Why does every submission on the android lemmy site contain various anti-google and anti-android sentiments? This is a very bizarre and miserable fanbase.

You seem stressed about this…

I don’t want to piss about with icon packs and custom launchers these days. That was very much a “12 years ago” kind of thing for me.

The icon shapes are already customisable on the stock Google Launcher and I rotate them to keep things looking fresh.

You seem troubled. Have you considered therapy?

This setting doesn’t affect the app drawer, it’s just for the home screen which are apps you place manually to be fair - I like the consistency.

It’s not just photos though.

I have a folder of apps and app shortcuts here. Most of these apps support the dynamic icon theming, but the shortcuts use other icons that clearly don’t. So yeah, before this update this folder looked a bit uneven as the app shortcuts were coloured, but now it looks uneven because the app shortcuts look weird and different.

I’ll get over it… 😅

Well considering the app shortcuts/deep-link shortcuts aren’t app icons maybe Google shouldn’t have enabled Material You on them? Even if the app supports it by providing a greyscale bitmap, most of the app shortcuts icons don’t so now if you use app shortcuts heavily (which I do) your home screen is now ugly.

And I don’t want to lose the app icon theming just to fix this. I feel like this could’ve been a beta option so I can choose to force it or not.

Poor wording on my part.

Theres a feature in Android since Android 12 that you can enable which forces app icons to use the greyscale icon (which all developers must provide going forward), and then theming it to your OS colours (Material You).

Until now if an app didn’t have that greyscale bitmap icon it would show the original full-colour icon instead. The latest update means if you enable the feature ALL your apps, including those deep link shortcuts, will be forced to colour-match.

So you don’t see this unless you turn it on, but you can’t get back to the pre-16QPR2 state where most apps follow the scheme and some apps are left as their original icons.

Google has made an important concession. The company says it is now developing an “advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.” This installation flow will include safeguards to protect people who are being coerced into installing a dangerous app, or tricked by a scammer, along with “clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved.”

It’s just going to be an evolution of the existing toggle, with a bit more scary language around it.

From the same article just before your quote

Google has made an important concession. The company says it is now developing an “advanced flow that allows experienced users to accept the risks of installing software that isn’t verified.” This installation flow will include safeguards to protect people who are being coerced into installing a dangerous app, or tricked by a scammer, along with “clear warnings to ensure users fully understand the risks involved.”

Then the article goes on to say “Google is also working on…”

It’s clear from the article with basic reading comprehension that Google is working on multiple concessions here, one being a power user settings toggle to bypass verified APKs, and another for hobbyist developers to verify their APKs.

This is also ignoring the fact that ADB installs was never going away as part of this change. You could still run an ADB command to install an unverified APK, and that can be done remotely via a computer or via the various terminal apps available. Someone even wrote an app that does it for you.

But sure, carry on with the FUD and accuse me of “needing my hand held” using computers when you can’t even read and comprehend an article properly…

You guys probably shouldn’t have elected a paedophile as president twice then 🫤

It’s literally the same solution that we’re all happy with today… Oh I have to tick another box in my settings? Damn Google you so fascist.

Where are you getting this from? The article makes it clear that the solution will be a settings-based solution similar to how it is today.

There’s really no need to spread FUD over this, is there.

Babiš, whose net worth is estimated $3.9bn (£2.9bn)

I feel like we should make it a law that politicians can’t be billionaires.

They’ll just pay off the republicans who are threatening to vote in favour of releasing the files. I dunno why Americans think this is going to actually lead to anything - is Trump suddenly gonna stop being corrupt? No, if the files are as damning as we know they are, his team will use every possible route to secure him.

What? Can you please make an effort to learn something, anything, about what you’re discussing before commenting on it?

Adb was always going to remain a viable method of installing “unsigned” apks. Google confirmed that pretty early on.

You now owe me $100.

But it’s missing a 3.5mm headphone jack bizarrely.

Yup. The US is what happens when you let billionaires run the whole country. Mamdani is a threat to that dynamic.

I mean yeah, she’s not a time traveller or a precog so that’s probably quite an accurate and obvious statement…

Rich elite thinks increasing taxes on rich people and large businesses is bad. What a shocker.