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THE NEXT VERSION of Android is currently in the works with no solid release date yet (apart from being available “later this summer”) but one feature that was in the works for it has been dropped.
Night mode is a setting that changes the screen temperature from blue to orange at night time to help reduce eye strain. There are a number of third-party apps like Twilight that offer such a feature while Apple introduced its own version earlier this year.
Ideally, a version that comes as standard would be handier for users and would result in wider adoption, but while it’s was in the works, it won’t be included in Nougat, the next version of Android.
In a Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything) involving the team working on Nougat, one of its developers said the team was working on two types of night mode: dark theme and screen tinting.
For dark theme, it was killed off because it “simply wasn’t possible to convert content to a dark theme while preserving the content author’s original intent”.
As for screen tinting, the amount of work to ensure it was battery efficient and ensure it would automatically activate at the correct time meant it was only half-finished and not worth adding.
The latter, screen tinting, was built on top of the display accessibility APIs introduced in M. This was another “ultimately for the benefit of the platform” issue… It wouldn’t be ready in time for N, and it wasn’t acceptable to leave a half-working feature so we had to pull it. It have (sic) been really rewarding to see positive feedback for the feature, though, and I would love to see it in a future release.
As for messaging apps, more details about Google’s upcoming messaging and video calling services, Allo and Duo, have emerged.
According to a beta tester on the Android subreddit who has been testing both since May, both of them will be default apps on Nougat. Both apps will only work on the one device to start, but they will become Google’s answer to Apple’s messaging services.
Allo and Duo will become direct competition to Apple’s iMessage and FaceTime. This (sic) two apps are very important for Google and things will be done little by little mostly to avoid even more drama with the EU.
Google’s messaging apps strategy has caused some confusion thanks to it having two different versions: Hangouts, which integrates with Gchat and SMS, and Messenger, its SMS-only service.
This is further complicated by some third-party manufacturers like Samsung or Huawei include their own messaging apps, leading to duplication, but others like HTC have avoided this.
Hangouts is expected to be phased out bit by bit because, according to the beta tester, it used mostly by businesses.
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Is this like jobsbridge but overseas?
How many billions have the countries mentioned spent on arms and wars in the past few decades alone?
There are thousands of Irish families in severe need, get that sorted before looking overseas for people to help.
we need all our volunteers at home to try and sort our own country out,could we just curtail the do gooding for a while,i think at this stage we are not respected for all our relentless do gooding we do,,we are probably look on as fools in some quarters.
What? Volunteering to help the worlds poorest is a bad thing? Encouraging people to expand their horizons and to help others, while doing good is bad?
Noel we have many volunteers in this country, I’m in my final year studying community development with little job prospects at the min of a job in what I’d like to. I’d rather use my 4 years education in overseas development as a volunteer and gain experience as in Ireland if I were to volunteer in this kind of work people would be saying it’s job displacement which of course it is. Now you see my situation which of the two is more beneficial to me and the community here and overseas, a year overseas working and developing my professional skills or be another statistic on the live register
Large scale aid, corruption, mass immigration along with the other globalisation policy of fractional reserve banking foisted onto the 3rd world thereby creating a massive debt burden have a lot to do with keeping Africa in poverty. The worst thing one can do is strip a country’s people of their will to fight, become resourceful or independent & siphon off the people who are most capable & energetic to effect that change. A draw down of aid, end to mass immigration, whilst fostering help in other ways would in the longer term end the cycle of constant impoverishment in the 3rd world.
How many billions in aid have we sent in addition to the above volunteer efforts for decades. Yet if indigenous Europeans wish to protect their ethnicities, protect their ethnic territories, they are told by the recipients of our generous never-ending aid, that we are evil & racist.
Volunteers me ar*e! They’ve been goin out foreign for the past 50 years and what have the done to help long term??? Nothing!! Leave them fend for themselves for once and they might start getting off their arses and help themselves!
Charity begins at home!
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Volunteer my arse, for what? To make some CEO a nice bonus on the back of my hard work or provide a nice election setup to a candidate claiming my work. Thats what it is really about. money ,power ,political movement, not helping people.
Some very disappointing negative opinions around volunteering. I had the pleasure of volunteering in Malawi in a clinical professional capacity for almost 6 months in 2012/13. The opportunity was very worthwhile and I believe one grows and matures in many ways from the experience. I self-funded this time away. Many are unaware that volunteering is very costly. Including opportunity cost and actual costs of flight and daily expenses I estimated that it costed €30,000 for 6 months. On this basis might it be worthwhile that the Irish government perhaps contribute less financially to individual countries but support individuals who wish to go to these countries? Additionally, I would like by law (similar to mat leave) job protection for individuals who volunteer in developing countries. In other words if an employee wants to volunteer abroad the same job protection right are afforded as a female going on mat leave.
So true it ain’t like there’s too many jobs out at home
I am too self obsessed for the volunteering lark but at least I admit it.
Though I would gladly volunteer to help the needy in Australia providing I got my flight, food and accommodation all paid for me.
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