...anyone else seeing 'out of stock' for all configurations and models? Yep, definitely another high-grade Google Play user experience....
Keep checking. When I first looked they only had 32GB versions. I checked again and the 16GB ones showed up.
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#122"the book you're reading, the game you're playing, or the movie you're watching" I'm confused, PDFs, games and movies already are full screen on previous android versions.
On my N7, reading replaces the action bar with faded out dots. I'm assuming that in 4.4 the action bar disappears now too. I've read that you swipe from an edge to make it reappear. I'm interested to see how edge swipe heavy apps (Kindle) will handle it.
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#123I was hoping for waterproofed...
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
>which seems to be a very long time in Google terms To be fair, that was during the iPhone 4 period. The iPhone has since gone to the iPhone 4s, iPhone 5, and then iPhone 5s. Many users report an absolutely miserable experience with iOS 7 (and even 6) on the iPhone 4. The mobile industry has moved very, very quickly, and devices are a magnitude more powerful+ than just a couple of years ago. As a developer with an in…
My colleague has an iPhone 4, iOS 7 works on it beautifully for him. My iPhone 4S has also not had any issues with iOS 7...
Interesting since my iPhone 4 has slowed the a crawl with iOS7. Nearly unusable now.
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#125Here's the Android release notes: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html Highlights: * WebView is now based on Chromium * KSM and zRAM integrated into stock kernel * Public SMS framework * Printing framework * Storage access framework
>WebView is now based on Chromium Does that mean that there will no more be stock 'Browser' app? I refuse to use Chrome on Android because of brain-dead, non-disablable 'font-boosting' that makes (among many others) Hacker News absolutely unusable. If that means that the same engine is the only one officially supported on 4.4 forwards, then that's really sad and unfortunate.
> Does that mean that there will no more be stock 'Browser' app? I refuse to use Chrome on Android because of brain-dead, non-disablable 'font-boosting' that makes (among many others) Hacker News absolutely unusable.
WebView is the UI class for displaying webpages as a native Android view. The Browser app contains much more than the WebView class itself.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your not using Firefox on Android, your browser woes are your own fault :D <3 Mozilla
Apart from Mozilla love, what are the good reasons to use Firefox on Android? I tried it, found it slower and less responsive than Chrome. But as this is a completely biased feeling, I'd love to know more.
Performance depends on the hardware, it seems. On my dual-core+1GB RAM tablet (a Nook HD), Firefox is visibly faster than Chrome (to the point where the latter is almost unusable). On my N4, they're about the same.
Re: Android for all and the new Nexus 5
#127Here's the Android release notes: http://developer.android.com/about/versions/kitkat.html Highlights: * WebView is now based on Chromium * KSM and zRAM integrated into stock kernel * Public SMS framework * Printing framework * Storage access framework
"Host card emulation" -- Does this mean I can "upload" my NFC bank cards and transport card and have my phone emulate them? If so that is -freaking awesome-.
That would be cool as crap. And quickly the subject of all sorts of hell across the board.
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Galaxy Nexus doesn't go through carriers unless you're on Verizon (or maybe Sprint). It was sold through Google Play (and given away at developer events like I/O) completely unlocked. Here are the images Google has supplied for this device in the past: https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#takju Leaving it out of Google's announcement feels a lot like an implicit deprecation to me.
There is a FAQ page that confirm the deprecation of the support of the gnex : https://support.google.com/nexus/answer/3468085 Well, I'm a little bit disappointed, I hoped to have the update too.
That says they support for 18 months, but the Galaxy Nexus was available from Google Play as late as July 4[1] - that's less than 18 months.
[1] http://www.redmondpie.com/galaxy-nexus-pulled-from-google-pl...
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#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your not using Firefox on Android, your browser woes are your own fault :D <3 Mozilla
Apart from Mozilla love, what are the good reasons to use Firefox on Android? I tried it, found it slower and less responsive than Chrome. But as this is a completely biased feeling, I'd love to know more.
Sync is one good reason if you're already using desktop Firefox.
I had problems using Firefox on a stock Android Nexus 4 (bugs with selecting text and freezing when scrolling) but it's been a flawless experience after switching to Cyanogen. I'm at a loss to explain the difference.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
If your not using Firefox on Android, your browser woes are your own fault :D <3 Mozilla
Apart from Mozilla love, what are the good reasons to use Firefox on Android? I tried it, found it slower and less responsive than Chrome. But as this is a completely biased feeling, I'd love to know more.
Firefox for Android supports add-ons like Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/adblock-plus/
Firefox for Android also runs on Android 2.2 (Froyo) and later. Chrome only supports Android 4.0 (ICS) and later.