[ejefz]

Little by little Google seems to be adopting all the policies for Android that made the iPhone simply a higher quality experience.

(Enforcing using Google services to deliver notifications, aggressively killing background apps, limiting access to external storage, making it impossible to record calls, now this... and many other things I can't remember)

On one hand I'm happy because iPhones are too expensive and having more options is good, but on the other, this is still Google :P

[listic]

How does making it impossible to record calls make phone a higher quality experience?

[edoceo]

"security"

[rimliu]

I think you will find many examples proving that quotes are not necessary there.

[ejefz]

I can't get malware that records my calls without my consent.

[iainmerrick]

The flip side of the same coin is that they’re dropping things that made life easier for developers -- Play Store reviews now take much longer, debugging gets harder with every OS update, etc.

I’m not saying the improvements in security are bad, just complaining about the extra hassle it causes developers! There’s probably no way to make everyone happy at once.

[ejefz]

What problems are you having debugging?

[iainmerrick]

Inspecting network activity is more fiddly now -- HTTP is blocked and installing certificates for a proxy to intercept HTTPS is difficult. File system access is locked down. I’ve also been finding that the debugger just runs very slowly on an Android 9 test device; seems to be something to do with code verification.

Nothing insurmountable, just slower and more awkward than it used to be.