Info screen, and retention tracking on Android, with commits and platform references.

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How Fulldive Browser Became WizeUp: A Product History

How Fulldive Browser became WizeUp, traced through the git history: the 6.2.0 feed refactor, the rename, version 6.12.0, and the move off api.fdvr.co.

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Personalized Feeds, Trends, and Daily Digest in WizeUp

A guide to AI-assisted browsing on Android in WizeUp: personalized feeds, trending topics, comments, and the daily digest push, with commits and limits.

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Wize AdBlock VPN Engineering

Reducing ANR and Cold Start in an Android Browser

How WizeUp improved Android browser performance: ANR refactor, Moxy-to-ViewModel migration, Rx-to-coroutines rewrite, and push reliability work.

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Limits

What an AI Fake News Checker Can and Cannot Do

An honest look at what an AI fake news checker like WizeUp can do, what it cannot, and how AI-assisted claim review differs from human fact checking.

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Local DNS filtering on Android, iOS, and macOS

Wize AdBlock VPN

Wize AdBlock VPN is a VPN-style local ad and tracker blocker. These articles cover DNS filtering, privacy reporting, and lifecycle engineering.

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Cold-Start and DNS Lifecycle Bugs in a VPN-Style Ad Blocker

An Android ad blocker VPN lives or dies on its lifecycle. Six real Wize AdBlock VPN commits for cold-start, teardown, and platform-modernization fixes.

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Wize AdBlock VPN Explainer

DNS Ad Blocking vs VPN Ad Blocking on Android: What Actually Runs on Your Phone

DNS ad blocker Android apps and VPN-style ad blockers share the same Pi-hole sinkhole model. Here is how Wize AdBlock VPN implements it on-device.

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Wize AdBlock VPN Explainer

How VPN-Style Ad Blockers Work Without Root on Android

A no root ad blocker for Android uses the VpnService API to filter DNS locally. Here is the lifecycle, the teardown, and the reason it does not need root.

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Wize AdBlock VPN Product History

macOS Private DNS and iOS Targets: Expanding Wize AdBlock Beyond Android

An Android private DNS ad blocker grows up: how Wize AdBlock VPN added macOS private DNS detection and iOS run targets, with Android still the primary platform.

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Wize AdBlock VPN Guide

Privacy Pulse and Weekly Reports: Making a Local Ad Blocker Legible

A privacy report on Android is visibility, not protection. How Wize AdBlock VPN surfaces weekly Privacy Pulse reports and what those numbers really mean.

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Wize AdBlock VPN Limits

What Wize AdBlock VPN Can and Cannot Block

What Android ad blockers can and cannot block, told honestly. Wize AdBlock VPN is a local DNS filter, not a privacy suite, and this post is explicit about both.

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Per-app Wi-Fi and mobile-data controls

DataGuard No Root Firewall

DataGuard is a no-root Android firewall built on VpnService. These articles cover how it works, what it cannot do, and a decade of platform maintenance.

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A Decade of DataGuard: No-Root Android Firewall Maintenance

DataGuard firewall app history from 2015 to 2026: no-root firewall app evolution through Android 13, SDK 35, 16 KB alignment, and 2.30x releases.

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Block Apps From Using Mobile Data or Wi-Fi on Android (No Root)

Step-by-step: use an app internet blocker Android users trust to block apps from using mobile data or Wi-Fi, without rooting your phone.

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How No-Root Android Firewalls Work (And Why They Need a VPN Slot)

A plain-English explainer on how a no root firewall Android app like DataGuard blocks per-app internet using Android's VpnService, without root.

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Comparison

No-Root Firewall vs VPN on Android: What Actually Differs

No-root firewall vs VPN explained: DataGuard's per-app filter, a tunneling VPN, and a DNS ad blocker all use the same VPN slot for very different jobs.

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Limits

What Android Firewalls Can and Cannot Protect Against

An honest list of what an Android firewall can and cannot protect against: DataGuard's per-app network control is not an antivirus, VPN, or permission manager.

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Why DataGuard Rebuilds the VPN on Network Change (Engineering Notes)

Why an Android firewall connection log can go silent: how DataGuard rebuilds its VpnService when the active network changes, and the active-network-is-VPN edge.

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Game console emulator for Android, tablet, and TV

One Emulator & Pro Emulator

Our Android game console emulator family (FullRoid). These articles cover save states, controllers, cores, compatibility, and product evolution.

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Emulator Guide

Android Game Console Emulator Features To Look For In 2026

A buyer's guide to Android game console emulator features: save states, quick save and load, fast forward, controller support, and Android TV layouts.

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Citra, melonDS, And Desmume: How Android Emulator Core Updates Work

A plain explanation of how Android emulator core updates work, using Citra, melonDS, and desmume changes in FullRoid as concrete examples.

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Emulator Guide

Controllers For An Android Emulator: Touchscreen, Bluetooth, And TV

Set up controllers for an Android game emulator: touchscreen overlays, Bluetooth gamepads, and Android TV D-pad layouts, with configuration tips.

