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

Post by merb » Sat, May 05, 2018, 7:44 PM UTC

edent wrote: post #21

I wrote about this three years ago - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/08/sharing-on-android-is-broke... - using mostly the same examples. Google employees are mostly interested in building new stuff, not fixing broken old stuff. There's also no central design authority for Google's Android. Each team implements the same thing in multiple different way. Which is a shame, because there are plenty of people who would happi…

Post by edent » Sat, May 05, 2018, 7:53 PM UTC

merb wrote: post #22

edent wrote: post #21

I wrote about this three years ago - https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2015/08/sharing-on-android-is-broke... - using mostly the same examples. Google employees are mostly interested in building new stuff, not fixing broken old stuff. There's also no central design authority for Google's Android. Each team implements the same thing in multiple different way. Which is a shame, because there are plenty of people who would happi…

> but Google doesn't accept patches. is this true that google won't accept public patches? are there any examples?

Post by photon-torpedo » Sat, May 05, 2018, 8:05 PM UTC

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…

Post by rhizome » Sat, May 05, 2018, 8:44 PM UTC

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.

Post by oliwarner » Sat, May 05, 2018, 8:47 PM UTC

fareesh wrote: post #27

fooker wrote: post #23

Uninstall Slack and Messenger. You will instantly notice the difference, the lag almost disappears. This makes it seem like it is an amateur design issue, where callbacks are perhaps being called much more often than they are needed. How often does your 'most contacted' list need to change anyway?

I don't think it's limited to those two apps. I use neither of them and I still have issues. Perhaps Whatsapp and hangouts add similar callback hell to the widget?