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Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Re: Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Post by mistermann »

knaik94 wrote: post #5

It's "edge" cases like this that make me glad to be on android. There has been a workaround for this with where you can customize the menu by redirecting all share intents to a specific app . There are cases where apps don't use the standard api for share intents, but in most cases this app works as expected. I agree Android should have a built in function that provides this level of customization at the OS level. Go…

There are better options if rooted, but Andmade is pretty darn good if you're not. It does feel antiquated though.

Re: Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Post by diggan »

simsla wrote: post #6
mholt wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it's real. And the lag often causes me to accidentally share to the wrong place == really bad.

Same here. Interface elements still shifting around after a second is very bad UX.

Ohyes, and this happens all over the web (looking at you Twitter) and even in the browsers themselves, Firefox is the only browser whose results in the address bar that doesn't jump around. Chrome and Safari are literally unusable for me because of this.

Re: Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Post by dmix »

The bug report on the Issue Tracker: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/68393945

Outside of the UI consistency issue, simply caching the share link index would largely fix the problem...

The UI consistency problem is the harder problem to solve and a common issue across Android apps, although not anywhere near as bad as it used to be. Maybe Google should publish some guidelines around share button placement? But I'm not sure how that would work exactly... but Google should definitely lead the way here (Youtube using a completely different icon is a great example).

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Post by bastawhiz »

I wish they would improve what suggestions they offer at the top of the menu. It suggests slack channels I've never posted in, contacts I haven't messaged in years, and apps that I've never shared to. Even just having a better heuristic would make it 100x better.

Re: Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Post by ncallaway »

bastawhiz wrote: post #16

I wish they would improve what suggestions they offer at the top of the menu. It suggests slack channels I've never posted in, contacts I haven't messaged in years, and apps that I've never shared to. Even just having a better heuristic would make it 100x better.

If it just used the last 4 people I had shared a message with it would be such a massive improvement.

I feel like they're trying to do something extremely sophisticated and it's coming out far far worse than if they were doing something extremely simple.

Re: Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Post by scraft »

Yes 100%. It is shocking how long it can take to bting up the share dialog and no indication of progress so you can end up clicking again and that click then gets passed to the share dialog when it finally comes up and starts sharing somewhere completely inappropriately.

Sometimes I leave it for several seconds, no share dialog, so press it again, but low and behold it was just taking a really long time. Othertimes I wait and wait and wait and eventually conclude it isn't coming up after all.

After years of training you get better at sharing, very firm clear tap on share and then wait 10 seconds. But then someone else uses my phone and I tell them to share it for me and it goes horribly wrong and they can't quite believe how bad it is, just as I get used to it.

Currently on a Samsung Galaxy S6 but I have had this issue on all Android phones.

The order thing is insane, I wondered if this was all just my phone, maybe a rogue app or bad firmware update, so relieving to hear this happens to others.

Re: Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Post by zmk_ »

matharmin wrote: post #2

Is this really an issue for anyone? This seems like a whole lot of complaining over functionality that actually works fairly well in my opinion.

Not only have I shared to the wrong app on multiple occasions, the direct sharing is useless. I mostly use one app for IMs, but the direct share is always populated by another app.

But this is also not only Google's issue. If you direct share to a contact in Messenger, instead of just sharing whatever you wanted to, Messenger opens the share interface where you can select other people to share to. This is even though you wanted to share to just one.

Re: Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

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Post by bastawhiz »

ncallaway wrote: post #17
bastawhiz wrote: post #16

I wish they would improve what suggestions they offer at the top of the menu. It suggests slack channels I've never posted in, contacts I haven't messaged in years, and apps that I've never shared to. Even just having a better heuristic would make it 100x better.

If it just used the last 4 people I had shared a message with it would be such a massive improvement. I feel like they're trying to do something extremely sophisticated and it's coming out far far worse than if they were doing something extremely simple.

Exactly. There are Slack channels that I share to almost every day that never show up at all. I don't know what they're doing, but it's an obvious failure.
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