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Thumb-Key installed on a relative's 'phone. I didn't enable anything fancy, or enable the #MessageEase compatibility layouts. But I was explicitly asked to install Spanish and French alongside English
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk The point about developers using developer language is a real problem, I as someone pretty techy would struggle to know what a toast is in this context because I don't use Androi
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@wild1145@mastodonapp.uk I've seen it at work several times in my career. Unlike the relative, I recognized that this was jargon and knew where to look the jargon up. https://developer.android.com/gui
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Quick suggestion, based upon having to explain to a relative that this was computer programmer jargon and did not have any connection to any ordinary meaning of the word 'toast':
Change 'show toast on layout switch' to something like 'display the layout names when switching layouts'.
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Thumb-Key installed on a relative's 'phone. I didn't enable anything fancy, or enable the #MessageEase compatibility layouts. But I was explicitly asked to install Spanish and French alongside English
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk The point about developers using developer language is a real problem, I as someone pretty techy would struggle to know what a toast is in this context because I don't use Androi
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I've seen it at work several times in my career.
Unlike the relative, I recognized that this was jargon and knew where to look the jargon up.
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/notifiers/toasts
The setting actually is not actually developer oriented. It's aimed, like the "hide letters" setting, at people who know the tool and who can (or at least want to) get by without the visual aids.
It's even something that I've directly experienced. Change layout multiple times to get to the desired point in the layout loop, and the names of all of the layouts passed through take significant time to all, one by one, flash on screen and disappear.
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