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Free vs Pro Android Emulator: What The Paid Version Actually Changes

Honest comparison of the free and Pro Android emulator for console games, explaining what a Pro Android emulator no ads package does and does not add.

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FullRoid Games Catalog: Curated Android Emulator Game Library

A look at the FullRoid Games catalog repository: how a curated Android emulator game library is assembled without bundling copyrighted content.

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Emulator Guide

How To Organize Supported Game Files For An Android Emulator

Practical guide to folder layout, file naming, and per-core expectations for an Android emulator ROM folder with legally obtained game files.

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Save States vs In-Game Saves On Android Emulators

Save states snapshot emulator memory, in-game saves use the game's own save system. Here's how both work on an Android emulator with save states.

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The FullRoid Evolution: Cores, Save States, And Android Modernization

FullRoid emulator history from 2017 to 2026: 1,778 commits of core updates, save state work, Compose migration, and Android target SDK modernization.

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Why Emulator Compatibility Varies By Game And Device On Android

A clear explanation of why Android emulator compatibility varies by game, file, device, Android version, and core — with no universal-support claims.

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SMS and MMS forwarding to email or Telegram

WizeSMS (formerly Dive SMS)

WizeSMS forwards SMS and MMS to email or Telegram. These articles cover how to set it up, the privacy tradeoffs, and reliability engineering.

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Default SMS App On Android: Why Forwarding Needs It

Why Android SMS apps need default-app permissions to forward messages, how the default SMS role works, and what WizeSMS actually does with it.

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Privacy Tradeoffs

Forwarding OTPs And Verification Codes: Privacy Tradeoffs To Weigh

Before you forward OTP codes to email or verification codes to Telegram, understand how it changes your authentication surface, grounded in WizeSMS evidence.

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How To Forward SMS To Email On Android With WizeSMS

A practical guide to setting up SMS to email forwarding on Android using WizeSMS, with Gmail OAuth, forwarding rules, test messages, and privacy tradeoffs.

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How To Forward SMS To Telegram On Android With WizeSMS

Set up SMS to Telegram forwarding on Android with WizeSMS. Covers the Cloud Function relay, setup flow, status notifications, and privacy tradeoffs.

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How WizeSMS Evolved From SMS Messenger To Forwarding Utility

The WizeSMS app history in brief: from 2015 SMS/MMS foundations as Dive SMS through Fulldive extension releases to Gmail and Telegram forwarding in 2025-2026.

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SMS And MMS Reliability On Android: What WizeSMS Has Fixed

The engineering behind SMS and MMS reliability on Android, shown through WizeSMS commits: error handling, SDK 31 push, scheduled SMS, Realm migration.

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Use Case

SMS Forwarding For Business Alerts, Travel, And Remote Work

Practical SMS forwarding patterns for business alerts, travel, and remote teams using WizeSMS to email or Telegram, plus the privacy tradeoffs to weigh.

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Mobile AI workspace for agent-driven automation

LikeClaw AI Agent

LikeClaw is a mobile AI agent and automation workspace. These articles cover the app's origin, skills, billing, iOS shipping, and consent.

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Privacy And Trust

AI Consent And Account Deletion In LikeClaw

How LikeClaw, Fulldive's AI agent app, handles AI consent, scoped permissions, account deletion, and the user data lifecycle.

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Engineering Guide

Billing And StoreKit 2 In A Mobile AI Automation App

How LikeClaw handles model selection, credit errors, localized billing copy, and StoreKit 2 signed transaction verification on iOS.

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LikeClaw: From Chat Dashboard To Mobile AI Workspace

How LikeClaw grew from a chat-based Flutter dashboard into a mobile AI agent app with files, skills, billing, and iOS delivery in 141 commits.

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Shipping LikeClaw To TestFlight And The App Store

How LikeClaw, Fulldive's mobile AI workspace, built its iOS delivery pipeline — TestFlight, App Store workflows, and multi-brand readiness.

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Skills And Virtual Files In LikeClaw: How The Agent Gets Work Done

An explainer on LikeClaw's skills screen, virtual file system, tool-call display, and Connections screen — the surfaces that turn chat into a mobile AI workspace.

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Limits And Safety

What A Mobile AI Agent Can (And Cannot) Responsibly Automate

A grounded look at what a mobile AI agent app like LikeClaw can automate, what it should not, and why oversight still matters on a phone.

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Android storage cleanup, inside Android's permission limits

Full Cleaner

Full Cleaner is a smaller, less-actively-maintained app. These articles document how it works, its release history, and its current availability.

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Maintenance Status

Full Cleaner Availability and Transparency: Where the App Stands in 2026

An honest status on Full Cleaner: last inspected maintenance in January 2022, Play Store listing not resolving on our last check, and what it means for users.

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Full Cleaner Release History: From Extension Setup to 1.0.8

A commit-by-commit release history of Full Cleaner, Fulldive's Android storage cleaner extension, from 2021 setup to the 1.0.8 maintenance line in January 2022.

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