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@exerceo every android user makes this argument about ios being locked down or closed or whatever. But in my experience none of them ever uses this freedom on android for anything. Most users simply don’t need it and don’t want it. This is what annoys me the most.
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@Lensflare a lot of people use a custom launcher on android because you can just download the one you want from e.g. Play store. But it doesn't impact the notification drawer. You need root access to mod that, so most people leave it alone. At least you can reorganise the icons in the notification drawer, and most people probably do that. Can you do that on apple?
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@electrineer yup
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All Android distros I ever ran worked like TouchWiz, except some manufacturers omitted the "pending" button states so that when you toggled an option it would stay in its original state until the change was enacted. This is the first time I hear about anything less than that.
By the way, I'm optimistic about the trend towards converting notifications into a sort of evolving, access-controlled, application-specific system control menu. Every Android version adds new features and interactions to the notification API. If there was a way to tally well-known notifications such as NewPipe in a separate stack with manually configurable order, it would be pretty much like system control. -
@exerceo So you are assuming that you can’t export stuff from a browser to a file on iOS?
I guess that’s another typical behavior of Apple haters. -
@Lensflare you kinda sound like that dontbeevil troll
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@exerceo No idea. Any app can export and import files. So any browser can do it. If your favorite browser doesn’t do it, it’s not the fault of iOS and a pretty poor argument.
Besides that, it’s 2024 and we have online sync now. No one does backups via files manually. -
@electrineer Damn, you are right! I have noticed it myself and I should really stop that 😄
I'm pretty sure Shakespeare didn't say that.
A good rule of thumb when developing applications with a good user experience is to assume that your user is t...
Another severe UI fail by Google:
On stock Android 7, the expanded system control menu only shows FOUR controls per page in horizontal view.
Compare that to superior TouchWiz (by Samsung), which showed all 23 controls at once, as seen in the screenshot attached in a comment.
In addition, on TouchWiz, the user could tap multiple options at once. Tapping on a toggle would just turn a feature on or off, and opening a menu would require holding the toggle for a second.
On stock Android, tapping opens the menu, so turning a feature off requires three more taps to reach a toggle located inside the submenu and to then go back.
This makes deactivating multiple features on stock Android a finger workout.
I am not sure which other stock Android versions are like that because I couldn't find horizontal screenshots of the system control menu (or toggle menu, or whatever it is called).
Only four controls per page? Seriously, Google?
TouchWiz Android > stock Android > iOS.
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