Android 11 beta is available now
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> With one-time permissions you can grant apps access to your microphone, camera or location, just that one time. The next time the app needs access to these sensors, it will have to ask you for permission again.
Google hardware like Pixels with custom ROMs (GrapheneOS anyone?) are the move.
And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I always found that annoying.
As for bubbles, I think they're also optional, though if it can merge conversations across multiple different apps seamlessly, I'm all for it.
I'm making a point that the default one ("At a glance") has weird behavior. If you happen to know one that has the same functionality and isn't buggy, I'll switch it out. I just want it to default be date + weather and only change when I have a calendar event or flight. But it currently seems that whenever I want to actually know the weather that it just shows the date while its usual default state is date + weather.
That makes me think of Unity's messaging menu. Everything old is new again, I suppose.
I'm not complaining, this one _looks_ nice. But why change it every goddamn update? It's like one step forward, one step back.
Honestly, I'd rather they keep refining it, at whatever step size they have to, until they get it perfect, instead of stopping with something that's "good enough."
If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess 90% of the time the app is the problem.
Apps crash in the default mode. Hacking the device so that SetJniType is called with kPointer makes it all work.
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/art/+/master/runti...
But still no encrypted chat. It's cute watching the security theater out of Google. Security to them means "only WE get access to your data, and ALL of your data".
Chat apps could then delegate security to the OS, rather than having to trust that the app developer has a security team that knows what they're doing.
You could even take it one step further and have the plaintext of the users messages secret from the app - the OS would draw them direct to the screen. A bit like opaque cross-origin data in webpages is secret from JavaScript on the page.