You know the OS still have dessert names internally? Queen Cake is 10, Red Velvet Cake is 11, Snow Cone is 12, Tiramisu is 13, Upside down cake is 14. Add this to it's following video. They are starting to emphasize on the names a bit more.
Apple pie Banana bread Cupcake Donut Eclair Froyo Gingerbread Honeycomb Ice cream sandwich Jellybean Kit Kat Lollipop Marshmallow Nougat Oreo Pie Quince tart Red Velvet cake Snow cone Tiramisu Upside down cake Vanilla pudding Waffle Xango Yoghurt Zeppole And then, after Zeppole, Google will instead be naming Android codenames after names of constellations from A to Z (starting with Andromeda)
It also had nailed the Interface design, color scheme, and use Dark Mode by default, it felt more modern, more digital, more Sci Fi yet tactile, Holo also had the best Tablet UI by far with ICS Single Combo Bar, Nav Buttons on the Left and System Tray + Notifications on the Left, having a really familiar feel towards Desktop Interfaces, if the Launcher was a FAB and elements could be pinned on the center of the Bar it would have for sure lasted longer and keep tablets on float than their current state, heck no wonder why iPads have the Dock similar to MacOS and AppLibrary as a Launcher/Start Menu
I agree that the paper cut era was one of the best but I personally really like the material you era so far. My favorite so far. Seems a little more unified in design.
Holo is the best. It had the most charm combined with practicality. When it switched to paper cut, that's when I knew it was over. Became very corporate and stuff. Pre-holo, while nostalgic, is too rough around the edges. Paper-cut and beyond is soulless.
The Papercut era was by far my favorite because of how 'bright' and clean it was; the icons were distinct and distinguishable, the accent colors made the everything stand out, and everything was snappy.
Sorry about the sound quality on this one, I'm not sure why it's so bad. I've tried many things, but it seems to be happening on RU-vid's side, because my Odysee upload sounds just fine.
I'm kind of surprised you're on Odysee. Is it just to escape censorship or are you into the whole open source thing? Regardless, I think a video analyzing the Linux aesthetic could be very popular.
Great video as usual, I know this is a small channel at the moment, but these videos are awesome! To the point, decently well made and you're clearly passionate and knowledgable about this topic. This is what RU-vid needs, passion projects made by boffins for fun, teaching about things they care about. Not predatory money making schemes that exist only to make children buy 'merch'!
for Android app developer: you can still apply those old themes! Primitive: android:style/Theme Holo: android:style/Theme.Holo Paper Cut: android:style/Theme.Material
@@sauliusvitkauskas8741 You can program a launcher app with those themes (actually a lots already made which you can try, not recommending propietary software though)
the holo/ics/kitkat era was an amazing time to be an android user. the Galaxy Nexus seemed like the coolest device ever at the time with the holo design and new features like nfc and face unlock. also back then everyone(including me) used to hate the skins/bloat manufacturers would put on top of the os, but now i kind of miss them. it made each device feel unique... except touchwiz i never liked samsungs design lol
Same, samsung design always looked as bad as the performance of their smartphones, I hated my galaxy ace 2 so much that during another hang during a call, I took a sledgehammer and smashed it to smithereens
The paper cut stuff is so elegant. I love the subtleties of shadow that the icons and the design has. Almost like folded pieces of paper creating subtle shadows. Really great looking still.
I've binged all of your videos today, they're so nostalgic and I love how naturally you talk about this stuff! I hope you continue creating more, this is already a comfort channel 😭❤️
Totally agree with you! I love how the paper cut era had a playful look to it while also being minimalistic. Wish Android would have continued to evolve its UI by adding a customizable color palette like they currently have on Android 12
To me, the no frills era felt like they were just gradually giving up on material design, it made me sad. My first phone was a Nexus 5, so I got to experience the change from KitKat to lollipop and it was so exciting at the time
@@jordanwalter6570 i remember installing a bunch of lolipop launcher, Xposed module monster UI and lolipop lockscreen to make my kit kat phone looks like lolipop
Great video! I would say that Holo/Papercut would be my favorite eras. Would also be interested to hear your thoughts on past iOS versions or any other UI!
