Assuming Google hasn't gotten bored and dropped Android support by then. They never seem to stick with anything for too long. As it is, they've been trying (and failing) to essentially replace it with Chrome OS (but then, let's see for how long they continue to support THAT). For instance, I don't think I'll ever forgive them for giving up on tablet support when Samsung followed right behind them and made Dex.
hoho my xiaomi redmi 5 plus is originally android 8.1 or called oreo, but because there is a custom rom I use it and the stable version becomes android 11 everything works normally, maybe I will get android 12 too
The first time i turned on my first Windows Phone device i fell in love with the design. 6 years later i still miss it and sometimes turn on the old phone just to look at it and feel nostalgic.
As far as I know, this would be possible, but also extremely difficult, mostly because of the hardware blobs, HALs and kernels that are built for newer Android versions and would not work with older versions. So in the absolute best scenario, ROMs based on older versions of Android would boot succesfully but otherwise they would be borderline useless since pretty much everything else would be broken, like phone calls, internet access, camera etc.
@@mavericu_ you could go one android version down presuming another device from the same manufacturer with the same chipset has launched with an older android version
Android KitKat... my favorite version till date. Have lots of memories with my Galaxy tab 2 along with tonns of tweaking with Xposed modules! After that with the update of lollipop, Xposed almost got demolished for sometime (at least for me 😢)
I also started on Android 4 (KitKat), now I'm on Android 12 with my Galaxy A23. Also, which Android 4 are you talking about, there are two of them - Jelly Bean & KitKat?
I wish I could either get the concept showcase for Material Design or the Honeycomb style on my phone. Polar opposites, I know, but the two extrememes that I love.
Nougat's Material Design was my favorite, when it wasn't all white. Oreo and up just look bland. Hopefully 12's Material You will be the next great thing. Also, when will Google or Custom ROM devs (like LineageOS team) and app devs make the dark theme more unified across the entire system? I mean, I can have the Settings and System UI in pitch black, but the Dialer is a dark grey instead, and Messaging is a lighter shade of that dark grey, while 3rd party apps have their own shades of dark grey. Substratum is no longer an option for me.
My first smartphone was a gingerbread. When I was jealous of my ICS friends... Then I got a kitkat, Then lollipop, Then nougat Then the updates didn't seem to have any visual differences. It's all the same to me now. I don't even know which version I have now...
back in 2014, Android Lollipop was the most beautiful thing android fans had ever seen. It's hard to bring back the same amount of excitement nowadays.
Spot on. I hated every single look - even at the time - until Material Design. My first Google phone was the Pixel XL but I was never excited about updating to a new version on day one until now.
Every so often I consider getting a Nexus One again, just to tinker with. It was such a fascinating piece of hardware back then, especially compared to the HTC Hero, which had such unbearable lag, that it was next to impossible to use after a certain point
God, that HTC desire brought back some memories. It was my first (actually usable) Android smartphone. One thing I really miss is the news widget. It always felt like I was caught up unlike other news aggregators today.
Everything was indeed exciting. Now we're so stuck up on specs and what now. A phone that would have been considered impossible back then would get reviewed as the "worst" phone. It's mind boggling
@@danasvah exactly. Reviewers will talk about how “slow” a phone is when it’s faster then flagships used to be. Plus every phone is giant and exactly the same now.
Amazing evolution-I am here from watching iOS 1-15 (I had Nexus S for two months) and as I knew at this moment actually for few years now the inovation reached peak/barrier like every product does. But leaps at the beggining were mindblowing
This takes me back! I thought Gingerbread, Honeycomb and especially Ice Cream Sandwich were all the best possibly designs that they could have come up with.
As an iOS user I'm really envious of the material you theme, it's very clean and flat which is my design language. As for why I don't use an android phone then? I'll leave that to your thoughts as I don't wanna start a silly comment war.
I’ve always been anti Apple and used Symbian, maemo/meego, sailfish and then android Once Htc and Nokia were done I switched over to Apple a year ago Even tho I knew what I was getting I have to say iOS only started to grow on me once I used it I don’t think I’ll ever get something else now but this new android update looks absolutely stunning (alltho heavily influenced by iOS and sailfish) I just hope Apple has a good answer for that as this is the first time android looks better than iOS to since design is apples flagship Even tho I really really like the look of this new android version I’m cautious I liked a lot of android versions (holo ui and all the material versions) but what I absolutely started to hate was how android started to look and behave after some months of usage even tho I always invested a lot of time in maintaining it the way it is supposed to work. It’s sort of like the old Windows mobile 6,5 which had a nice lookin homescreen ui but once you dig a little deeper it was an obvious mess Let’s see if this version is the same If Htc or Nokia would make a decent flagship I might be back tho I think it’s unlikely
I'm apparently in the minority, but I really don't like a lot of the new look of Android 12. It's pushed me back to iOS, which I think looks way better (as does One UI).
@Cody and William Murphy Even in android you don't need to tinker, customisation is an added feature and all the essential apps works great on both the platforms but the privacy sentiment is changing after apple announced CSAM
I remember trying Andriod for the first time back in 2012 and being sorely disappointed. It just didn't compare to the fluid iPhone. But now, I've just switched from iPhone to the Samsung S22 Ultra and I'm blown away!!
My journey started with HTC Magic 1.5 Cupcake without HTC UI. It was so barebone but I were so excited. It already felt like a handy computer in my pocket :D
I have been using Android since Nougat. My phone is stuck on Oreo and isn't getting any further updates. I use an older Huawei phone that still has access to Google services. Don't judge me.
