Launcher Shortcuts | Mobiles365

Until we meet again: Launcher Shortcuts stays off Android

Posted on May 19, 2016 by Jules Wang

And with that, Android has suddenly lost its touch.There’s been plenty of experimentation with a string of code that makes use of Force Touch at the homescreen level. What was dubbed as “Launcher Shortcuts” took a bit of engineering from app developers to suss out, but we hoped that enough progress would be made for it to be a mentioned feature at Google I/O. Well, it didn’t get mentioned among

The post Until we meet again: Launcher Shortcuts stays off Android appeared first on Pocketnow.

Launcher Shortcuts not on Android N from launch, say sources

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Jules Wang

Decent pressure-sensitive UIs on mobile devices have been hard to remember to use — namely, Apple’s 3D Touch. Microsoft has its own idea on what to do and we know that Google has an inkling as well. But ...

The post Launcher Shortcuts not on Android N from launch, say sources appeared first on Pocketnow.

Android N Developer Preview feels the pressure with Launcher Shortcuts

Posted on April 20, 2016 by Jules Wang

It’s been a while since we’ve talked about Force Touch, right? We’ve gone and genericized Apple’s “3D Touch” to the point where we’ve forgotten it’s been around for a while. But let’s not lose sight of the features package 3D Touch brings us — added functionality. The second ...

The post Android N Developer Preview feels the pressure with Launcher Shortcuts appeared first on Pocketnow.