Android and the Share function: a modest proposal | Linux Today

Android and the Share function: a modest proposal

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 28, 2014

“Share” is Android’s most powerful option: the ability to shuttle text or images or documents between apps. It’s also a feature that is not quite apparent, or at least fully known, to those who haven’t spent a lot of time with an Android device, or who don’t love digging through buttons and settings. It’s the paradox of choice in the palm of your hand. But it could be far more powerful if it was made consistent, more clear, and customized.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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