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New things in Android 11
- pcstl 6y agoEvery time I see a ".google" domain it just feels wrong.
- Cactus2018 6y agoAnd https://google.google https://google.google doesn't work
- 1023bytes 6y agohttps://google/ https://google/ would be interesting
- CydeWeys 6y agoUnfortunately not allowed per ICANN's contract for new gTLDs. Though even if it were, it probably wouldn't be a good idea to actually use it because support for first level globally resolving strings is quite limited across a variety of applications and OS stacks. Oftentimes you have to append the trailing canonical dot to get it to even try to make the correct globally resolving DNS request, and that's just not good/consistent UX.
- spurgu 6y agoIt's allowed with the Handshake protocol.
- snazz 6y agoI feel like it should be https://search.google https://search.google instead.
- 1_player 6y agoI reckon Google wouldn't like that, as it would mean "search on Google", as opposed to, say, https://search.bing https://search.bing. It invites the idea of competition and alternative, which of course is bad when you're fighting to have complete monopoly of the "search" concept.
- ffpip 6y agoI tried the same thing 6 months ago.
- CydeWeys 6y agoWhy should it though? And what content would be there? Note that there is an https://about.google https://about.google
- ffpip 6y agoabout.google is about google. blog.google is a blog maintained by google. So google.google should google 'Google' on google for you.
- CydeWeys 6y ago... but that's not even a good joke, and wouldn't be worth the operational costs of launching it. com.google was a joke worthy of launching: https://www.businessinsider.com/search-google-backwards-secret-april-fools-day-trick-2015-4 https://www.businessinsider.com/search-google-backwards-secr... (though not worthy of maintaining once April Fools was over)
- ffpip 6y agoSince I am not familiar with the costs involved, can you say how much would it cost to just redirect google.google to https://www.google.com/search?q=google https://www.google.com/search?q=google ?
- CydeWeys 6y agoIndependent of the costs (which are higher than you might expect), it's just not good practice to create a whole slew of random redirects "just because". There's not a lot of random inbound traffic to "google.google" that plausibly needs redirecting. Indeed, you'd be causing the opposite problem, which is that by creating the redirect, you're now encouraging people to use it, and now you have an additional thing to support that you never really wanted in the first place. Remember that *.google isn't "just" a redirect or a subdomain -- it's a bona fide domain name, requiring registration, ongoing management thereof, an SSL certificate, configuration of automatic renewal thereof, DNS configuration, uptime monitoring, etc. And that's before you even get into any potential concerns re: the public suffix list, HSTS configuration/preloading, and other more esoteric concerns. It ends up not being worth it unless you have a real site that you actually want to launch, or at the minimum, a redirect that you really want to exist that you plan on using widely.
- nkozyra 6y agoI personally want https://elgoog.google/ https://elgoog.google/
- jtvjan 6y agoFor the longest time they had https://com.google/ https://com.google/, which got you a mirrored (flipped on x) version of the site.
- Raed667 6y agoThis will be the future of domains, every major brand will have its own. Instead of pages,we will have unique domains for sub-products and sections. I can see something like `iphone.apple` and `ipad.apple` etc..
- gruez 6y ago...and all because ICANN wanted to get a few million selling TLDs to megacorps.
- Raed667 6y agoI just noticed that my bank already has a "vanity megacorp TLD" https://group.bnpparibas https://group.bnpparibas
- revax 6y agoAlso, https://oui.sncf https://oui.sncf for the main trains operator in France.
- tych0 6y agoBut hey, now I have http://tycho.pizza http://tycho.pizza instead of co-opting .ws. Pizza is great. So there are some silver linings.
- bostonpete 6y agoWhat's the harm?
- ffpip 6y agoMaybe private organizations shouldn't get TLD's named after them?
- CydeWeys 6y agoWhat's the harm though? You're stating this as if it's a priori a bad thing, but it's not. So you need to provide a reason as to why it's actually bad. I can give you some benefits of brand TLDs, though. For starters, the entire .google TLD is HSTS preloaded, so every new site launched on that TLD is instantly HTTPS-only from its very first moments, rather than waiting for potentially many months for users to upgrade their browsers to incorporate new additions of individual domains to the list (which would be your only recourse if you launched a new domain on e.g. .com). And secondly, the .google TLD is closed, meaning no external registrations, so if you see an unfamiliar product.google domain then you immediately know that it's actually Google running it, whereas if you saw an unfamiliar googleproduct.com domain then you'd want to do some due diligence to ensure that you aren't being phished. (I should probably at this point disclose that I run .google, but had no involvement in the larger process at ICANN that resulted in the creation of brand TLDs in the first place. But, given that brand TLDs exist, of course companies would defensively secure the TLDs for their largest brands, and once you have said TLDs, why not use them?)
