Most of my friends and family are “makeshift telephone users”, driving between iphones and Android phones whenever they buy a new smartphone; Others are iOS loyalists who would not even plan to go Android. I am the opposite, and since I got my first smartphone (a mini Galaxy S3 Samsung Galaxy S3), I stick firmly to Android.
There have been a myriad of reasons for this, mainly because of Android’s value for money, my desire for a phone with good autonomy and me that doesn’t just like what iPhones looks like, but it’s a story for another day.
Although I generally prefer Android in iOS, this is not the perfect operating system, and there are a few features that I would really like the software to win. Some of them are iOS that I think that Android could use, others are new, and one or two selected are features that Android had in the past, but have been lost for any reason.
In addition, perhaps the majority of them are in fact features that certain Android phones already have. This is because they are not native of Android, but introduced by certain manufacturers who create their own operating system forks.
Here are six Android innovations I need to see.
A better way to sort the icons on the home page
I have to download countless applications for work and organize them on my home page is an atrocious company.
I’m sure most Android fans can identify with this: you press and hold an application icon for “ picking it up ”, and fly over the folder in which you want it to enter. However, when you let go, it is not going in the file, but is instead in its space, and has hit all the subsequent applications along one. I did this countless times and I recently left the home page of my phone to become an absolute waste for fear of the penance of the organizational organizations.
There must be a better way. With the “ customization ” The name of the game for Android phones, I hopelessly wait for Google to introduce a better way to design and organize the Android home screen, which does not involve me manually through all my applications and to launch them.
Maybe this could involve automatic application functionality that suggests agreements and files for you. Perhaps a tailor-made option in the Settings application to allow you to quickly design your home page in an interface where click on the application will not open it. Perhaps Google could add a trial system based on a browser so that I can jump on my computer and do the design work with the benefit of my mouse and a large screen.
This could be implemented in many ways, and I would take pleasure in a certain time now to avoid wasting a lot of time with a faithful organization later.
True Personizable Police
In the old -fashioned but amusing and amusing days of Android, before everything should be too designed at a T -shirt, you could choose pretty fonts – I remember using a ridiculous writing style font on my S3 Mini who, in hindsight, looked really ugly. But as I have already said, personalization has always been a central element of Android and it should extend to the fonts.
Nowadays, you are lucky if you can choose your telephone police and more lucky if you can find how in the settings. The Kingdom telephone that I currently use is delivered with three fonts that you can choose (all very similar) and has a few others that you can download online, but that’s it. Of course, you can download summary third -party applications to play with the fabric of your phone, but I would prefer to do it natively.
I am quite picky about my fonts. On my computer, I have a “House style” folder of the chosen fonts that I like to use for all my creative projects, and I am picky on my Garamond vs Georgia or my adagio without vs ariel. And some phones that I have tested in the past have not let me change police, or only between two options.
I would love to see Android introduce a way to import .ttf files (that is to say that the file format fonts enter) yourself on the phones, so that you can choose the font you want, or even introduce a way to download them directly on your phone. This would allow Android users to personalize their mobile to a wider extent and would also support the creators of personalized fonts who charge their fonts.
Improved PC integration
The way you use an Android phone alongside a Windows PC has improved in recent years, but it’s still quite horrible.
Windows PCs have an application called Link Phone that you can use to control your Android phone on your PC, but I found it reliably. It is slow to update or use, you cannot copy and stick from your computer to your phone, and you must constantly press the prompts on your phone … which spoils all the interest of doing this task in the first place if I could easily use my phone instead.
It’s a shame because there are a few features which, in theory, would be really practical if the telephone link worked well. I would love to be able to use telephone messaging applications while communicating on my computer, or by raising an inactive mobile game on a side screen while I work.
In the last two sections, I harassed the way the largest sales argument of Android Phones was personalization. Nowadays, it has the impression that the nebulous word “productivity” is a more important sale argument, but to get there, I think that improved PC integration is necessary on Android phones.
An equivalent of Zen space
Now it’s certainly something you can already acquire a few Android phones. The introduction of the development mode by Apple to iOS obtained Android fans to demand a similar functionality, which would temporarily reduce or hide the notifications to allow you to focus on a simple task (that is to say your work or your studies).
ONEPLUS telephone owners can already do so, Zen mode being an important sale argument for mobiles. I used it, and it is quite good and transforming your mobile into a brick that cannot play games or send SMS so that you can access a work at hand.
But not everyone has a OnePlus phone, and Focus mode shows that this feature no longer has only a niche interest group. Everyone wants a way to temporarily turn the back of their phone to the world, cut notifications and texts and detoxify digitally for a while.
It looks like a feature that would be very easy to implement Google on all Android phones: it is essentially an advanced mode “do not disturb” with a few tied bells. In fact, if we don’t do it Seeing something that it comes to the original Android experience, I suppose it is only because Google does not want to be seen to copy Apple too closely.
Loading changes
A first version of this list asked me to request an intelligent load function on Android, which would allow you to choose when you want your phone to reach 100% so that you can connect your phone overnight without worrying about overloading. Some combined have this, such as Sony Xperias, but as it is a hardware functionality as well as software, it does not seem well for this list.
But there are still other things that Android could do to improve the load and health of batteries, two of the most important features for a phone to last a long time.
At present, few Android phones give all kinds of prediction as to your handset is fully loaded at its current load rate, and this would help people remember to unplug their phones when it is propelled. Likewise, a kind of recall or complete alert would be useful; After all, overload can affect the way a phone’s battery may lose loading.
I would also like to see other battery health reminders, perhaps with suggestions on different ways to use your phone or settings to modify to improve the duration of your current load and the duration of your battery.
I know many people who do not know the first thing about keeping their smartphone’s battery in good, which shows that Android (and iOS, moreover, despite attempts in the region) did not do a good job with its battery and load characteristics, or to educate people about them.
A real shortcut rival
As you can say, I am not a fan of the iOS and that will not change (despite the tablet that I have by being an iPad), but a feature that Android needs to fly is iOS shortcuts.
I know, I know, some are jostling to let me know that Android do currently have something like that. The Android routines allow you to carry out certain action channels on the selected trigger, but there are not really as many actions available and the real triggers are quite unnecessary, they count on the Google assistant and on a certain place or at a certain time. Above all, it seems that routines are a characteristic of the smart house rather than on Android.
This is not enough for Google routines to compete with shortcuts, and Android will have to rethink the system from zero if it wants to do it.
I would love to see, as on iOS, buttons to trigger routines from my Android reception screen; Maybe I can press a “playing time” button for the phone to minimize the background applications, activate Ram Boost and reduce home screen applications to a selection of my games. Or how about an “ fitness More ” icon which automatically starts to follow me on a fitness application of choice while starting a Spotify reading list and opening Google Maps so that I can choose my route.
The shortcut mode almost gives you this versatility because you can create action channels on a stuck button, and although it is also a little unless I would like, it is much better than routines.
