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What are some cool but underrated Android Features on Android that most people don’t know about? those little things that make life easier but don’t get talked about much. I feel like there’s so much hidden stuff in Android that we miss out on.

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[–] BartrandDuGuesclin@lemmy.world 39 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (6 children)

In developers options, turning the animation speeds to .5x

Don't know if that's really an underrated feature, but would like to mention it anyway. Everything feels much faster after that. Pretty much the first thing i do when i have a new phone.

[–] bokherif@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago

Fun fact if you set it to 1.5x on a samsung, it behaves like an iPhone lol.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 12 hours ago

Same, at 1x it just takes too long for animations to complete.

[–] simple@lemm.ee 9 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I was just about to say this, it's a game changer. Some OEMs (Android variants) even have options in the settings to set animation speed or disable them.

Speaking of, if your older phone is ever laggy or feels unresponsive, disable animations entirely. It made my phone feel brand new with how quickly it goes in and out of apps.

[–] boreengreen@lemm.ee 4 points 10 hours ago

i disabled the animations on my old tablet just now. Very nice!

[–] polle@feddit.org 9 points 15 hours ago

Thanks for reminding, i remember that one if the older android days. Just adjusted it again, its still a really nice mod and speedbump!

[–] kratoz29@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago

I appreciate this setting still existing, especially because some custom skins/UI can be too slow, but IMHO I prefer a balanced/stock value as the animations nowadays are so polished and smooth that I'd rather use it that way than butchering them with faster speeds...

I am using MIUI right now and it has its own version of this, so I just use "balanced mode".

When I use AOSP I always use stock because even my SD 865 feels weird when the animation is too fast but the app is still loading, I think it kills the momentum lol.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 points 17 hours ago (5 children)

Why not just disable animations entirely?

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 3 points 10 hours ago

That's what I do as part of my initial setup on a new phone. It's so much nicer when you tap something and it just happens instead of waiting for an animation.

Yeah, it breaks some stuff, but only like loading circle animations that try to spin at infinite speed. Nothing bad.

[–] BartrandDuGuesclin@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

That's a bit ugly, imo.

[–] chrisgestapo@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

I do this mainly because I would get motion sickness from UI animation. Not trolling, see how most mainstream OS developers added disabling animation as an accessibility option.

[–] Person264@lemmings.world 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've found it can break things in some apps as well as not look nice (Spotify wrapped, McDonald's app purchase loading, minor things I know)

[–] westyvw@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

Expand the list, these are apps I would never put on my phone. Is there a correlation? I am curious!

[–] lemmyknow@lemmy.today 2 points 17 hours ago