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RVProfootballer posted:Stock Kit Kat with GPE is ideal, actually. Everything you need, nothing you don't.
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Is GPE that thing that makes the icons all large and ugly? I don't mind Google Now to the left, but I don't need the "I am my dad and refuse to wear my reading glasses" setting going on with the icons.
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Dec 3, 2013 21:28
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Civil posted:GPE is terrible. I love it and think it's useful and efficient.
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Dec 3, 2013 21:36
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Is anyone successfully using Adblock Plus? My problem is that it filters all traffic on port 80...which evidently includes all incoming and outgoing MMS messages. SMS messages (pure text) make it through just fine, but any images or group texts just timeout on send as long as I have ABP enabled. I'm using a N5 on AT&T.
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Dec 3, 2013 21:39
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:My biggest problem is I don't have it on my 7 and sometimes I'll try to go to the left to get to Now. I'd install it, but that would require me enabling "unknown sources" and touching an apk which would break my no CJing rule. What is "CJing"?
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Dec 3, 2013 21:44
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Computer janitoring.
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SpazRobot posted:Is anyone successfully using Adblock Plus? I use adaway, requires root. It modifies the host file and blocks the ads. I didn't like adblock plus. I'm also on the N5 and haven't had any problems with Ad away. Its not available on the play store: http://sufficientlysecure.org/index.php/adaway/
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:My biggest problem is I don't have it on my 7 and sometimes I'll try to go to the left to get to Now. I'd install it, but that would require me enabling "unknown sources" and touching an apk which would break my no CJing rule. Installing a single apk isn't really CJing. Civil posted:GPE is terrible. Poor use of screen real estate, and it feels like iOS6 with google now on the left. No customization. You actually prefer it over a launcher with options? Poor use of screen real estate? It holds the same number of apps and widgets the old launcher did. It does everything you need it to.
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r0ck0 posted:I use adaway, requires root. It modifies the host file and blocks the ads. I didn't like adblock plus. I'm also on the N5 and haven't had any problems with Ad away. Its not available on the play store: I believe you only need root when you apply updates to your host file, so it should be possible to remove root access after doing that and still enjoy ad-free surfing and use apps that demand a non-rooted device, like some of the movie streaming services. Not 100% sure on this though.
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There's a lot of caring about app drawers in this thread. Yesterday morning my alarm didn't go off. When I woke up from my girlfriend's iphone alarm, I saw my phone screen on and a dialog letting me know that the clock had crashed. My stock clock app crashed on my completely stock phone. Also pervasive use of adblocking software is why android isn't a profitable platform and many developers put in less effort/no effort. You should be ashamed.
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Paul Allen posted:Interesting chart on iOS vs Android phone support:
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Don Lapre posted:Poor use of screen real estate? It holds the same number of apps and widgets the old launcher did. It does everything you need it to. Step your game up. The 4x4 app grid was what the G1 used on a HVGA screen. Even apple added another row when they moved to a widescreen format. Why not use your screen more efficiently?
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Dec 3, 2013 22:12
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Civil posted:Step your game up. The 4x4 app grid was what the G1 used on a HVGA screen. Even apple added another row when they moved to a widescreen format. Why not use your screen more efficiently? The nexus 5 has a 4x5 grid.
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1st AD posted:
Also holy poo poo Apple was still selling the 3GS a little over a year ago.
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OEM's will frequently include features before official android versions support them. As long as the majority of apps run on a given device, why is it so important that it runs the latest OS version?
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Does adaway get rid of those annoying "Suggested by X artist" pop ups in the youtube app? Those things are killing me.
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Civil posted:OEM's will frequently include features before official android versions support them. As long as the majority of apps run on a given device, why is it so important that it runs the latest OS version? Arguments about fragmentation.
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Civil posted:OEM's will frequently include features before official android versions support them. As long as the majority of apps run on a given device, why is it so important that it runs the latest OS version? Things like TRIM support had to get added into an OS update, that's pretty important I think! Also fragmentation is dumb and I don't think it's good for the ecosystem if app developers have to target multiple iterations of the same OS. I mean, when you look at the two app stores they might have a comparable number of apps, but Apple's store has WAY more actual content in it. The Play Store is littered with launchers and themes and widgets. I don't believe there is some kind of developer advantage to iOS vs. Android so it must come down to fragmentation in Androidland.
