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Google Previews Android 12 With Deeper Customization and iOS 14-Inspired Privacy Protections
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Apple has not handled notifications better. At all.
Zero functionality?? The stock Mail app lets me add both my personal and work email accounts, check for new emails, compose emails, and search through email. So basically what an average person does regularly with their email account. If you want bells and whistles you're free to use a different email app.
Nope improved it and done it waaaaayyyyy better.
My notifications work just fine 🤷♂️
Google shouldn't feel too bad about basing their look on iOS. After all everyone, including Apple, just copied Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 UI and made everything flat and boring wheeeee
It's just been refinements of flatness for about a decade now. Ready for that to die.
It's just been refinements of flatness for about a decade now. Ready for that to die.
I didn’t say they didn’t work. But it’s ignorant to say iOS handles it better when on android you can get a really good workflow going in just the notifications area.
do yourself a favor and try for one second to remove yourself from the hate train and take an objective look at the competition.
It's subjective. When I look at them side by side, it looks like Apple is the one that recently updated their design... it's clean, bright, easy to read... Android looks like it's bringing back the 70's.
What’s with those piss colors from the 80s?
Eh, that's very subjective. I always thought their UI lacked elegance and intuitiveness. Gmail was the first email app I actually got lost in my conversations. Very confusing. I do think their services work well, such as maps and Youtube. But again, I feel like their UI leave a lot to be desired.
Different strokes for different folks. Not a bad thing to have options.
No, each has their own pros and cons. Stop being too Apple-centric.
haha, I mentioned 70's but maybe you're right, it's more 80's. Whatever it is, it looks dated to me.
Because it’s all the Apple haters/trolls here that cry Apple is boring and stale. See I don’t like Android and yes have tried a Samsung galaxy and I’ll say this, and this is when you still had like the 2 year contracts for cell phones, those 2 years couldn’t have went any slower. I was so glad to get rid of that. I do not however waste my life by going to androidrumors.com and bashing Android.
Mine as well. Turn on notifications from I want to actually get. The other apps I leave turned off notifications because I don’t want or need notifications from those. The ones I get notifications for they always seem to work just fine for me.
Stop being a samsung/android fanboy. This is after all, macrumors.com so you’re going to have to come to grips with reality and realize people here like/love Apple products even if sometimes they be a little feature lacking than samsung/android but it’s all good because I’m sure the samsung/android fans, some at least, maybe go “wow I wish my samsung had this or android had that”
Well said, had a note 10 plus for a few days, boy oh boy did I learn really quickly what a huge mistake I made buying that big turd of a useless laggy, bloat filled so called smartphone. Never again.
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serious question what are you doing on a apple forum? isn’t there a android forum you can join?
Trusting Google with privacy is like trusting Cruella de Vil to look after my Dalmatian.
During its Google I/O developers conference today, Google previewed Android 12, the next version of Android that will ship to millions of Android devices around the world later this year.
Google is mainly targeting customization as the theme for this year's new release and a new design language that it's calling "Material You." Google says this new design language brings a "humanistic approach to design," an approach that "celebrates the tension between design sensibility and personal preference, and does not shy away from emotion."
Google is offering users nearly unlimited customizability for system shapes, colors, and overall feel. Google aims to offer users customization through color extraction, which automatically detects colors that are most dominant in a user's wallpaper and then applies them throughout the system, such as on the lockscreen, widgets, and more.
With Android 12, Google is also introducing more fluid systemwide animations that are aimed at making devices feel "alive with every tap, swipe, and scroll." Google is ensuring, however, that these systemwide animations have minimal impact on battery life and system performance.
Beyond design changes, Google introduced new privacy features that take some inspiration from iOS 14, released this past September. One new feature is a microphone and camera indicator, which provides a dot in the top-right hand corner of a device whenever an app is accessing the camera or microphone. Google is also making it easier to disable a specific app's access to the microphone and camera through new toggles in Quick Settings.
Another privacy-centric feature coming with Android 12 is the ability for users to give apps access to either their precise or approximate location. Much like iOS, whenever an app requests access to a user's location, an option to provide "Precise" and "Approximate" locations are given.
Android 12 also includes under-the-hood privacy changes enabled by new AI technologies that help minimize user data collection.
Beyond adopting some iOS 14 privacy features, Google is also taking inspiration in some other areas. Google introduced "Google Digital Car Key," which, much like Apple's Digital Car Key feature available on iOS 13 and iOS 14, lets car owners use NFC on their supported Android device to unlock compatible vehicles.
As reported by 9to5Google, Google is also adding support for Apple's Beats headphones to its "Google Fast Pair" process, which aims to make it easy to pair Bluetooth headphones and accessories by simply bringing them near your device. The new feature takes heavy inspiration from Apple users' seamless experience when pairing AirPods, HomePod, and other accessories to their iPhone or iPad.
Android 12 will be under beta testing throughout the summer starting today, and Google says it will be available for a wide range of Android devices later this year.
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