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    Android Help Daily Superthread (Oct 28 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    October 28, 2021

    Android Help Daily Superthread (Oct 28 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    Daily Superthread (Oct 28 2021) - Your daily thread for questions, device recommendations and general discussions!

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 05:00 AM PDT

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    Entry level (most affordable devices costing under $250 (US)/ $325 (Canada)/ €200 (Europe)/ £200/ ₹12,500 (India)

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    Google warns that 'high demand' for Pixel 6 Pro has heavily delayed shipping, retail stock is scarce

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 07:10 AM PDT

    Google Fi phone calls now end-to-end encrypted (Android to Android).

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 02:58 PM PDT

    Google Pixel 6 Review: Hey Google, Awesome Phone

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 08:49 AM PDT

    [Android Police] Magic Eraser is no longer exclusive to the Pixel 6

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 12:43 PM PDT

    LG is offering some of its 'loyal customers' a discount on the Google Pixel 5A 5G.

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 04:40 AM PDT

    Google Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro review: the flagships we’ve been waiting for

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 09:01 AM PDT

    Cloudstream is an open source, ad-free streaming player that scrapes 3rd Party Sites for movies, TV series and anime with a convenient UI that is completely verifiable by the community instead of a shady developer

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 06:16 PM PDT

    Grammar Correction as You Type, on Pixel 6

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 05:46 PM PDT

    Widgets just got better on Android 12 (new widget designs for Photos, Drive, Fi, and more)

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 01:03 PM PDT

    Two more hidden features in Android 12L: "Quick wallpaper picker" and "notification to contents"

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 01:45 PM PDT

    In my ongoing quest to catalog every change I find in new Android versions, I'm taking a look at Android 12L: Android 12 for large screen devices. In another Reddit post, I shared what I found out about the dynamic color boot animation that's only available through the dark boot animation variant.

    Here are two other hidden features in 12L:

    • Quick wallpaper picker. After enabling the flag with this name in Pixel Launcher's developer options, you'll be able to quickly switch between wallpapers from the long-press context menu in the launcher. Here's what it looks like.
    • Notification to contents. As I demoed in my Android "12.1" hands-on, there's a hidden feature that lets you long-press a notification and then drag-and-drop it to the left or right side to open it in split-screen mode. We now know that Android "12.1" is officially called Android 12L, and in the first Developer Preview that dropped yesterday, I was able to enable the "notification to contents" feature once more. Here's a new demo of what it looks like.

    I'll be doing a round-up of all my findings soon, so look forward to that :)

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    [Android Police] Orders are so delayed your estimate is basically meaningless

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 07:49 PM PDT

    Google is working on "on-demand 32-bit spawning" for the Zygote process, which could lead to significant memory savings!

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 01:26 PM PDT

    zygote: add support for on-demand 32-bit spawning.

    Add an ephemeral mode to zygote, where it exits after all of its children have died, so that we can replace it with a stub that launches it on-demand.

    stub_zygote: add.

    The 32-bit zygote costs a significant amount of memory, even in the case where there are zero 32-bit applications running. As an intermediate step to completely killing 32-bit, we can win back the memory usage in the common case by spawning the 32-bit zygote on demand. Implement a server that listens on the zygote socket and spawns an ephemeral zygote on-demand, that lives for as long as it has children.

    What is zygote?

    Each app process is forked from an existing process called Zygote. The Zygote process starts when the system boots and loads common framework code and resources (such as activity themes). To start a new app process, the system forks the Zygote process then loads and runs the app's code in the new process. This approach allows most of the RAM pages allocated for framework code and resources to be shared across all app processes.

    We probably won't see this change make its way to Android until Android 13 T next year, but it sounds like a big change! Google's long-term goal is to eventually have nothing but 64-bit only Android devices in the wild.

    Credits to my good friend /u/luca020400 for the finding :)

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    GS201 (successor to the Google Tensor in the Pixel 6?) is in the works

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 01:00 PM PDT

    Platform: Add GS201 platform support.

    This should not come as a surprise to anyone. I wonder what improvements/changes they'll make. Supposedly, Google is making its own chip for Chromebooks, too.

    /u/andreif's article for AnandTech does a great job summarizing the specs of GS101 in the Pixel 6 series.

