Google Launches Android P Beta 2 With Final APIs (venturebeat.com) 40
An anonymous reader writes: Google today launched the second Android P beta with final APIs and 157 new emoji. If you're a developer, this is your third Android P preview, and you can start testing your apps against this release by downloading the new preview from developer.android.com/preview. The preview includes an updated SDK with system images for the Pixel, Pixel XL, Pixel 2, Pixel 2 XL, and the official Android Emulator. If you're already enrolled and received the Android P Beta 1 on your Pixel device, you'll automatically get the update to Beta 2.
Why use a 26 letter alphabet (Score:2)
When you can have 2,666 emojis!
Re:Samsung won't let my phone use it ! (Score:4, Informative)
If Samsung won't come to the party, make sure your next phone supports Project Treble [arstechnica.com] (should be any phone that shipped with Oreo, plus the original Pixels). That finally decouples the OS from the SoC drivers, and means any Treble phone can (theoretically) be upgraded with Google's own OS releases.
Which is why you can also get this Beta 2 release on third party phones like the Essential Phone, Nokia 7 Plus, OnePlus 6, Oppo R15 Pro, Sony Xperia XZ2, Vivo X21 & X21UD, and Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S, as well as Google's own Pixel series.
Failing all that, LineageOS [lineageos.org] will work well with your Samsung.
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If Samsung won't come to the party, make sure your next phone supports Project Treble (should be any phone that shipped with Oreo, plus the original Pixels). That finally decouples the OS from the SoC drivers, and means any Treble phone can (theoretically) be upgraded with Google's own OS releases.
Treble has always sounded great but I've always been concerned that there's no authoritative Google source to confirm whether a device is "Treble certified" or "Treble compatible".
Your post reminded me that Treble existed (my partner & I are in the market for new phones & I can't bring myself to buy a non-Google phone because of the operating system issue, and I can't bring myself to pay a fortune for a Pixel after being very happy with the cheap Nexus series for the last several years) so I had a
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You can check it yourself by looking at the build.prop [xda-developers.com]. There's also this reasonably up-to-date list [xda-developers.com].
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Root the thing and put a custom ROM on it. There usually is someone who will package a vanilla ROM or one with just a few optimizations.
At this point, you're out of warranty anyway, right?
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Then you can't do anything that requires SafetyNet.
No Android Pay (or whatever they call it now), no Snapchat, no banking apps, no Pokemon GO.
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Doesn't help you right now, but make sure your next phone gets more than a paltry 2-years of support before the manufacturer takes a big steamy dump on you and your still-perfectly-working hardware.
There's several options out there.
You REALLY mean:
"Make sure your next phone is an iPhone."
It's the only way to be sure...
emojis.... (Score:5, Insightful)
No, honestly: I would like to know. I see no innovation in adding more emojis, no basic need covered and it is not as if a world of new possibilities suddenly opens itself because 157 new emojis were added. I am not against the very idea of emojis. I just don't understand the general hype and attention to emojis.
I actually feel a slight bit of secondhand embarassment for this hangup. Is it just me?
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Ancient Egyptian isn't the only language to use pictographic writing.
Is your vitriol also directed at Chinese?
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only existing languages or new languages with full grammar and syntax be allowed codes
âïðY'©. Not sure if you can display it, but it means "challenge accepted" in my new constructed language.
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In that particular case this is a politically correct update: gender neutral emoji, redhead emoji variants, real gun replaced by squirt gun, ...
As for why emoji matter, I think it is just an instance of the bike-shed effect [wikipedia.org].
Small pictures are easy to understand, anyone can have an opinion about how a burger should look like [emojipedia.org]. As a result, people talk a lot about it, even though it is trivial. Things like colorimetry, computer security and machine learning require some level of technical knowledge and people
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Also, some time ago here in Spain some people organized themselves to petition the Unicode consortium for a paella emoji. Is it really so important to have an emoji of your favourite dish?
