[HN Gopher] Android 11 beta is available now
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       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.
        
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