- hyperdimension 6y agoI think you could actually go full-on Google at this point, sort of like the classic interview question: Type, on a Google-made Pixel Chromebook running Chrome OS into the Chrome browser web browser (pretty sure it doesn't qualify as a 'user agent' any longer,) the word 'google' into the omnibox in order to get to Google to make a search, and your machine communicates over Wi-Fi to your Google Wifi AP, through your Google Fiber connection, to the Google-run 8.8.8.8 DNS resolver, where Google then goes and looks itself up in the DNS. The Google search results page has 'Google' as the first result (AdWords, naturally [resulting in Google paying itself for first placement?]) Clicking on this ad, you finally arrive on the Google Search home page. ... Finally, after all that, you can type in 'Bing' to search for Bing's website, click on their top AdWord result instead of the organic result, just so you can enjoy the "diversity of search engines" there exist today. Or whatever Pichai said to Congress.
- oh_sigh 6y agoOr just type bing.com into the search bar...
- hyperdimension 6y agoI concede your point, but have you never seen anyone google for, e.g. Facebook and click on the top result? I don't think the notion of URLs are in the public consciousness anymore. For more information, look me up on AOL Keyword: learnurls
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- matchbok 6y agoNeat release, but the amount of stuff Google adds to Android every year simply pales in comparison to what Apple is doing. Nevermind the fact that 80% of Android users won't see this stuff for another 3 years.
- lexicality 6y agoI've not owned an iPhone in a while, but haven't most of Apple's recent headline feature releases been stuff Android has had for years?
- jjoonathan 6y agoApple usually isn't the first one to get a tech demonstrator out or the first to integrate the latest and greatest CPUs / panels / etc, but they are often the first to get a new feature in front of a large number of consumers with viable polish as a default option. This kind of news often fails to propagate out of the apple bubble. Random example: filesystem journaling so that you don't have to wait minutes to hours for fsck every time your computer hard resets. It showed up in Windows first -- but only in Windows Server. It was very intentionally excluded from consumer Windows. Then it showed up in Mac OS X. For a decade, hard restarts were painful on Windows and smooth on Mac. Finally, in Windows 8, just in time for SSDs to make it moot, it showed up in consumer Windows. This story repeats over and over. Cameras and video chat out-of-the-box, backlit keyboards, desktop search, retained and GPU composited GUIs, Webkit, and so on. Apple wasn't first, but they were the first to do it well and get it in front of lots of people. People complain about apple users being sheep inside a bubble, but it goes both ways. I'd answer your question more specifically, but I'm currently on the wrong side of the bubble in Android land. When I buy my next phone, I'll do my research, which will include swinging by an apple store to experience qualitative things like stylus/AR latency first-hand. You should too :)
- vlowther 6y agore: filesystem journaling: Unless you were one of those crazy people that used fat32 in spite of Microsoft's defaults, filesystem journaling has been the default in Windows mainstream consumer OSes since the release of Windows XP using NTFS, which was journalled since day 1. (I am not counting Windows 2000 and before since they were not the default for consumer boxes).
- lexicality 6y ago> In Android 11, conversations across messaging apps will be moved to a dedicated space I really hope this is optional or highly configurable, I don't want work conversations to start mixing with personal ones :/ EDIT: Ah, it's clearer on the main release page this is for notifications only [0] https://www.android.com/android-11/#a11-conversation-article https://www.android.com/android-11/#a11-conversation-article
- bzb5 6y agoIt sounds like that social hub windows phone had. I hated it because it worked by pretending all apps had the same features, so it was like the lowest common denominator
- pilsetnieks 6y agoI loved the hubs features. It felt like I can get an overview of all my data instead of bits and pieces buried in isolated silos. The individual apps were still available if it was one's preference. Too bad the hubs were neglected and eventually neutered by WP8 and WP8.1. If they had gone the other direction we may have had a completely different mobile paradigm than just a bunch of apps. I suspect the major services would have been even more opposed to that, if that's even possible.
