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Wow, finally. The new changes are much appreciated and long. I like the blur UI from Smart Launcher 6 and what ColorOS has done for the notification shade. As long as they keep the unified notification shade. I'm fine.
Ugh, I don't like what they've shown here. It looks like iOS, and it looks dated at that. I'm open to it looking nicer once take, but I'm not holding my breath.
Look up in the sky, it's a bird it's a plane, ~~it's the Funk Doctor Spot smoking buddha on a train~~ it's a miUI, it's an iOS.
it's an improvement but I'm still not happy about these huge ass buttons in the notification shade that could easily be half the size. Theres so much wasted space. I used to be able to access 6 quick tiles in the minimized shade. now its 4. Used to have 9-12 tiles on a full shade. now we have 8.
If you're going to continue to make 6"+ phones, USE THE SCREEN SPACE FOR FUCKS SAKE
So the strategy is that. Just rotate designs and features. Take them off and put them back so people get excited again for something of the past.
Fucking Google. You ad bastards.
Yawn, smoke and mirrors when you're unable to do something useful.
Looks like iOS.
Really? Eww, what a pity. But not surprising.
Edit:
What this new design potentially sacrifices in contrast and immediate readability, it arguably gains in aesthetics.
Man, fuck that shit. Form follows function, but instead they are doing what Apple and Windows 10/11 have done: make it β¨prettyβ¨ instead of fucking readable and actually usable.
Fuck background blur in particular. I want stark contrasts so shit is easy to read under any conditions.
I'm too old for this shit.
The lack of blur, shadows, and color on Android are what keep me angrily on iOS despite how locked down it is. I see what youβre saying about contrast being easier on the eyes, but why canβt that just be an option on Android like it is on iOS? You can reduce blur and increase contrast in accessibility settings in iOS.
Android is unlikely to look like iOS now or in the future. The UI of Android just doesn't focus on it.
Android is generally pretty aesthetically pleasing assuming you aren't looking for an Apple clone
Man, fuck that shit. Form follows function, but instead they are doing what Apple and Windows 10/11 have done: make it β¨prettyβ¨ instead of fucking readable and actually usable.
I'm still pissed that in Windows 10 they removed the border around the title bar so I constantly click on the wrong 'X' when trying to close a window because they all fucking blend together with the windows open behind them. I've been forced to use Windows 11 at work and it fucking sucks with so much padding and wasted space around icons and whatnot.
Fuck I don't like it. It seems like Samsung and Google got in a one night stand.
And old iOS set them up with poppers.
Everything huge and round, pill shaped in latest OneUI is terrible. I don't like it.
Fuck, not again..
Ooh, ah, thinner sliders, background blur in quick settings.
Quit fucking around, and give us real changes. Like letting us fully disable immersive apps (I'd like to see my status bar in maps, thank you very much), fix the worthless waste of space oval quick settings, which I just stopped using because they're now useless. I went and loaded a sidebar app, because it works so much better than the now pointless quick settings.
And let users adjust a lot more stuff, like for accessibility. I can't imaging handing a new phone to someone with vision or motor issues. I hit the wrong thing all the time, and I don't have either issue.
Oh, bringing color back to the status bar, but only for Google icons? Can I please have the color back like I had, oh 15 years ago? So I know who messaged me by the color of the icon?
Keep on dumbing things down, while also making them more opaque.
Yup. This is like Windows 11 for smaller screens. Pretty, but useless. Fuck.
Literally just rehashing old UI that's been around for over a decade.
Windows Vista, Rainmeter and custom Windows themes from Deviantart have had these motifs for over a decade.
It's closer to Win8's Metro and Win10s FluentUI more than Vista's Aero but your point still stands. These are decade old design philosophies.
This is why the layoffs on Google's Android team were good, and proof that they weren't deep enough.
Signed, a pissed off ex-Android developer
They just keep making the quick action buttons worse, don't they?
I miss the Android 11 style ones, myself.
android 4-7 were perfect. it all went to shit with Oreo, we just didn't realize it at the time because we thought the changes were minor inconveniences we'd get used to. once md2 dropped, we should have realized we were cooked, but it was still⦠innocuous how small and mildly annoying the changes were. by 2020 though i had noticed: no good updates had come to my phone in almost 4 years and every update just broke something that used to work. then in 2023 google announced gemini was adding new features to the assistant. features that had slowly gotten broken but had worked back in 2015. this is our lives now. a constant churn of features being taken away and brought back
The quick settings menu is one of the worst parts of android 15 visually, and it desperately needed a redesign. We're getting resizable quick actions, so now we can fit 16 settings on one page instead of 8. You can now turn Bluetooth and WiFi on/off with just one tap again. Adding settings to quick settings is easier.
More intuitive settings menu. Boring single color white/black backgrounds are now blurred wallpaper. There's a new option for displaying notifications. There's notification bar icons that are less weird, and more compact battery percentage. Sliders are a little clearer now (rounded colors was a terrible idea). We can now customize icon shapes.
Can someone explain why everyone is shitting on this? I get that people here don't like change for the sake of change, but most of these are positive, or at least neutral changes, and this fixes some gripes I've had with android.
I can only speak for myself, but the quick settings menu has been terrible (IMO) since 12. They've gotten worse each release. So the "overhaul" is mostly just going back to the way it already was before they made it garbage. The exception being it's still oversized and unwieldy.
Peak quick settings (A11):
I just want to take a screenshot without the loudest possible shutter sound which makes it appear that I'm trying to take covert photos.
I mean, surely a toggle to get rid of that nonsense should be easy? I'm sure it never used to happen a few versions ago.
not sure about stock android but if I set notifications to silent on CalyxOS it Doesnt make a sound when I Screenshot
Unfortunately that doesn't help on stock Android.
My workaround is to ask Gemini to take a screenshot. It's ridiculous but it works.
That's weird, it works for me on Android 15 and I could swear it was always the case for me.
A simple way to disable the sound is to press a volume button, tap the small button at the top and pick silent or vibrate there. Does that really not work for you? Btw the screenshot sound is linked to ring volume, not notifications.
Aha! I turned the notification volume off, not the ring volume. That works, thank you. Still shouldn't be necessary but at least I can shut it up now!
The camera app is vendor specific
The current material look is so ugly that I welcome any redesign.
This is probably a hot take but I like it. The bigger buttons are nice and I like the new theming.
That time again?
It feels too samsungy to me. Overall it seems a tiny bit better, but man just give it more wacky or intense colors from the wallpapers and avoid this flatness please. I want MORE FUN
These are super sexy changes. Finally we're seeing some progress in Android again.
Hahaha, love the irony.