Saturday APPreciation (Sep 03 2016) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! |
- Saturday APPreciation (Sep 03 2016) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread!
- Exclusive: To Offer Fast Software Updates, OnePlus is Merging Hydrogen and Oxygen OS
- Interested in helping build a new Pixel subreddit?
- Samsung allowing customers in the US to exchange the Galaxy Note 7 for a Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge
- Lenovo P2 with 5100mah battery, SD625, fHD AMOLED display hands on
- Sony on how it reshaped its smartphone lineup
- XDA contributor posts personal rebuttal to recent AC criticisms of XDA's Note7 Performance Articles
- Dave Gewirtz Needs An Arithmetic Lesson - Or, Debunking ZDNet Claims that KitKat is Most Used Android Today
- Why Google Canceled Project Ara
- Turns out installing CyanogenMod on the Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 isn't very straightforward, but it's still possible.
- Samsung's handling of Galaxy Note 7 recall has raised concerns for U.S. officials
- Moto Z Play Droid preview: The most affordable modular phone yet
- Samsung opens a Play Store beta program for the S Note app
- Moto E3 hands on
- Fossil Q Marshall and Q Wander Hands-on: Android Wear Elegance
- Which app has lot of potential but it isn't developed?
- Which Android manufacturer puts most crapware/pre-installed apps on their phone/tablets?
- UK e-retailer lists prices for Xperia XZ and X Compact
- Hotlap Heroes brings top-down local racing with up to 8 players to Android TV
- Google's Control over Android
- Rugged phone ratings: Everything you need to know
- Huawei MediaPad M3 Unboxing and First Look: It's Loud!
- New feature in Google Maps, save location as favorite, want to go, or a starred place.
| Saturday APPreciation (Sep 03 2016) - Your weekly app recommendation/request thread! Posted: 03 Sep 2016 04:02 AM PDT Note 1. Check out our apps wiki for previous threads and apps curated by the reddit Android community! 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]  | ||
| Exclusive: To Offer Fast Software Updates, OnePlus is Merging Hydrogen and Oxygen OS Posted: 03 Sep 2016 11:33 AM PDT
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| Interested in helping build a new Pixel subreddit? Posted: 03 Sep 2016 09:40 AM PDT Hello Android enthusiasts, I'm your ex-Project ARA insider here again to inform you all on the latest Google hardware updates. As most of you are aware Project ARA has been canceled and the Nexus brand is possibly going to be re-branded as Pixel. Saw this coming months ago and created the subreddit /r/GooglePixel. In my mind Pixel is about to become a brand for multiple products ranging from tablets and smartphones to smartwatches and other products. Google announced months ago that they plan on organizing Android products into a more coherent brand. This Pixel brand is probably the start of that unification. Created a post a few minutes ago asking the small /r/GooglePixel community what they want to see in this new subreddit focused on Google hardware updates. Would love to have more Android enthusiasts opinion on what they want to sub to be. [link] [comments]  | ||
| Samsung allowing customers in the US to exchange the Galaxy Note 7 for a Galaxy S7 or Galaxy S7 edge Posted: 03 Sep 2016 01:10 PM PDT
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| Lenovo P2 with 5100mah battery, SD625, fHD AMOLED display hands on Posted: 03 Sep 2016 08:57 AM PDT
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| Sony on how it reshaped its smartphone lineup Posted: 03 Sep 2016 05:00 AM PDT
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| XDA contributor posts personal rebuttal to recent AC criticisms of XDA's Note7 Performance Articles Posted: 03 Sep 2016 12:01 PM PDT | ||
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| Why Google Canceled Project Ara Posted: 03 Sep 2016 12:43 PM PDT
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| Samsung's handling of Galaxy Note 7 recall has raised concerns for U.S. officials Posted: 03 Sep 2016 10:06 AM PDT
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| Moto Z Play Droid preview: The most affordable modular phone yet Posted: 03 Sep 2016 05:19 AM PDT
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| Samsung opens a Play Store beta program for the S Note app Posted: 03 Sep 2016 02:50 PM PDT
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| Fossil Q Marshall and Q Wander Hands-on: Android Wear Elegance Posted: 03 Sep 2016 03:27 PM PDT
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| Which app has lot of potential but it isn't developed? Posted: 03 Sep 2016 11:15 AM PDT | ||
| Which Android manufacturer puts most crapware/pre-installed apps on their phone/tablets? Posted: 03 Sep 2016 01:22 AM PDT My first android phone was an OPO, which I rooted and changed roms on, now I have a S7 Edge, which I won't root and change roms on. I liked the OPO's clean android experience, and I kinda hate how much pre-installed apps there were (Facebook, Instagram, Skype, and more), so which Android manufacturer (Samsung, Oneplus, Asus, and so on) puts most crapware/pre-installed apps on their phones/tablets EDIT: I didn't think this would be so popular! [link] [comments]  | ||
| UK e-retailer lists prices for Xperia XZ and X Compact Posted: 03 Sep 2016 07:40 AM PDT
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| Hotlap Heroes brings top-down local racing with up to 8 players to Android TV Posted: 03 Sep 2016 12:40 PM PDT