- maxerickson 6y agoThe next phrase in the sentence you quote from seems important: "in the notifications section". That sounds like the notifications will be grouped, not the conversations (so like, messaging at the top instead of mixed with everything or something like that).
- notatoad 6y agoyeah, it just splits your notifications into two sections, one for conversations and one for other notifications. i think any notification that supports replying from the notification is counted as a conversation. https://9to5google.com/2020/02/19/android-11-notification-conversation-section/ https://9to5google.com/2020/02/19/android-11-notification-co...
- mikestew 6y agoCompletely off-topic, but having heard a "youngster" (relatively speaking) use the phrase "nuke the site from orbit" and then turn right around and ask, "BTW, where is that from?" [0], I wonder if this title hasn't suffered the same fate? Considering that the reference was released about 35 years ago, I imagine many folks saying "it goes to 11!" weren't even born when This is Spinal Tap came out. [0] Aliens, the sequel to the first one: Alien. I'm old enough to have gone to the cinema to see all movies mentioned.
- acheron 6y agoIt happens. I make Casablanca references and that's a movie my grandparents would have seen in the theater when they were young adults. Not to mention how many English phrases come from Shakespeare or the King James Bible.
- sedatk 6y agoSuch ancient phrases get fresh lives after appearing as memes. Same happened with "it goes to 11". https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/these-go-to-11-spinal-tap https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/these-go-to-11-spinal-tap
- bigyikes 6y agoI’ve definitely nuked a thing or two from orbit and never really thought about where the phrase comes from. I wonder what else I say is actually some pop culture reference I’ve never heard of
- Cactus2018 6y agoThe biggest downside of owning a good Android device (like a powerful Motorola that is a few years old); Is Moto abandons updates after 2 years (so if you buy a 1 year old phone ...), and then the phone might get one additional major AOSP update from an awesome developer on XDA. Later that developer burns out. No more security updates. And definitely no more major updates. :(
- CydeWeys 6y agoThe "a" series Pixels (or other phones in that same feature/performance/price bracket) are increasingly seeming like the best value for money for this reason. I too just can't find the value in buying a $1k phone that's not gonna last any longer than a $350 phone, maybe even less time.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoYes and the pixels in particular have great aftermarket rom support
- milleramp 6y agoAs long as you don’t buy a Verizon version, which has the locked bootloader, at least for the pixel 2xl and beyond.
- sasij 6y agoSeems fine. Nothing particularly interesting.
- Thaxll 6y agoSomeone can explain why it feels that Android / IOS updates feel less "important" than 6-7 years ago? I remember it was big, everyone was exited and waiting for new features.
- vernie 6y agoThe platforms have matured and stabilized.
- pier25 6y agoThis might be a chicken or egg thing, but we've been using smartphones for a decade so users don't want big changes anymore.
- johnisgood 6y agoBecause everything major has already been implemented, and what they should implement are not being implemented because they go against their incentives, such as actual privacy features. I think. Or take for example: they broke call recording. Third party applications do not work above Android 9 (?). There is a Google feature that allows you to record calls, but only incoming calls. How is that for a feature? Why does it have to be tied to Google? Why cannot we just simply record the call, whether it is an outgoing call or an incoming call, without it being tied to any Google-related bullshit? It should be relatively simple to implement, but nope, they do not seem to be wanting to do that.
- curiousgal 6y agoIMO the beauty of Android is that I can easily root it and get access to any feature I please.
- Sargos 6y agoIt's not easy to root most phones and when you do a lot of apps such as bank apps refuse to run and can be considered broken. It does exist as an option for very tech savvy people but the downsides are very real and not palatable to the majority of people.
- schoolornot 6y ago> More control over your privacy and data And yet their messaging strategy is to push a carrier standard with what I consider an egregious oversight: end to end encryption. You know, that thing Apple and Signal have had since the beginning of time. Even worse, Google decided to auto-enroll millions of devices into their RCS hub meaning it's receiving device text messages in cleartext. How do you like dem apples? And you thought the metadata collecting was bad.
- notatoad 6y agotheir messaging strategy is to support any messaging app you want to use as a first-class experience. SMS or RCS notifications aren't treated as any special case that gets priority over any other messaging app. If you want to use signal as your primary messaging app, android is happy to support that.
- bredren 6y agoIs SMS the default configuration for messaging on new Android devices these days?
