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.
They asked AI to improve the design. 😬
So they accidentally saw some images of winmo 10 and really said to themselves, “yeah, I’ll have some of that.”
Fuck I don’t like it. It seems like Samsung and Google got in a one night stand.
Everything huge and round, pill shaped in latest OneUI is terrible. I don’t like it.
And old iOS set them up with poppers.
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.
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
“big”
i wish i could smartphone fully foss
These are super sexy changes. Finally we’re seeing some progress in Android again.
Hahaha, love the irony.
That time 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.
What sidebar app did you are you using?
Combination of Macrodroid’s drawer feature and Jina Folders. Works pretty well.
Yup. This is like Windows 11 for smaller screens. Pretty, but useless. Fuck.
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):
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.
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
Fuck, not again…
