Can’t wait for Android 15 that looks almost exactly like Android 12

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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    7 hours ago

    Y’all don’t understand semantic versioning.

    Google does a major release pretty much yearly.

    Major releases are for breaking changes.

  • Lumelore (She/her)
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    6 hours ago

    They finally have multiline app names in beta for the pixel… Idk why it’s taking them so long. My old crusty motorola displays long names just fine; its crazy that it took until Android 15 just to get a beta of that.

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      5 hours ago

      It’s probably something like “why would you want to waste precious resources on something so small” or whatever, which just leads to shitty messes everywhere

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      9 hours ago

      Some of them have been pretty nice. However, the release’s are more frequent without the changes and improvements. I like all the new APIs and theming but those aren’t something you can do in 3 months.

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      10 hours ago

      Got Android 15 recently. The volume bar is twice as big now! I thought it was just a visual difference but volume is now more finely tuned, as in it goes from 0 to 20 instead of 0 to 10 and steps by 1. (Not sure of the real numbers)

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      10 hours ago

      Last update that had a noticeable GUI change for me was when they switched navigation default from 3-button to gesture. Fortunately they still have the option for 3-button.

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        10 hours ago

        I liked the introduction of gestures, so much screen space was lost to those buttons.

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          1 hour ago

          I’ve dabbled with them, but I find myself accidentally triggering them, so I’ve always gone back to buttons.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipOP
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      9 hours ago

      I can remember updating but it is almost a pointless exercise. (lineage OS requires manual version updates)

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        5 hours ago

        They are doing a major release every year. . Then they do 2-5 feature releases every year. The they do constant bug fix releases/and security updates.

        Often they change shit just for the sake of changing shit with no apparent rhyme or reason. I tried to figure out how to multi-task on my work iPad. Every release they change it and it’s all hidden commands. I finally just disabled multi-tasking and use my phone as an extra screen.

        It’s seriously much worse than my android phones. On my pixel I install a launcher, set it up how I like it and never see most of the changes between versions.

      • ramble81@lemm.ee
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        7 hours ago

        Apple releases a new major version every year, usually in September. What has Googles cadence been?

      • 299792458ms@lemmy.zip
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        7 hours ago

        I was referring to the marginal changes between consecutive releases replying to:

        Can’t wait for Android 15 that looks almost exactly like Android 12