- nradov 6y agoWhat kind of default are you asking about? You can open any app you want and send a message.
- Spivak 6y agoI think they're talking about the fact that on Android you select a single default app to manage your text messages.
- notatoad 6y agoYes, there's a default app to handle SMS. And Google would like you to use Google Messages for that, which is inherently non-private because SMS (and RCS) aren't private. but there's nothing about SMS that makes it a default other than it's what most people use. You have to open an app to send a message, there's no default way of sending a message where you aren't choosing an app first, and if you want something private and secure, you can choose something other than SMS.
- JohnTHaller 6y agoIf you update and Settings crashes every time you open it even after a reboot, don't launch it from the pulldown. Scroll through your app list and long press Settings. Click the Info icon. Select Terminate. That should get it working again.
- eCFEm7N9uLyHDP 6y agoWow, a pretty lame release this time. Barely anything new. Huge disappointment
- eCFEm7N9uLyHDP 6y agoTwo or three stolen features from Apple, that's it :(
- chimprich 6y ago> One-time permissions will allow you to grant single use access to your most sensitive permissions: microphone, camera and location. What I'd like to see is permission requests for apps to use audio on the device, and the ability to allow or deny on a per-use basis. I don't want my phone making any noises unless I explicitly allow it.
- ghoomketu 6y agoThanks to XDA devs I'm able to run my 10ish year old tab (galaxy n8000) with the very latest Android and almost all apps. Yes some apps are a bit sluggish but most useful apps are good as running on any latest hardware. This is definitely one advantage of owning an Android device over other companies that deliberately slow down hardware to force people to upgrade hardware.
- CydeWeys 6y agoI'm impressed that you're still managing to use 10 year old mobile hardware, but were it me, I'd spend at least $100 on some much more recent used hardware for the substantial performance boost.
- microcolonel 6y ago> Android device over other companies that deliberately slow down hardware to force people to upgrade hardware. I think there is a good faith way to interpret Apple's aging battery policy, of course, it would be a lot easier to interpret it that way if they handled repairs in a way that wasn't hostile to users. BTW if you like your tablet a lot, that's cool; if you're just holding on to it because you don't want to get a new one, and you live in a big city, there's a good chance somebody is literally throwing away higher spec tablets within a couple km of you.
- shajznnckfke 6y agoI think Apple was shady with the silent slowdown for old batteries, but these days they will replace an old iPhone battery for $50, which seems reasonable to me.
- selectodude 6y agoI think it was poorly handled but I’m not sure I’d call it shady. I used to have an iPhone 5 that would shut off when I stepped outside in the winter because the battery was shot. Knowing the battery was the reason would have been nice.
- ninju 6y agoNo more 'cute' dessert names for each release :-(
- archgoon 6y agoLooks like they wussed out on coming up with something for 'Q' last year. https://9to5google.com/2019/08/22/android-10-dessert-name/ https://9to5google.com/2019/08/22/android-10-dessert-name/
- eholk 6y agoThe names are still there internally. Android 10 was Quince Start, and Android 11 is Red Velvet Cake. https://www.xda-developers.com/android-11-red-velvet-cake/ https://www.xda-developers.com/android-11-red-velvet-cake/
- iammru 6y agoUX looks more complicated than before.
- mustak_im 6y agoSo glad I’d chosen a Pixel. Got the second major updates and is responsive/fast as day 1.
- edoceo 6y agoMine isn't and I don't install Apps (well, Firefox). And Chrome has been laggy/freezing more lately - even on simple HN pages
- roschdal 6y agoWhen will this come to Samsung?
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- izacus 6y agoDepending on your model, region and carrier, somewhere between 3-12 months and never.
