Android Daily Superthread (Dec 04 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

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• Daily Superthread (Dec 04 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!
• Saturday APPreciation (Dec 04 2021) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
• Google Pixel mail-in repairs have allegedly twice resulted in leaked pics and a privacy nightmare
• Google Pixel Watch - EXCLUSIVE *official* images at (6:50)
• Play Store adding more prominent 'update' button in settings
• AetherSX2 PS2 emulator open beta is now available (Google Play Store)
• How to Play PS2 Games on Android! - AetherSX2 Guide | Taki Udon
• Google TV profiles have been delayed, Ambient Mode cards are rolling out now
• Launcher discussion: Isn't it time for launchers to support app tagging?
• The fact that you can't control auto-correct on a per-app basis is incredibly frustrating
• How is the the touchscreen smoothness on android products compared to iOS?

Daily Superthread (Dec 04 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions! Posted: 04 Dec 2021 04:15 AM PST Note 1. Check MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves 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. Please post your questions here. Feel free to use this thread for general questions/discussion as well. The /r/Android wiki now has a list of recommended phones and covers most areas, the links have been added below. Any suggestions or changes are welcome. Please contact us if you would like to help maintain this section. Entry level (most affordable devices costing under $250 (US)/ $325 (Canada)/ €200 (Europe)/ £200/ ₹12,500 (India) Midrange section, covering the $250-500(US)/$300-700(Canada)/€200-500/£200-450/₹12,500-30,000 segment Flagship section, containing the most expensive devices with the highest end specifications submitted by /u/curated_android [link] [comments]

Saturday APPreciation (Dec 04 2021) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! Posted: 04 Dec 2021 04:00 AM PST 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. Check MoronicMondayAndroid, which serves as a repository for our retired weekly threads. Just pick any thread and Ctrl-F your way to wisdom! Note 3. 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! submitted by /u/curated_android [link] [comments]

Google Pixel mail-in repairs have allegedly twice resulted in leaked pics and a privacy nightmare Posted: 04 Dec 2021 06:45 PM PST submitted by /u/Yeahthisisntgreat [link] [comments]

Google Pixel Watch - EXCLUSIVE *official* images at (6:50) Posted: 04 Dec 2021 03:17 PM PST submitted by /u/welp_im_damned [link] [comments]

Play Store adding more prominent 'update' button in settings Posted: 04 Dec 2021 09:16 PM PST submitted by /u/VespasianTheMortal [link] [comments]

AetherSX2 PS2 emulator open beta is now available (Google Play Store) Posted: 03 Dec 2021 10:55 PM PST submitted by /u/lariato [link] [comments]

How to Play PS2 Games on Android! - AetherSX2 Guide | Taki Udon Posted: 04 Dec 2021 02:17 AM PST submitted by /u/NXGZ [link] [comments]

Google TV profiles have been delayed, Ambient Mode cards are rolling out now Posted: 03 Dec 2021 09:12 PM PST submitted by /u/RemarkableWork [link] [comments]

Launcher discussion: Isn't it time for launchers to support app tagging? Posted: 03 Dec 2021 08:21 PM PST In a world where we can tag everything from photos to tasks, it's interesting that we haven't extended this to launchers and app folders. I'm not talking about simply putting your app into a folder. If you delete a folder, then you need to manually remake & re-add your apps back into that folder. Instead, I'm specifically talking about creating a list of tags, bulk adding tags to an app, or bulk adding apps to a tag. These tags could then be utilized to: Search for apps based on tags Generate & automatically update home screen folders based on assigned tags Optionally divvy up the app drawer into a list of tags, and/or as pages of apps based on tags favorite a tag, or create a "favorites" tag There are some launchers like Smart Launcher that do this to a degree, automatically assigning apps to one of six basic categories like games, settings, communication, or media. However, the ability to create more specific categories for things like work, health, finance, shopping, Google, etc, might serve someone better than attempting to discern how the system might categorize your applications, or having to reorganize applications if the system didn't categorize them appropriately. Is this an appropriate line of thinking? Should the next evolution of a launcher's app drawer include tagging? Edit: I've been made aware of certain launchers that may provide this utility already, or have more recently added features to address this problem. I'll investigate them and add them to the list below Nova Launcher (Verified! Recommended pick. Requires a purchase. Folders 2 way sync. Apps can be bulk added to tabs & folders, and tabs & folders can be bulk added to an app. Search recognizes folders as searchable. Only missing feature is that the app drawer does not have a convenient text list of all created folders and tabs in one system generated location.) Kiss Launcher (Verified! Cumbersome to set up. Tags must be typed, one tag at a time, one app at a time. No bulk add options. Folders are a foreign concept to this launcher. However, the search feature is extremely fast & efficient with recognizing tagged apps.) Smart Launcher (Verified, somewhat! Tags are called categories. Home screen folders and categories 2 way sync! The system still categorizes apps incorrectly & must be manually modified. No way to see a full text list of categories. Search does not recognize categories.) Launcher Plus One Pro (Failed. Standard folder structure. Basic search. Free version horribly littered with ads.) submitted by /u/EndlessBirthday [link] [comments]

The fact that you can't control auto-correct on a per-app basis is incredibly frustrating Posted: 03 Dec 2021 04:12 PM PST I like having autocorrect in certain apps, like Google search and messages. However, in other apps in is very counterproductive and noticeably degrades the experience. Notes is a good example. Typically this is a place where users want to type abbreviations an other-domain specific pieces of text like codes or usernames or proper names like brands etc. Google is definitely not able to interpret some of these words that another human could reasonably understand, and some of the words are downright impossible to map to a dictionary word. Yet autocorrect will still happily erase whatever you've written and replace it with something unrelated. Having to retype the same word 4 times until the default Android keyboard finally allows it is seriously tedious. Even worse is jotting down an important piece of information in a hurry, only to realize a few days later that your keyboard decided to replace it with another word, and now you have permanently lost whatever you were trying to remember. How this is an acceptable user experience is beyond me. It fosters such a massive distrust and frustration with the most basic system app. On macOS, the TextEdit built-in, app allows you to quickly enable or disable speelcheck and autocorrect, within a dropdown hover menu. Sure. The default experience is a rich text, auto-correct editor, but with less than 2 clicks you can make it into a plaintext editor that isn't actively fighting against your inputs. On Android there is no real solution. Either I disable auto-correct system wide, or toggle it each time I want to use the Notes app. Just the fact that this is a setting on the keyboard and not the apps you are using is such an archaic concept. Might have made sense at one point, but it really doesn't anymore. submitted by /u/BarackNDatAzzObama8 [link] [comments]

How is the the touchscreen smoothness on android products compared to iOS? Posted: 04 Dec 2021 04:16 AM PST The only reason I haven't switched to android is how smooth I think iOS is compared to android. I've been thinking of switching to android in the near future but I have had this image of android phones having a laggy touchscreen compared to iOS ever since I've touched one like 10 yrs ago. To people who has both, or have tried both recent ios/android units how different does it feel? submitted by /u/Xelphix [link] [comments]

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