I thought that the transition to Android would be easy. Most of my favorite applications were already on the Play Store, but I quickly realized that the simple fact that an application exists does not mean that it works the same.
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Instagram
The applications on social networks have always been notoriously bad on Android, but I did not know how bad I am until I try Instagram for myself.
Click and share images is probably the most common activity of any social media application. So when I went from an iPhone 13 to a Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra, I expected the photos to be considerably better, since the camera equipment is at another level, but I was really disappointed.
The camera in the application is directly useless. I’m not just talking about worse photos; I mean, even taking them in the first place is pain. There is this delay in random shutter where I literally had to hold my phone for five seconds while waiting for it to be registered. At first, I thought it was perhaps a nighttime fashion quirk, but it also occurs in perfect lighting.
And after all this, the blows are still not like what I get from the application of camera in stock. Of course, I could use the phone’s default camera, then download them on Instagram manually, but it gets boring very quickly, especially when I just want to take and quickly send something to DMS.
4
Spotify
By switching to Spotify, I abandoned and passed to Apple Music because the Android application of Spotify was much worse compared to its iOS version.
For example, the Spotify equalizer support really depends on the phone you use. On Samsung devices, the option simply redirects you to the system audio settings, which means that the preset you choose applies to each application. However, when we tested phones from other manufacturers of Android devices (such as the kingdom, honor and nothing), the results were mixed. Some devices have treated him more like iOS, where the equalizer worked in the application herself, while on others, that did not work at all.
In addition to that, I also encountered small troubles like the controls of the lock screen stopping at random or that the application is sometimes crashed, although in all justice, it could have been an isolated problem on my device.
3
Whatsapp
I no longer have imessage. Although there are ways to make Imessage on Android work, WhatsApp has become my main messaging application. Again, it is confusing how many things are worse here for reasons that I cannot honestly explain.
Something as basic as an appropriate black mode is completely lacking. There is technically a dark fashion option, but instead of giving you real blacks like on iOS, you get a dark background with a green shade that looks bad, especially on an OLED screen.
On iOS, each menu is also clean and organized in sections, but on Android, it seems that everything has been launched with no structure. Half of the time, I scroll the basic options.
You can clearly see how worse the Android application is in the screenshots below; The first WhatsApp watch on Android, while the second shows it on iOS.
Then there are the missing gestures. On iOS, I can keep a conversation for a quick overview or a scan on a group message to see instantly who read it. On Android, everything is gone. To check who has read a message, you need to press it long, press the three points in the area, then select another option.
What aggravates even more is that the iOS application is consistent and polite, almost as if it followed the own design directives of Apple. On Android, all this refinement disappears, resulting in a half -cooked application.
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GENSHIN IMPACT (and other games)
I find that most major games are worse on Android, with lower resolutions and worse fractures. This is partly because developers must take into account a wide range of different chips and devices, unlike Apple, which has only one platform to target.
The impact of peoplehin is the place where it really marked me. On Android, it operates at a significantly lower resolution, drop the frames constantly and always lacks 120 IPS support that iPhones have had for some time. Even care for the game controller has only arisen recently, despite Android support controllers for more than a decade. The sad reality is that the platform is simply not a priority for developers.
To be fair, if you are really serious about mobile games, you are always better with something like a ROG Telephone 9 Pro That an iPhone, because performance is much better resistant to longer sessions. And if you are in emulation, Android is easily in advance, because you can imitate a much wider variety of consoles.
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YouTube
Curiously, Google’s own application was worse on their own platform only on iOS for me. Unlike the other applications I mentioned, the problem here is not the absence of features; The Android version is a buggy disorder.
More often than not, I open a video and get a black screen while the audio continues to play. The image in the image is another nightmare. Sometimes it doesn’t work at all, and when it is, orders often do nothing when I type them.
There is also a strange bug that I met on Instagram, where shorts or coils continue to play audio in the background even after leaving the application. The only way to repair it is to completely force youtube to close.
Although my passage to an Android smartphone was not perfect, there are still a lot of things that I like on the platform.
If Google applied a higher quality of application on the Play Store or pushed to coherent design directives that all applications had to follow, most of my complaints would disappear overnight. Until then, the best I have done is to look for better alternatives or to live with problems.
