Google is experimenting with bringing the tablet taskbar to phones running Android 15. This new version could be called the "tiny" taskbar.

Google is experimenting with bringing the tablet taskbar to phones running Android 15. This new version could be called the “tiny” taskbar.

  • Paradox@lemdro.idMEnglish
    272·
    3 months ago

    Time is a flat circle. I remember when honeycomb launched with a bottom navbar, only for Google to delete it later in favor of a (terrible) phone like gui

  • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    11·
    3 months ago

    Hey Google, I just…don’t know how to phrase this to you. Start doing some hard work on the Android platform to make the aging bits better, the dirty bits better, bring back more open-source, bring back more openness. Drop the YouTube crap and have dedicated apps on the phone for Music, Podcasts, etc.

    Their current and next couple of years of dev cycles will probably be wasted on “AI” as the rest of the platform drifts and their C suite drools over a GPU-powered fever-dream that can’t even play Tic-Tac-Toe for more than 4 moves without forgetting the rules.

    As it stands right now, I know several Androiders that see no reason to even stay with Android anymore and will likely switch to iOS for their next device replacement. I’m not sure I really want to bother sticking around either, although I’d prefer a tertiary alternative that as of yet doesn’t exist. (Speaking of, this dock sounds like something just borrowed from WebOS.)

    Make the mobile OS something that can stand on its own instead of the data-mining marketing cesspool it has become, and put it on hardware worth buying instead of the janky Samsung modems.

    Sincerely, some rando on the Internet

  • umbrella@lemmy.mlEnglish
    112·
    3 months ago

    android phones are shit for multitasking anyway. things are constantly redrawing and reloading, even with a lot of ram.

    • Zorro@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      Give me my janky choppy Android 11 multitasking back, I have 8GB of RAM and I’ll use it as I please

    • kratoz29@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Ugh, and I thought my 6 GBs of RAM phone sucked for multitasking… You are discouraging me to get another one with at least 8 GBs of RAM lol.

    • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Yeah please stop trying to act like multitasking on a small screen is something anyone wants. There’s enough bugs out there for app switching to fix that you coulda focused on that instead of adding another half assed product on top of your current half assed product

  • alansuspect@aussie.zoneEnglish
    81·
    3 months ago

    I feel like I’m the only one who still reverts navigation to the 3 dots and doesn’t use any of the new stuff they’re releasing.

    This taskbar looks like it’s going to make things happen without me wanting them to, I hope we can turn it off.

    • laughterlaughter@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I hate, hate, hate, that I can’t turn off the “At a glance” top section as well as the “Google search” bottom section in my Pixel home screen.

      They got rid of the Google Assistant microphone icon that I could tap and say stuff like “remind me to buy milk in 2 hours,” and replaced it with a similar icon that does voice search. Yuk (and no, shaking, squeezing, gestures or activating the always on ‘hey google’ prompt are not worthy replacements.)

  • taiyang@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    3 months ago

    Oh gdi we’re up to the point in Android models that we’ve reached Dragon Ball Z characters and my brain has to double take headlines.

  • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
    21·
    3 months ago

    I already don’t like that the navigation-gesture bottom bar takes up a few millimetres of my valuable screen space. Why does it need to be one click away and always wasting space as opposed to one swipe away and not? Hopefully it will be an option and not an Apple-style “we’ve decided for you” arrangement.