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Everyone has their preferences, I would love to hear why you guys prefer using Android!

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[–] yogibytes@yogibytes.page 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

On top of my mind

  • I can develop apps quickly and check how it looks on mobile (android can be built on any OS with lesser effort compared to iOS builds)
  • RetroGames!
  • Sideload apps
  • More customisation options
  • USB C

I use both Android and iOS Some features I miss on Android are

  • Long press on space bar to move text cursor around.
  • Seamless integration between Apple Devices
[–] starman@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On my a android 11 / miui 12.5.2 pressing space bar to move cursor works without any problems.

[–] yogibytes@yogibytes.page 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maybe Xiaomi implemented what iOS did in their miui, however same feature is not present in GBoard or SwiftKey :/

[–] KiofKi@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Swiftkey has that option. Settings -> Input

[–] yogibytes@yogibytes.page 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for letting me know, I will check it out!

[–] r2vq@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The trigger is slightly different on GBoard. Rather than long press and hold, you just touch the spacebar and drag right away. Press too long and the language options show up.

The other big difference with this is it's a 1-Dimensional traversal so it's like having the left and right arrow keys but not the up and down keys.

[–] unkunst@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

Oh my god thank u so much was really missing that from iOS. And airplay of course 🥲

[–] yogibytes@yogibytes.page 2 points 1 year ago

Wow I didn't know, thanks for letting me know. Even the 1D traversal helps. Keeping one language makes this feature prominent.

[–] flagellum@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Long press on spacebar to move text cursor around.

You're saying you don't have that on Android? I do. But I use GBoard.

[–] yogibytes@yogibytes.page 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like the UX is different on GBoard, it triggers language options when you have multiple languages set up, but works when you have only one language on. Thanks for letting me know!

[–] lightrush@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

It works with multiple languages too. Just tap and slide as if you're doing a horizontal scroll. Once in that mode, you can keep your finger held down and sliding as long as you want.

[–] andrycake@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use the default Samsung keyboard and I do have that

[–] NathanielWyvern@mastodon.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

@andrycake @flagellum It works on Microsoft SwiftKey as well.