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    Android Help Saturday APPreciation (Apr 25 2020) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    April 25, 2020

    Android Help Saturday APPreciation (Apr 25 2020) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    Saturday APPreciation (Apr 25 2020) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 12:25 PM PDT

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

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    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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    Galaxy S20 (Snapdragon) vs Galaxy S20 (Exynos) Speed Test - YouTube

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 08:02 AM PDT

    Android 11 Developer Preview 3: All the changes we’ve found so far!

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 09:42 AM PDT

    Android 11 DP3 adds new sensitivity options for gesture navigation

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 11:55 AM PDT

    The ProtonMail Android app is open source

    Posted: 24 Apr 2020 11:59 PM PDT

    Opinion: Mainstream reviewers (The Verge, MKBHD, etc) need to start putting serious pressure on Android apps / app developers

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 11:50 AM PDT

    At this point, no fancy hardware feature, no Android system update, no stock-like ROM or anything you can imagine will ever bring your experience on Android to the next level. We've nearly reached the limit and everyone knows it. Improvements are extremely incremental and largely don't change how you interact with your device on a day-to-day basis.

    Your time on the lock screen, the home screen, looking at the notification shade, tweaking a few niche settings to your likings; those are small moments in time. What you look at and use large and by far are the apps themselves.

    With all that in mind, I think it's absolutely ridiculous that mainstream tech reviewers continue to harp on the same strings:

    • xx GBs of RAM
    • 8xx Snapdragon with +7% of performance you'll never see or use
    • Screen body ratio
    • etc

    All this while arguably the most important piece of the puzzle is ignored.

    When mainstream reviewers are doing (for example) their showdown comparisons of the latest iPhone vs the Samsung, iPhone vs the Pixel, etc, they should be mentioning that a good portion of the Android apps are absolute dogshit. Call them out specifically such as Snapchat, Instagram & Facebook. They should of course acknowledge that it's not the phone manufacturers fault, but really start giving the heat to these huge mega corporations for their continually awful treatment of Android users. I pay the same monthly bill as an iOS user on Spotify for half the experience.

    On top of inserting it into occasional reviews, (which is fair as they should be reviewing the overall experience, not just listing specs and first impressions) they should also be writing articles about it. Make some noise about it. I'm aware that a few have been written in the past, but they've all gotten very quiet about it in the past years and it's helping nobody.

    If mainstream reviewers continue to shout "If only my phone had 2 more GB of RAM! If only my screen was 0.2" larger!" then that's all we're going to get. Ever.

    On the other hand, if the awful app experience starts to generate bad press to everyone involved, who knows, companies like Google & Samsung might even take initiative to cooperate with app developers to create a better experience. Snapchat might eventually snap & officially support select flagships for stock-app-like camera quality. Same with Instagram & Facebook. Beyond camera quality, Samsung & Google might start giving out some ... ahem "incentives" for major app devs to clean up their act.

    Windows Phones were absolutely crucified for their app support. I don't know why Android seems to be getting a free pass. I'm a huge Android fanboy, and I think the only way things are going to improve is if the people with a real voice in the tech community start putting it through the ringer. Burn it and let it be reborn, like the great Phoenix. Amen. Peace to the world, save the turtles, goodbye

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    EU states 'being completely held hostage by Google and Apple' says official

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 03:09 PM PDT

    How the Apple/Google coronavirus contact tracing system works - ELI5 version

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 03:44 PM PDT

    I have read the specifications for this system and below is my simplified explanation of how it works. See my previous comment for a more technical explanation.

    • Imagine every person has something like the Library of Babel in their house - a massive library of trillions of books in incomprehensible alien languages. All books have unique titles, and it's possible to quickly find any book in this library by title.
    • Every day, everyone picks their own random book from their library.
    • Every ten minutes, everyone looks at the next sentence in their book and starts whispering it over and over, so that you can hear it if you're close.
    • When you hear someone whisper a sentence in an alien language, you write it down in a diary. You keep track of all the sentences you've heard.
    • When someone is diagnosed with covid, they tell the doctor the titles of the books they were using when they were infectious. The doctor prints these titles in the newspaper.
    • You read the newspaper and find the titles of books used by infected people. You get the books from your library and check your diary to see if you've heard any of the sentences they contain. If you did, it means you've been close to someone infected.

    There are several features that make it hard to use this system for anything other than contact tracing:

    • You can't guess anyone's sequence of daily books ahead of time - they are completely random. (In v1.0 of the specification, everyone used their own secret fixed sequence of books, so that they didn't have to write down which books they used each day, but this was changed in v1.1 released this week and now they are completely random and impossible to predict.)
    • You can't guess anyone's daily book just from the sentences they are saying - the libraries are so massive and the books so obscure that the only way to find out which book the sentences come from is to follow someone around, hear them saying two or more different sentences, then check every book in the library, which would take thousands of years.
    • You can't distinguish the tone of anyone's voice, so you can't tell that two sentences were spoken by the same person unless you physically follow them around.
    • The government can't see where someone has been to, because you never share your diary with anyone. They might be able to get some diaries through warrants, but definitely not a large number of them, unless they hacked everyone - but then they would know all your private information anyway.
    • The newspaper doesn't list the names of infected people or their locations, only their book titles. You could sometimes figure out who was infected by cross-checking the content of the books with your diary and remembering who you were close to at the time you heard a given sentence, but not always.
    • If the newspaper stops publishing the book titles, everyone's diaries become basically useless.
    • Because only the doctor can publish book titles in the newspaper, pranksters can't create false alarms (short of actually convincing the doctor they have covid.)

