[HN Gopher] Android 11 beta is available now ___________________________________________________________________ Android 11 beta is available now Author : andraskindler Score : 26 points Date : 2020-06-10 17:56 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (blog.google) (TXT) w3m dump (blog.google) | unixhero wrote: | Yay? | godelski wrote: | But will my weather always show in the clock now instead of | randomly? (The "At a glance that's on the homescreen, shows the | date, weather, upcoming events etc. Frequently it just shows the | date for me and drops weather info) | | And do we really need bubbles? Do people actually like those? I | always found that annoying. | louib wrote: | In my opinion the highlight here is the addition of the "Only | this time" option when granting permissions to an app. I'm | wondering though if this new privacy feature is only available | for the 3 permission types listed in the post. | | > With one-time permissions you can grant apps access to your | microphone, camera or location, just that one time. The next time | the app needs access to these sensors, it will have to ask you | for permission again. | mmastrac wrote: | Been seeing a few app crashes on the Android 11 betas. Hopefully | they've been addressing API bustage. Unfortunately the Android | bug tracker seems to be a black hole for reports. | bleah1000 wrote: | Here's the dirty little secret of app crashes on Android: many | of these apps use some pretty horrid drm code that will only | run on known versions of Android. So every new version of | Android, you get a crash because it doesn't recognize the new | version until the drm is updated. | | If this is a game that's crashing on start-up, I would guess | 90% of the time the app is the problem. | mmastrac wrote: | These are normal apps, unfortunately, crashing at or near | startup. I believe that Google made some changes to JNI in | Android 11 and most of the crashes are in native code. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-06-10 23:00 UTC)