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I wonder if any of the Google apps will support a dark mode. Maps / Gmail are harder to use with all of the white
Many Google apps already do. It was weird during the Android 10 Beta because Google was releasing apps with partial support for Dark mode which made them hard to use. You'd sometimes get dark grey text on black background, for instance.
Wait a second. The back button is being replaced with a swipe from the left edge of the screen??? What if my phone is really wide? What if I miss that gesture 40% of the time?
Or is it too much to ask and so each native app shall reinvent the wheel by its own?
12 years and no such basic stuff ...
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Security is and always has been a sliding scale, despite always referred colloquially as being either present or absent. "Keeping your password secure" in English really means, "improving the security of your password".
Except this feature doesn't add security, it just adds a tool for reducing the usability trade-off of having a long hard password. I think it is very misleading phrasing.
This way, if you just have them scan the QR code on your phone (and don't let them photograph it), technically you have securely given the password without them knowing it, right?
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> a removable battery and OS updates for two years This provokes me. Are we supposed to be happy with two years ? The environmental impact of e-waste and the production of electronics should not be understated. I have a Nexus 5 as a backup phone. It works just as well as my main handset. I know how to duck the G-surveillance and I'm able to keep it alive because I have the knowledge to install roms. Not everyone does…
> Are we supposed to be happy with two years? The environmental impact of e-waste and the production of electronics should not be understated. Can you elaborate on this? Because I'm thinking of the amount of garbage I put in the bin over a period of two whole years, and the size of my phone, its packaging, chargers, cables, and manuals all together is just not even comparable. Even if you add in the environmental cos…
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Except this feature doesn't add security, it just adds a tool for reducing the usability trade-off of having a long hard password. I think it is very misleading phrasing.
Does the person who scanned the QR code have access to the wifi password after the fact on their phone? From what I remember, there is no way to access saved wifi passwords, you can just modify it but can't see the stored one. This way, if you just have them scan the QR code on your phone (and don't let them photograph it), technically you have securely given the password without them knowing it, right?
Yes and this version of Android makes it easy to view saved wifi passwords without a third-party app.
I know this is silly but losing the dessert codename is kinda sad.
Sure, K comes before P in the alphabet, but figuring this (and the actual distance) out takes a lot more mental effort than comparing 4.4 with 9.
It also resolves the issue where you need to decide whether 7 is larger than Marshmallow - a question that would make people question your sanity if posed without context.
And to make it more confusing, each release had a separate codename used before the release, so you had Android K, Android Key Lime Pie, Android KitKat, Android 4.4, and API level 19, all meaning the same thing.
Now, if only we could get rid of the separate "API level" designator (or rather, turn it into an opaque enum, instead of using it everywhere)... because 28 should not be less than 10.
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Except this feature doesn't add security, it just adds a tool for reducing the usability trade-off of having a long hard password. I think it is very misleading phrasing.
Does the person who scanned the QR code have access to the wifi password after the fact on their phone? From what I remember, there is no way to access saved wifi passwords, you can just modify it but can't see the stored one. This way, if you just have them scan the QR code on your phone (and don't let them photograph it), technically you have securely given the password without them knowing it, right?
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> The way they show and demonstrate gestures, along with the UI at the bottom, strongly suggests that they intend to eliminate the semi-"hard" buttons in favor of gestures. Yes, that's the case. When you're using gesture navigation the only visible UI left is the horizontal bar at them bottom. Apps adjusted for gesture navigation will also draw behind that line. Gesture navigation is still an option which might not b…
Their own charts/graphs on that page show that the new approach is WORSE (by their own metrics) than the 3 soft buttons. I hope there remain ways to hack the buttons back (in 9.x there was): #install a 3rd party launcher (nova) pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.apps.nexuslauncher settings put secure gesture_swipe_up 0 settings put secure system_navigation_keys_enabled 1 reboot
Also, the charts show that it's either equal and better, and there's also the implicit fact that not showing buttons also means more screen space, so even if usability metric is the same, visually it's a win.
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Except this feature doesn't add security, it just adds a tool for reducing the usability trade-off of having a long hard password. I think it is very misleading phrasing.
Does the person who scanned the QR code have access to the wifi password after the fact on their phone? From what I remember, there is no way to access saved wifi passwords, you can just modify it but can't see the stored one. This way, if you just have them scan the QR code on your phone (and don't let them photograph it), technically you have securely given the password without them knowing it, right?