android thread (first post has recommended apps now)

[deadwolfbones]

Yeah. It didn't work very well on my phone (Droid Charge). Still using Dolphin.

[Broncobama]

anyone try the new firefox yet?
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... la.firefox

still nowhere near chrome

[fakename]

was there a thread about the nexus 7/ nexus q?

the 7 looks nice, will definitely be tempting once they revise it and make it sexier. the nexus q seems like it costs 3x as much as an apple tv and does about the same thing.

[deadwolfbones]

There's a Google I/O 2012 thread.

The non-beta Chrome is working great for me (finally) on my TFP. Nice upgrade from the stock browser.

[Durham]

I don't know what's going on but no *.google.com page is loading quickly for me at all

[Fullscreen]

Instagram pics seem to have a standard 612x612 resolution, while HTC's software can do 3264x1840. Is there an option somewhere to up the Instagram res or is it just a dumb app in this respect?

[nghiem]

Android dev community is the best. I'm running Jellybean on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus right now

[Bob511]

Instagram pics seem to have a standard 612x612 resolution, while HTC's software can do 3264x1840. Is there an option somewhere to up the Instagram res or is it just a dumb app in this respect?

Instagram says they only support uploads at 612x612, but should save the full-res pictures locally.

[Fullscreen]

Instagram pics seem to have a standard 612x612 resolution, while HTC's software can do 3264x1840. Is there an option somewhere to up the Instagram res or is it just a dumb app in this respect?

Instagram says they only support uploads at 612x612, but should save the full-res pictures locally.

ah yeah, i see now. should have checked the resolution in my phone's gallery, obv.

[mikey]

Android dev community is the best. I'm running Jellybean on my Verizon Galaxy Nexus right now

xda's verizon version loses LTE though, right?

[nghiem]

Nah, they fixed it. Everything is functional, including the wifi (that was what was wonky for a bit). Obviously when source is released, that's what we will get the good stuff but the current port is fully functional. Not bad considering it's only been a day.

[The Dirty Turtle]

two days ago i walked into the phone store and was like need a new phone and they were like the best phone ever is coming out on friday
now i have a galaxy s3
i use a galaxy tablet and like that so i didnt even bother reading anything about it before i bought it
seems pretty cool so far

[mikey]

galaxy s3 will get jelly bean in q4?

also amazon is gonna make a phone?
wtf

[The Dirty Turtle]

is jelly bean supposed to be a significant improvement over ics

[Durham]

evidently, but only in degree, not kind
like the gap between gingerbread and ics is way bigger than ics and jelly bean, but apparently jellybean is really smooth (?)

[mikey]

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3134347/android-4-1-jelly-bean-review

tl;dr

- google now - sort of a siri competitor. has 'cards' for most searched info like sports team scores and shit. reviews say it's better at search and just knowing what you want based on your history, but weaker at natural language queries. which should basically be obvious, but whatever
- less lag/stutter
- expandable notifications - have to wait for 3rd party apps to implement these
- can turn off notifications on a per app basis
- some other minor app improvements to google apps that will probably trickle down to ics users soon enough.

it's v 4.0 to v 4.1
so nothing super major. google now is probably the biggest thing. i would like expandable notifications though for emails and messages

[Baby Museum]

i'm running the jelly belly ROM. so much more smooth than ICS. Google Now is pretty cool. camera and sorting through pictures makes more sense now.

[Durham]

here's a working link

http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/3/3134347/android-4-1-jelly-bean-review

and moreover here is Google Now but it doesn't do voice http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1749045

[Baby Museum]

[The Dirty Turtle]

this may have been covered at some point, but has anyone gotten the apple keyboard and trackpad to work with an android tablet

[nghiem]

Jellybean source (4.1.1) is officially released. Only a matter of time before devs give us some sexy JB roms.

<3 u google

[Broncobama]

coming to my goddamned old nexus s this month

[mikey]

wtf why isn't there a galaxy nexus official image yet?

i blame fucking apple fuck you apple fuck you

[Architecture]

Apparently XDA's already working on a 4.1 ROM for the One X

I expect I'll be flashing my phone in short order

[nghiem]

wtf why isn't there a galaxy nexus official image yet?

i blame fucking apple fuck you apple fuck you

There is? It looks like all the GN variants have it so far except for the toroplus/Sprint one

[mikey]

https://developers.google.com/android/nexus/images#yakju
i only see 4.0.4

i don't count leaked images as official images

[Durham]

Carriers not immediately pushing out new ROMs is so stupid
I mean, I get why they don't, but like
Come on you pieces of shit, no one is really gonna plop down $500 for a new phone w/o upgrade so they're your customers for 2-3 years anyway

[Broncobama]

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic ... BYeD-bhk1o

[Broncobama]

Carriers not immediately pushing out new ROMs is so stupid
I mean, I get why they don't, but like
Come on you pieces of shit, no one is really gonna plop down $500 for a new phone w/o upgrade so they're your customers for 2-3 years anyway

most of them do it because they have their own retarded custom UI that they have to test before releasing

the nexus items only delay until the release of an official flagship device for that release (in this case Nexus 7). So it's often like 1-4 days later.

[mikey]

what am i supposed to be getting out of that link?