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Funny thing is, android 2.2 phones and up still get updates via Google play services and Google Play Store since Google moved a ton of the OS off to those two places and they'll keep getting updates far long after your typical iphone will. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/09/balky-carriers-and-slow-oems-step-aside-google-is-defragging-android/  
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Hasn't the GPE launcher gone back to long-press for widgets? I can't believe (yes I can) they completely backtracked on phasing out the long-press menu like that, after all the bally-hoo they put into how carefully they built the UI from the ground up - discoverability, consistency etc. - in 4.0. [edit] They also took out the live video effects from the Camera in 4.1 and up, which is unforgivable. spincube fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Dec 3, 2013 |
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so I could say that I finally figured out what this god damned cube is doing. Get well Lowtax.
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Endless Mike posted:Just from things I've read, iOS development is much easier. iOS continues to have a better app ecosystem, and maybe they always will. I'm always a bit disappointed that my old-rear end ipad2 runs games better than my n7, just because iOS is usually the primary development environment, and the android app is an afterthought.
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Endless Mike posted:Just from things I've read, iOS development is much easier. I did some work up in the Bay Area for a startup that was developing a simultaneous web/iOS/Android messaging platform and the devs didn't make it sound like Android development was an issue, but these guys did have more money and staff at their disposal. I wonder what the experience is for any goon developers out there?
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Mister Fister posted:Funny thing is, android 2.2 phones and up still get updates via Google play services and Google Play Store since Google moved a ton of the OS off to those two places and they'll keep getting updates far long after your typical iphone will. Point out to me where "security updates" is on that chart.
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1st AD posted:I did some work up in the Bay Area for a startup that was developing a simultaneous web/iOS/Android messaging platform and the devs didn't make it sound like Android development was an issue, but these guys did have more money and staff at their disposal. I wonder what the experience is for any goon developers out there? It just comes down to past experience and comfort level with new languages.
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RZA Encryption posted:Point out to me where "security updates" is on that chart.
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RZA Encryption posted:Point out to me where "security updates" is on that chart. I don't know how comprehensive the chart is, but the malware scanner is on play services, not sure about other security updates.
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Doctor rear end in a top hat posted:And of course Google+ and Keep carry the same weight as "Application Framework & APIs" and "Linux Kernel & Drivers." http://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/index.html
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1st AD posted:Things like TRIM support had to get added into an OS update, that's pretty important I think! Didn't the Moto X feature it before the 4.4 update?
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The Dark One posted:Didn't the Moto X feature it before the 4.4 update? Officially, it was a 4.3 feature, but the moto x supported it on delete on 4.2 as an active task, rather than a background one.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:"Easy" is extremely subjective. Some developers find Android development easier because Java's syntax is more familiar to them than Objective-C (which is rather unlike other popular object-oriented languages). Some developers find iOS development easier because the APIs, tools, and documentation are superior to Android's. This is pretty much what I was going to post. I know Java, and I do not really know Objective-C that well, so Android development is only mildly frustrating, and iOS development is extremely frustrating. Especially since Apple releases tools that only run on OSX, which I do not have.
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Can you change the number of rows or columns on the home screen on the Kit Kat GPE launcher?
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Lowen SoDium posted:Can you change the number of rows or columns on the home screen on the Kit Kat GPE launcher? No.
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Mister Fister posted:Funny thing is, android 2.2 phones and up still get updates via Google play services Actually they've (finally) binned off 2.2 now, it's 2.3 and up these days.
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Civil posted:OEM's will frequently include features before official android versions support them. The reverse is also true.
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My S3's power button doesn't work once it's turned on. It's also randomly going to stand by mode. And when it turn it of every 5 seconds or so it vibrates. Any idea what's going on?
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spincube posted:Hasn't the GPE launcher gone back to long-press for widgets? Having put the GPE launcher on my Nexus 4, that's one of the things that annoys me about it. Also, being able to go to the play store directly from the app screen was nice; made it pretty quick to get there without having to find where the app sorted to. The other one is that, at least in the version that's available to us N4ers, Google Now has lost its landscape orientation. I suppose I could go back to the stock N4 Kitkat launcher, but I really like the convenience of the home screen hotword.
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zapateria posted:If you mean shutter speed as in camera-jargon shutter speed, you are unable to control that in software. Ah, well to be exact I mean the delay between pushing the take photo button and it actually taking a photo. I might look for the multi shot mode and just take plenty.
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Endless Mike posted:Just from things I've read, iOS development is much easier.
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Where could I find the Developer Edition RUU for an HTC One? I'm on T-Mobile and I guess HTC Dev doesn't have it? I have S-OFF and all that already. Edit: A guide I found said to download the Brightstar US Dev RUU. Is that the one I'd want? Skeezy fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Dec 4, 2013 |
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