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    Android Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 27 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    September 27, 2020

    Android Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 27 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Sunday Rant/Rage (Sep 27 2020) - Your weekly complaint thread!

    Posted: 27 Sep 2020 04:11 AM PDT

    Note 1. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

    This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:

    • Your device.

    • Your carrier.

    • Your device's manufacturer.

    • An app

    • Any other company

    Rules

    1) Please do not target any individuals or try to name/shame any individual. If you hate Google/Samsung/HTC etc. for one thing that is fine, but do not be rude to an individual app developer.

    2) If you have a suggestion to solve another user's issue, please leave a comment but be sure it's constructive! We do not want any flame-wars.

    3) Be respectful of other's opinions. Even if you feel that somebody is "wrong" you don't have to go out of your way to prove them wrong. Disagree politely, and move on.

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    OneNote on Android is an unfortunately broken experience

    Posted: 26 Sep 2020 09:53 AM PDT

    As long as you use the OneNote Desktop App (not the UWP), everything is great. Everything works fine. It's a great app for creating and storing notebooks.

    However, opening the same notes on an Android phone or tablet is an exercise in banging my head over and over again against a table.

    Font Support

    The font support in Android is paltry. This means any notes typed in fonts other than the (very) few available on Android will revert to Calibri. This is especially problematic for programme code or music notations made in fonts like Lucida Console to maintain spacing.

    Script Glitches

    As long as one types in English or other common Roman scripts, the text is at least somewhat legible. Moving to other scripts results in a disaster, where combined letters are not properly represented and appear disjoint with glitched markers everywhere.

    Example Here.

    This does not occur on any other apps: Office or otherwise. Often after OneNote updates, these glitches appear and disappear in different notes based on evidently what the AI's mood is like, or whether the text was directly typed into OneNote (the desktop app) or copied from Word/Excel to OneNote (again on desktop).

    This glitch also regularly occurs on the 'OneNote for Windows 10' app, but luckily I never have to use that again.

    Text Reflow

    Text reflow is a nightmare. Samsung Notes does it well, and so does Microsoft word, where they reflow to adapt to the screen size and don't bounce around. OneNote also does this in theory, but it still retains some padding beyond the screen area which results in the text bouncing around and often overflowing beyond the edges of the screen unless one moves their finger slowly and precisely all the time. There is no (obvious) way to lock this. Here are the video screenshots of notes on Samsung Notes, Word, and OneNote, all typed on Windows and opened on Mobile:

    This is a pity, because OneNote otherwise offers me personally the simplest option for a platform-agnostic Notes app, has decent pen support options, and synchronises with OneDrive. I don't even think these are difficult things to fix. The former two are not a problem in other Office 365 apps, and the latter is a feature of probably every other note or text app on the Play Store.

    I also do not know how the situation in iOS is, but I imagine Apple users use Apple products which I don't have the luxury of doing.

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    Saturday APPreciation (Sep 26 2020) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    Posted: 26 Sep 2020 04:11 AM PDT

    Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community!

    Download the official /r/Android App Store based on our wiki!

    Note 2. Join us at /r/MoronicMondayAndroid, a sub serving as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom!

    Note 2. Join our IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions.

    This weekly Saturday thread is for:
    * App promotion,
    * App praise/sharing

    Rules:

    1) If you are a developer, you may promote your own app ONLY under the bolded, distinguished moderator comment. Users: if you think someone is trying to bypass this rule by promoting their app in the general thread, click the report button so we can take a look!

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    Since Android Auto is able to tell when the car is moving shouldn't we be able to watch YouTube/Streaming services on our infotainment screens?

    Posted: 26 Sep 2020 09:31 PM PDT

    It seems like a simple solution. Force GPS to be on. Just like navigation with Google maps. Then enable YouTube/Netflix/Prime. Only when parked. Some modern cars can actually tell Android auto you're in park too.

    We have these new giant infotainment screens and aside from Teslas we are limited to audio and navigation only. It seems like a waste. I think it would drastically improve the Android auto experience.

    Edit see (Completely legal) Tesla infotainment system https://youtu.be/k-TTV14x-xc https://youtu.be/y7-3dJfsAlQ

    Wondering how others felt?

    Last edit. I didn't make this because I want to watch videos and drive. It's because I like millions of others have to sit parked in my car for extended periods of times for my job. It would be really nice to not have to bring a tablet or laptop to watch videos. Holding the phone gets really old really fast.

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    [DEV] DirectChat replicates Android 11 bubbles on any android version for all Apps

    Posted: 25 Sep 2020 10:04 PM PDT

    Hello all!

    DirectChat is not a new app but has been under development for more than 3 years and has recently undergone many changes including new UI. This app allows you to create Android 11 bubbles (or Facebook like Chat heads) for any application on any android version. It comes with features such as Instant Reply, DND, Blacklist etc which isn't present in native bubbles. It also comes with tons of customizations and theming support. You can read about all of its feature on below Google Play link.

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.uniquegem.directchat&hl=en_AU

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    Android tablets neglected by choice

    Posted: 25 Sep 2020 12:33 PM PDT

    Over the past 7 years I've been using Android tablets for school. We all know their problems - little support from developers, short software support. These can be coped with by using split window mode and flashing custom ROM respectively. Recently after buying a Wear OS smartwatch I've decided to ditch my smartphone entirely and rely on this 5G Tablet + 4G Watch combo. I've been doing well, but some odd things happened along the way:

    Samsung has explicitly chosen not to allow their own tablets (or any tablets for that matter) to pair with their own watches. On the setup screen of the Samsung Wearable app you choose which device you want to pair with. If the app is launched on a smartphone, you get to choose from all the Samsung wearables. If the exact same .apk is launched on a tablet, you can only choose their earbuds. Needless to say I had to return my Galaxy Watch and get the Huawei Watch 2 instead.

    Furthermore, the Huawei Wear app could not be installed from Play Store at all - "This item is not compatible with your device" - downloading and installing the .apk from elsewhere proved otherwise and I was able to pair my watch.

    Next up, Android Auto. Same story as with Huawei Wear - unavailable in the Play Store, working perfectly once installed from APKMirror.

    My question is: why? Why did 3 different companies (Samsung, Huawei and Google) independently decide to put effort into making Android tablets worse?

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