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  • Hi! Professional android dev here who has done some work on migrating an app to foldable:

    Apps don’t guess. If they’re using XML they make specific layouts for a given width of screen.

    If they’re using compose it’s even easier: the entire UI library is built for adaptive layouts. The main issue is a lot of apps are not in compose UI (or not entirely) - and material 3 has excellent components but it’s even less widely used.

    Tldr: tech debt

    A potential cause of the wonkiness is explicitly setting resizeableActivity="false" in the app manifest.



  • If you want devs to make apps without any monetization you’re limiting the number of devs that will develop for your platform.

    Free only means you only allow passion projects that people work on as a side project or only the developers rich enough to have retired already.

    Nobody who is struggling to get by can spend all their time developing a free app that has 0 monetization.

    So they monetize on Google Play.

    If you care about breaking Google’s control of Android you should cheer on another paid marketplace, especially one out of the clutches of Amazon.






  • It’s the inverse that is true actually -

    As Lemmy becomes more popular it will drift from being so tech focused.

    Many popular sites gradually drifted off of tech focus as their user base grew. R*ddit is a prime example of how a very nerdy niche site grew and shifted to be popular (sorta) organically.

    I do think that for all the hullabaloo about Ellen Pao and banning a bunch of subreddits - that actually did more to open the place up to users who were otherwise driven away by /r/FatPeopleHate and /r/Jailbait being on the front page all the time.

    If Lemmy were to change to attract users it would likely be from increased defederation with instances that are less palatable to mainstream society.