{"id":227364,"date":"2026-03-25T05:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/a-slack-android-upgrade-worth-finding-computerworld\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T10:00:15","slug":"a-slack-android-upgrade-worth-finding-computerworld","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/25\/a-slack-android-upgrade-worth-finding-computerworld\/","title":{"rendered":"A Slack Android upgrade worth finding \u2013 Computerworld"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4149465\/slack-android-upgrade.html\">A Slack Android upgrade worth finding \u2013 Computerworld<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4149465\/slack-android-upgrade.html\">https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4149465\/slack-android-upgrade.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-25 05:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.computerworld.com\">www.computerworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new Slack Android widget, in all of its awkward scrolling glory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCredit\">JR Raphael, Foundry<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019t allow you to resize it vertically \u2014 making it taller, in other words \u2014 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\u2019s wide-as-possible form. That\u2019s pretty sloppy and not exactly what you\u2019d expect from a professional developer of any caliber.<\/p>\n<p>We could also note how it\u2019s odd that the widget\u2019s status-setting options don\u2019t sync up and align with any custom or recent Slack statuses you\u2019ve 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.<\/p>\n<p>And, if we really wanna pick at nits, we might note how vexing it is that a feature of this magnitude didn\u2019t ever even show up in the Slack Android app\u2019s \u201cWhat\u2019s new\u201d list in the Play Store \u2014 or even within the more elaborate Slack for Android release notes on the company\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4149465\/slack-android-upgrade.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Slack Android upgrade worth finding \u2013 Computerworld https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/4149465\/slack-android-upgrade.html Publish Date: 2026-03-25 05:47:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/4149465-0-61113000-1774432055-slack-android-widget.jpg?quality=50&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-android"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227366,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227364\/revisions\/227366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}