Another six years of searching out phones for custom roms to avoid Google's horseshit - in my future.
Yawn, more enshittification, is that really what people want? Seriously thinking about a degoogled phone or even free of it.
more enshittification
Where, it's a UI refresh, not a degradation of services.
is that really what people want?
Google are the outliers. iOS has similar aesthetics. One UI has similar aesthetics. Whatever Xiaomi's is called has similar aesthetics. By the numbers, yes it is what people want.
Honestly I think it's hideous. Wish they would take this one back to the drawing board. I prefer the sleek and minimalist push they used to have, but now it feels like they're going back in a maximalist direction.
My phone's OS doesn't need to be a theatrical experience with every press or swipe, it just needs to get me from point A to point B as quickly and simply as possible.
I might be wrong, but the Material 3 UI feels a lot closer to iOS.
I agree with you, I'd rather have a crazy snappy phone instead of nice animations and effects, but we are in the minority. This doesn't sell.
Just look at any website. UI graphics are king, and usability is at the lowest it can be.
All I see is more CPU/GPU power being given to irrelevant things that does nothing but make older devices run slower from the excess overhead.
For most, except those with the newest devices, this will be a downgrade unless they change settings to reduce the use of animations. Not sure if there will be an option to disable the blur but I hope so.
That was my first thought too. I thought the whole reason Android moved away from animation bloat was to improve performance, but everyone seems to be heading back in the opposite direction now. Samsung's OneUI 7 also added tons of animations that have no functional benefit.
I turn off so much crap as it is, and crank all animations down to 0.5 (I'd go lower but this is just fast enough to no have stutter). I don't need iOS-slow animations that "look cool", I got shit to do.
why would they need to do things that actually matter like privacy and security lol
they got foss chads doing the hard work on that so they can circle jerk rounded edges and square
I don't think the UI designers are the people who usually with on security features
Who make decisions where money is spent?
The designers are already hired and trained, the money is already spent
And grapheneoss work is being incorporated upstream 🤡
Probably a big reason they keep the AOSP project open!
They are actively undermining it now and trying to take everything not nailed down in house tho
I guess I've always been the person who likes UI change, I find it exciting to see that kind of thing. I know a ton of people will hate this, but I personally like it. The Android 12 quick settings menu looked awful to me, white straight next to black. Blur is overdue.
Blur is garbage I don't need.
Fix the crappy space-wasting nonsense.
Google is refining animations, adding blur
How about refining UI control back to the user's hand? Instead we have garbage that people with vision or motor-control challenges can't use.
as long as I can cover it all with the kiss launcher
Oof. Having to remember app names?
No thanks from me...
Way faster than searching around for icons for me, plus it auto sorts them depending on usage at times. For example in the morning Waze is there and then a bit later my work time clock shows up and Lemmy is always a press away. Plus you can add tags to things so I use voyager for Lemmy but I tagged it Lemmy so I can search for either. I use my desktop the same way I hit the super key and start typing and my applications are there so its nice to transfer that muscle memory over to my phone
Yeah, i installed it before commenting.
I do like that i can set favorites and it also keeps history—that's handy.
I just can't ever remember the names of apps i don't use often. lol
It seems good so far, though very different from Fossify Launcher. But I'll keep playing with it for now, certainly!
I might try the tags...
Yeah it took me some time to get used to it, I also customized it a lot over the years, I like to set it so the keyboard shows automatically so I can just hit a letter as soon as I unlock my phone
Is this not just IOS??!??!!
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