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    Android 12L adds support for dynamic color boot animations

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 01:19 PM PDT

    This is something I hinted at in my Android "12.1" hands-on, but I couldn't get it to work at the time. Here's how I described the feature at the time:

    In addition, we've learned that Google plans to expand dynamic coloring to Android's boot animation in Android 12.1. Dynamic coloring, as a reminder, is what Google calls Material You's wallpaper-based theming system, code-named "monet". Internal documentation viewed by XDA describes how dynamic coloring can be applied to the boot animation. Instead of directly rendering the PNG images within the boot animation file, the new dynamic coloring render mode treats the R, G, B, and A channels of each image as area masks, interpolating between the start and end colors based on the progression of the animation. OEMs can enable the feature by adding a line to the boot animation's description file that specifies the starting color and reading from four system properties that specify the end colors, which are presumably set when the user changes their wallpaper while the OS is booted.

    Now that Android 12.1 is officially out as Android 12L, we have our first glimpse at what dynamic color boot animations look like. In the 12L emulator image, only the dark boot animation file has the necessary line in its description file for specifying the starting color. The regular boot animation zip does not.

    Here are 3 examples of themed boot animation in 12L: 1, 2, and 3.

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    EXCLUSIVE: Samsung Galaxy S22 Pre-Orders Start in February 2022

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 03:31 PM PDT

    Navigation Bar for Gestures

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 01:18 PM PDT

    Seeing as Android 12 has launched and the Pixel 6 is having an absolute explosion in popularity, I thought it was time to complain about this issue once again.

    I think we all know that the bottom bar that comes with using Android gesture navigation in certain apps is an absolute eyesore. The fact that Google still has not even adhered to their own design language is absolutely unacceptable. This isn't something that is going to bother some, but if Google wants people to move from iPhone to the Pixel (which, let's be honest, with this Pixel launch that is their target), they need to fix this and fast. Having an ugly black or white bar behind the navigation hint having come from iPhone, where that is just transparent will be a major turn off for a decent chunk of people. It just makes the OS look so unpolished.

    I know there is always someone who responds to posts like this saying "oh well its up to developers to implement this." The problem with that is it's a total cop out. Google themselves don't even adhere to it. Maps, Chrome, etc. still have this ugly bar behind the gesture hint.

    I propose that a feature be added to at least remove the gesture hint entirely, to give users an option at the very least to not have that bar. It could even be a developer option so users don't turn it on by accident, but it has been years now and these complaints have fallen on deaf ears time and time again, and I say its time for them to fix this.

    For those who are unaware what I'm referring to, see this image and look at the black bar on the bottom of the screen https://imgur.com/a/qCCGFdT

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    Pixel 6/6 Pro Review: Almost Incredible! - MKBHD

    Posted: 27 Oct 2021 03:18 PM PDT

    Xiaomi unveils Redmi Note 11 series, offering even better value for money

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 08:11 AM PDT

    [DEV] Live access for WebDAV on Android available

    Posted: 28 Oct 2021 11:34 AM PDT

    WebDAV access is now available in the DAVx5 app! So this means you will be able to access all your WebDAV clouds on Android. We are using the Storage Access Framework and because of that this is available from within all your other apps that also support the SAF. If you have questions please just post it here and we will try to answer it! Hope you like it :-)

    Release Tweet: https://twitter.com/davx5app/status/1447626250923675657

    Release Notes: https://forums.bitfire.at/topic/2596/davx-4-0-release-notes

    Small video guide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwfwNXFtvYE

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    Android 12L includes an unreleased app called "Cross-Device Communication Service" that hints at a "Nearby Calling" feature

    Posted: 27 Oct 2021 04:32 PM PDT

    I was digging through Android 12L DP1 today, and I noticed a new preinstalled app called "Cross-Device Communication Service." Curious, I investigated it further and discovered it's the app for the long-awaited Pixel-to-Chromebook app streaming service. The package name of this app is "com.google.pixel.exo".

    The APK was included in both x86 and ARM64 builds of Sv2, so I extracted it and pushed it to my Pixel 3 XL running 12. While I haven't been able to get app streaming working yet (it still times out on my Chromebook), I did notice an activity called "nearby calling" that hints at new functionality.

    "Nearby Calling" will seemingly let you receive incoming phone calls on your Nest Hub, transfer calls between your phone and Nest Hub, and start calls with your voice. This will be Pixel-exclusive.

    I'll update this post if I find more information.

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    The Pixel 6 Tensor Chip’s Best Upgrade Isn’t Speed. It’s Security

    Posted: 27 Oct 2021 05:22 PM PDT

    Material Design 3 guidelines website

    Posted: 27 Oct 2021 10:53 AM PDT

    12L and new Android APIs and tools for large screens

    Posted: 27 Oct 2021 10:40 AM PDT

    Android 12L aims to be a big improvement for folding phones

    Posted: 27 Oct 2021 09:03 AM PDT

    Pixel 6: Setting a new standard for mobile security

    Posted: 27 Oct 2021 12:12 PM PDT
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