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Over the course of 2024, Google Maps for Android has been working on a redesign that drops most fullscreen UIs in favor of sheets...

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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

MD sucks balls, I despise this crap. It makes a less obvious distinction between elements to look cool, or new or intriguing, or different, or whatever bullshit UI designers come up with.

UI everywhere has been going backwards for 10-15 years now. Giant ovals with text for the Quick Settings buttons is an improvement? More swipes is better? Less contrast in a browser/app window is better?

Oh yea, let's remove color from status bar icons ๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™‚๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I don't really have a problem with it. The shadows are clear enough to show boundaries (something that was missing from earlier Material Design iterations in many apps because nobody read the guidelines apparently).

I do lower the display scale to fit more on my screen, because for some reason every phone decides that making the screen twice as big means every icon needs to be twice as big as well. If you didn't get the prompt to do so when you set up your phone, you should check the display settings.

Having run Android 4.4 on my old Oneplus One a while back, I'm pretty sure the toggles got physically smaller, probably because Holo lacked proper scaling settings to correct for the screen size.