The thing about emojis is that, being images, are particularly suitable for politics games and pressu
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TL;DR There are more than enough space for new emoji and everything we can throw in Unicode.
Unicode has 17 planes, each containing 65536 code points. Emoji currently sit in plane 1, which isn't even half full. There are currently 1212 code points for emoji, so it means that there is room for 30x more without leaving plane 1.
If we manage to exceed that, planes 3-13 are still unassigned. It means there are 720896 more code points available.
But that 17 plane limit is just here to satisfy UTF-16. UTF-8, by far
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Linux is Doomed. Doomed, I Say!!! (Score:1)
...and 157 new Emojis!!!! ...And after ALL the unmitigated SHIT you Slashtards give Apple for announcing new Emojis... You turds oughta be ashamed of yourselves!
Full disclosure: If I use 3 Emojis in a week that is a lot for me; but still...
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Hate to Reply to my own Post; but the Title to my OP, above SHOULD read:
ANDROID is Doomed. Doomed, I Say!!!
It's what I get for posting within 5 minutes of awakening.
But the rest of my OP stands.
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His point still stands.
Unicode consortium introduces a bunch of stupid new emoji; response around here: meh
Android adds those emoji, response around here: meh
Apple adds those same emoji, response around here: OMG APPLE HAS NOTHING, THEY CAN'T INNOVATE ONLY COPY, THEY ARE JUST ADDING STUPID EMOJI LOL NICE UPDATE LOL EMOJI FOR ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS TO USE ON WHATSAPP
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His point still stands.
Unicode consortium introduces a bunch of stupid new emoji; response around here: meh
Android adds those emoji, response around here: meh
Apple adds those same emoji, response around here: OMG APPLE HAS NOTHING, THEY CAN'T INNOVATE ONLY COPY, THEY ARE JUST ADDING STUPID EMOJI LOL NICE UPDATE LOL EMOJI FOR ALL THE LITTLE GIRLS TO USE ON WHATSAPP
Thanks! I fully expected to simply be Punish-Modded into Oblivion, LOL!!!
Now with vegan-inclusive lettuce emoji (Score:1)
https://i.redd.it/zs832f78ug21... [i.redd.it]
Name it already! (Score:2)
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Google better give it a name soon. It's very awkward to call it "Android Pee".
I, for one, think it is entirely appropriate.
And just think, you are but three updates away from Android "Shit" and then "Android Turd". ...and you already HAVE the Emoji for those!
(Sorry, couldn't resist!)
Stop features, start optimising (Score:2)
Seriously, just spend one full month with zero features being added, none at all and let all your coders just try to increase performance, because, Android isn't bad but it's not good. I've been on it for 7 years now and still older iPhones with half the specs feel snappier.
I don't care if the iPhone is faking the snappy feel, the end result is it feels right.
Project treble is the first particularly clever sounding, big improvement in a while too, keep at this kind of stuff
I also very much echo the other g
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Seriously, just spend one full month with zero features being added, none at all and let all your coders just try to increase performance, because, Android isn't bad but it's not good. I've been on it for 7 years now and still older iPhones with half the specs feel snappier.
I don't care if the iPhone is faking the snappy feel, the end result is it feels right.
Project treble is the first particularly clever sounding, big improvement in a while too, keep at this kind of stuff
I also very much echo the other guy. More emoji? Who cares! This is a bullet point? Really? Really?
But Apple ISN'T faking the Snappier feel! They just know more about ARM than nearly anyone else on the planet, seriously.
Oh, and if you happened to watch the WWDC 2018 Keynote a few days ago, one of the very first things they talked about (maybe even the first) in the iOS segment was that their new version, iOS 12, now in beta release, was SPECIFICALLY redesigned to bring significant performance improvements, ESPECIALLY TO THE OLDEST MODELS supported (which is back to the iPhone 5s, released in 2013).
There
Funny.... (Score:3)
Thank God.. (Score:1)