[–] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

You will likely be asked to install extra security and monitoring software on your personal device to view work related info or check email.

You can set up another user on Android which will practically completely isolate this software from your main user. Since it's your phone and it gets installed by you it gets treated as any other user app and AFAIK cannot break the isolation between multiple users like system or organisation apps probably could do. You just saved yourself few hundred dollars.

The only disadvantage I could see is you not getting notifications from your work user applications when you are using the main user.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    I was thinking about the problem. In GTK apps AFAIK you can hide all of the the window buttons. I know I can configure this in Gnome through apps like Refine and most apps follow the rule. What If you hid all of the window buttons and then force enabled SSDs? This could work well in DE's like KDE Plasma and it should look fine because you don't have window buttons duplicates anymore? The only thing that might remain inconsistent is the corner radius of the SSD with the corner radius of CSD at the bottom.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    I don't mean to be mean but isn't the lawnchair team basically making a new launcher nearly from scratch (they of base it on the AOSP launcher AFAIK) with every Android release and then leave it in sort of unfinished state, because they started from scratch with the new AOSP launcher iteration yet again instead of finishing the previous project?

    I am probably wrong but I feel like their launcher is constantly in alpha or beta stage.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago*

    I am not well informed, but I would expect that a lot of the tools that come with Android Studio can be installed as separate CLI utilities you can control from the command line, but maybe I am wrong. You will get worse IDE integration than with Android studio, that's for sure.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago*

    I just use the "Just perfection" extension to hide to top bar and only make it visible in overview. It may sound annoying to have to use overwiew each time you want to see or interact with the top bar, but honestly for me it's not that often to make that 1 or 2 extra keypresses annoying. When you get used to it it saves a lot of space.

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    I updated my device to Lineahe OS based on Android 15 after I have been using Lineage OS based on Android 14 for a while. I don't know if this is a common issue with Android 15 or it's only with Lineage OS or my installation is sonewhat crippled (I did clean flash and I already reinstalled once), but the OS is very aggressively killing apps compared to Android 14 to the point it is annoying.

    Example

    In Android 14 if I started a download in the browser, the browser would display a permanent notification that it's downloading and if I swiped away the browser from recents the download would continue. In Android 15 the downloading stops immidiately after I swipe the browser from recents.

    And that's not the only problem. Background services like my companion watch app don't work properly because it seems they get killed in the background and messaging or e-mail apps sometimes seem to have the same problem. I tried disabling battery optimizations for these apps, but it doesn't seem to help at all.

    Does anyone else experience similar issues with Android 15?

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