@paulyhedral Seriously? Geez…
// @matigo
@phoneboy Indeed. The overall Android experience, both in software and hardware, is lightyears behind that of iOS and iDevices. And I say this as a person who mostly develops for Android.
And while my comment yesterday was mostly about developing software for Android, I could have talked about the experience too. I have used both a pure Android device (Nexus 5) and an OEM device (Scamsung) and I disliked them both. There are a lot of big and small things that annoy me like hell in both, and many of the things the manufacturers (especially those OEMs) do to "enhance user experience" actually break the intent of a developer.
I could go on with this rant here and now, but I think I will save it for a blog post I have intended to write for months.
// @kdfrawg @gtwilson
@kdfrawg Starred for future reference. ?
Android is horrible platform to develop for, though iOS gets mocked even more. My take is, and has been for quite a while now, that everything is shit that you just need to shovel to get paid.
Okay, I lied, that was yesterday's WTF Android moment.
Today I banged my head against the desk because of this: while there is a way to create rounded images (that is, transform a bitmap with a circular mask to another bitmap) in code using the standard Android support library, there is no direct way to do that in the layout without resorting to 3rd-party libraries (or by copying their solution to your project). Well, technically there is support for rounded images in the standard Android libraries for wearables but not for generic Android stuff.
The daily WTF Android moment: If you want to set the color of the cursor in a editable text field, you need to create a drawable for it.
@streakmachine Same here. Though it seems to have stopped for the most part now.
@kdfrawg I was. It was… relaxing enough. I had some plans but they got scrapped because my wife and the boys were a bit sick.
@kdfrawg I don't mind. It's good to get back to the regular rhythm. Another week to go and the kids go back to school/daycare.