The Android versions still have food names, just they're now only codenames that aren't marketed. Android 10: Quince Tart Android 11: Red Velvet Cake Android 12: Snow Cone Android 13: Tiramisu
I seriously love the Papercut Era. I even use custom launchers and icons to achieve that look on my Android 12 phone. The clean yet detailed layering of the design was just eye-candy!
The papercut era is definetely my favourite, it's when I jumped into Android with a Sony Xperia Z5 running Lollipop, it got upgrades to Marshmallow and Nougat before Sony dropped support for it in 2018. I switched to iOS shortly after and while I did get a Pixel 6 in 2021 and used Android 12, it just didn't feel the same and I ended up going back to my iPhone a year later. The mid-2010s versions of Android had a style and charm that's just missing these days.
Primitive, pre holo, and holo are my favorite Era's they have so much character and other things I just love! Also I agree with material you, I'm not a fan because it feels like all the character was taken away for the sake of simplicity
Material design is my favorite design ever in the tech field. I especially like how there are these different layers that rotate, zoom or pan. The best example was the notification center in Android 5.
Genuinely one of my favorite channels too have found recently. It's also nice to see Android get some love lol, still rocking Pie on my Note 8. Keep it Up tho! :)
the paper cut era was defiantly my favorite, but i really like material you. it takes the system colors from your wallpaper, which can look really bad, but i like the bubblyness
If it's strictly design we're talking about, Pre-Holo is by far my favorite because of how fun and 3D everything looks, and if it were still in use, imagine how smoothly it would operate on modern hardware!
Can't believe you gave A5 Lolipop 10/10... I Remember when I damaged my beloved Xperia Z and send it to service. When it came back, android was updated to 5.0 Lolipop and I don't forget how I instantly started to hate my favourite phone. Every day was a pain to even look at it. They changed entire color pallete to pastel (for example red to lightpink, blue to light blue etc. ) with no option to changed it back without rooting. Dark mode disappeared. Transparent elements was replaced with eye hurting white, and all stunning animations was replaced with poorly animated swipe. Personally this was a big step back in UI design, an attempt to compare with iOS 7 at the time. Fortunately they menage to improve this design later, but still for me it was an end of good eras for android user interface. As you mentioned google material design, I'm also an opponent of it. Hope Google will menage interesting neumorphic interface for android. You are making good and interesting materials, waiting for more content ;)
Thanks for video! Personally, my favourite UI of all time is Android Gingerbread one: the style is mostly dark colours (which was replaces with ugly plastic ones in KitKat and been like this up to Android 10), and theme colours (golden-to-orange, olive green, light grey and black) look really nice. Also, I was kinda obsessed with one-coloured CRTs aesthetic at that time, so golden on pitch-black was my favourite colour combination back then :) It is also skeuomorphic (not a fan of minimalistic UI, despite Material Design being my favourite example of good modern interface design and iconography).
So glad that I found this channel. It's really good!. Wouldn't be surprised if it starts to grow a lot, as the content is interesting. Already subscribed :)
@@Undefined.100 Extremely late reply, but I'm working on an Android Iceberg video, and I would like to include some info from this video, as I think it's great. Obviously, I will give you credits. Would that bother you?
