Android 16 is here
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Nothing really useful. What I would like to see is better battery life and truly Open Source Android which can be easily degoogled and customized and works on many different devices. An entire ecosystem of Android mods, like me have for Linux. Yeah, that would be nice.
I heard they are adding a desktop mode to android 16, curious if it would be possible to use phone and have a similar experience to an actual PC by connecting monitor and mouse/keyboard, well just using a browser, at the very least.
EDIT: found it
Future updates will also bring even more productivity enhancements to Android, allowing you to connect tablets and phones to an external display for an expanded desktop experience
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I’ve been an Android fanboy since 2009. Flashed roms and all that shit. I’ve always stated that Android is a better OS than iOS. Still do to an extent.
But I can’t personally look past Sundar Pichai being directly at Trump’s inauguration in the front row or how fast Google immediately caved with erasure of DEI practices.
I’ve had issues with Google since Pichai took over, but this year was just too much for me here. Yeah Tim Cook is an ass. And Apple like everyone else threw Trump bribe money to not be targeted.
Yeah Apple runs Chinese sweat shops and their products are overpriced as fuck. But with the way things are at this time, Apple is the lesser of the two evils and I can’t go against my morals and support Google anymore.
Times like these make me wish Samsung went all in on Tizen and made it actually good.
I have hated Samsung for so long too though, they are just mini google. I want Android spun off
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I heard they are adding a desktop mode to android 16, curious if it would be possible to use phone and have a similar experience to an actual PC by connecting monitor and mouse/keyboard, well just using a browser, at the very least.
EDIT: found it
Future updates will also bring even more productivity enhancements to Android, allowing you to connect tablets and phones to an external display for an expanded desktop experience
I connected android phone to external monitor using USB-C like a year ago. I'm not sure what's new here.
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Everything in Android is an app tbh, even the launcher is a completely normal app.
The launcher is, but not everything new in Android 16 could be just an app. The new desktop mode, for example likely requires much deeper integration with the OS.
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Poor Seang Chau. They wrote this blog post in a total of three paragraphs, but Google was still like "WOULD YOU LIKE AN AI SUMMARY?" at the top.
Literally took me about 45 seconds to read all of the features, but Google is over here burning down another rainforest to process an AI summary of a three paragraph blog post with three pictures.
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I connected android phone to external monitor using USB-C like a year ago. I'm not sure what's new here.
Was it a Samsung phone? They've had Dex for some time but it was a Samsung specific feature as far as I know.
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For the low low price of supporting a sell out company that is willingly collaborating with the Trump regime, I’ll get Android 16.
Loves me some Samsung, but am too disgusted with Google.
Capitalisms loyalty is to capitalism, not a political party. You talk as if Apple isn't doing the same thing.
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The launcher is, but not everything new in Android 16 could be just an app. The new desktop mode, for example likely requires much deeper integration with the OS.
I mean yeah, you're right about the desktop mode, but 90% of new user facing features are going to be in one app or another generally.
Technically the desktop mode itself might also be an app, though a window manager or desktop environment isn't something we conventionally think of as an app.
No idea when I'll get to touch a new enough Android to play with it. My old Oneplus is on shaky custom rom support and my daily driver is an iPhone (which will likely get much longer software support and is newer to begin with)
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I’ve been an Android fanboy since 2009. Flashed roms and all that shit. I’ve always stated that Android is a better OS than iOS. Still do to an extent.
But I can’t personally look past Sundar Pichai being directly at Trump’s inauguration in the front row or how fast Google immediately caved with erasure of DEI practices.
I’ve had issues with Google since Pichai took over, but this year was just too much for me here. Yeah Tim Cook is an ass. And Apple like everyone else threw Trump bribe money to not be targeted.
Yeah Apple runs Chinese sweat shops and their products are overpriced as fuck. But with the way things are at this time, Apple is the lesser of the two evils and I can’t go against my morals and support Google anymore.
Times like these make me wish Samsung went all in on Tizen and made it actually good.
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See, that was your first problem. This isn't team sports.
But I can’t personally look past Sundar Pichai being directly at Trump’s inauguration in the front row
Did you not see Tim Cook in the same section?
If you really want to increase your privacy, you're gonna need to use a Pixel device loaded with a custom ROM such as Graphene OS or Calyx OS. Or none at all.
