potd: ios or android

[Hiro]

i find ios too restrictive and i hate that there's no app drawer or launchers or anything like that, i don't want a big top-aligned grid of squares

[Hiro]

I agree, these new emoji are atrocious

luckily there seems to be indication that "emoji fonts" will be a thing for android soon, so I'll just go back to the gumdrops i love

[wawi]

iOS is superior 
so many googlecux

[wawi]

iOS is superior  
so many googlecux

can an admin edit my browser

[bluaki]

I agree, these new emoji are atrocious

luckily there seems to be indication that "emoji fonts" will be a thing for android soon, so I'll just go back to the gumdrops i love

I don't think there are any signs of that yet, it's just a misunderstanding.

App developers can make their own app download fonts from the internet and a library handles caching and whatnot so that the app can take up less space on your phone than it would if the font was bundled. The new EmojiCompat library extends this to so that the app can always have the most recent emoji font offered by a provider (usually Google Play Services). An app only has control over fonts used in its own UI; it can't affect any other apps.

That's kinda the complete opposite: rather than letting users have any sort of system-wide control over fonts or emoji, this gives app developers more freedom to choose how to handle emoji within their own app in a way that takes precedence over both the system (eg using Google emoji on Samsung phones) and the user.

It's technically possible that Android 9.0 (or later) and a corresponding Play Services update add user-changeable system-wide emoji packs, but I wouldn't count on that ever happening.

[don't let's]

Got too many things on android to switch. And I don't think I could get used to ios.

[Hiro]

App developers can make their own app download fonts from the internet and a library handles caching and whatnot so that the app can take up less space on your phone than it would if the font was bundled. The new EmojiCompat library extends this to so that the app can always have the most recent emoji font offered by a provider (usually Google Play Services). An app only has control over fonts used in its own UI; it can't affect any other apps.

That's kinda the complete opposite: rather than letting users have any sort of system-wide control over fonts or emoji, this gives app developers more freedom to choose how to handle emoji within their own app in a way that takes precedence over both the system (eg using Google emoji on Samsung phones) and the user.

I thought that was already something that could be done for a while now  >_<'

[bluaki]

App developers can make their own app download fonts from the internet and a library handles caching and whatnot so that the app can take up less space on your phone than it would if the font was bundled. The new EmojiCompat library extends this to so that the app can always have the most recent emoji font offered by a provider (usually Google Play Services). An app only has control over fonts used in its own UI; it can't affect any other apps.

That's kinda the complete opposite: rather than letting users have any sort of system-wide control over fonts or emoji, this gives app developers more freedom to choose how to handle emoji within their own app in a way that takes precedence over both the system (eg using Google emoji on Samsung phones) and the user.

I thought that was already something that could be done for a while now  >_<'

Yeah, it was possible but Google is just now making it feasible. I think WhatsApp and a few other apps use their own emoji set already, but this library means any app developer can easily say basically "I want to always have updated Google emojis" and get it pretty easily, without updating the app every time an emoji changes, and other apps can do the same thing while sharing the updated font instead of downloading it separately every time and wasting storage.

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i would actually love to spend a year or two with ios at some point (as we all know it's superior) but

switching ecosystems sounds like a hassle.

yeah this

my next upgrade will be an android because i'm too deeply embedded into google's system (sadly)

also i'm 2poor and uncool for an iphone anyway lol

[Kalahari Inkantation]

like the new fucking emoji in O, jfc google

absolutely disgusting

like i have a 64 gig SD card + 16gb internal storage (cuz i figured the SD card obviated the need for large internal storage).

6.39GB of internal is used by OS. that's normal ok
9.03/9.61 GB is used in internal

try to view what is uing it and it takes 300000000 hours to actually calculate that

when it does

5.56GB in Apps 1.96GB in Cached data

That's 7.52GB. WHERES THE OTHER FUCKING 1.51GB. it gets annoying cuz everything defaults to internal storage and then i cant install apps lmao

i move some stuff to SD but it doesnt seem to be enough

it's as unbelievable as it is completely unsurprising that this exact same set of issues happens to affect every single android device, wholly irrespective of specs/price

https://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-x-pure-edition/659238-storage-doesnt-add-up.html

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/496sn3/lets_clear_up_the_confusion_regarding_storage_in/
https://www.reddit.com/r/MotoX/comments/4bnmos/general_storage_question/

gj shitdroid

i guess i'll update the phone

oh i can't lol

apple would never ever allow such slop

apple cares about the user experience

google cares about ad revenue

[Kalahari Inkantation]

i find ios too restrictive and i hate that there's no app drawer or launchers or anything like that, i don't want a big top-aligned grid of squares

this is totally a valid complaint about ios though

[YPrrrr]

apple would never ever allow such slop

apple cares about the user experience

[Joice]

one thing i don't like about ios is that apple is stingy on space. like all the shit that came brand new with my iphone 7 already took up like 8gb of space

[Kalahari Inkantation]

one thing i don't like about ios is that apple is stingy on space. like all the shit that came brand new with my iphone 7 already took up like 8gb of space

another wholly valid complaint

16 -> 64 -> 128, with the conspicuous absence of a 32gb option for years

who do they think they're kidding

[spoiler]

oh right, millions of apple fanboys each and every year[/spoiler]

they have been stingy with ram, too, but then again ios is so much more efficient than android that you can probably get away with significantly less

apple would never ever allow such slop

apple cares about the user experience

you know it's true

[Joice]

my 7 is the 32gb, i probably should have went with the 128 because i take so many pictures

and also the red one since it would match my futaba wallpapers and such