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Re: Android Oreo

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Post by rebelwebmaster »

nfriedly wrote: post #211
fosco wrote: post #183

I have an HTC One M8 which I purchased in summer/fall of 2015. The phone works great but it makes me sad that I am still on Marshmellow and the phone is no longer supported. lately I have been been wishing there is a way I can just run some version of linux like debian/fedora on my phone and be able to run apt-get update and upgrade (or yum) as updates are released. IIRC it cost $600, and technically it does more tha…

I also have a One M8; mine is currently rooted and running CyanogenMod. (I keep meaning to update to LineageOS but haven't gotten around to it yet.) Rooting is nice, and I believe it's important from a philosophical standpoint, but I probably won't with my next phone because the features I want are getting built into the OS, and I am missing several apps that just refuse to work when they detect they're running on a…

One of the recent Lineage nightlies made Google Maps unusable on the M8, so there's that :). OTOH, the fix is landed and due to be in this week's nightly build. I really wish there was a more stable channel to be on, though.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by jm_l »

ghughes wrote: post #5

The awful scroll hijacking implementation on this page really distracts from the content.

I'd just like to point out that this isn't really "scroll hijacking." You have full control over scrolling on this web page. Rather this is uses what we call a parallax layout (https://envato.com/blog/parallax-scrolling-in-web-design/), which can also be annoying, but is actually not the same as scroll hijacking.

(Compare this to the Mac Pro landing page which actually hijacks scrolling https://www.apple.com/mac-pro/)

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by TACIXAT »

jampa wrote: post #36

I know this is a non-issue for many, but those emojis look really dated. Every update they get harder and harder to read in small form. One of the things I observe, mainly on Instagram Stories is only people with iOS post with emojis attached, I never see Android ones. Too bad there is no way to install custom emojis in any system (without rooting/registry tweaking), like we do with fonts.

I absolutely hate those emoji. It's the gradient and outlines, it looks like bad enterprise design. The flat blobs were great.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by zerocrates »

TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #208
koolba wrote: post #204

Does Google pay these candy companies to use the name or do they pay Google? There's obviously some contractual relationship but I can't figure out who's on which end of it.

Would they need to pay them? Cookies and mobile phones are completely different lines of business, right? Though the name is a direct reference to the sweet, so that maybe makes it more complicated.

Oreo's probably a "famous mark" and therefore qualifies for dilution protection, and this would be pretty in line with what "dilution by blurring" is considered to be. Not that it would come to anything, but there is something there.

They made a deal with Nestle/Hershey for KitKat, so I'm sure they did here as well.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by sweep3r »

mjevans wrote: post #148
JorgeGT wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The catch is that you can buy an Apple phone everywhere, but for instance Google decided simply to not offer the Pixel in my country. Also, they stopped updating my Nexus 4 long time ago, something that Apple does not with their devices. Hence, I am not "succumbing to Google marketing" again. I have now updated to a Moto, which used to be a Google company. Let's see how long it takes to update...

Reflect for a moment; what was the 'new' price of the Nexus 4 vs the 'new' price of the iPhone at the time? A Nexus 4 was a 2012 phone with 2GB ram, and 8GB storage (entry model) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus_4 An iPhone 5 is the comparable year device. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_5 It had entry specs of only 1GB of RAM, but 16GB of storage. The apps would also be native binaries instead of 'java' apps…

I'm sure 1GB for iOS is comparable to 2GB of RAM for Android.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by kllrnohj »

tauntz wrote: post #193
rdsubhas wrote: post #141

Not saying that everything else is bad, but one thing that strikes me is how much they have run out of interesting things now that they had to use fillers[1] like: Tooltips Support for tooltips (small popup windows with descriptive text) for views and menu items. Normally, this would be relegated to a git changelog in the support library. But this is on the global marketing landing page. I like to imagine a fictional…

Noticed the same but for a different item in the changelog. "TextView autosizing" - it's such a minor thing and could well be a minor changelog item in the support library update..

That actually got some decent cheers at Google I/O iirc, it's bigger than it sounds at first. It's scaling the font size of the text to fit the available space, which is a fairly unique twist and is great for localization efforts (looking at you, German...)

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by bitmapbrother »

thinbeige wrote: post #116

> that makes it easier and faster for hardware makers to deliver Android updates. They still don't get it. Google as the OS vendor should update all phones and NOT the hardware makers. Hardware manufacturers can still update their special features on the side after an OS update got deployed but I want that the OS and its core become updates directly and only from Google. Why is this so hard?

Except Google is not the OS vendor for these OEM's. Each OEM forks and creates their own version of Android that they build from source. If you want a phone with Google as the OS vendor that gets updates every month and new OS versions every year then you have to buy a Pixel. If history has taught us anything it's that OEM's cannot be trusted to update their devices.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by rglover »

As a half-black, half-white man, I find this name incredibly offensive. #halfblacklivesmatter

I'll leave it up to you to figure out if I'm serious or not (and yes, I really am mixed so this is plausible).

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by tunap »

sebojanko wrote: post #151
komali2 wrote: post #143

Going to take advantage of an Android thread here to ask something that has driven me crazy for ~3 years: How do I disable "pop-down" notifications? i.e. facebook messenger, on receiving a message, drops down a little message box from the top with that message. It stays there for about 2 seconds and then disappears... unless further messages in that chat appears. The only way I can disable this is by muting that chat…

In the Notifications settings, you can adjust every app's notification settings and disable this.

Not the OP, but my experience is some apps(integrated?) use "android system" for notifications despite the app's notifications being disabled. May be a 'root' issue, but root also makes fixes via terminal or adb viable.
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