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Google's Second Android Q Beta Brings Us 'Bubbles' Multitasking (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Google is releasing the second Android Q Beta today. As we learned with the first release, Android Q is bringing support for foldable smartphones, better privacy and permissions controls, and a grab bag of other features. We've yet to install the second beta on one of our own devices, but Google's release blog post promises "bug fixes, optimizations, and API updates," as well as a crazy new multitasking feature and an emulator for foldables. Android loves multitasking. So far we've had split screens and floating windows, and Android Q Beta 1 even had a hidden desktop mode. Beta 2 brings us a new multitasking feature called "Bubbles." Bubbles let you minimize an app into a little circle, which floats around on the screen above all your other apps. Tapping on a bubble will open a small UI. The only demo Google shows is one for a messaging app. Each bubble is a contact, and tapping on the bubble shows a small chat UI. If you remember Facebook's "Chat Head" UI for Messenger, Bubbles is that, but built into the OS. "Bubbles are great for messaging because they let users keep important conversations within easy reach," Google said in their blog post. "They also provide a convenient view over ongoing tasks and updates, like phone calls or arrival times. They can provide quick access to portable UI, like notes or translations, and can be visual reminders of tasks too."
It used to be Google called stuff "beta" for long after it was in widespread public release. Now, they're calling stuff that's not feature complete "beta." Nope, that's "alpha." Someone should tell them how it works.
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... can they finally bring a sane, performant and usable audio API please? One that I can use directly from Java, without being forced into native code, please. Maybe they could look at this for some ideas.
I really need to use more of it up by displaying applications that I'm not currently using.
...on a smartphone? stupid. there is a reason tabbed sections of info have existed long before computers, and continue existing in spite of computers. desktops have this figured out, browsers have this figured out, several IDEs have this figured out, how long will it take for dumb smartphone user experience designers to realize this?
Alpha: it doesn't work.
Beta: it still doesn't work.
Great.
Google has brought meaning to the term "living in a bubble".
Multitasking on a smartphone? Pbbbt, nobody needs that...
In Capitalist America, computer multitasks you!
I was personally hoping for even more intrusive notifications and crap popping up in front of me while I'm trying to use my phone for something. Looks like Google will once again deliver!
I want my permissions back to have phone call recording and automatic call record naming with the correct number!
Fuck you google, fuck you!
So they decided to clone facebook messenger? I hated and disabled the stupid chat bubbles for the short period that I used messenger.
This is just so much no!
Bubbles is "built on top of Android's notification system," and developers can "send a bubble through a notification."
Yay, more pop-ups! It'll become a game. Close the bubbles before FB, twitter, WhatAp, emails, etc... cover the UI with bubbles.
Google is also rolling out more of its "scoped storage" changes, which stop apps from having free-for-all access to your internal storage. Google warns that this is going to break a lot of stuff,In other words, you no longer have decent control of your phone. Smaller devs will need to pay the popular ones to get them to add a hook to export data into their app. If the app doesn't have specifically made connector, you can't import/export your files. This is probably the most important change so of course it's stuffed in at the bottom, doesn't have a lot of details in how it works, and is ignored by article copy-cats.
Though Iconify was sort of a cross between Bubbles and the MacOS dock (iconified apps went to the desktop, rather than persistently hovering over everything else) which made more sense in the early 90's desktop-centered UX context.
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Damn it! All I want to know is the release name.
Spend a month optomising the code, a lot.
I'm tired of needing to buy a new phone every 3 years because they run horrifically.
Employ tricks like Apple do with the screenshot of an idle app that comes up first, then the app loads in behind it, making the app usable.
Oh and to the handset manufacturers? Please, can at least SOME of you stop copying Apple? /have/ to remove home buttons.
You don't have to remove headphone jacks, you don't have to remove notification LEDs, you don't
...end their life exploding. Does it mean that Android Q can turn every smartphone into a Galaxy Note7 ?!?
A bunch of cretins who are just out of high school, who know nothing about user interface design, and keep reinventing the wheel - badly. Why can't we customise the Android interface? Why can't we make it look the way we want - i.e. with real, visible buttons, instead of this 'flat' bullshit, which is like a new religion for these idiots.
...for mobile platforms.
Fascinating! Such ingenuity! Truly a great time to be alive.
When will the endless gushing about inconsequential features end?
We hope - never.
what is wrong with having a notification icon, just as android has now.
want to see what the message is, just quickly pull it down, you can even reply through the notification if you want.
but a bubble, or in worst case, multiple bubbles only get in the way.
for some reasone those things always hover just above that part of the screen that you're using/looking at.
please make this an option that can be turned off.
On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Those stupid conversation bubbles is the very first feature I disable on the Facebook Messenger app. Whoever thought that was a good idea needs to be sterilized. Whoever thought at Google that idea needs to be copied should be taken out behind the shed and put out of their misery.
Is that what they called it when he used to jerk off Michael Jackson and one of his child victims simultaneously?
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