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Android 10 Launches Today, and Pixel Phones Get the Day One Update (arstechnica.com) 45

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Android 10 is finally finished! The next big Android update, which we've been examining for most of the year as the "Android Q Beta," starts rolling out to devices today. As usual, Android 10 is arriving on Pixel phones first (even the three-year-old Pixel 1), and Google says it is "working with a number of partners to launch or upgrade devices to Android 10 this year." Google has introduced a new branding strategy for Android, by the way, so there's no "Q" snack name with this release. In 2019, it's just "Android 10." Android 10 brings a number of changes to the world's most popular mobile operating system.

First up, devices are getting "fully gestural" navigation, which lets you navigate around the phone with swipe gestures. Just like the implementation on the iPhone X, gesture navigation removed the need for a dedicated space for navigation buttons, allowing for more space for app content. There's finally full support for a dark theme, which will turn the entire system UI and any supported apps from the usual black text on a white background to white text on a black background. (That option significantly reduces the amount of light a phone puts out and saves battery life on OLED displays.) Google has also promised dark mode support for "all" of the Google apps in time for Android 10's launch, so we should be seeing updates to Gmail, Google Play, Google Maps, and a million other Google apps sometime soon.
Other features of Android 10 include a faster share sheet, a "bubbles" API for floating apps, 230 new emoji, improved security and privacy options, and smarter notification panel.
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Android 10 Launches Today, and Pixel Phones Get the Day One Update

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  • Google's current phones always get the update the day it's released, because that is the definition of an Android release.

    Far more noteworthy is that the Essential Phone gets it on day one (just like with Android 9) and the Redmi K20 Pro gets it on day one, and the OnePlus 7/7Pro get an Android10-based OxygenOS beta on day one. (Other phones may get it today too, these are just the ones currently with articles currently about it on XDA.)

    • Also my LG phone. Which might get Android 9 some time this year if I'm lucky.
    • Well, OnePlus always cultivated the developer community, with easily unlocked bootloader and seems now with frequent OS updates. Not a bad alternative to a Pixel, though the current OnePlus phone prices are a far cry from the original Oneplus One with a 300 dollar bait-n-switch price tag for 16GB model.

  • by weilawei ( 897823 ) on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @07:53PM (#59154722)

    Why would I want to swipe? By definition, it requires more effort than a tap. It's a tap, followed by a motion!

    • by xplosiv ( 129880 )

      Because stretching your fingers to navigate a 5"+ phone can be extremely painful to most people, especially sysadmins.

    • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

      Because it's easier than reaching for the controls.

      Particularly on large phones you might have to reach for a button. Easier to do a little swipe without stretching.

    • By definition, it requires more effort than a tap.

      Where do you tap? By definition you need something to tap to analyse what to do with said tap, and that results in either used screen real estate, or multiple taps.

    • No, it's the opposite.

      The reason Fitt values the edges and corners is because they require less motor precision to access.

      Taps require precision - swipes are more "move thataway" and so require less precision. No swipe I've seen requires a precise starting position.

      • I posted this, and then sat down with my phone, screen off, to poke at it and count movements. Came to the same conclusion, wasn't really thinking about it as clearly as I might have been.

        I stand corrected.

    • You can disable gesture navigation and go back to the 3-buttons style (or the 2-button style used in Pie). It's probably the first thing I'll do when it hits, since I don't like gesture navigation and I don't like Pie's 2-button navigation.
  • Competition is a good thing. (I'll take a duopoly over a monopoly.)

  • does it still do a Secondary Display ?

    the ability to have a secure view with a keyboard and mouse would in my opinion be a game changer !

  • It bugs me that after years of deployment with ipv6 to the phone that my tether'd client is still ipv4 based only and behind many layers of rfc1918 space. Have they fixed that yet? The relevant RFC is only 7 years old.... https://tools.ietf.org/html/rf... [ietf.org]
  • by SuperKendall ( 25149 ) on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @09:44PM (#59155158)

    Just like the implementation on the iPhone X, gesture navigation removed the need for a dedicated space for navigation buttons

    That part of the summary really confused me - the X didn't do anything about navigation, beyond removing the home button. There's still very much a need for navigation buttons even though iOS does also support swipe gestures to move back in navigation (a feature supported before the iPhone X)... I assume the same would be true for Android, where you'd want some visible way to know how to go back but as a shortcut (like if the phone is in one had) you could just use the swipe gesture.

    • Just like the implementation on the iPhone X, gesture navigation removed the need for a dedicated space for navigation buttons

      That part of the summary really confused me - the X didn't do anything about navigation, beyond removing the home button.

      That's what they're talking about, that was a huge chunk of realestate on the front of the phone that no longer needed to be dedicated to that navigation button.

  • 1,337.1 MB download. Letting it run overnight.

    • will never get it.

      Good. The phone seems to have a hard enough time figuring out what I want it to do as it is.

      I don't want it doing shit I don't want just because I moved a finger the wrong way.

    • I have a Android ONE phone and the update will come for sure, as well as every security updates each and every months, choose your phone and don't buy a Samsung.

  • Navigation is horribly broken now, and does not play nice with Nova Launcher. It was really nice before, so easy to flip between apps. Anything they added is not worth this broken UI. Ironic because I *just* bought a Pixel 3a because I wanted prompt updates for Android. If all they're going to do is keep making it worse and worse, I'll pass.
    • If you want the real Android experience, don't use 3rd party launcher? Since Pie to switch app you can right swipe the navigation to toggle between the last two, or swipe up to bring selectable last apps

  • I'm Happy to see this, that android 10 lunched. now in just few days after my phone get a update
  • Did they fix the horrible volume settings? In Pie (Android 9) when you press the up/down volume, it changes the media volume, not the ringtone/notification volume, 100% of people around me hates this thing, Did they fixed it somehow?

  • Let's see how it goes.
    • Finished the update. Looks very similar to Android 9. Tried dark mode, the only app with that mode I found was USAtoday.
  • 230 new emojis....Yay!!

    Really Google?

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