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Android 11 beta is available now

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Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by logicprog »

0xdeadb00f wrote: post #19

Every single android version revamps the notification UI. I'm not complaining, this one _looks_ nice. But why change it every goddamn update? It's like one step forward, one step back.

I'll admit, I don't use Android, but that Notification Center looks pretty similar to the one that I saw previously. Yeah, it's been changed slightly, but the whole thing hasn't been switched around. It looks like they've added features though.

Honestly, I'd rather they keep refining it, at whatever step size they have to, until they get it perfect, instead of stopping with something that's "good enough."

Re: Android 11 beta is available now

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Post by londons_explore »

Novukus wrote: post #18
londons_explore wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean it could be part of the OS. It would be kind of cool if your OS could have an API to encrypt private user data with some key that only the other persons OS can decode. Chat apps could then delegate security to the OS, rather than having to trust that the app developer has a security team that knows what they're doing. You could even take it one step further and have the plaintext of the users messages secret f…

Why would you trust Google with that though?

I trust Google more than I trust ZSpeak, Chatopotimus, LolTalk, or whatever the next big VC-backed chat app is.

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Post by shock »

> To make communication easier and simpler on your phone, Android 11 will move all of your conversations across multiple messaging apps to a dedicated space in the notification section.

That makes me think of Unity's messaging menu. Everything old is new again, I suppose.

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Post by godelski »

ehsankia wrote: post #15
godelski wrote: post #6

But will my weather always show in the clock now instead of randomly? (The "At a glance that's on the homescreen, shows the date, weather, upcoming events etc. Frequently it just shows the date for me and drops weather info) And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I always found that annoying.

Android is customizable, you can put any weather widget you want, or completely swap the launcher too. As for bubbles, I think they're also optional, though if it can merge conversations across multiple different apps seamlessly, I'm all for it.

> Android is customizable, you can put any weather widget you want, or completely swap the launcher too.

I'm making a point that the default one ("At a glance") has weird behavior. If you happen to know one that has the same functionality and isn't buggy, I'll switch it out. I just want it to default be date + weather and only change when I have a calendar event or flight. But it currently seems that whenever I want to actually know the weather that it just shows the date while its usual default state is date + weather.

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Post by tw04 »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #14
tw04 wrote: post #11

>More privacy improvements But still no encrypted chat. It's cute watching the security theater out of Google. Security to them means "only WE get access to your data, and ALL of your data".

Encrypted chat is an app, not an OS API.

Encrypted chat is included by default with IOS. It could be with Android by Google as well, it still isn't.
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