You nailed it with the first era in a modern context but back then it was par for the course, in fact, it looked really cool at the time. We as a whole weren't too far away from a time when having a color screen on a handheld was amazing. It was definitely obvious the developers were mostly trying to make an OS and not a UI. The Pre-Holo era is also well named since it was at a time when the base underlying code was more or less stabilized and then they could turn more attention to unifying the UI. Froyo and Gingerbread were great for their time. I regard 2.3 to be the first mainstream Android OS most 'normal' people interacted with. There aren't too many out there that have even experienced anything less that Gingerbread. I greatly appreciate what Android 2.3 Gingerbread brought us. I still have one of my original devices from then. The Holo era was also coming off of a bit of a recombination since Tablets at the time got their own version of Android, Honeycomb (Another version very very few people even remember, let alone used) They took some design cues from Honeycomb and refined the smartphone experience. ICS is THE point which which Android became a modern titan of a mobile OS for me. It was amazing to see how far Android 4.0 was from the last version the public at large remembered, 2.3. I still think 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is my most favorite version of Android ever. I love the Paper cut era for the underlying codebase, for me it was and is the most stable Android ever was. My personal favorite was 5.0 Lollipop. I do like the look of the UI from a unification and ease of use angle but I am now coming to terms with the fact that I am an old timer technology wise. This was the beginning of the Flat Era for me. I like a more skeuomorphic take on icons, menus and themes. Shadows, gloss effects, beveling and a 3D look is what I love. It is why I liked the charm of the look of earlier eras of Android so much and why iOS 6 will always be my favorite version of iOS. The No Frill Era is more of a Flat era to me or perhaps the Boring Era, the worst as far as I am concerned. The code has long since been optimized and yet I see more 'game breaking' bugs nowadays than I used to. No Frills Era is a good enough term for it because No Frills is the bargain basement brand, the bottom of the barrel. Looks go out the window because it is no longer needed. I will disagree slightly in that I like that the current Era has SOME bit of charm as opposed to zero. It is a bit too bubbly for my taste but at least it is SOMEthing more catching to the eye than flat minimalist nothingness.
I have the htc legend running htc’s skin on android 2.something and it’s so beautiful and amazing. Even the on screen keyboard is great for typing on its less than 3” screen.
My favorite was Kitkat. The UI feels fast, no nonsense animations, and simple. On top of that I really love Sony Xperia's implementation. Doesn't look bland but still keeps the experience pretty close to stock android.
For me, my favourite era was the primitive era, mainly for nostalgia reasons, and because of my irrational love of skeumorphism. In second place, I would put Material You. It's so sweet on the eyes, and yet it has a ton of personality. Then in third place, the Holo era. Good memories with my beloved Acer Z200 (I love that phone). Also in third place, the papercut era. Nowadays I associate it with the ridicoulously bad phone I had (Logicom L-Ement somthing) that was running Android 7. For me, it was slow, clunky, took a lot more memory than 4.4, which was the OS the phone was designed for. But the UI sure was nice and very well designed, despite being a little too bland for me.
The worst era ever is material you, its fucking ugly, too rounded (I hate rounded corners) too simplified (i don't like simplified layouts), android 12 makes me feel bad
Material You and No-Frills are my favorite so far. I personally don't like the sharp corners. But again, another awesome video. Loved this crash course through the design evolution of Android!
I'm at the exact opposite when it comes to preference. I feel like Android looks the best and Product Sans should be default of every Android device. Mainly because the Anti Aliasing for Product Sans is better than Roboto and the edges look really clean whereas with Roboto it looks a little blurry.
I feel like the desert naming scheme after Android 9 Pie needs more context, its like they aren't seen in the android phone itself but HAS codenames, so does have Android 1.1 and before Android 1.0. This is the following ones listed Alpha Beta Android 1.0 Android 1.1 Petit Four Android 1.5 Cupcake Android 1.6 Donut Android 2.0/2.1 Eclair Android 2.2 Froyo (Frozen Yoghurt) Android 2.3 Gingerbread Android 3.0 Honeycomb Android 4.0 ICS (Ice Cream Sandwich) Android 4.1/4.2/4.3 Jellybean Android 4.4 KitKat Android 5.x Lollipop Android 6.x Marshmallow Android 7.x Nougat Android 8 Oreo Android 9 Pie Android 10 Q (Quince Tart) Android 11 R (Red Velvet) Android 12 S (Snow Cone) Android 12L (Snow Cone V2) Android 13 T (Tiramisu) Android 14 U (Upside Down Cake) Android 15 V (Vanilla Ice Cream) What i expect from future versions might be false but here i came with some: (16 Trought 22) Android 16 W (Wacky Cake) Android 17 X (Xmas Cookies) Android 18 Y (Yorkshire Pudding) Android 19 Z (Zebra Domes) Beyond Android 20 will be galaxies! Android 20 A (Andromeda) Android 21 B (Barnard's Galaxy) Android 22 C (Comet Galaxy) There i go :D
My Favorite Android was Android 4.1 and 4.2 especially for Tablets Like my old Asus Tablet the Design was amazing. I Miss the Design where the notification bar was on the upper right. Honeycomb was also great.
