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- Saturday APPreciation (Dec 01 2018) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
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| Saturday APPreciation (Dec 01 2018) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:14 AM PST Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community! ***NEW: 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 Discord, IRC, and Telegram chat-rooms! Please see our wiki for instructions. This weekly Saturday thread is for: 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! [link] [comments]  | ||
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| YouTube Music is a bad product in desperate need of improvement before anyone will care to use it Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:56 PM PST
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| Glass backs are nice. Wireless charging is nice. But you know what's nicer? Removable batteries. Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:58 PM PST Seriously. Like, thinking back to when I had my Desire HD... Battery life simply wasn't a problem. I had two spare batteries I kept charged and in my bag at all times. Yes, it meant the phone didn't have waterproofing, a glass back, etc - but making those compromises today is still a choice I would absolutely make for the ability to swap my battery out for a fully charged one while I'm out and about and not near a charger. Not only that, but... Look at phones like the Nexus 6P. The entire battery debacle in that phone would have been an absolute non-issue if the battery had been removable! Instead, you got a fragile phone that was locked together with a terrible battery that inevitably will fail. Nowadays, is there any modern phone that can swap out the battery? Even Chinese devices from the low to mid end seem to lack it. Not once have I found myself saying "wow, thank god I had a glass back", or "thank god I have IP68 water resistance". When I had the ability to swap batteries at my leisure, I was constantly thankful for the ability to do so. Does anyone else wish we could get removable batteries back, instead of going for water resistance and wireless charging? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Samsung's Secure Folder should be a feature in every phone. Posted: 01 Dec 2018 04:58 PM PST Upgraded from the Nexus 6 > iPhone 6S > Essential Phone and finally the Galaxy S9. As soon as I downloaded the Snapchat app, my phone automatically told me that I could make a 'duplicate' of it in the Secure Folder. I promptly duplicated my dating apps and some messaging apps into it. Apparently those apps are secured by Knox. It's so nice having a folder where I can put sensitive apps, since a lot of the times your close friends/family/SO might have access to your phone (not unusual). I can't imagine all the fights, breakups, and drama this would've saved me from the past. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Palm Phone Review: Fun, endearing, and bad at everything Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:58 AM PST
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| My wish for Android Q: refined UX Posted: 01 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST I think Android has reached a stage that it no longer has features that it desperately needs to implement. However, it does have some serious UX issues that need to be addressed. I've just changed from iOS back to Android and the thing that I miss the most is how incredibly refined the user experience is on iOS. Everything makes sense and the animations and design are consistent and super fluid - something that is missing from Android. Basic things go a very long way. Something as simple as a transition between two different pages in an app can make a huge difference to the end users experience. Google has all these figured out. If you read the Material Design guidelines they are actually a lot more in depth than anything on iOS however Apple actually executes against their own guidelines whereas Google simply does the work in developing them but doesn't fully implement them into anything. If you compare the apps of today to the ones before Material Design was announced what has really changed besides a few icons, some typography, and some colors? Google really needs to focus on fully implementing Material Design into Android and their apps - especially now that they're slowly going towards gesture navigation. One last note; please just copy iOS's navigation gestures, Google. We appreciate you trying to be different but it just doesn't make any sense. Apples implementation of gestures across the board is second to none both system wide and in apps. I've had the Pixel 3XL for a month now and I still find myself thinking about what the gestures do. Of course these are just my opinions. Let me know what you guys think. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Happy second birthday HMD Global! Posted: 01 Dec 2018 10:44 AM PST
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| NVIDIA SHIELD Android TV re-review: Not the box you bought three years ago. Posted: 01 Dec 2018 06:36 AM PST
