****The official I'm a n00b to droid thread****

[Buehler445]

To this point I haven't had a droid. My phones have been blackberry lol and iPhone. But it seems to me like Apple has stagnated so I wanted to get into the Droid operating system through a tablet. That way if I hate droid I'm not into it through a phone that im locked into or costs a pile of money.

I bought a Samsung Galaxy note 8. So far I really like it.

Anyway, I know virtually nothing about droid. So I ne ed help figuring out all the cool shit droid will do. Apps, widgets, features, lets hear it.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Oh #2: And for the record, it's technically Android. Droid is a specific line of phones by Motorola.

My bad. I've had my head buried in the dust out here for a good long time.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

I got it to work on the samsung keyboard. It is an option buried in there. Is a keyboard app wort it in that it's got enough better features that it is worth the trouble of downloading?

I need office and I don't want to pay for it.

On ios I shut down the apps because it can rob processing power and cause a little lag.

Makes sense as to why I'm not getting responses, but if there are no real differentiating features from ios, it may not be worth the hassle of grtting tied into android.

Swiftkey is awesome, but there are others out there you can play with.

Microsoft Office mobile is free as far as I know. There are a half dozen others that you could try as well.

The differentiating features are mostly just that you can do whatever you want. That doesn't mean that App X for iOS is going to be shittier than App X for Android, but you can find an app to just about anything you could hope for. Don't like the keyboard? Replace it. Don't like the Camera app? Find a different one. Don't like the built-in email app? Same deal.

Android is much more about experimenting and finding apps that you like rather than trying out the one that everyone talks about. iOS = one size fits all. Android = play around until you get it working the way you like it.

Oh, and paying half the price for equivalent technology.

[DaveNull]

On ios I shut down the apps because it can rob processing power and cause a little lag.

If you're seeing any effect on this, then it's pure placebo. Killing apps manually doesn't do anything. If you want to reduce draw, then you want to look at the settings to find stuff that's using GPS or is set for background updating.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DaveNull

If you're seeing any effect on this, then it's pure placebo. Killing apps manually doesn't do anything. If you want to reduce draw, then you want to look at the settings to find stuff that's using GPS or is set for background updating.

Eh, not sure about that. Lots of apps are up to date when I open them if they are running in the background, But load a bit longer if they're not. That leads me to believe that they are constantly updating. It's also not as much about the battery as the processing. It hasn't been a problem with my 5s but it was with my 4.

[BigMeatballDave]

Android.

Yeah, pet peeve...

[DaveNull]

Here....I found the link that I was thinking of when I made my post. This talks about how to troubleshoot short battery life on an iOS device and was written by someone that worked for Apple for a couple years. Here's the part that's on point:

By closing the app, you take the app out of the phone's RAM . While you think this may be what you want to do, it's not. When you open that same app again the next time you need it, your device has to load it back into memory all over again. All of that loading and unloading puts more stress on your device than just leaving it alone. Plus, iOS closes apps automatically as it needs more memory, so you're doing something your device is already doing for you. You are meant to be the user of your device, not the janitor.

The truth is, those apps in your multitasking menu are not running in the background at all: iOS freezes them where you last left the app so that it's ready to go if you go back. Unless you have enabled Background App Refresh, your apps are not allowed to run in the background unless they are playing music, using location services, recording audio, or the sneakiest of them all: checking for incoming VOIP calls , like Skype. All of these exceptions, besides the latter, will put an icon next to your battery icon to alert you it is running in the background.

Your 5s has more RAM than the 4...which is probably why you don't notice as much lag when switching between applications.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by BCD

Android.

Yeah, pet peeve...

Sorry mang. I told you I was a n00b.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DaveNull

Here....I found the link that I was thinking of when I made my post. This talks about how to troubleshoot short battery life on an iOS device and was written by someone that worked for Apple for a couple years. Here's the part that's on point:



Your 5s has more RAM than the 4...which is probably why you don't notice as much lag when switching between applications.

Cool. Thanks.

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by DaFace

Oh #2: And for the record, it's technically Android. Droid is a specific line of phones by Motorola.

Fixed. Hopefully it goes through to the front page