Android Daily Superthread (Mar 20 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions! |
- Daily Superthread (Mar 20 2022) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!
- Vanced developers issue statement addressing wild rumors about the app's demise
- Sync For Reddit Now Supports Folding Phones
- YSK: Chrome has added individual site based Dark Mode toggling on the latest stable build. You may need to turn on "Darken websites checkbox in themes setting" in chrome://flags
- Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 and Exynos 2300 tipped to be even less efficient thanks to thirsty Cortex-X3 cores
- Sunday Rant/Rage (Mar 20 2022) - Your weekly complaint thread!
- An IG alternative for android
- [MrMobile] Your Phone Could Be Your Laptop. Here's Why It Won't.
- Samsung Exynos 2200’s Xclipse 920 RDNA2 GPU is based on AMD Van Gogh Lite APU
- So, why did the Amazon Fire phone fail as badly as it did?
- I wish the quad DAC headphone jack that LG phones had would come to more phones
- Apex Legends Mobile pre-registration is now open on Android
- Samsung Galaxy A53 5G | Forget the iPhone SE 2022
- Galaxy S22: Getting run over by the hype train...
- PoC : Android 4.4 (Google API) with play store forced installed
- The Android lawn statues have disappeared from Google's headquarters
| Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:15 AM PDT 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. Flagship section, containing the most expensive devices with the highest end specifications [link] [comments] | ||
| Vanced developers issue statement addressing wild rumors about the app's demise Posted: 20 Mar 2022 09:26 AM PDT
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| Sync For Reddit Now Supports Folding Phones Posted: 20 Mar 2022 12:42 PM PDT
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| Posted: 20 Mar 2022 09:15 AM PDT I'm not quite sure how new this is, but while playing around with the built in dark mode in chrome, I saw that there's now an individual toggle for sites in the hamburger menu. It seems to persist being cleared from ram too. Really good as the built in dark mode works well but isn't 100% reliable for all sites. Before it was all-or-nothing, now you can individually choose which sites should be darkened so sites that don't behave well (eg. apple.com) can just be toggled off. [link] [comments] | ||
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| Sunday Rant/Rage (Mar 20 2022) - Your weekly complaint thread! Posted: 20 Mar 2022 05:00 AM PDT Note 1. Join our IRC and Telegram chat-rooms This weekly Sunday thread is for you to let off some steam and speak out about whatever complaint you might have about:
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. [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 20 Mar 2022 07:37 AM PDT Well, not strictly for android - it's available on iOS too - but given that a lot of other platforms like this in the past have sprung up being iOS only, and considering the sub, the title seemed appropriate. A lot of people have been frustrated with IG's push to video, and now NFTs - it seems they're adding things that no one really wants, and with every update it's moving further away from what people liked about it in the first place - an easy way to share photos. So we made a solution. Pidgeon is a place only for photos. Just posts, upvote/downvote, comments, chat. And we want to stay away from ads - instead, we plan to go freemium. The reason for this is because these days people are increasingly concerned for their privacy. By not having ads, there really isn't an incentive to collect personal data. The ranking algorithm just works like reddit - on the discover page, posts are ranked based on user votes and the age of the post. Discover is divided into categories, like subreddits, so you can browse by a specific type of photo. On your home page, you'll only see posts from followers chronologically. There's already a small community of about 1500 on the app, with a lot of them being professional photographers. So the photos going up look really nice (at least in my opinion). But we don't just want to be a community of people who consider themselves photographers - that's a mistake that other platforms like Flickr and VSCO make. To become widespread, you need to make your platform simple to use for the casual person; only catering to professionals will necessarily keep your community smaller than it otherwise would be. Users have been asking for a desktop client, and while we don't have one yet, we do plan to add it - and it won't take us as long as IG to do it, and neither will it be an afterthought where the UX is intentionally made poor so that you're pushed to use the app instead. But we want to polish the mobile app first before we get there, and there's still a lot of work to do since it's super early days. If you want to try it out, here's the link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.pidgeon.pidgeon https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pidgeon-simple-photo-sharing/id1605784768 And please do provide any feedback you have on the app! It really does help us make it better. [link] [comments] | ||
