Ok, I was looking at developer options and found this “grammatical gender” mean in terms of android device? Like, I tried selecting it and doesn’t seem to do anything…
Device is Galaxy A71 with lineage os 22.2, also my Galaxy A55 with stock oneUI 7 has it. (Both android 15) like what does it do? Just curious…
now that we know what it does… why is this a developer setting?
It’s up to each app developer whether they wanna use the new API. According to the docs linked in this thread, each app needs to ask the user separately which option they prefer (so as of right now, there isn’t a system wide option for it).
So it’s not very clear to me why that option exists, even as a developer setting. Maybe Android itself uses it for its UI, but it’s still in the testing phase? Someone who has their phone set to one of those gendered languages could test it to see if changing the setting actually changes anything.
In some languages like Japanese, word choice differs if its a man or woman speaking.
Yeah, I understood later. Idk, I also speak gendered language I just use English on my phone so did not notice difference but I think this is cool feature
It won’t do much in english, but makes a lot of sense for french, spanish and other languages using heavily gendered nouns.
In english, “the user” is neutral. In french, you have “l’utilisateur” and “l’utilisatrice”, because everything including nouns are gendered. So you’re stuck misgendering half the population by default. This lets you address women as women and men as men.
Thats pretty cool! It’d be nice if there were a neutral option to but more choice is good! 😊
It is the default setting. I’m not aware of any app that uses the setting though. I also doubt anybody is going to find the setting in the dev options anyways.
I think there is, you can choose neutral feminine and masculine
I’m not sure I understand french well enough to follow what you mean- is the feminine gendered version also what you’d use to be gender neutral?
No, I meant in developer options you can select between masculine feminine and neutral gender, I don’t speak french so don’t know.
Ahhh, gotcha. That’s super cool!
Nice, this is interesting :3
Thanks for this. My phone is in Finnish and that option has been incorrectly translated (“Kieliopillinen suku” ≈ “Grammatical family”, but family as in your relatives) and when I noticed it I wondered what that hell that meant and google didn’t help. Makes sense now.
First link on Google: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/14/features/grammatical-inflection
It’s there just to get more refined data from you.
Pretty sure they already had that data as part of your google account 😅
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