Whenever Google kills a feature used by <1% people always cite that is still over a million people. But nobody looks at the reverse. 1.5 million Lineage users doesn't even make up a tenth of a single percent of Android overall.
Of late I've been seeing many apps sending spam thru the main channel, or not describing/using channels appropriately
Those are the apps I uninstall. We live in a time where there are a billion apps. There are decent alternatives to anything and everything.
What we really need is a generic notification filter, where I can define my own text/regex filters, or maybe even employ some bayesian-style spam filter.
No, that's probably the opposite of what we need. You realize that is far too complicated for 99% of users, right? Your text matched will constantly need to be updated and maintained. Sounds like a nightmare.
I'd wager money that Google announces at I/0 they are cracking down on spam notifications with on device Gen AI.
I don't but I have a couple of the presence sensors from the company and like them a lot. They sort of require some tuning but have been quite reliable since.
As a software engineer with actual knowledge of the cost of code maintenance this comment hurts me. All code can have/cause bugs, interaction poorly with other sections of code, can break in the future and requires you to maintain tests. The leaner your code can be the better. You have to weigh the value from that 3% usage against the cost.
I'm sure I will get nothing but downvotes, but it needed to be said.
Most car manufacturers are giving up on their shitty in-house UI's in favor of Android Auto and Car play because that's what customers actually want. There is momentum and companies love taking advantage of it.
CES is also happening right now so there are a lot of car announcements.
This only affects modern Pixels, and probably won't directly impact anything in a way that you as a user will notice. I assume there will be efficiency improvements that may have tiny bumps for performance/battery but probably imperceivable.
I think Google is doing this for security. Now that Pixels are going to be supposed for 7+ years it will be easier to maintain them and keep up with security patches if they are on a more recent kernel version.
This. These sites have said anti-Pixel articles far and away get the most clicks so they keep writing them.