    I hope this will reduce the number of silly "LOL DAE 1984???" and "BATMAN PHONE SPYING" comments that I've seen a lot here lately. I don't see any obvious way for this system to be used for nefarious purposes or exploited by hackers, short of discovering massive weaknesses in the standard cryptographic hash functions it relies on to implement the "Library of Babel" - and that's extremely unlikely.

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    Report: HTC Plans to Release a New Smartphone, Just Not a Flagship

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 02:49 PM PDT

    Mere days between each other

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 02:38 PM PDT

    https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/04/22/red-magic-5g-review-all-the-specs-but-none-of-the-magic/

    https://www.androidpolice.com/2020/04/25/nubias-powerhouse-redmagic-5g-gaming-phone-with-blazing-144hz-display-now-widely-available-starting-at-just-579-sponsored/

    I get that they need money, but how can they swallow their pride like this? This is the first Android Police article I read, and I'm so surprised that they "changed their mind" so quickly on this one.

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    OnePlus 8 Pro Display Green Tint

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 04:39 AM PDT

    The display is awesome. However, I had seen reports of a green tint on the display when in low light conditions and the screen at low brightness. I heard that the Galaxy S20 Ultra also had this issue and Samsung came out saying they recognised the problem and were bringing a software update out to solve the issue. Oneplus, only yesterday I believe, also came out and recognised there was an issue and said the next software update will fix it (which is what I assume was a silent fix on this update as it wasn't in the patch notes, neither was it on the S20 Ultra update.

    Anyway, I managed to take a picture of the green tint issue before and after the most recent 10.5.5 update which I got last night. I have attached it over on twitter as I can only seem to attach links here, not an image.

    Got the glacial green one with an ultramarine blue coming on Wednesday.

    If you want to know anything else, let me know!

    Gary.OnePlus 8 Pro Green Tint

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    I understand the love of innovation nowadays but some are just seeming excessive and it's gotten to the point where we're losing things we like

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 04:23 PM PDT

    Why does every (usually mid-range) phone need an inscreen fingerprint sensor, teardrop notch, 3+ camera setup, no headphone jack and more then 90hz display if a) they cost more b) they do less and c) they make the phone harder to use? I mean there is no reason to put the fingerprint sensor on the front other then to be like every other phone, along with the teardrop notch. Some phones are either looking ugly or generic, and cutting costs where it internally matters just to have the 4 camera setup? There are so many cool things from 2016 that phones recently have ditched simply for the sake of "innovation", which is bs because by doing this, we're limiting our phones. I (personally) love a back fingerprint sensor, headphone jack and a small or popup camera and I'm sure a lot of other people do. I'm sure the cameras are better and the display is better but if it's affecting usability, price and quality, I say just ditch it.

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    OnePlus 8 review

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 03:55 AM PDT

    Snapchat New UI 2020

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 02:59 AM PDT

    So I was browsing Snapchat like usual and after I sent a snap to a few people, BAM, I'm instantly in a much cleaner 5 tab bottom bar UI. The five tabs were Maps, Chat, Camera, Stories and Explore. All icons. And I thought this will be stick and won't go away. So I closed the app to do some research on the new UI and I found that it was under testing. And I go back to experience more of the new UI and it disappeared like nothing happened. 😐 I really liked the new UI. Many might not. But I really liked the new change after a good while.

    If anyone has any way to get it back or has anything to say about it, I'd be glad to know.

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    The addition/subtraction of which feature in a smartphone was unpopular at the time of introduction but ended up being beneficial in the long run?

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 09:58 AM PDT

    I would have to say that Apple's removal of the headphone jack in the iPhone 7 series, while unpopular, did lead to an improvement in Bluetooth quality (if I'm not mistaken I heard this in an MKBHD video).

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    Why Are Global Versions Of Chinese Phones Almost Always Delayed?

    Posted: 25 Apr 2020 10:33 AM PDT

    Recently I've started looking for a replacement for my S8+, and while I'm in no rush, eventually I will have to pick a new device.

    First, I've noticed that not only the usual bunch (Apple, Samsung, Huawei), but the bargain brands as well (Xiaomi, Honor, OnePlus, Oppo etc.) have blown the flagship prices absolutely sky high. While flagships have never been budget-friendly, this year they are making gaming PCs look affordable.

    With that in mind, I've turned to newer brands, such as Realme, as well as more affordable Xiaomi phone lines. The problem is, I'm not seeing a Global/European option for a lot of those phones, despite them having been released for some time. They are either China and India exclusive, or if a global edition does exist, it can only be ordered from a Chinese warehouse.

    While I'm aware about the pandemic causing chaos in mobile (and every other) industry, this trend hasn't exactly started out in this year. For some time the Chinese brands focus solely on their own, plus the Indian market, and then maybe, after at least several months, they make their phones easily affordable directly from European stores. What exactly is stopping them from selling both versions at once?

    They also suddenly increase the price by at least a third once the device does come to Europe, with some recent examples being so extreme that they completely threw off my plans and intentions about buying certain devices. This year Samsung specs without a Samsung price don't seem to be an option. But that's another story.

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    Latest Chrome Dev removes Duet flags

    Posted: 24 Apr 2020 03:36 PM PDT

    I guess the Duet experience is over, as the flags are gone in version 84.0.4120.6

    The flag to add a checkbox in Settings > Themes to force dark rendering is gone too

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