ChristianWS @ ChristianWS @lemmy.eco.br

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...it's been years since Android implemented the idea of Adaptive Icons. Which was made precisely so that icons have the same size and shape. Even if the Dev didn't update the icons in the last 5 years, the background would default to white.

So it isn't on the bottom? Why the hell some posts mentions the control center being on the bottom?

Alright, a few things:

1. Removing a direct QS tile for Wifi and Mobile Data was a dumb idea from Google's part, and there is no defense for that. I'm on LineageOS and I have the option to add those two back, but I think this isn't something that came from AOSP.
2. The Internet QS Tile is actually a pretty good idea for the average user. Most of the time when you want to disable Mobile Data you want to enable WiFi, and vice versa. This adds one more step, but removes one QS Tile and condense Internet options into a single thing. I'm fairly sure this wouldn't be a slight controversial decision if not for the removal of the direct QS Tiles.

This is the second post this week that mentions the iOS control center and I'm confused by it. On Android, the bottom area uses a upward gesture to go home and/or Recents, that's why the Quick Settings and Notification are on the top.

How does the user go to the homescreen on iOS since the bottom area opens the control center?

Could you explain how the guidelines are stricter on iOS? I'm not familiar with Apple guidelines.

Btw, just to give a bit of context for the Dynamic Icons: In Android, the notification icons need to be monochrome. Samsung is the odd one out and allows colors.

As such, devs are already sort of expected to develop a monochrome variation of the App Icon to be used as the notification icon. using the same design for the Dynamic Icon shouldn't really ask more from developers. Issue is that some devs don't even do the bare minimum, some apps just use a filled circle as a notification icon cause they forgot to check it.

Plus, there was a whole category of monochrome Icon Packs in the Play Store. I personally used Whicons for instance. So, making it official also helps with that.

Thanks to Treble I'm using LineageOS. My device, a Redmi Note 10, doesn't officially have the ROM, and for my use case the GSI version is good enough

I'm loyal to my wallet

Power users live in a weird paradox state, cause they are the most likely to even find a well hidden feature, and yet, they always complain even when all that was added was a dialog asking for yes or no

I think Android 11 was doing something cool with the power menu being fused with home controls, always thought they're going to further fuse it with the Quick Settings Panel, but they back paddled that real quick for some reason that I can't exactly understand

Issue is that developers are honestly, kinda of dumb in regards to the menu gesture, and AFAIK there wasn't an actual "canonical" guideline for that gesture in the first place.

Discord offers the best implemention in my opinion, as it can function on the middle of the screen and not on the edge, so it doesn't interfere with system gestures.

If you meant physical, clickable buttons, then yes, I agree with that and I miss the early days of Android where we still had them, the Galaxy 5/Europa was really fun to use and I miss it.

Never really liked the virtual buttons that much. As phones get bigger and bigger, they started making less and less sense. With gestures you can reach the back function by holding the phone anywhere on the screen. And the home and recents function are available anywhere on the bottom of the screen rather than having dedicated places.

One thing that might be a game changer once developers implement it is the predictive gesture, which would transform the back gesture into something analog, and I can imagine some cool uses for it that can't be done with buttons. It would also help give feedback for more complex apps and stuff like that.

That said, gestures live and die by the feedback, and to this day I think the best one was done by FluidNG, as it felt like you're pulling a black goo from the screen edge. The rest always felt a downgrade in comparison. The Android 14 one looks better than previous ones, but it still doesn't hold a candle to FluidNG

• Redmi Note 10
• It was cheap
• OLED screen, lack of Notification LED and real proximity sensor

I'm currently using Connect (the android App) and search is even funkier, to the point where it order is frankly random, and it appears to only show "famous" instances or the ones I'm subscribed to at least a community.

I know this isn't intended, but I can't help but feel that if sync was possible, this wouldn't be a noticible issue

Alright but what if there was an active community that moved to a self hosted one? Wouldn't that still show the older community first?

Doesn't it place higher the communities that are on the same instance as the user?

The issue with that is that an user could be on a popular instance, like lemmy.world or a related one like lemdroid, and search for a community on it. They could find a ghost community that was created unofficially before the self-hosted one. In that case they could think this is it and there's no real discussion to be had on Lemmy.

It is also slightly weird because there's an incentive for developers to grab the appname@popular.instance to ensure they can use the name and link it to the official instance. But that also leaves a ton of pretty much barren communities.

That's why I think keeping in sync would be a good feature, keep all communities in sync with the official one so that users aren't lost.

That said, this only works for official communities, and maybe(huge maybe) regional communities that have a self hosted instance

I don't use PayPal cause it doesn't accept the most convenient method of payment of my country

This is an issue I've been wondering about, the Technology example is fine, but the real edge case IMO is Official Communities.

Like, let's say I have an Android App and want to migrate my official community to Lemmy. I could build a community in:

• A big and general instance to gather more users, like Lemmy.World.
• A big but themed instance, like Lemdro.id. It has a smaller number of users but they are more likely to be interested in my App
• I could make my own instance, which would allow me to dedicate communities into topics and I would have more control over it, which is good cause it is an official community.

I feel there should be a way for "sync" communities in those cases. It makes sense in those cases to allow a full sync, with the option to unsync if things go south and there's a split.

Sure... If donating wasn't a pain in the ass to do due to payment methods being different across countries.

I have a few projects I wouldn't mind donating to, but as Patreon uses PayPal it is just more trouble than it is worth

People downvote cause seeing ads is annoying, but IMO, if it is done tastefully it is the only viable way to pay for the infrastructure, and it would prevent a collapse of the system.

I wish there was a way to keep communities "in sync", like you have the big and small communities with the same posts and comments, everything's the same, so people who are on Lemmy.world could go to Android@Lemmy.World and have the same content we have here without having to discover this community.

Would help combat fragmentation, and the sync could be broken if things go south