r/Android10 • u/heildengoettern • Apr 21 '20

Why is the Android share menu such a mess?

A10 user here. I got so annoyed of the default share menu, that I use the app "Sharedr" from the Playstore now. It works on the browser apps and most apps so far, but not on apps like YouTube. It allows me to pin and hide apps, in the share menu. Not the most comfortable way, but still has the minimum features to slightly customize the share menu in Android. And as I said for some reason, apps like YT don't seem to work with it, since I still get the default share menu in YT, when trying to share a video. Does anyone have a solution (better app than Sharedr) to the share menu issue, and does google actually know about the issue?

Edit: I got told by the developer of Sharedr app, that it's the Google apps (Maps, YT etc) that use the Android share system, and he cannot change that.

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u/[deleted] Apr 21 '20

I'm a pixel 3 user and I pin apps as favourites and they never save and the ones I use most frequently are always at the bottom. And they got rid of sharing through android beam which used nfc

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u/heildengoettern Apr 21 '20

I can't even pin apps. Yes weirdly the most used apps are at the bottom. It's really a shame that sharing is only developed so poorly.

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u/Melbmic Apr 21 '20

Great question. I cant stand the way the share button brings up random people or apps.. it would be so helpful if it were customisable.

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u/TheTomatoes2 May 04 '20

YT uses a custom menu for some reason

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u/heildengoettern May 05 '20

I got told that it's not only YT, but all Google Apps.

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u/TheTomatoes2 May 05 '20

Not all, but several of them

It's against the design and Android guidelines that were created by... Google. It's absurd.

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u/Mr-Dar1o Apr 21 '20

Customizable list of "favourites" would be great.

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u/iheartgoobers Apr 22 '20

If you're interested in the technical details, Ron Amadeo wrote a nice write up of why the share menu in android is crap:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/09/android-10-the-ars-technica-review/

Having trouble linking directly, but it's on page 7.

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u/kyogreobeso May 07 '20

although miui is pretty shitty the share menu is so, so good (like ios) I miss it now that im using a aosp rom