All About Android 12

7 Android 12 features Apple should borrow for iOS 15
https://www.macworld.com/article/34...omization-lock-screen-widgets-animations.html

Don't Install the Android 12 Beta (Yet)
https://lifehacker.com/dont-install-the-android-12-beta-yet-1846983882

Android 12 is here and I like it

 

How is privacy looking?

 

They pretend that they care about our privacy , hope they truly are.

 

I'm still on Android 8, does that make my phone secure because it falls under legacy tech? Lol

 

That was a rhetorical question

 

You are missing the latest privacy intrusion features.

 

Better than apple.

 

They all are the same.

Even NBR forum is selling all our personal data to everyone, and if you just try to block one of them you are not allowed to login anymore.

 

Yes. All the same. Just the world we live in now. So, No....Apple is no more "private" or "secure" than any other system. It's just they have a marketing team to spew bull to the minions.

 

with android 12 I like the fact you can customize everything with a different color helps simple people like me when navigating and making fast descisions colors are quickly seen vs reading

 

Duh, I guess you missed the joke, humor can be lost in text I guess.

 

I didn't, however, you seem to have missed my sarcasm!

 

Thats what /s generally denotes, or an lol, or an emoji etc etc :/

 

I can't wait to get android 12. I just sold my apple watches. They are gone. Next up is the iPhone and my son's ipad. GARBAGE. Even apple's own apps are crashing constantly on it. My cheap samsung tab A, never an issue. Tim Cook's apple is not Steve Jobs' apple, that's for sure!

 

Just installed it on my Pixel 5. Animations are smoother, I like the new double-tap to open whatever app you want (I chose Spotify), the whole UI looks more user-friendly and intuitive. The Clear All button to clear all app notifications are once now is right there at the bottom but you can see it at all times without having to scroll all the way down through the notifications.

This is the first time I felt an Android OS update really made a difference, never felt much change from Android 8 to 11 really.

 

I'm wondering how it would look and work on samsung phones.....Thats going to be interesting.

 

Better than that sewer pot called iOS

 

Too funny. My wife, who loved her iphone more than I did told me today while we were having a beer in the back garden she's done with apples garbage too. Perfect says I.

 

All of the changes you mention are already available in various launchers except for the "looks more user-friendly and intuitive." That is probably also covered in part by a number of launchers.

Just as before the stock launcher in 12 is weak. Even the UI elements changing colors to match the wallpaper was available although I'm doubtful Google is sending a check to Lacy and crew every month after "borrowing" the idea from Action Launcher.

This is probably why 12 is a bit meh to me as were most of the releases before it: The GUI elements have been in launchers for years. Not all of them, some came from mods. Gesture navigation, for example, was not invented by Apple; I had it all the way back on my Nexus 1. In any event if you like the GUI changes and like fiddling with the stuff you might enjoy testing out various launchers. Some are crap, others excellent.

 

So most of the stuff in 12 is available via launchers? Do you have any guides for nova launcher? Or any others? I am interested.

 

Nova is a good choice, I use Action Launcher, there are others that may suit. I'd start by reading reviews and noting which ones have a feature set and design that meets your goals. Some are designed to be as simple as possible, others offer a boatload of choice.

Once you do find something that sounds interesting the next step is to set it up and play with it. That will start with setting it as the default home and doing a menu dive. You'll want to set your grid and other basics and then populate screens. While people like me can enjoy this optimization process others will find it tedious. If you're the latter type, no worries, just open up the options and switch your home back as the default home app and play with it again later when your of a mind. Multiple home apps can live together without issue so you have no concern about conflicts.

A couple things about efficient GUI setup... Your most used applications should be one click away. These are going to be on the home screen and can be directly executed. All the rest of your regularly used apps should be no more than two actions away. A tap, swipe, or gesture is an action. This means your core GUI is limited to home and a screen to either side. This doesn't mean you can't have more screens, you can, but your core apps should not be on them.

Because of the two action to launch limit a minimum bar I set is that the launcher should have a paged dock. One will be home with your most used apps on it and you'll swipe to the left or right to access the dock page to either side. Just as with screens any more and you're forcing more than two actions to open an app. This is going to get you ten more apps at the least friending on your grid setup. This is also more valuable space then the screens themselves as it's easier to find the desired app on the dock than on a larger screen.

Screens past the one to left and right of home can be useful for widgets. Say you have a weather widget you like to run full screen. You put it two screens out and you're still only taking two actions to get to the information which is the use of the app. Of course if app widget is past of a core use you might want it directly on the home screen; music apps for example.

Some of the available launchers offer very different setups and it takes you out of your comfort zone. When playing with these things you need to give them time; we tend to like that with which we are familiar. Some are also significantly more feature rich and accessing those features means learning about them in the first place and then implementing them. An example of that would be the double tap Google added. In Action Launcher I can assign a double tap, triple tap, single swipe down, two finger swipe down, single swipe up, double finger swipe up, swipe from the right edge, swipe from the left edge. I was showing a guy where to find something in the main options and he remarked that it was cool I could open it up with a two finger swipe up. I told him it was a feature of Action Launcher. He said he had the launcher but it didn't do that. Turned out he just ran the out of the box setting with a few shortcuts he added to the screens.

So that's an overview. Keep in mind it's just to give you a framework to start from; your own preferences will dictate your choices.

 

I use the same fundementals when setting up my devices. My main apps I use regularly are on the main screen and easy to hit. The rest remain in the dock. I may go a second page with widgets on it, but I like the clean and mean look. I do like the idea of the app icons, etc all changing color to match the wallpaper I am using. I will try action launcher as well to see how I like it.

 

Nova is the old school launcher in execution but vastly more customizable.

Action gets further from the same old launcher your dad used on his Android device but will still be familiar. It's primary change of interest is what they call Covers and Blinds. The Blinds if enabled allow you to swipe on a shortcut and instead of opening the app it will open the widget. An example of the use: WhatsApp is widely used in my business and I often get messages that don't pertain to me. I can swipe open to the widget and directly access those I'm interested in rather than opening up the app and scrolling through them. On the other hand I can tap as usual to go into the app if that's my preference. The covers work by creating a folder that is covered by a single app. Like the older folder paradigm you can drop one app on another to create a folder. You can then long press the folder to get the option to turn it into a cover. A cover will just show one app, tap it and it opens as normal. Swipe the cover and it will open the folder underneath. An example of it's use is that I primarily use Signal as my personal messaging app. I have several others though that I use for specific people. Those are in the folder that signal is covering. Signal is on my home page as a primary so but one extra tap gives me all me messaging app options in one cohesive place. I use this extensively both for the ease and organizational improvement.

 

I am the dad, buddy! I cut my teeth on TRS 80's.

 

Lol, it's just a turn of phrase, not meant literally. The stock launcher is iterative but remains in gross functionality and concept much as it always was; I'm a grandparent but it would still be my dad's launcher even though cell phones didn't exist in his lifetime. Your dad's "X" is the old thing that people did before they figured out there could be something either different or better.

 

We can talk about Garbage. Who'm of the Android-phone manufacturers will follow after? Maybe your favorite smartphone brand?

OnePlus On CPU Throttling Issue: It's Overkill to Run Apps at Full Chip Speed pcmag.com

 

You have me mistaken for someone else. OnePlus is far from my favorite brand. I would not buy 1+ toilet paper, let alone a device from them.