JR Raphael, Foundry
Now, if we want to further shame Slack and focus on how little the team behind it seems to actually use or understand Android, we could point out that this widget awkwardly doesn’t allow you to resize it vertically — making it taller, in other words — and so its available options weirdly require a slight internal scroll to fully see, without the bottom two being cut off even in the widget’s wide-as-possible form. That’s pretty sloppy and not exactly what you’d expect from a professional developer of any caliber.
We could also note how it’s odd that the widget’s status-setting options don’t sync up and align with any custom or recent Slack statuses you’ve created and used within your own actual Slack team space and instead stick to only the most generic all-purpose defaults imaginable. That feels like a pretty weird choice when it comes to user experience in this day and age.
And, if we really wanna pick at nits, we might note how vexing it is that a feature of this magnitude didn’t ever even show up in the Slack Android app’s “What’s new” list in the Play Store — or even within the more elaborate Slack for Android release notes on the company’s website. You really had to just luck out and happen to be poking around in the right place, as I did this week, to stumble onto the addition and realize it was there.