- satysin 6y agoI've been waiting for the final release to test out the Android Flash Tool website at https://flash.android.com https://flash.android.com and it worked perfectly with a Pixel 2 XL. Pretty slick and much nicer than messing around with adb and zip files. As for 11 in general nothing really exciting. Looks the same. Amusingly the first thing to happen after completing setup was an error message that 'Google keeps stopping'[0] :) Not the best thing to see on a fully wiped and fresh install of the OS! [0] https://i.imgur.com/Wy4T0qj.jpg https://i.imgur.com/Wy4T0qj.jpg
- matthberg 6y agoTwo things that stood out to me: > 8. If you haven’t used an app that you installed on your device in a while, you may not want it to keep accessing your data. Android will now “auto-reset” permissions for your unused apps and notify you accordingly. You can always decide to re-grant the app permissions the next time you use the app. > 9. With additional Google Play system update modules, even more security and privacy fixes can be sent to your phone from Google Play, in the same way your apps update. So you’ll get these fixes as soon as they’re available, without having to wait for a full OS update. 8 seems like a rather wise and user friendly privacy concern (which might be annoying to power-users who set things up proactively and don't want their configurations messed with, yet overall a great improvement). 9 has me worried about variants of android like Lineage or ParanoidAndroid where the play store isn't included automatically. This forced reliance upon the play store for security sensitive updates is devastating for de-googled device feasibility. It will make more sense for developers to not support devices without Google Play, effectively shoehorning alternatives out of the usable, secure devices realm.
- noir_lord 6y ago> It will make more sense for developers to not support devices without Google Play Almost like that was the plan and Google employs some smart people isn't it.
- alisonkisk 6y agoIf it was OK to wait for an OS update before, why would it be less OK to to still wait now, just because some devices get fixes further? Why does Google owe priority updates to unrelated third parties who aren't interested in patching their own code?
- not2b 6y agoBecause too many vendors won't push security updates at all, or wait a very long time, or discontinue support after a year.
- reaperducer 6y ago
- SubiculumCode 6y ago```11. If you're using a Pixel 2 or above you'll get additional features to organize and manage your phone, like app suggestions on the home screen based on your daily routines, and new overview actions that allow you to take a screenshot of an app and select text and images, and more.``` Is this supposed to be a feature? The last thing I want is app suggestions based on my usage pattern.
- ffpip 6y ago> More control over your privacy and data Yet every Google app gets all permissions (even non-essential ones) on by default? Because users never turn them off, and you give a misleading prompt urging them to turn it back on.
- lucasnortj 6y agoMore surveillance no doubt
- ignoramous 6y ago> If you're using a Pixel 2 or above you'll get additional features to organize and manage your phone, like app suggestions on the home screen based on your daily routines Ads. On the homescreen of a phone you paid money for. This is madness. A lot of folks I know are livid that Xiaomi, Oppo and other Chinese OEMs do this...and won't you know it, the world's largest ad-network wants a slice of the pie, too. Edit: Looks like these are suggestions for already installed apps unlike on Xiaomi / Oppo phones. > With additional Google Play system update modules, even more security and privacy fixes can be sent to your phone from Google Play This is huge [0]. Even though Project Treble [1] makes it easier to run latest AOSP and other forks on Androids, this is a much needed update for billions who couldn't be bothered. [0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/07/accelerating-android-updates.html https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/07/accelerati... [1] https://source.android.com/setup/build/gsi https://source.android.com/setup/build/gsi
- OJFord 6y agoAmazon started this on the Fire range years ago - charging a bit more (~15% as I recall) for a variant that didn't advertise on the lock-screen.
- GekkePrutser 6y agoTrue but that was a lot more fair. The ads are only on the lock screen so really unobtrusive, and you have the ability to remove them for a fair price (and replace them with super boring standard ones you can't change )
- kingnothing 6y agoMy assumption is this is suggesting apps you already open at a specific time of day. This is already a feature in the phone in the apps switcher, but isn't as prominent as displaying the icons on your home screen.
- tonyhb 6y agoYeah, I thought it would use ML to suggest opening your "maps" app before work because - what do you know - you have opened the maps app to get to work every day at that time for a year. I do not believe you'd ever be able to target a user by their routine to offer ads in this manner. Ads were not even something I thought of when I read this.
- dominotw 6y ago> Android Auto now works wirelessly for all phones running Android 11 as long as you have a compatible vehicle. This is the feature iam looking forward to the most. But I don't think it works for my subaru crostrek 2019 even though its a compatible vehicle.
- izacus 6y agoRight now there's only BMWs that support wireless Android Auto, so your Subaru unfortunately almost certanly doesn't have the required wireless capability in infotainment.
- dominotw 6y agoyea thats what i thought. Hope subaru offers some sort of upgrade to the head unit.
- xaqfox 6y agoI saw an adapter might make it work for vehicles already supporting wired connections: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aawireless#/ https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/aawireless#/ I am not affiliated or even saying it actually works. I just saw it posted on xda developers the other day. https://www.xda-developers.com/aawireless-dongle-enable-wireless-android-auto-wired-head-units/ https://www.xda-developers.com/aawireless-dongle-enable-wire...