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| In terms of performance the Asus ROG phone is a scam Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:14 AM PST First off in case you have doubt, LinusTechTips made a video and showed the ROG phone throttles even more than the Razer Phone 2 (which itself is a heavily throttling phone). 1- Disassembly videos show it has no special internal cooling mechanism at all, just the same heat spreader you find on chips in any generic phone. 2- The phone is encased in glass, a thermal insulator. There is no way for the heat to escape, so this makes the lack of internal cooling even worse. 3- And most important: The aeroactive cooling fan can almost be called a scam. The fan literally just blows some air on the sides of the glass case. The air doesn't come in thermal contact with the chip at all. It's designed only to blow air on your hands to give you the illusion of a cool phone when in reality the chip underneath would be cooking and throttling. Those "air vents" you see on the back of the phone are just for show, a facade to give the appearance of high quality cooling. The fan never actually blows air through or out of them. They even admitted to this, indirectly of course. They said the aeroactive fan allows the CPU to sustain 5 times longer max performance than passive cooling. The question you have to ask is Why is it still throttling after 5 times longer anyway? The point of a fan should be to prevent throttling completely. To date the only phone that's ever truly earned the title of Gaming Phone is the Razer Phone 1. It had an all metal back, and that back was in thermal contact with the chip through a rectangular graphite sheet (which is designed to not require thermal paste). On the Razer Phone 1 you can literally run the CPU at Max speed indefinitely and not only will it not throttle, but it won't even get warm because the heat is constantly escaping through the metal back. Same goes for it's GPU. And it never even needed a fan. All it needed was some slight contact with the top of the phone's back. Unfortunately since nobody seems to even understand what throttling is, how it works, and what the difference between glass and metal is, the Razer Phone 2 replaced this system with a cheaper glass back and no heat escape mechanism, so now it throttles just like every other phone, albeit with some delay. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Dec 2018 12:32 PM PST For me, Google Camera ports are an insane benefit to mid range devices with capable sensors. My Redmi Note 4X is capable of taking very good photos, even in night sight, and the device cost me a total of 100 euros used, in the middle of last year. Without Google Camera this would never be possible. Another beneficial thing is the advent of Magisk, which replaced xposed completely. Permissions introduced in 6.0 (iirc) and Doze are also great features, although Doze has been present since 4.4 and quite possibly before on Sony devices, and worked much, much better. What other features that have been around recently have, in your opinion, changed the landscape forever? [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:16 AM PST My LG G7 ThinQ keeps bootlooping. Apparently it's related to the european (especially dutch and german) T-Mobile network. Here's a video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-lNvBYV10U&t=1s Lot's of people seem have the same problem, which started last night. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Dec 2018 09:02 PM PST
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| What is the most useful Android software feature everyone should know? Posted: 01 Dec 2018 03:13 PM PST | ||
| Global Smartphone Production Volume to Remain Flat in 4Q18 Due to Sluggish Demand, Says TrendForce Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:22 PM PST
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| Franco Kernel now available for the Xiaomi POCO F1 Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:17 PM PST | ||
| Easter Egg on Android Pie now lets you doodle. Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:47 AM PST Tapping the Android P Easter egg frequently now takes you to a Doodle board! [link] [comments]  | ||
| Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:25 AM PST
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| Notebookcheck: Xiaomi Mi Mix 3 Review Posted: 01 Dec 2018 02:07 AM PST
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| Nokia new smartphone Launched India: Price, accessibility and that’s just the beginning Posted: 01 Dec 2018 08:36 PM PST
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| [DEV] Word Pipes - new boggle style word game, 2mb download, free, no ads Posted: 01 Dec 2018 05:52 PM PST https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.digivista.wordpipes I launched this game about 6 weeks ago and have so far had about 600 downloads, which is great. Its got simple game play, designed to be picked up easily. You swipe across the letters in order to form words. Try and form as many words as possible within 2 minutes. At the end you get the full solution showing you every possible word. Its only a 2mb download, and it doesn't use any phone permissions at all. This latest update (1-December) fixes the sound effects on some Android phones (e.g. Pixel series). See if you can make it into the global top 100 high score table; the bar is quite high now though, to get in it you'll need to score more than 508 points. A pro wordament player dominates the high scores and took the top 20 spots. Thankyou for your comments and feedback [link] [comments]  |
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