Was it the peak od Android?

Was it the peak od Android?

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What a stupid fucking question. Do you expect someone to say jelly bean or something was better? Of course each version has had improvements faggot, you just posted something and expected everyone to agree with you. Nobody can say Lollipop was better because it's still relatively "new"

Loli was peak android.

Froyo, gotta love those random reboots.

Oh my apologies, I thought OP meant to ask "was it peak OLD android".

4.4 KitKat

Kitkat is the peak for aesthetics

Yes I'd say so. Lollipop had some good things like a switch to ART runtime, native 64 bit arch, and material design. But it marked the turning point for Google to start going in the opposite direction toward a full time effort in cracking down on root exploits and other shit that pisses off developers.

Custom ROM development peaked around jellybean and took a nosedive after lollipop.

Ice Cream Sandwich masterrace

Android have only gotten better and better. The Android peak is Oreo.

God the first Android versions where crap compared to iOS. Android is superior today.

Visually, ICS is best Android.
>God-tier Holo interface
>beautiful and functional multitasking
>widgets not relegated to shit
>CRT Off animation
>Kino lockscreen
>Holo blue everywhere and was beautiful
>Best Lockscreen media controls by far
>introduced glorious sliding tabs, not the ios shit meme bottom bar tabs
>dark theme by default for AMOLED screens.
>Beautiful minimalistic camera app
it was absolutely beautiful and the peak of Android's interface. Material design is not better, but the animations in it are pretty.
Functionally, either Marshmallow or Nougat with doze mode changes made battery management glorious.
Oreo is the beginning of the end. It's the ugliest since gingerbread and it's set to get worse.

>God the first Android versions where crap compared to iOS.
I remember. Eclair was crap compared to feature phones of this time.

Oreo.

Immagine having this much of a shit taste

>Be Google's UI team
>Have Android looking nice and working pretty well
>Backend team continue to make useful improvements to Android
>Permissions are much slower than before and pop up with annoying pop-ups, but for the most part it's good.
>Almost all flagship phones including our own Pixel phones have AMOLED screens
>Truer blacks as it literally shuts off the pixels, also saves a small amount of power
>White is the worst colour to produce since it's just all other pixels on
>Change interface to be as much white as possible
>Blindingly white at night
>Rumor a dark theme at every major release
>Never release one
>UI lead buys an iphone
>decides to make Android look exactly like ios
>this is actually happening right now
>Android P is unashamedly stealing icons from ios

I wish we could go back

just use substratum man

Straight up, end your life.
What part was shit taste?

Kit kat was shit. Lollipop is lit.

Best design: 3.0
Best user experience: debatable between 4.4 and 6/7

It was ICS. It's modern design actually put Android as a legit competitor to iOS instead of being that poorfag shit on HTC Explorer.

just use substratum... it's like whining about a DE or WM not having builtin themes that fit your taste.

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Interface was basically JB with retarded colors in some places. Tablet UI was removed for no reason. This is the version that started problems with sd cards that still linger. But I won't deny the performance improvements, even without ART. Otherwise 4.3 was simply better.

The only legit UI improvement was transparent status/nav bars.

>substratum
Isn't that just a stupid hack with lots of overhead

any suggestions?

No. v4 was shit because it still used dalvik.
v5 was full of memory leaks.
v6 and v7 are fine.
v8 is just better because obligatory Vulkan support and a slightly better update system. So it's technically the peak, even though it still doesn't let you use your phone as storage unless you're rooted.

Visually, though, it's getting worse especially now that they're copying iOS everywhere.

plebian take: hurr durr every version of Android can only get better and better amirite
elevated take: Material Design was a mistake, KitKat was the last great Android OS version
true patrican take: Android was best as a smart camera OS, letting Apple eventually command the market with a wide price variety of phones suitable for everyone except for Richard Stallman

It's built-in in Android now. Substratum is just UI for it.

>smart cameras
>patrician
Kill yourself.

ICS was my favorite also, especially aesthetics wise.

Swift black is what I use

Good taste

I have to pay? wtf

>paying for apks

Oreo obviously. Even if you don't like the design or whatever, the functionality still got better with every version.

why does android destroy activity on rotate

>Getting malware

>not using common sense

No, but is forced reminiscing about retro technology / software on Sup Forums for no reason peak annoyance? Yes.

>ITT: retards rate which version in Android was the best based on something as customizable as the fucking interface of all things

>Implying any cracked apk is safe

I'm not that user but you're not very smart just saying

4.4 was the best. 6 would be on second place. 7.1 is also nice though. 8 is fine too.
5 Lollipop was the worst.

Honeycomb was fantastic, for a short while google apps were actually tablet optimised.

The lockscreen clock font is A E S T H E T I C

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i might agree

Android 9>8>7>6>5>4>shit

5&6 were trash

If you're ever near Sloan Square in London, visit the National Army Museum.
The basement has a display of every standard issue cavalry sabre for the British Army, from Cromwell's New Model Army (1642-ish), to a Bakelite handled WW1 model.
Under each sabre is a little card highlighting what had changed since the previous model and 'customer feedback' of the time.
Not many products have been in continuous development for 240 years. The surprising thing is how often during that period the design took a backwards step, sometimes to the point of unusability.

UI designers should be forced to read every fucking card, and should be used for sabre practice if they don't learn to stop breaking shit.

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>5 Lollipop was the worst.
5.1 was okay.

Better than 5.0, but still had the nasty GSM data bug where applications remained connected and drained your battery.

why did google go from holo (dark and futuristic UI) to memeterial design (low information density and blinding white).
I mean it doesn't look bad, but they butcher their own design language so bad that the UI looks so inconsistent and ugly.

i kinda like dark memeterial design

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me too but google refuses to make a native dark UI theme for some reason.

Couldn't agree more, holo was the pinnacle of design and usability. You never stared at the interface wondering where they'd hidden that feature/setting you were looking for.
Now we have burger menus, sliding screens, flat and indefinite buttons and controllers.
Holo was a utilitarian UI.
It was a man's UI.

>some reason
Bright screens prevent reflection.

They could at least add a toggle

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