Can’t wait for Android 15 that looks almost exactly like Android 12
Y’all don’t understand semantic versioning.
Google does a major release pretty much yearly.
Major releases are for breaking changes.
Now what does that say about regular major releases?
More updates = better, of course!
Most of the updates seem to be features or UI changes that nobody asked for.
Some of them have been pretty nice. However, the release’s are more frequent without the changes and improvements. I like all the new APIs and theming but those aren’t something you can do in 3 months.
Lucky MF, all my androids at least 3 years out of date
Manufacture Android is often way out of date. They rarely even ship security patches
Pixels get 7 yearss of updates. Most other androids are trash, including Samsung imo
Well I don’t want a Pixel. Lineage OS it is then.
I use GrapheneOS, which is the best security focused ROM out there. It only supports Pixels.
I personally would avoid Graphene as they have had a lot of controversies. Use what ever works for you though. For me I don’t really care to have Graphene OS and I don’t like Pixels.
Fair enough
Android looks good. Why do they have the change the look again when not nearly every app is even using Material You?
I’d rather performance, power, and more capabilities like desktop mode.
I have a pixel phone running GrapheneOs. I just realized i’m running Android 15.
Android 15 isn’t out yet16 isn’t out yet
I’m over here still on Android 14. Yay prepaid phones!
This is creepy. I was just thinking this an hour ago. Android used to have incremental updates (8.1.2 amirite) but now theybjust brand it as a new version when there’s like one or two new “features” no one will use.
You might not notice it but us Android devs do.
And we hate it… Alot.
It’s the worst treadmill. By the time I finish implementing/refactoring something, they replace it with a new standard and deprecate the old way.
Move fast and break
thingsdevelopersNew devs: “wow a new sdk version”
Old devs: “Ah fuck I’ve gotta change how we request permissions again”
Skill issue
Yeah, they look almost the same. I can’t remember the last time I got an update and noticed it.
Got Android 15 recently. The volume bar is twice as big now! I thought it was just a visual difference but volume is now more finely tuned, as in it goes from 0 to 20 instead of 0 to 10 and steps by 1. (Not sure of the real numbers)
I can remember updating but it is almost a pointless exercise. (lineage OS requires manual version updates)
users complain about major ui changes os stops doing major ui changes often it looks the same
They finally have multiline app names in beta for the pixel… Idk why it’s taking them so long. My old crusty motorola displays long names just fine; its crazy that it took until Android 15 just to get a beta of that.
It’s probably something like “why would you want to waste precious resources on something so small” or whatever, which just leads to shitty messes everywhere
And in Nova it’s a simple setting you can toggle for every screen separately.
People justifying their jobs. Can’t wait for these megacorps to be broken up
So you are advocating for slowing down the work on Android, or for keeping the pace the same but witholding the updates for longer before a release? Or something else?
I’m saying Android is too big and the updates are becoming more anti-consumer
I agree, but that has nothing to do with the release cadence.
Following Apple’s steps
Does Apple do this? I though they were slower to release new major versions
Apple releases a new major version every year, usually in September. What has Googles cadence been?
I was referring to the marginal changes between consecutive releases replying to:
Can’t wait for Android 15 that looks almost exactly like Android 12