I would really like the exact same concept about "Eras of iOS UI". Seems like you would be a fan of skeuomorphism. And yes, Material Design and the introduction of the Paper Cut Era with Android Lollipop was so beautiful yet so practical. Seeing todays icons for example, it's shocking how they lost almost all their distinctive features.
The papercut era reminds me of the first times I used a tablet when I was younger. Those were good memories! This design era is the best!! I also do like holo era, it reminds me of my first smartphone, but I don't associate holo with my first smartphone as papercut with my first tablet!
this is probably the first time I've had someone share my opinion this much! While the paper look is definitely the nicest feeling one, the modern designs are also very nice. not my favorite but still nice. But I do hope that it changes in the future, because I feel like the new ons look a bit childish overall I very much agree with you.
Thus brought back so many memories from be starting my android usage on a Walmart Brand 4.1 Jellybean (and some parts on my friend's 4.0 Ice-cream Sandwich Phone) Up until I got My first Samsung One UI Phone I miss the iconic Android feeling and the base UI of Android but One UI brings some of the old things from older Android OS UI and I'm on a Samsung Galaxy One UI 5.0 Android 13 and I feel like I'm using a Android Pie from my old Nokia Man thus brought back So much nostalgia
for me, my most favorite ui era is the holo at 1st place and papercut at 2nd, 3rd come to pre holo, 4th is primitive, 5th is material U and 6th is no frills
Great video thanks! you could do a video comparing Samsung One UI on android 12 with the stock Android 12 UI, I think you'll have a lot to talk about there
I love the paper cut era as much as you do too! What I love about it is like you're opening a book or a letter instead of digital device because of the paper like feel to it. I especially love the colorful icons because they give off that individual unique personalities. I'm really not a fan of themed icons 'cause they look so uniform and bland. The only things I like about Material You are the wallpapers and the dynamic widgets especially the turntable music player, the clock and the weather widget
Can you do the golden age of Smart TVs: 2011, 2012, and 2013 as 3 eras? 2014 and 2015 and 2016 destroyed them from smart TVs into TVs with Netflix RU-vid Hulu etc.
Material Design is still used to day, by a different name. It has evolved over the years from the 'papercut' look you describe to Material You. 'Papercut' is MD 1, Later 'No-Frills' is 2, and Material You is 3
My list would go something like: Primitive Era - 3/10 Pre Holo Era - 4/10 Holo Era - 6/10 Papercut Era - 8/10 No Frills Era - 8/10 Material You Era - 9/10 (Especially after Android 13)
UIs will change dramatically once we all switch to AR instead of using flat screens.. more organic and "frutiger aero" designs will come back for sure, also will utilize the fact that we won't be limited to 2d, so many UI elements will be 3d and animated
Trends usually go in circles, so a comeback of frutiger aero is certainly possible. But I just prefer the clean, minimalistic looks of today's UI's. I think it it timeless. But only time will tell :)
I highly doubt AR will gain as much mainstream traction as some want you to believe. Kinda like Facebook's Metaverse - way too drastic of a change that nobody really asked for, just done in the name of "innovation" and attracting people to your products. That is not to say AR is completely useless; but from niche uses to becoming a mainstream way of viewing things, I highly doubt.
@@fl570 I think the VR/AR movement was too early. Right now, the entry cost is too high. That's why VR/AR headsets aren't widespread. But maybe in 10-20 years they could be.
The Material Design and Papercut is just lovely, I miss that design and someday I kind of hope Google would come to it and make it a optional theme for their upcoming devices, it's simple, but also has color and character, And to this day it still looks modern.
I agree with you on Android 12 so much. the power menu had so many useful features, Google pay and your home appliances right there... and now it's just a waste of a "hotkey" with just three buttons with diminute icons.
