In my opinion the highlight here is the addition of the "Only this time" option when granting permissions to an app. I'm wondering though if this new privacy feature is only available for the 3 permission types listed in the post.
> With one-time permissions you can grant apps access to your microphone, camera or location, just that one time. The next time the app needs access to these sensors, it will have to ask you for permission again.
But will my weather always show in the clock now instead of randomly? (The "At a glance that's on the homescreen, shows the date, weather, upcoming events etc. Frequently it just shows the date for me and drops weather info)
And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I always found that annoying.
> To make communication easier and simpler on your phone, Android 11 will move all of your conversations across multiple messaging apps to a dedicated space in the notification section.
That makes me think of Unity's messaging menu. Everything old is new again, I suppose.
I'll admit, I don't use Android, but that Notification Center looks pretty similar to the one that I saw previously. Yeah, it's been changed slightly, but the whole thing hasn't been switched around. It looks like they've added features though.
Honestly, I'd rather they keep refining it, at whatever step size they have to, until they get it perfect, instead of stopping with something that's "good enough."
Been seeing a few app crashes on the Android 11 betas. Hopefully they've been addressing API bustage. Unfortunately the Android bug tracker seems to be a black hole for reports.
Here's the dirty little secret of app crashes on Android: many of these apps use some pretty horrid drm code that will only run on known versions of Android. So every new version of Android, you get a crash because it doesn't recognize the new version until the drm is updated.
If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess 90% of the time the app is the problem.
But still no encrypted chat. It's cute watching the security theater out of Google. Security to them means "only WE get access to your data, and ALL of your data".
louib|5 years ago
> With one-time permissions you can grant apps access to your microphone, camera or location, just that one time. The next time the app needs access to these sensors, it will have to ask you for permission again.
julesallen|5 years ago
boromi|5 years ago
ta17711771|5 years ago
Google hardware like Pixels with custom ROMs (GrapheneOS anyone?) are the move.
godelski|5 years ago
And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I always found that annoying.
ehsankia|5 years ago
As for bubbles, I think they're also optional, though if it can merge conversations across multiple different apps seamlessly, I'm all for it.
shock|5 years ago
That makes me think of Unity's messaging menu. Everything old is new again, I suppose.
0xdeadb00f|5 years ago
I'm not complaining, this one _looks_ nice. But why change it every goddamn update? It's like one step forward, one step back.
logicprog|5 years ago
Honestly, I'd rather they keep refining it, at whatever step size they have to, until they get it perfect, instead of stopping with something that's "good enough."
mmastrac|5 years ago
bleah1000|5 years ago
If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess 90% of the time the app is the problem.
unixhero|5 years ago
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SubiculumCode|5 years ago
tw04|5 years ago
But still no encrypted chat. It's cute watching the security theater out of Google. Security to them means "only WE get access to your data, and ALL of your data".
lern_too_spel|5 years ago