- NateEag 6y agoSince this issue is still open (https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/140786115 https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/140786115), I guess guessing this is yet another major release of Android without mDNS support? I've been following this issue across several filed issues now (the first one in the Chrome repo), waiting for them to fix this frustration, but still nothing.
- aresant 6y ago"Update to media controls and smart home devices" - section. Google's track record on home integration is laughably terrible and I'll bet this functionality comes to market duct-taped together and they'll break it as soon as it's convenient for them. Last fall Google essentially bricked third party smart home integrations within their own NEST ecosystem by forcing a migration to rely on their terrible Google Assistant umbrella, removing IFTTT support, etc.(1) As a result third party controller support broke, useful integrations like "flash my lights if there's a fire" broke, etc. I appreciate Android's desire to own the UX and relegate all third parties to beyond their "bubbles" etc but it is scary to hand this level of control to Google if they disagree with your personal product choices. (begrudgingly written from Chrome) (1) https://blog.google/products/google-nest/helpful-home/ https://blog.google/products/google-nest/helpful-home/
- lern_too_spel 6y agoThis is an OS API. It has nothing to do with the server-side integrations of whatever smart home products you use. https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/device-control https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/device-control
- kyriakos 6y ago> Android 11 will begin rolling out today on select Pixel, OnePlus, Xiaomi, OPPO and realme phones, with more partners launching and upgrading devices over the coming months. Apart from Pixel all other brands receiving the update immediately are Chinese brands. This really shows how much the Chinese manufacturers software has improved and how much the heavy customizations brands like Samsung do to Android blocks them from providing easy OS updates.
- pas 6y agoSamsung just doesn't care. OnePlus does a lot (they have their own fork, OxygenOS) and their own apps, etc. Samsung has the resources to keep up with Android. The Android Betas were available for months, AOSP commits are open, etc. They simply don't prioritize this for some reason.
- kyriakos 6y agoI'm on my second oneplus phone and I am surprised with their update cycle, full OS updates and security patches coming well after other OEMs abandon their devices. Their android flavor doesn't deviate a lot from stock android of course which makes it easier and a lot of their features are done via stand alone apps rather than being baked into the OS.
- simonsarris 6y agoI wish Google cared more about the experience of photographers in Android. There's no way to pick images from Google Photos, so if you want to post 4 images taken at different times to Twitter or Instagram and you didn't take them just today, you have to first find them, then put them in a temp album (or else find them again later), then delete them from your phone, (here's where you re-find them if you didn't put them in an album first!) then re-download them. Then you can select them from the device folder "Recovered". Why is choosing images so bare-metal? Or why can't we have a virtual folder called Quick Collection or something, like there is in Lightroom? I have of other gripes as a photographer but they're mostly about Google Photos and not Android itself.
- tssva 6y agoI feel like I must be missing something regarding what you are trying to do because Google Photos does allow you to select multiple photos taken at different times and share them together to Twitter or Instagram.
- pas 6y agoProbably OP complains about the basic "file picker". So if they visit twitter.com and start the UX flow from there and somehow they end up in Google Photos instead of some more useful Media viewer.
- simonsarris 6y agoOh wow, you're right re: Twitter. You still can't to Instagram feed, though (but you can to Instagram stories, and you can to feed when only selecting one image). So to make a gallery post, you have to do it from within Instagram, which uses device folders.
- poisonborz 6y agoMaybe use one of the miriads of available alternate gallery apps?
- mbo 6y agoI'm not entirely sure that I'm following, because my upload flow from Google Photos puts me into the "Select photos" mode where I can tap multiple photos to select them. I'm assuming that you're been sent to a photo picker screen and can only choose one at a time. Have you tried holding a tap to enter multi-select mode?
- cwhiz 6y ago#9 screams of anticompetitive product bundling. What do OS updates and security patches have to do with the Play Store?!?!?
- srg0 6y agoSo, basically the summary of Android 11 is: People + Controls (at 1:37). Funny like it would sound completely different, if it were presented as: Controls + People. Seriously though, it looks like a step towards how People and Message hub worked in Windows Phone. From the video I can't understand if what they propose is a way to consolidate communication channels (I wish it were), or just more levels of distractions / notifications. And I hope bubbles are nothing like Facebook Messenger.