Android Pie (9.0) Thread

[sesevans]

Project treble is barely on 10% of all android phones. It's a step in the right direction that will take time to improve. This time next year should yield some meaningful results due to the obvious reason that phones shipped with oreo need to support treble.

Agree in theory that Project Treble should make rollouts of updates to phones and tablets faster because it is easier for the OEMs to update now that hardware specific code (the vendor interface -- at least with Oreo) sits in a separate layer beneath the rest of the operating system. The stuff in the vendor interface remains the same so there is no need to manually code it into the operating system each time. So far so good.

However, Project Treble addresses the phone/tablet's lower level software (the code written by the silicon manufacturers) and not designed for higher level UI changes and features many OEMs make. So these OEMs will still have to take the time with these latter changes.

Will these OEMs really then change their behaviour? I hope so.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

Isn't this the Android update where if you use your phone for 'too long', the screen turns greyscale? I'm sure it's a setting that you can disable, but it sure is the weirdest thing I've hard about any version of Android.

 

[Simps]

Does Whatsapp notification appear like this for everyone else or should the contact image appear here ?

Edit ** Love the edit feature on the screenshot. Also love the new Screenshot option in power menu.

 

[unwashed potato!]

i don't understand the issue here with the whatsapp notificatoin.

if it's that it shows your reply, mine does this too, and goes when you turn the screen off, kind of cool as you can reply more than once, but when you're clearly done it removes the notification

 

[Simps]

I meant that it shows a G and C for the peoples name rather than their contact picture. I was just wondering if that was how it is or the picture should be displayed. Sorry for the confusion.

 

[FishLicker]

I cant remember if mine does that with the picture, but it puts my recipients name above my reply on the notifications instead of mine.

 

[izzop]

... Also love the new Screenshot option in power menu.

Didn't realise this, a great addition! Trying to do it using the Power & Volume button wasn't the easiest

 

[Matteysan]

Isn't this the Android update where if you use your phone for 'too long', the screen turns greyscale? I'm sure it's a setting that you can disable, but it sure is the weirdest thing I've hard about any version of Android.

Yes but it can be disabled, It is part of the wellbeing app, It isn't part of this Android update you need to sign up for the beta for it.

https://www.android.com/versions/pie-9-0/digital-wellbeing-beta/

 

[chaparral]

No, Oreo was last August if you had a Pixel device. Just goes to show how slow Samsung and others can be, though to be fair Samsung had a lot of the stuff that's in 9 already such as the screenshot editing etc.

Yes think my note 8 Oreo update was not released till about April 2018

 

[tom_e]

Battery life seems noticeably better on my Pixel 2 not that it was bad before but I'm definitely making it through the day with a good 10-15% more battery.

 

[thewanted]

Enabling split screen is a real PITA now, but overall I'm really loving the improvements in Pie.

 

[unwashed potato!]

Oh yeah. How do you do it? Holding that icon does nothing now

 

[unwashed potato!]

Got it. Yeah not as nice but at least will be something that doesn't happen by accident I guess

 

[izzop]

Battery life seems noticeably better on my Pixel 2 not that it was bad before but I'm definitely making it through the day with a good 10-15% more battery.

Was thinking the very same this morning, having not charged it overnight.

I then realised that I hadn't charged it since early hours of Wednesday morning whilst working nights. Not that I'm a heavy user, but it certainly has been improved.

 

[kona786]

It completely slipped my mind that mum had a Pixel 2. Got Pie installed and had a quick flick through and it seems alright, nothing standout. The gestures don't look or feel as slick as on the iPhone, need a bit more direct animation.

 

[Dirk]

I hope this isn't the future of Android because it's utterly grim. I'm staying on Oreo and skipping the Pie development cycle altogether. Material Design 2 is basically 'couldn't be bothered to design'

 

[FishLicker]

I like it, personally

I guess you'll be on Oreo for a long time then....

 

[iMacMart]

Got the well being app installed but can't seem to locate it on my PXL2

 

[Simps]

Got the well being app installed but can't seem to locate it on my PXL2

It's in the Settings menu just over half way down under 'Accessibility'
edit* more like three quarters of the way down

 

[iMacMart]

It's in the Settings menu just over half way down under 'Accessibility'
edit* more like three quarters of the way down

See can't see it, whats the sub heading? I can see (under accessibility) download services, screen readers, display, interactive controls, audio & on-screen text