| [MrMobile] Your Phone Could Be Your Laptop. Here's Why It Won't. Posted: 19 Mar 2022 11:03 AM PDT
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| Samsung Exynos 2200’s Xclipse 920 RDNA2 GPU is based on AMD Van Gogh Lite APU Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:39 AM PDT
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| So, why did the Amazon Fire phone fail as badly as it did? Posted: 19 Mar 2022 09:04 AM PDT When the Fire Phone was announced in 2014, Amazon was undergoing massive growth and the brand was consistently in the news cycle with major developmemts throughout the year. The Fire Phone UI, named FireOS, was based on Android 4 Jelly Bean, but with a massive customized skin that made the phones OS seem original. To this day it's by far the most customized an Android skin has ever been (With NGE: New LG Experience, being a distant second.) In such a radical way. With that said, the phone itself wasn't a wash. It had an HD display, a Snapdragon 800, Adreno 330, 2GB of RAM, 13mp cam, quad-core, and all Glass body. It also had glasses free 3D, advanced headtracking, Firefly scanning system, first use of any phone OS (excluding Windows) of "peek" viewing apps (apps will show information without going into them from the icon), and app tilting. It's around a Huawei P8 in specs, with several unique features, so to give credit to Amazon, they didn't just jump in the market with a thrown together generic smartphone with their logo on it. But it died so fast. Less than a year later, there was talk of the phone being DOA and Amazon thinking of pulling the plug. It was introduced with a higher than expected price, but Amazon fixed that problem rather quickly, and already had carriers producing appealing deals to attract customers. Despite the brand, advertising, and unique features, I am puzzled how the Fire Phone was such a complete and total failure. There wasn't even early consumer interest, no one wanted the phone but wanted their weaker tablets. After a year you could get it for $50 with a free year of prime. I dont understand how you can have such a hot brand and innovation and not even have some fakeout interest early on. Bizarre. [link] [comments] | ||
| I wish the quad DAC headphone jack that LG phones had would come to more phones Posted: 19 Mar 2022 06:39 AM PDT I'm an audiophile and absolutely love getting the best quality out of my music, so I use a DAC at home to get the most out of Apple Music. However I'd love to have that DAC performance in my phone as well, which is why I loved the idea of LG putting DACs into their phones. Sadly they're no longer manufacturing phones though, and the last phone with good specs and a DAC that they made, the V60 ThinQ 5G, was never sold in the UK so I wasn't able to get one new or second hand. So now that LG are out of the market, why haven't other phone manufacturers like Samsung, Xiaomi or even Apple for that matter, moved into the audiophile side of the phone market? I know plenty of people both IRL and online who'd love to be able to have the benefits of a DAC when going out into town or for a walk or whatever, and marketing a quad DAC/headphone jack combo as a defining feature of your phone would bring in a whole market of customers who want a superior audio experience in their pocket [link] [comments] | ||
| Apex Legends Mobile pre-registration is now open on Android Posted: 19 Mar 2022 06:52 AM PDT
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| Samsung Galaxy A53 5G | Forget the iPhone SE 2022 Posted: 20 Mar 2022 04:31 PM PDT
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| Galaxy S22: Getting run over by the hype train... Posted: 20 Mar 2022 04:35 PM PDT
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| PoC : Android 4.4 (Google API) with play store forced installed Posted: 19 Mar 2022 11:06 AM PDT What have i done : when you create an Android Virtual Device on Android Studio, you need to choose a system image, some of them are stock, some others have Google Services, and some even Play Store. Android KitKat doesn't have a Play Store system image. How i did it anyways : I needed
Then i unziped open gapps, and in the Core folder, decompressed all of the tar.lz files with lzip -d * After that, i mounted system.img on C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Android\Sdk\system-images\android-19\google_apis\x86 with ImDisk Finally, archive by archive from OpenGapps, i copied everything to their folders. Some apks were too big that i needed to delete the original file from mounted system.img NOTE : From the archives there is, nodpi most of the time, that has a subfolder (priv-)app (that's the apps), and common, where there is a subfolder with either etc or lib inside After all of this process, i changed PlayStore.enabled to true (not required ?) on C:\Users\USER\.android\avd\YOUR_DEVICE.avd\config.ini After a power on, everything worked like a charm [link] [comments] | ||
| The Android lawn statues have disappeared from Google's headquarters Posted: 18 Mar 2022 10:56 PM PDT
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