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Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode

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448 points logic_node | 1 comments | 13 May 25 14:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.436s | source
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the_clarence ◴[13 May 25 14:56 UTC] No.43973667[source]▶
I switched from a lifetime of iPhones to an android phone last year, just because of folding phones. They are amazing and IMO the reason why Apple is going to have issues as these get cheaper (unless they release a folding phone too). Now that I have all this screen estate the current UI feels limiting often.
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permo-w ◴[13 May 25 14:58 UTC] No.43973686[source]▶
I switched from iPhone to android a month ago and it was so awful that I just went back to using my old phone. I treat the android device as essentially a powerbank with a camera, and even that it's bad at. plug it into my PC to transfer pictures? no response
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edm0nd ◴[13 May 25 20:10 UTC] No.43977157[source]▶
skills issue for sure
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permo-w ◴[14 May 25 04:50 UTC] No.43980948[source]▶
is it a skill issue that it doesn't just plug and play into my laptop? is it a skill issue that swiping from the left goes back to the previous page and swiping from the right also goes back to the previous page? is it a skill issue that google translate requires me to have the google search app installed? and that the google search app puts a big fuck off search bar in the middle of my home screen, of which the only simple way to remove is to delete the app?
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1. reanimated ◴[25 May 25 06:58 UTC] No.44086088[source]▶
> is it a skill issue that it doesn't just plug and play into my laptop?

But it is builtin android feature. You connect to laptop and notification pop up asking if you want to mount as usb transfer mode or just charge.

> is it a skill issue that swiping from the left goes back to the previous page and swiping from the right also goes back to the previous page?

Its probably your specific vendor option and you certainly can change it. But its definetly not universal android thing as it doesnt do anything from edge swipe by default.

> is it a skill issue that google translate requires me to have the google search app installed?

Its just regular app - it doesnt need anything additional.

> and that the google search app puts a big fuck off search bar in the middle of my home screen

Apps which places widgets on homescreen asks for permission unless you checked a checkbox to always allow. And all widgets can be removed from the screen anyway. These is no such thing as mandatory non removable widgets in Android.

So yeah, it looks like a skill issue if you are more familiar with how another system works and doesnt want to invest to figure out how to do the same in the Android. The UI is different and less familiar for you, but you can literaly do all the things as on iPhone, just in a different way.