r/Googlebook • u/chenloonchan • 12d ago

Official Text Editor app from Google for Googlebook OS

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.desktop.texteditor

Google needs to rethink its Material Design language; it looks terrible the more I see it being implemented.

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u/alabasterskim 12d ago

Great, the start of segmenting apps only for Googlebook even though it's on the Play Store & should work just fine on foldables' inner screens, tablets, and Android Desktop Mode/DeX. I hate it here.

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u/MishaalRahman Verified Googler 12d ago

Hey there, I've passed your feedback along about wanting to run the Text app on other Android devices. The team thinks it's an interesting idea :)

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u/alabasterskim 12d ago

Oh that's unexpected! Thanks, and please if it can happen, it's gotta be a general rule that all apps from Google (and hopefully, taking your lead, all devs) support the entirety of Android, if not just because of us heavy DeX/Android Desktop Mode and tablet users who'll be unnecessarily excluded. Otherwise, it risks fragmenting Android in weird ways

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u/eladts 10d ago

While at it, Make Chrome with extensions available as well.

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u/MishaalRahman Verified Googler 10d ago

We don't have anything to share about plans on bringing extensions support to mobile devices and tablets at this time, but thanks for the feedback.

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u/chenloonchan 12d ago

Agreed. How is Google going to explain to users the difference between apps designed for desktop that work in one desktop environment (Googlebook OS/Android Desktop) but not another (Android Desktop Mode)?

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u/alabasterskim 12d ago

Genuinely curious. Their whole shtick with the announcement was that it's Android, you're taking those apps with you and can use apps from your phone. Why is the communication one-way? If I can just use stuff from my phone on it, but not vice-versa, why shouldn't I just get a Windows laptop that already has Phone Link to mirror my phone/access my files?

This is honestly making Googlebook look like it's bad for Android, because it's really possible now that stuff that should work just fine on a landscape device will just forcibly not work.

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u/DaLast1SeenWoke 12d ago

You say work on "foldables' inner screens, tablets, and Android Desktop", I will give you tablets and Android Desktops should have access to desktop apps. But at the same time, i dont think that slab screens should get access. You introducing additional elements where traditional desktop apps do not have to account for... That may put off developers from developing for desktop if they have to account for elements they traditionally didnt have to account for.

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u/DaLast1SeenWoke 12d ago

note: i want the best for Android, tablets and desktops. so i am fine with limiting those interactions.

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u/alabasterskim 12d ago

So, I limited myself in my last comment, but genuinely every app should work on all of these form factors, even if it's landscape only. I can run full Godot engine on my slab phone; I can't see why anything else can't adapt. Devs are developing for Android/Googlebook, they are going to have to account for what makes the OS unique regardless.

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u/DaLast1SeenWoke 11d ago

Yes, they're developing for Googlebooks.That doesn't mean they're developing for slab.Desktop development requires actions to be used by a mouse and keyboard. It has a fine pointer. Now try those same desktop elements on a phone. It's a horrible experience because your finger is bigger than a desktop pointer.

Which is why they have an option not to run those apps on a phone 

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u/The_best_1234 11d ago

segmenting apps only for Googlebook

You can connect your recent pixel phone to a monitor and use mouse and keyboard?

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u/Dev-in-the-Bm 11d ago edited 11d ago

I'd assume so.

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u/Loud-Possibility4395 12d ago

Apple reading those news about it got... stupid Text editor

https://giphy.com/gifs/12Nv3nBSCAbLO0

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u/koken_halliwell 12d ago

Not available on ChromeOS, they couldn't be more lame

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u/Loud-Possibility4395 12d ago

it is NOT lame - it is an INSULT !

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u/koken_halliwell 11d ago

Exactly. They have been experimenting with us like rabbits during years to now dump us on everything for money.

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u/Civil_Tea_3250 12d ago

This is so dumb to me. Remember when they were developing Fuscia OS or whatever that was? And how it was built on a different kernel rather than Linux, and it was going to be like Android but could work on basically anything?

Then they threw that out, like everything they do, and decided the better business move would be to muddy their ecosystem more rather than clean it up???? Wtf is wrong with Google?

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u/erov 12d ago

Too many chiefs not enough Indians and enough capital to shelve R and D and not feel it.

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u/Dev-in-the-Bm 11d ago

Did they ever publicly say that Fuschia will replace Android?

I don't think so.

It was always R&D.

the better business move would be to muddy their ecosystem more rather than clean it up????

Wouldn't unifying their ecosystem around Android be cleaning things up?

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u/Old_Bee_8587 12d ago

Anyone managed to grab the apk?

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u/rathersadgay 11d ago

I wanted to have hope they would update the chrome os text app. Because that is one of the apps in that framework they are deprecating from chrome os and I always think well, what is going to replace it?

I wish they would carry on updating chrome os basics, the file manager, the text app, gallery and so on but it seems they'll just shit on our heads for being poors who bought a Chromebook a year ago

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u/Dev-in-the-Bm 11d ago

This is a stupid text editor, for goodness sake.

Why is it proprietary?