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| Posted: 03 Sep 2016 11:50 AM PDT TL;DR Google should increase its control over Android via the Play Store and OEMs should push their custom skins via restricted-access launcher-style apps (also on the Play Store) One of the major strengths of Android all these years has been its open source foundation--OEMs, custom ROM makers, and even random tinkerers can change elements Android's source code. This flexibility, combined with the more open licensing rules, has contributed to the massive adoption of Android worldwide. I've heard figures quoting that Android holds somewhere between 60% and 85% of the worldwide smartphone OS market. Over the years, many third party app developers have come to embrace the massive user base that Android holds, and now the entire Android ecosystem can benefit from a healthy selection of third party apps (which, by some measures, holds parity or even exceeds many attributes the iOS ecosystem). Together, these two characteristics--flexibility and third party support--have made Google's Android OS a success. Yet despite its widespread adoption, I can't help but notice (and I know that I'm not alone), that Google's influence over the Android OS is shaky at best. In the project's early years, letting the cat out of the bag allowed it to take root and spread in a way that BlackBerry's OS or Windows Mobile OS never could. Since those early years, however, the Android OS has matured considerably, and with it, the state of the entire smartphone market. Consumers now have an entirely different set of expectations regarding software feature updates, security patches, optimization, cohesiveness, and interoperability (sorry that's a fake word). I've always owned Android devices, from the Droid Incredible to the Galaxy SIII to the HTC One M8 to (hopefully) the upcoming Pixel XL, but I can't help but notice that some elements of my user experience are rather poor compared to my iOS or Windows 10 Mobile OS friends. None of the issues that I face, ranging from a lack of software feature updates for more than one year to an absolute lack of regular security patches to regular crashing and freezing to a lack of continuity with my 2013 Nexus 7, are unique to me nor are they unknown to Google. Yet I can't help but think that Google's hands are tied behind its back to fundamentally address any of these issues; the cat was let out of the bag long ago and any hopes of returning it have since passed. This is not to say that Google isn't try to make changes to the Android ecosystem to bring the aforementioned shortcomings to parity with other platforms. Their support of the Nexus (and possibly soon to be Pixel) line of devices all of these years as a reference model to showcase the newest version of Android is a testament to this. They've also taken steps to guide other OEMs into improving their own software support for devices that they have sold. Some of the larger OEMs, including Samsung, have recently committed to software feature updates for at least a year, in addition to regular security patches. Google has even considered publishing lists of OEMs known to offer poor software support. Certain elements of the Android user experience have been moved to the Google Play Store so that they can be updated and maintained by Google independently of a given OEM's software support. I'm no expert, and I don't profess to have all or even any of the answers to these problems, but in my ideal world, I would hope for an Android ecosystem in which Google exercises much more control. I wouldn't want to change the open spirit of Android that has led to its great success these past years, but I would want Android to behave somewhat more like (but not entirely like) a partially open source version Microsoft's Windows 10 on the desktop--Google would make a branch to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which it would maintain with software feature updates and regular security patches. Moving forward (and grandfathering in all older versions of Android), Google would only provide free access to Google Play Services to those hardware OEMs that agree to preserve Google's current branch of Android as the underlying OS on their devices. This would essentially entail being stricter about Google's existing non-fragmentation agreement. In order to preserve the open tradition of Android, OEMs should be able to pre-install apps on their users' phones, as long as these apps can be uninstalled. These apps can range from single task items like a custom camera app for HTC phones or a special dialer for Samsung phones to a custom launcher-like app that changes the feel and functionality of the whole operating system (i.e. Touchwhiz or HTC Sense would be launchers like Nova/Google Now/Action/Apex/etc). Google should also modify their Play Store to preserve the ability of hardware OEMs to add their own flair to Android by making a new section in the Play Store that only allows the download of an OEM app by users who have a phone from that respective OEM (if an OEM chooses to restrict access to their stuff). Hardware OEMs that are reluctant to provide timely software feature updates or security patches to their users should be charged license fees to use Google Play Services moving forward (obviously, all OEM devices made before some cutoff date should be made exempt from these fees). Hardware OEMs that insist on baking their own skins into Android but manage to abide by timely (to be defined by Google) software feature updates and security patches should also be exempt from these fees. Finally, custom ROM fans/power users/tinkerers (e.g. Cyanogenmod users) should be allowed to do whatever they want while having free access to Google Play Services. By remaining open source, tinkerers and power users would be able to make side branches to the main Android OS project to customize certain elements of it. Furthermore, OEMs would be able to make changes to the UI and functioning of Android's source code through third party applications whilst remaining on the main branch of Android that would be maintained by Google. Perhaps even more fundamentally, more power would be shifted to the hands of the user. After all, wasn't that one of the original goals of the Android OS project? gg I made a few changes to the language of this post to reflect the open source nature of Android [link] [comments]  | ||
| Rugged phone ratings: Everything you need to know Posted: 03 Sep 2016 08:27 AM PDT
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| Huawei MediaPad M3 Unboxing and First Look: It's Loud! Posted: 03 Sep 2016 02:25 PM PDT
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| New feature in Google Maps, save location as favorite, want to go, or a starred place. Posted: 03 Sep 2016 12:33 PM PDT https://imgur.com/gallery/FgoZa Came out in a recent update this week [link] [comments]  |
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