I think every non-Nexus/Pixel user is laughing at Android 12 right now. They finally managed, after they broke all support for Substratum, to add a native theme engine that's as barebones as barebones can be. Remember HTC's theme engine? You were able to make your own themes, share your themes with others and everything was fully customizable. It didn't have those fixed colors chosen by some AI. You were able to choose the colors YOU wanted, not what the phone thought you wanted. If they really want to market this pseudo-customization like it truly is, they should rename it into "Material AI", because there is no "you" in that, there is no user input.
I kind of agree. Even Samsung One UI 2.1 on Android 10 was very theme friendly (not the terrible One UI 3.1, not going to talk about that). This looks more like Material Google. If it's really Material You, you would be able to change the shapes and use Substratum themes without root. (On Android 8 Oreo you can use Substratum without root and then Google killed this feature on 9 Pie). Or at least Google should give the power users a more complicated theme engine like Telegram's theme engine. I miss Holo Blue and Holo UI.
For anyone that still says Android is slow and laggy, they haven't used any Android in the past 3 or 4 years lol My first Android was a Blu Advance 5.0 that cost $60. Ran Android 5 out of the box. While it didn't have the fastest specs or largest memory, it was still snappy. Fast forward to today owning a Pixel 4XL, Galaxy S10, and OnePlus 5T, I can only say the experience has gotten so good that I take for granted how far we've come.
NGL, I miss the free shape app icons, call it whatever you like but I got used to recognize apps by the shape of their icon and different colours used, now all icons are just a circle and even Google apps are white with an abstract shape using the comany's colour scheme that to me, just tells me nothing, IDK but those big and unique icos is what made the UI so special and different than iOS, but hey that's just me.
Has anyone ever wondered that most of the operating systems like Windows, Android, iOS, etc. all used 3d icons and 3d designs back then in old days. But now, it's just all flat. Why?
What a great trip down memory lane! I remember seeing the 1st drastic change when I bought my Nexus 7 which was my first all Google device that was made by Asus. I believe it was one of the first ones that had jelly Bean and I was in love. I do believe that us droid folks are knocking on Apples door and I see more switches coming with the pixel 6 than ny other device thus far. I'm quite excited for the materialU in Android 12. I won't benefit too much on my s21 but I am going to definitely pick up a 6 pro if there are any left in stock LOL. I'm not entirely sure if it's just my personal algorithm but it does seem as if there is a lot of talk about this phone from both sides. I've been happily using gcam ports on Samsung hardware since the S8 and after purchasing my girlfriend a pixel 4a 5G I was blown away at the fast shutter speed that made me seek a different camera than the stock on Samsung. I work with dogs so naturally taking multiple pictures just to get one has always been the norm but the software working on the intended hardware is phenomenal. Sorry for the novel, fantastic video as always!
i honestly skipped Android 5.0 and waited until phones with 7.0 started to appear. not that 7.0 was anything special, but those phones got android 8.0 which meant rootless access to Substratum themes. that made it possible to get dark material without root on android 8.0. needless to say that i was SO happy when android 10 came with it's build in dark theme. i was so annoyed with Material decing on 5.0 lollipop because it was way too bright and white, especially on those nice amoled screens. glad that today we have the option to go either with that light or dark theme option, thing that SHOULD have been there on the start when they started to imagine 5.0 design.
In practice android 12 has about 5 different accent primary colours with various secondary colour options, so it's hardly you customising it yourself. Frankly, android 12 allowing you to pick the icon shape and accent colour was better
I mostly love material you, but I'm really not a fan of the monochrome home screen icons. I think the app backgrounds should a low saturation background, with low saturation but different colored icons. That way each app can still be distinguished by color, and it won't look horrible with 3rd party apps
My first Android phone, was when I was in middle school I think, it was my sister's old phone when she upgraded, android 2.3.5 I think maybe 2.3.4, and i spent so long trying to root it so I could flash a custom ROM, but that update was not able to be rooted, sadly
One UI 2.1 on Android 10 looks good. One UI 3.1 on Android 11 looks cheap. Stock Android 11 looks good (if you change the system colour accent) Stock Android 12 looks cheap. sigh…
@@msaudtahir Exactly. So far I haven't been able to beautify the visual appearance of One UI 3.1 despite Samsung's advanced Theme Park (theming engine) and my favourite 🤖Holo Blue colour accents… Even more annoying for me is that since One UI 2.5, the virtual ⌨️ cursor no longer has haptic feedback and it floats vaguely - like a PC mouse cursor - over the letters I'm trying to edit. Basically extremely frustrating to type and edit anything. And then in One UI 3.1 the option to disable the 📸 selfie camera cutout (notch) is just removed! Gone with no explanation! Don't even get me started on the rest… even the 🔊🎚️volume panel was much better in One UI 2.1 with Sound Assistant.
Huawei actually created material u bc in the EMUI 11 ad you see all the colours that match each other like all shades of pink are shown in sections and that how Google got it they gave Google info about it bc before the ban they was making a smart speaker and they gave eachother ideas for there devices
Still, the best experience for me (read it, experience) is KitKat @ OG Nexus 5! My first clean android phone, just shame that Google won't enter my country because I really really like Pixel 5 & 5A!
I'd really love to be able to go back to the old designs.. they looked ugly for sure, but still, they kinda remind me of old, more peaceful times. Kinda Nostalgic.
