Does anyone else miss the old interface that came with jelly bean android? I feel like now the android interface is lacking in detail and depth, similar to what also happened to iphone. I remember joking in the past that the interface changes they made were closer to what a kindergartner would have made, rather than an actual developer.
Jelly Bean Interface
Jeremiah Kelly
Elijah Hernandez
They look exactly the same.
Leo Morris
Kevin Davis
I just found it online and let it also be added to the thread. Meaning the kitkat update is basically the same but what isn't the same is this...
also a good looking interface. though a bit lacking in features, due to it being ice cream
Leo Brown
It's all the material meme design and diversity hires.
Isaac Martin
True, but now it has advanced to something even worse than before. Now it looks like nobody has a clue in what they are doing.
Ryan Smith
"Innovation" for the sake of innovation. How else would you remind the masses that you still need good ol google to update their spyware for you?
Matthew Hall
Gingerbread was pure kino
Jason Baker
hmm, even the entire system icon color scheme was changed in kitkat. So I even im not sure if they took the right direction since that android update
James Sanders
Android has gotten worse since 4.4.4. Every release since then has obscured settings, placed restrictions on the function of the phone, and just sucked dick.
Nathaniel Diaz
I dont know why they have to change it constantly. Seems largely like a waste of effort.
Lucas Bell
I guess they have to look different each time to be unique or something. But personally, they could at least give the option to go back to the older interface. More importantly stick to one interface, build on it, and have it as a backup for a more stable release.
Kevin Perez
Right is cramped and has ugly icons. Left is much better.
Nolan Russell
No.
No no no. No It wasn't. Android UI was pure trash until the ICS overhaul.
Isaiah Mitchell
How is it cramped though? There's barely any difference between the two. What is the few pixels really going to make a HUGE difference?
Luis Morales
Ahh, Jelly Bean. Now that was a neat version.
Brandon Torres
Honeycomb was the shit.
Charles James
My phone still runs on that shit and i can guarantee you i won't miss it once i have upgraded.
Connor Perry
I miss all pre-8 versions I think. :(
Jack Taylor
I dig Samsung's take on Oreo. It feels a lot like older Android versions without looking horribly dated.
Bentley Morgan
Lollipop was the beginning of the end. That and ending the Nexus program for those stupid overpriced Pixel phones.
Jackson Wilson
Sadly they copied the iPhone.
Wyatt Allen
Why? Besides the fact that some applications will stop working in jelly bean and some of the actual benefits of future versions will never come to jelly bean.
Unless your phone has a manufacturers skin over it?
Jason Brown
jelly bean sucks period
Michael Butler
UI smoothness mostly. I'm an AOSP dev, over the past 4 years, starting with LP, we've been working on interface reactivity and smoothness. Although I prefer the old design paradigms myself, material is more user friendly and more reactive. You know exactly how the interface is going to react prior to doing anything. It was all in a push from big boss to be more Apple like. Your grandma should be able to use it. It started off well, with our teams analyzing iOS reactivity and implementing some new animators in KK. It absorbed the new more modern design in LP but was still fine. Recently team lead has been on an autistic fit about screen readability and nuking dark themes and shit for the white eye sore we have now. "Be more like iOS" is a thing often said. A modern dark+blue material would be great, but most dark theme stuff rarely passes through code review. Most third party things like Substratum actually came from various rejected AOSP code.
Lincoln Nelson
>not using a different launcher
Oliver Gomez
Windows Phone 7 had the flat UI down years before apple/google, still looks better than google's flat ui
Chase Campbell
You still here? Are you in Pasadena CA or TX?
Benjamin Harris
In terms of user friendly I don't see too much that isn't already in jelly bean. Now in terms of reactiveness that is something I can agree upon.
Also ive kind of noticed that light theme integration after updating to Oreo.
Christian Hernandez
Neither.
Maryland.
Henry Nelson
Daniel Smith
8 and later belittles users that don't use Google Play services by pretending you're at risk when installing apks from somewhere.
Fuck that shit.
Everywhere I look I see companies increasing the heat of their frogbathtubs.
Brandon Brown
>Honeycomb was shit
fixed
Jaxson Smith
Jellybean with dedicated menu buttons was the shit mane
I had a few different droids with that.
Cooper Flores
The only thing better about the right one was that there was an app to add tiny images to the corners which made it look like the screen had rounded corners. Can't do that with the transparent bars so haven't installed since.
Josiah Hughes
wallpaper?
Aaron Murphy
what about the fact that for most of the backgrounds in the apps themselves, had a dark theme; versus now being optional at best. Or the fact that for a lot of the status icons or animations were given a blue overhaul versus only having one specific color all across the board. Jelly bean was also simple in doing its job as an interface, which in comparison to now, seems to require for you to learn something new, with each change to android.
Dominic Kelly
what theme are you using?
Parker Russell
I don't miss it because Android 4.2 is literally my daily driver. I like it and I have every app I could possibly need.
Caleb Ward
what the fuck are you talking about? 4.2 is jelly bean. Unless you are talking about kitkat?
Cooper Gonzalez
>4.2 is jelly bean.
yes, exactly. i was responding to:
>Does anyone else miss the old interface that came with jelly bean android?
Tyler Lewis
...sorry I just figured out with what you had said, ignore my previous message.
Liam Jackson
Peak design, can't be beaten