moving from iphone to android...

[Nicky H]

I just got Lollipop on my Nexus last night and it's much slicker - everything seems really smooth.

I use VLC as my media player & the soundcloud app is good.

Another vote for getting a Nexus. The new Nexus 6 is just being released, although I'm not sure I want something that big.

Agree about Nexus 6 - that thing is just too big for me...

[mostapha]

I just got Lollipop on my Nexus last night and it's much slicker - everything seems really smooth.

That's weird. My N5 just got upgraded to lollipop and a lot of things seem more sluggish. I wonder if I can turn off the animations without digging too deep.

[padi_04]

Can't you turn them off or speed them up in the dev menu? That turned my old Galaxy Advance from snail to somewhat useable before I jumped shipped again.

[Nicky H]

That's weird. My N5 just got upgraded to lollipop and a lot of things seem more sluggish. I wonder if I can turn off the animations without digging too deep.

Hmm that is weird - it was the first thing I noticed, just seems a lot smoother, especially scrolling long webpages or in Google+

I don't like how they have merged Gmail with other email - I liked to keep my work emails separate, I wonder if I can create a folder and have them pushed in there automatically?
The new predictive text input seems a bit strange as well but I'm sure I'll get used to it..

[mostapha]

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the new keyboard.

I also haven't timed anything. They might not actually be any slower. I just tend to react badly to to many animations, cuz it makes me feel like I'm waiting for things that should be instant.

ETA: this article sums up why I don't like it.

https://lobste.rs/s/kiq75p/stop_chan...no_good_reason

If it weren't for the $1500 toy I don't use but can't bring myself to sell (Google Glass), I'd go back to iOS over this....to whatever version is on my iPhone because it worked fine.

[tekki]

Well, received and installed the update yesterday and so far so good.

For me, it seems everything has become even more fluid and better.... Did hate the automatic inclusion of Google Fit. (And the knowledge that I was able to stop and hide it, but not remove it completely.....)

The other thing I loved about Kit Kat was the ease with which I could stop/mute all notifications.

The new Gmail Calendar app on Android is cool and I do like the new notifications/messages thing.

[mostapha]

It also annoys me that I have to do something before I can put in my password to unlock the phone as opposed to seeing the unlock widget when I wake the screen up.

Granted, iOS has that severe flaw too. But I got used to not having to wait that half-second a hundred times a day. Google littlerally (slight exaggeration) just threw away a minute of every day of my life.

[deevey]

It also annoys me that I have to do something before I can put in my password to unlock the phone as opposed to seeing the unlock widget when I wake the screen up.

Granted, iOS has that severe flaw too. But I got used to not having to wait that half-second a hundred times a day. Google littlerally (slight exaggeration) just threw away a minute of every day of my life.

4.4 screwed up the lock screen if you are using pattern it now requires a keypress, swipe and THEN pattern ... was this fixed in lollipop ? .. not that it makes much difference as it wont be released for my phone until April

Pet peeves vs iphone have to be the need to purge the ram a few times a day when things get sluggish and apps requiring scary permissions - seriously, why the hell does a flashlight app or game need access to my contacts and outgoing call / txt log ?.

Couldnt survive without isyncr, its really the only decent way of syncing itunes playlists from my computer, and i use rocketplayer as my media player after trying a few it sounded the best - however to use eq you have to pay for it

If i didn't need to use android for development purposes I'd probably go back to an iphone in a heartbeat - everything seemed to work so much more fluidly even on my old 3gs.

[Tw1x]

the best music player for android is - in my opinion - the "gone mad music player" or short "gmmp"! you can select your music from:
Artist
Album
Genre
Title
Folders (YEAH! folders! barely any musicplayer for android supports ID3-Tag AND folders!)
Playlists
Smart (smart-playlists, so for e.g. 30 day-old music or latest added...)
Search (a simple search which searches the whole library for id3-tags and filenames and folders)

additionally you have the option to set FX like EQ (10-band), balance, force mono, limiter, bass boost, tempo, auto-pitch correction, virtualizer.
if that is not enough, you have your settings menu and an estimated amount of thousand settings (VERY, VERY many!)

so, for us as DJs and producers this may be the perfect music player
at least for me it is the perfect player

https://play.google.com/store/apps/d...d=gonemad.gmmp - trial for 14 days
https://play.google.com/store/apps/d....gmmp.unlocker - unlocker costs about 3 - 5 € (I'm from germany, so idk how much it is in $ but i think it's not more than 5 bucks)

hopefully i could help^^

[cerius]

Go into a store and ask the employees for hands on..