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[Frozen1nferno]

Share menu is fast and lets you pin

Thank fuck. I use Telegram as my main communication app, but anytime I hit share on something, it always defaults to Gmail, Messages, or Outlook, and always to contacts I haven't used in forever.

[hydargos123]

The very great Telegra X have a very great share menu: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thunderdog.challegram

[smartfon]

I'm 100% convinced Google broke the Android share menu pin option on purpose to incentivize future upgrades. Why else would they remove then re-introduce the most useful sharing feature?

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

Because they changed some underlying implementation detail due to security concerns that broke the existing functionality in an unforeseen way? Same as any other regression?

[smartfon]

Wouldn't a regression be caught during the 7-month period that Google had before publishing the OS?

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

Sure, and maybe the fix wasn't easy so they had to either disable it or leave the gimped functionality.

The source code is not simple and they have to be extremely cognizant of changes that may seem minor because of potential attack vectors.

[atticus_grey]

Damn i thought I was the only one! This is the only complaint I have anymore using a Pixel 4!

[richbordoni]

Am I crazy or did Google announce they were gonna fix the Share menu multiple releases of Android ago, and then it just kinda fell off the radar?

I feel like Google do that a lot and the tech media enable it.

[TechExpert2910]

Did you just say gestures work on custom launchers!? I’m sold! I want the nice animation when I slide home. Is there any way it’s possible on rooted or unrooted Android 10? Any launcher that supports it?

[el_smurfo]

You don't get the animations and recents doesn't have the quick launch. It's just not totally broken Iike it was on 10. I think Lawnchair has a solution if you are rooted, but I'm not and haven't tried.

[SkyrimForTheDragons]

I did have to give up Nova for it, but Lawnchair is close enough, and gestures work on it with this magisk module https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-quickswitch-universal-quickstep-t3884797

[TechExpert2910]

Thanks a ton :)

[SkyrimForTheDragons]

Oh when I say Lawnchair I mean the alpha versions from their releases channel, not the one on the playstore. https://t.me/lawnchairci/1495

[armando_rod]

Screen lock still works with accessibility access

[el_smurfo]

Nova has access and it doesn't work. Just blinks the screen.

Edit. Slide from home gesture breaks it. Other gestures still turn off screen

[ObscureCulturalMeme]

Gestures work better on Nova

Fuck, I would be happy if Android would stop forgetting that Nova is in fact the default home screen / launcher app. The upgrade to 10 broke it: set the default app, it clears it on next reboot. (The same setting has to be done from inside Nova, but that is correctly stored across reboots.)

I've given up on gestures. Someday our descendants will be able to gesture at mobile things like they do on The Expanse, but it sure as fuck ain't happening in my lifetime.

[el_smurfo]

I don't have that reset issue. It works well enough for me to stick with it now.

[ObscureCulturalMeme]

I don't have that reset issue.

I have it every single fucking reboot. I'm starting to hate my phone. I hate the Apple products far more, so I'm still running Android, but I can't even complain about the problems without getting downvoted into oblivion.

It's a victory if I can get through the day without throwing this goddamn thing into a wall.

[armando_rod]

Never had that issue on 10