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Any way for you to use Chromium as the engine instead of stock 4.4? Regarding the Apple approach as you referred to limiting user options to cut down on clutter, while that has its merits, I think your target audience with an app like this has a higher concentration of nerds than usual, so maybe reconsider.
Any way for you to use Chromium as the engine instead of stock 4.4? Regarding the Apple approach as you referred to limiting user options to cut down on clutter, while that has its merits, I think your target audience with an app like this has a higher concentration of nerds than usual, so maybe reconsider.
The general idea of creating overlays for actions that take awhile to complete should really be integrated into the system itself. It's a really good idea that the desktop gets around by allowing multiple windows at once. On a phone with only 1 window, it's a really obvious solution that surprisingly hasn't been used much before. I think the origin of the idea is probably Facebook's Android app where contacts are lit…
> The general idea of creating overlays for actions that take awhile to complete should really be integrated into the system itself. This was the feature of Android that got me really excited when Google first announced it. The whole idea of Intents is that you can have a stack of things you're doing; clicking a link will open a new Activity on the top of the stack and hitting Back will pop that Activity off the stac…
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Well, to be fair, Facebook was the company that created the always open "floating bubble" concept, to my knowledge. Link Bubble behaves very similarly to Facebook Messenger in this way (the way the bubbles move, how you interact with them, close them, etc), and I can't help but think that Facebook was inspiration for the project. This is actually a good thing because I always thought that the Chat Heads were a novel…
According to the developer, Chris Lacy[1], Link Bubble was in development before Facebook's Messenger was released. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7454918
Any way for you to use Chromium as the engine instead of stock 4.4? Regarding the Apple approach as you referred to limiting user options to cut down on clutter, while that has its merits, I think your target audience with an app like this has a higher concentration of nerds than usual, so maybe reconsider.
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That is like saying the IPhone is a copied "concept" from other touchscreen devices.
Well, to be fair, Facebook was the company that created the always open "floating bubble" concept, to my knowledge. Link Bubble behaves very similarly to Facebook Messenger in this way (the way the bubbles move, how you interact with them, close them, etc), and I can't help but think that Facebook was inspiration for the project. This is actually a good thing because I always thought that the Chat Heads were a novel…
I believe Holo in Paranoid Android's ROM was first, beating Facebook's app by a few months at least.
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Please do. I would like to use Link Bubble for opening links when I'm using Twitter, Reddit or HN app. It's pretty awesome but like what he said, I'm not yet ready to give up Chrome fully.
I already have the code to allow you to specify this via Link Bubble's settings, but I've opted not to enable it so far. I tend to subscribe to Apple's philosophy of trying to avoid adding configurable options unless absolutely necessary, but frankly, that position can be a tough sell to early adopting Android users.
Anyway, again, this is a very awesome and useful app.
This is a brilliant idea, and I can't wait to use it. Quick question for chris_lacy: Sometimes I open links on my phone to read them on the subway when I'm offline. However, Android Chrome often decides that the 3 tabs I opened yesterday are too much for it to handle and throws them away. I try to open them on the train, it shows me a greyed screenshot of the page and a "loading" bar, then replaces the page with "You…
Link Bubble won't throw out those resources, so the page(s) will still be there.
Chris, do you plan to release this on iOS? Are there any restrictions from Apple?