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Not saying that everything else is bad, but one thing that strikes me is how much they have run out of interesting things now that they had to use fillers[1] li
by rdsubhas 9y ago
Not saying that everything else is bad, but one thing that strikes me is how much they have run out of interesting things now that they had to use fillers[1] like:
Tooltips
Support for tooltips (small popup windows with descriptive text) for views and menu items.
Normally, this would be relegated to a git changelog in the support library. But this is on the global marketing landing page.
I like to imagine a fictional internal mail thread going like this:
> Folks! please, give us something, anything, to put on the landing page!
> Someone replies duh, maybe tooltips
> What's a tooltip?
> uhh, small popup windows with descriptive text
> What's a popup?
> uhh...
> Nevermind, its on!
Obligatory /s and yeah its Google, but seriously I can't imagine any other circumstances on how this specific copy, which tries to explain what a "tooltip" is by using the words "popup", "view" and "menu item", came up.
This could be a good sign though, of the maturity of the platform (and harder to feel left out if you didn't upgrade).
1: https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/ https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/
- rdsubhas 9y ago(for some reason my comment got double posted, pls ignore this dupe, other comment is somewhere on top)