Like isnt android linux already? Why Not just fork it if everyone is unsatisfied with google and pushes for linux phones?
Am I missing something?
Like isnt android linux already? Why Not just fork it if everyone is unsatisfied with google and pushes for linux phones?
Am I missing something?
Are you sure it’s not getting better? This morning, my Pixel updated to take away all my corners again. It’s been what, 4 years since they last made everything rounded and bubbly? My wifi bar and cellular bar are now different stacks of noodles. Improvements nobody knew they needed.
Wait what.
Can you show a picture?
https://www.droid-life.com/2025/04/30/android-16-teases-secret-ui-update-that-should-bring-fresh-beauty-tons-of-blur/
Pixel, specifically. My 7 is what just updated. Blur through drawers. At this point, I can’t remember if my app icons were already circles, but now I’m looking at them now again and still hate them. Sliders now have detached bar indicators. Cartoonish status icons. It’s another step into iPhone styling to, I guess, tackle a market demo that thinks the phone market is Samsung vs iphone.
The one on the right, yeah? https://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Android-16-New-Volume-Sliders-768x614.jpg
Weird!
iOS just got a fairly major overhaul to its UI too. Liquid Glass, they’re calling it. Screenshots don’t really look great but using it since yesterday, I actually prefer it. Feels a little retro-futuristic. Buttons have clearly defined edges again, everything is now transparent, and it has the same sort of distortion you’d get with those glass blocks that used to be popular in swimming pools and such (at least around here, not sure if that was universal). Probably my favourite look of iOS actually. That might be a super unpopular opinion, I’m not sure. I haven’t kept up on community opinions of iOS in a long time.