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Re: Android Oreo

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Post by angryasian »

0x00000000 wrote: post #69

Android has really been annoying me lately. Maybe I didn't care before but now that I can't root my phone I am forced to deal with it. Still can't disable or customize to stupid "share" menu that puts you one click away from accidentally sending something to a stranger you contacted once on sms or facebook messenger or email. Still can't revoke certain permissions from apps (like vibration). There is zero reason why…

>Still no good system wide ad blocking solution.

Theres multiple non root solutions that use a local vpn to accomplish this.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by delecti »

rsp1984 wrote: post #216
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.

Google is the largest ad company in the world. Selling ad space is what they do. What is Android naming if not one giant ad space? Long story short I'd be extremely surprised if Google didn't sell this.

I believe they explicitly stated that no money exchanged hands over the KitKat naming. I wouldn't be surprised if the same were true here. It's easy cross promotion for both companies, and it's not like there's a wealth of "O" named confections.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by tauntz »

kllrnohj wrote: post #226
tauntz wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...)

Don't get me wrong, the feature itself is indeed useful.

It's just that its so.. minor. If you ever wanted to implement this in your app then there are multiple ready-made solutions for this or you could write your own in a short amount of time. Presenting this as one of the key new features in a major new OS versions seems just strange.. like there wasn't anything else substantial.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by nihonde »

My experience with my Android-based TV is that every Android update and every update of Google's own apps (e.g., YouTube) is a regression is so many totally unnecessary ways that it almost seems deliberate at this point.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by delecti »

klondike_ wrote: post #112
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 used to hate the blobmojis, but after a while I started to grow fond of them. The weird gradients on the new emojis are a bit jarring. In my opinion the clean, flat style of the old emojis is a lot nicer.

I don't think they're jarring at all. They feel familiar, very reminiscent of early 2000s AIM emoticons.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by muninn_ »

gregw134 wrote: post #340
Waterluvian wrote: post #338

All I want is for my stupid phone to stop annoying me with new features I don't want. Google just now suggested with a notification that I should ask its voice thing a question and try it out. Every time I think I've blocked every $_#&#- thing that annoys me, more show up. As of a week ago I now get these Throw notifications that cannot be dismissed or blocked. I also despise apps that insist on being updated and dis…

Give me a phone like you describe that also doesn't track you and I'm sold.

It's called an iPhone: https://www.apple.com/iphone/

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by flukus »

Waterluvian wrote: post #338

All I want is for my stupid phone to stop annoying me with new features I don't want. Google just now suggested with a notification that I should ask its voice thing a question and try it out. Every time I think I've blocked every $_#&#- thing that annoys me, more show up. As of a week ago I now get these Throw notifications that cannot be dismissed or blocked. I also despise apps that insist on being updated and dis…

Google Now is malware that can't be removed and is constantly showing you ads and spying on your behavior (look at the app integrations menu). The best you can do is go through the disable-athon menu, but that only works until the next update.

It's an impressive bit of technology though, I've never seen an app so good at telling me exactly what I didn't care about, exactly 10 minutes after I would have cared about it.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by rglover »

ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #243
rglover wrote: post #228

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).

I think from a certain point of view, "Oreo" could be a great compliment. It is an explicit association with everyone's all time favorite candy snack... (fuck off if it is not yours). Sincerely, The Marketing Manager at Nabisco

So I get to be eaten alive under the pretense of being a delicious snack treat, cool.

Re: Android Oreo

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Post by grzm »

flukus wrote: post #330
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…

How do tooltips even work on a touch based OS?

The only place I can recall using tooltips (if I understand what you're referring to) on iOS is to read the extra caption on XCKD (the title attribute of the img element), which you access by press and hold.
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