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I have both. One for work. Use both everyday. I genuinely don't get this argument. iPhones don't work better. In any single way (this new update exclude, idk about that yet)
I have both. One for work. Use both everyday.
Same here, personal Pixel + work-issued iPhone. I use Linux ^btw^ and Android for the most part, but my wife has used almost exclusively Apple devices since college; in addition to her iPhone 16PM, she also has a Macbook (A1706 lol) and an 27" Retina iMac (last Intel model).
Safe to say I'm very familiar with Apple's ecosystem and user interfaces.
Which brings me to my point: every time I come into these threads, I can always tell who's only ever used one and not the other. They aren't the same, they both have bugs, and both suck up your data in stock form.
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For the low low price of supporting a sell out company that is willingly collaborating with the Trump regime, I’ll get Android 16.
Loves me some Samsung, but am too disgusted with Google.
All tech companies threw money at Taco Don, or at least pandered to him/his admin.
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Nothing really useful. What I would like to see is better battery life and truly Open Source Android which can be easily degoogled and customized and works on many different devices. An entire ecosystem of Android mods, like me have for Linux. Yeah, that would be nice.
Yeah, good luck with that, ain't gonna happen. Best we can hope for is open source teams being able to modify android into that.
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Features:
- Some small back-incompatibilities to irritate devs.
- Moving menues around to irritate users.
- More logs to spy on users.
- More lags and freezes to stimulate upgrades.
- Some evil shit for the sake of evil.
- New wallpapers.
- Some AI shit nobody asked for.
- ... More shit...
- Even more shit...
If there was ever a reason to get grapheneOS...
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I'm talking about an ecosystem and you listed one mod. I use graphene OS, it's great overall but I would like to have a choice. Maybe I don't want to use a Pixel phone? Maybe I want different set of features?
I also use LineageOS, which also comes sans Google as a flavour, but it's far less secure and much rougher about the edges than GrapheneOS. I choose hardware by alternative OS support. If you want a new tablet the only option is Pixel.
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I connected android phone to external monitor using USB-C like a year ago. I'm not sure what's new here.
The desktop experience. Unless you've been using Samsung deX, which this is built upon.
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Desktop mode finally? Anything meaningful?
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My guy. Nothing has ever just works
now with ios. Their quality has been dropping hard. Riddled with bugs. Notifications is still shit, cant even seperate ringtone, alert and alarm sound, moving icon on homescreen is still infuriating mess, useless app library. That is just on top of my head. I dont remember what else since i dropped ios. Now this, you can bet some liquid gonna come out of people ass.Dont get me wrong. A16 is equally shit. Blurry mess everywhere. Thank fuck i went with graphene.
No revanced on iOS either. That alone disqualifies iPhones.
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These are all app features, not OS features.
The emoji thing is built into the keyboard, but it doesn't do like on-device generation or anything. They just have a list of pre-made(maybe AI generated) combos. I'm guessing they are AI generating them, then having humans approve it, before including it in the keyboard emoji list. It's kinda neat, in that it expands the options, but really not much. Overall the OS really feels the same. I haven't looked forward to an Android update in many years.
Also, as someone who doesn't use Google's launcher or keyboard, yeah, I get almost none of these features.
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New Android 6 features tailored to steal more of your data behind your back. And now $500 more expensive!
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I mean yeah, you're right about the desktop mode, but 90% of new user facing features are going to be in one app or another generally.
Technically the desktop mode itself might also be an app, though a window manager or desktop environment isn't something we conventionally think of as an app.
No idea when I'll get to touch a new enough Android to play with it. My old Oneplus is on shaky custom rom support and my daily driver is an iPhone (which will likely get much longer software support and is newer to begin with)
I suppose the distinctions between the OS and "just an app" are blurred on any OS. One might argue anything that isn't the kernel is just userland software on conventional Linux.
On Android, anything a third party could deliver without system or root privileges is "just an app". That includes keyboards, launchers, messaging apps, image editors, and smarthome device managers, but not direct management of network connections, notifications, or direct interaction with other apps (i.e. outside of intents or over the network).
If you've used an Android device with root access, you've seen things that fail this test. Anything that needs root to work can't be delivered to most Android users unless it's part of the OS or a system app.
