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by jordanthoms
4660 days ago
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A few issues I have with android intents (Overall I love them): - They are sometimes vague, and apps often advertise support for many intents they can't actually handle sanely. Trying to setup an email intent which actually only shows email clients is an example of this. The UX of showing a list of many apps which are not really good choices is pretty bad. I think the blame for this is largely on the apps themselves for not being more specific in their intent filters, but it still reflects badly on the platform. - It loses the default choices on a regular basis. Updating an app which supports that intent and/or installing a new one seems to invalidate the default choice, which is really annoying. Especially in cases where you have e.g. installed a 3rd party browser, and now every time you click a link you have to choose which one to use. - Once you have selected a default, you can't choose to use another one without digging through settings and clearing them for the app which has the default action set. Something like the right click and open with which we have on desktop operating systems would be great. |
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