Android

The original post: /r/android by /u/IThrashCondos on 2024-12-21 16:43:51.

I said it. I miss how simple the UI used to be. Material Design and its edges beats Material You out of the water with its more compact interface. Android 8 was slower and less secure with its simple permissions structure, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make for features that actually work like splitscreen and alarms that don't default to 0 volume after removing the headphone jack.

When I used to factory reset the Google Playstore for troubleshooting and saw that lovely UI, it was always painful seeing it get auto-updated to a cold & calculated interface designed to make the user see as many products on-screen as possible. Pain.