Adaptive icons have a lot of potential to jazz up our app drawers while keeping things consistent and beautiful, but that's not happening until app
developers update their icons to the new standards.
Not exact matches
And my hope is that third - party
developers will
update their apps to take advantage of the high - resolution, but relatively small, tablet display; often
icons and text are small because of this.
While the features are limited as of now (the
developer is planning on releasing an
update), users can change the color or add a shadow or
icon background to many of the items that appear in the top and bottom docks.
[Part 2 of 2] Several industry
icons and independent
developers were on - hand at The Game Awards to present
updates and new content for future titles; a condensed breakdown of the reveals, trailers and
updates are as follows.
As Google isn't expecting that all
developers who ever released an Android app that's still available for download will be able to
update their software with support for adaptive
icons for a number of reasons, the new feature won't break the
icons of incompatible apps.
Even though this design decision may result in an inconsistent user experience depending on the user's choice of apps, it's a tradeoff between completely breaking the
icons incompatible apps and trying to pressure all
developers into
updating them, something that can not be achieved realistically.
With this latest
update, you'll now have the ability to swipe down anywhere on your screen to access your notification panel, change system
icon shapes without having to turn on
developer options, and tap on the date widget by the Search pill to open up your default calendar app.
It makes for nice visual consistency, but app
developers will have to
update their apps to make circular
icons available.
With the Android 7.1 APIs finalized,
developers can begin
updating their apps with shortcuts and round
icons for the Pixel Launcher.
If this scenario plays out, then Pixel owners may find themselves with a bunch of non-circular apps from app
developers who don't bother to
update their
icon assets to accommodate only the few devices that would support round
icons.
It also allows the few number of Pixel and Nexus users on Oreo an opportunity to fill in the gaps where
developers have not yet turned to
updating their
icons for the new shapes.
Once an app is
updated by its
developer to support this mode, a double - headed arrow
icon appears in the top - right corner of the app window.
• Enabled sRGB mode in
developer options • RAM performance and management boosted • GPS performance is enhanced in both accuracy and speed • Audio playback quality suffered radical improvements • Custom
icon packs were
updated • Some notification issues were resolved • Camera functionality and quality of pictures got revamped • Gallery issues were resolved
Other quick - hit changes in the
update, which happens to arrive on Windows
Developer Day, include a new Share
icon and the addition of 52 additional games in full - screen mode with Windows Game Bar.
The
update was outlined by Nova Launcher's main
developer Kevin Barry in a Google + post, who said that the «option to automatically scale and shape legacy
icons for consistency,» had also been included.
Some of the changes that OxygenOS 3.2 brings to OnePlus 3 include the ability to enable sRGB mode via the
developer options, better RAM management, better GPS performance,
updated custom
icon packs, better audio playback quality, better camera performance, as well as fixes related to notifications, gallery and the Music and Clock apps.