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That's why I like hacker news. I found this article yesterday and posted it on reddit android, here : https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1jmwg4w/everyone_k... 0 upvote, comment filled with what is either depressed sad people or just bots. Here it's top 2... With mostly interesting comment. Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst.
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To be fair, browser apps do have their advantages: - text is selectable - content is zoomable - you can have an ad/nuisance blocker - page source is open While native apps have their own advantages: - much smoother experience esp. navigation, scrolling, animations, etc. - better overall performance (JavaScript will always lose to the native binary) - access to hardware opens new possibilities; audio, video accelerato…
> browser apps do have their advantages: These are more like byproduct of the fact that web apps are built on the stack not suited for modern UI apps. It's literally a text typesetting engine pretending to be a rendering engine for high-performance UI. So, it can also be framed as: - everything is selectable, even what shouldn't be - buttons, drawers, video players, etc - content is zoomable, which most of the time j…
This is an outdated view of the web. Catch up or be left behind.
That's why I like hacker news. I found this article yesterday and posted it on reddit android, here : https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1jmwg4w/everyone_k... 0 upvote, comment filled with what is either depressed sad people or just bots. Here it's top 2... With mostly interesting comment. Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst.
On the other hand, many interesting links (IMO) I submit to HN also get zero comments
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I found this description about the security risks of rooting very eye-opening https://madaidans-insecurities.github.io/android.html It also explains the sandbox.
A more recent (2023) sandboxing + isolation overview by the Android team: https://arxiv.org/html/1904.05572v3/ (section 4.3)
> these are user, platform, and developer (implicitly representing stakeholders such as content producers and service providers). Any one party can veto the action.
How is this not anti-user? It explicitly states that the app developer should be able to veto my decisions...
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Simple, UX. The reality is, most webapps for mobile just suck. The UX is nowhere near that of a native application. I don't want any text to be selectable. I don't want pull to refresh on every page. I don't want the left-swipe to take me to the previous page. You can probably find workarounds for all these issues. The new Silk library ( https://silkhq.co/ ) is the first case I've seen that get's very close to a nati…
> I don't want any text to be selectable Disabling text selection is not just worse UX, it is actively user-hostile
That's why I like hacker news. I found this article yesterday and posted it on reddit android, here : https://old.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1jmwg4w/everyone_k... 0 upvote, comment filled with what is either depressed sad people or just bots. Here it's top 2... With mostly interesting comment. Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst.
> Some subreddit are more dead than other but r/android got to be one of the worst. Yeah, I'm not sure what exactly is going on with reddit but if dead-internet theory would hold anywhere, it seems to be there. Besides, all the topic/subject subreddits seems moderated by people who hold a vested interest in the topic/subject, to the detriment of their community. I made a submission which went into details about the p…
> everyone knows all the alls on your phone On Android phones. iPhone doesn’t have this privacy deficiency.
I’m amazed Android still allowed this in 2022.
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> Look at how many apps require permission to see you contacts. It is so annoying that it’s either "give access to ALL my contacts and ALL their information (yes, even the notes I took on their favorite things for next Christmas)" or "don’t give access". I wish we could limit the number of contacts and the level of information we give.
> It is so annoying that it’s either "give access to ALL my contacts and ALL their information… […] I wish we could limit the number of contacts and the level of information we give. iOS added fine-grained (at the contact level) access to contacts data last year. https://lifehacker.com/tech/you-can-control-which-contacts-a...
Many apps have not updated and perhaps never will.
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I'm working on implementing this for the company, and the annoying limitations on iOS is that you can't clone apps. If you want Gmail (as an example) as managed app, you can't have another Gmail as unmanaged app. While the company can't see inside the Gmail managed app (without the app itself explicitly providing that feature), the company can remove Gmail (and any local data inside the app) at any time. Fun fact fro…
Yes, Apple hates the idea of work-badged apps that Android has. I have to admit, a lot of our users don't grok it either at first. However once they realise the benefits (the company has much less visibility, AND they can turn off the work section completely with the touch of a button) they usually come around pretty quickly. The bad part of this is that apps have to specifically support the multiple profiles option,…
Apple has a much more robust solution privacy wise with their ScreenTime API but it makes an app like Limit Buddy much harder to build.