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Can't wait for Android 15 that looks almost exactly like Android 12
Android looks good. Why do they have the change the look again when not nearly every app is even using Material You?
I'd rather performance, power, and more capabilities like desktop mode.
I can't wait for the next version with even more hard to disable messages about apps sending late number of text messages (I know I'm sending thousands, I wrote the dam program, no I won't be charged)
So you are a telephone scammer?
We are on to now Mr. Crabs
no, I just wanted to harass my friend more effectively than his script that basically did the same thing.
The telephone company hates you and probably is taking note. Sending out that many SMS messages is highly sus
and I hate att, if a company says "unlimited talk and text" then I should be allowed to be in a phone call 24/7 and send as many texts as I want. They already set arbitrarily low data caps and charge just enough for it to be tolerable, coupled with them only allowing select phones on their 5G network verified via IMEI something that is almost illegal to change and having a long list of phones that aren't allowed due to lack of LTE calling.
I have a pixel phone running GrapheneOs. I just realized i'm running Android 15.
~~Android 15 isn't out yet~~
16 isn't out yet
I'm over here still on Android 14. Yay prepaid phones!
Bigger number = better = money.
Lucky MF, all my androids at least 3 years out of date
Manufacture Android is often way out of date. They rarely even ship security patches
Pixels get 7 yearss of updates. Most other androids are trash, including Samsung imo
Well I don't want a Pixel. Lineage OS it is then.
I use GrapheneOS, which is the best security focused ROM out there. It only supports Pixels.
I personally would avoid Graphene as they have had a lot of controversies. Use what ever works for you though. For me I don't really care to have Graphene OS and I don't like Pixels.
Fair enough
This is creepy. I was just thinking this an hour ago. Android used to have incremental updates (8.1.2 amirite) but now theybjust brand it as a new version when there's like one or two new "features" no one will use.
They finally have multiline app names in beta for the pixel... Idk why it's taking them so long. My old crusty motorola displays long names just fine; its crazy that it took until Android 15 just to get a beta of that.
And in Nova it's a simple setting you can toggle for every screen separately.
It's probably something like "why would you want to waste precious resources on something so small" or whatever, which just leads to shitty messes everywhere
You might not notice it but us Android devs do.
And we hate it... Alot.
It's a wild Alot!
It's the worst treadmill. By the time I finish implementing/refactoring something, they replace it with a new standard and deprecate the old way.
Move fast and break ~~things~~ developers
Skill issue
New devs: "wow a new sdk version"
Old devs: "Ah fuck I've gotta change how we request permissions again"
Yeah I'm still pissed about them removing the menu button that all of my apps used to depend on back in the day. Now it's the whole selective file permissions dance giving me a headache.
Y'all don't understand semantic versioning.
Google does a major release pretty much yearly.
Major releases are for breaking changes.
Now what does that say about regular major releases?
That's exactly what we're complaning about. Major release cycle used to be much longer. Now they have this need to break things all the time. I hate the new bubble settings UI, and that everything keeps getting worse to use instead of better.
Then...don't upgrade?
I'm sorry I don't see what the problem is here. This is a typical release schedule.
iOS has the same schedule (major release yearly). At least Google supports and patches for over 3 years. Apple is supporting 17 and 18 and that's it. Android is still patching 12-15.
Mobile hardware is probably the fastest developing
corner of consumer electronics...between processors, screens, and battery technology. Of course software will have to change fast to keep up.
Not upgrading is not an option if you don't want your highly connecting device to remain secure.
Why does software have to change to keep up with any of those? Old software can run on new hardware just fine.
Only if the old software happens to have drivers compatible with the new hardware, which it almost certainly doesn't.
They could make driver updates. They don't have to make a whole new OS version.
If only the people pushing the new software had complete control over their old software, the new software, and the new hardware. Oh well. Clearly there's no way to preserve backwards compatibility here, it's not like Google controls every detail of their manufacturing lineup.