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uzay , in Rant: vanilla local app search is ridiculously bad

I’m not sure if that helps you, but there are plenty of search focused launchers for android that let you add keywords as tags to apps as well like KISS Launcher and Kvaesitso

qaz ,

Kvaesitso search is pretty bad. It’s unable to find the F-droid app when searching “fdroid”.

uzay ,

Cannot confirm. If I type in anything between “fdr” and “fdroid” it brings up F-droid for me.

sag ,
PlantObserver ,

KISS on minimal mode is the GOAT

Today , in On Google pixel, is there a way to search ONLY locally when searching apps?

Go to the play store and search ‘on this device’.

algorithmae , in On Google pixel, is there a way to search ONLY locally when searching apps?

I think this is a sign that you might have too many apps

Jimmycrackcrack OP ,

It sounds like it but, in general I prefer to have 1 maybe 2 home screen pages of stuff I know I’ll use all the time right away and anything else I’d rather just search.

I suppose if you have only enough apps to fill maybe a single home screen page then by that standard I’d have a lot as between my less frequently used apps and all of Google’s pre-installed ones that’s probably a few pages, but generally I try to be sparing with them.

algorithmae ,

I like to use folders in my app drawer to organize them, maybe it’s something you can try? I run an old version of Nova before they got bought out

fodderoh , in On Google pixel, is there a way to search ONLY locally when searching apps?

On my pixel, if I type something in to the search bar so it displays search results (any results) and then scroll all the way to the bottom, there is a settings button I can click on that takes me to settings for the search. If I turn all the options off, then I get just my local apps in the results.

Jimmycrackcrack OP ,

That does it. Thanks mate.

angrynomad , in Rant: vanilla local app search is ridiculously bad

My favorite is when you type part of a word and it doesn’t even show all the matching apps, just a few at random

andrew OP ,
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Or then you type the next letter of the word and the result you want goes away, but only after you’re milliseconds from tapping it.

bjoern_tantau , in Is anyone else having an issue with the nav bar ending up on the side of the acreen in portrait mode?
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And I guess your screenshot tool isn’t including it in the shot

RGB3x3 OP ,

It’s the line on the right side. I’m in portrait mode, so it should be at the bottom.

bjoern_tantau ,
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Oh, I thought that was the scroll bar.

Codilingus ,

Lmao, I thought the same thing. IIRC for Android 15, one of the features I read about, was better portrait & landscape support.

Karcinogen , in Is anyone else having an issue with the nav bar ending up on the side of the acreen in portrait mode?

Yes, I have that too. You’re not alone.

CkrnkFrnchMn OP , in Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8
MrJameGumb ,
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It looks like it’s applying some kind of sharpness adjustment to the zoom. Maybe that’s like an “auto enhance” feature you can turn off?

j4k3 ,
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That image has a lot of non repeating textural detail. My guess is that the error is caused by some compression setting or file type conversion. You might look to see if you can change the file type and compression level somewhere in the settings.

AstralPath , in Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8

That’s just how digital zoom works with modern phones. Optical zoom is typically very limited so you’re stuck with digital zoom.

CkrnkFrnchMn OP ,

I disagree because it wasn’t doing that before…

db2 , in Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8

If you want better pictures get an aftermarket lens, the reasonably priced ones just clip on to the phone. You’d use the lens to zoom in, not the app.

MrJameGumb ,
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Yeah but who wants to carry around a case of lenses for just taking random snapshots on their phone?

db2 ,

Someone who wants good pictures from a crappy cell phone camera.

MrJameGumb ,
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It sort of defeats the whole purpose of having a camera on your phone if you still have to carry around a camera bag full of lenses though doesn’t it?

db2 ,

Probably, but what’s the option again? 1, crap pictures; 2, carry lenses; 3, buy a dedicated digital camera and carry that around

MrJameGumb ,
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I usually just use the crop feature to zoom in on the picture after I take it and just select the part I wanted. Seems to work pretty well. I have a Motorola that wasn’t particularly expensive.

db2 ,

That works but only so far. Better optics will always yield a better image.

CkrnkFrnchMn OP ,

Any recommendations that would fit a Z8…?

db2 ,

I don’t have that phone, but the clips are supposed to be universal. In theory any would work.

Chaphasilor , in Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8

I also get that oversharpening effect on my Zenfone 10 :(

mittyta ,

I have Zenfone 10 too, and I would say it isn’t worse than iPhone in sharpening. But anyway you could always use pro mode, where there is no such problem.

SGHFan ,
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Same here, I should probably start using Pro.

unexposedhazard , in Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8

This just looks like insane compression levels + some weird AI upscaling artifacts.

bjoern_tantau , in Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8
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As a workaround you could also just take the pictures without zooming and then zoom in afterwards with any image manipulation program. It’s technically the same thing. Minus whatever “enhancements” your camera app is applying.

Markaos ,

The downside is that you’re then zooming in on the compression artifacts and all the “enhancements” we’ve all learned to “love” over the past decade (thanks, Google!), while the in-app zoom probably works with raw image data before zooming in.

rem26_art , in Horrible Pictures Zenfone 8
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It seems like the phone is applying wayy too much of some kind of sharpening filter. Are you zooming in very far? Cuz it may be trying to compensate for digital zoom by sharpening the image afterwards. If you've got a Pro mode setting on the camera app, maybe try using that instead and get closer to your subject, if possible. Pro mode should hopefully stop the app from applying any touch-ups to the image it thinks it needs.

jacktherippah , in Is anyone else having an issue with the nav bar ending up on the side of the acreen in portrait mode?

It was a bug a while back. It went away, now it came back. It’s been here again for what? 1,2 months now? Actually, now that I think about it, it’s been an on and off bug ever since Android gained gesture navigation and the gesture bar LMAO.

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