What are some underrated Android features that users should try?
What are some underrated Android features that users should try?
What are some cool but underrated Android Features on Android that most people don’t know about? those little things that make life easier but don’t get talked about much. I feel like there’s so much hidden stuff in Android that we miss out on.
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In developers options, turning the animation speeds to .5x
Don't know if that's really an underrated feature, but would like to mention it anyway. Everything feels much faster after that. Pretty much the first thing i do when i have a new phone.
Same, at 1x it just takes too long for animations to complete.
I was just about to say this, it's a game changer. Some OEMs (Android variants) even have options in the settings to set animation speed or disable them.
Speaking of, if your older phone is ever laggy or feels unresponsive, disable animations entirely. It made my phone feel brand new with how quickly it goes in and out of apps.
i disabled the animations on my old tablet just now. Very nice!
Thanks for reminding, i remember that one if the older android days. Just adjusted it again, its still a really nice mod and speedbump!
Fun fact if you set it to 1.5x on a samsung, it behaves like an iPhone lol.
I appreciate this setting still existing, especially because some custom skins/UI can be too slow, but IMHO I prefer a balanced/stock value as the animations nowadays are so polished and smooth that I'd rather use it that way than butchering them with faster speeds...
I am using MIUI right now and it has its own version of this, so I just use "balanced mode".
When I use AOSP I always use stock because even my SD 865 feels weird when the animation is too fast but the app is still loading, I think it kills the momentum lol.
Why not just disable animations entirely?
That's a bit ugly, imo.
I do this mainly because I would get motion sickness from UI animation. Not trolling, see how most mainstream OS developers added disabling animation as an accessibility option.
That's what I do as part of my initial setup on a new phone. It's so much nicer when you tap something and it just happens instead of waiting for an animation.
Yeah, it breaks some stuff, but only like loading circle animations that try to spin at infinite speed. Nothing bad.
I've found it can break things in some apps as well as not look nice (Spotify wrapped, McDonald's app purchase loading, minor things I know)
Too fast