We still need customized interfaces in Android? – Tudocelular.com

There was a time, more or less up to version 2.3 of Android, the operating system was half feinho and not a very nice guy. The problem was solved with beautiful interfaces and full of functions, yet it helped to differentiate your smartphone from the company X to company Y Ok, now Android has evolved (enough) and interfaces remain almost intact, weighing too much in the internal memory and consuming much of the performance that the hardware shown. After all, we still need such a different Android than Google creates

Let’s be honest: Android was ugly until version 4.0 – to consider giving 3.0 as an initial effort to change, but he appeared? only for tablets and not all models launched, then consider the 4.0 as the beginning of change for the end consumer. It was square, with a computer guy (who reminded me of Windows Mobile) and it was not so friendly to the eye, as was the iOS, its biggest competitor of all time. To meet this aesthetic side and still deliver a lot more features than Google had thought to your handset (as even the ability to capture screen, impossible to natively until recently), the companies decided to invest heavily in modified interfaces. In addition to solving this side, still put the smartphone company X with basically the same hardware of your competitor, but with a totally different machine from company Y. This visual works and users clearly understand that the smartphone from LG, for example, is not made by Samsung, Motorola, HTC and Huawei. The same goes for any other company. It worked.

However, Google noted that many of these resources could arrive natively on Android and without the need for root or external application, along with a beautiful and modern interface, which put the iOS front of the eyes in a rivalry match. Android 4.0 has arrived and it happened. He was cute. In future versions, improvements in hardware management software still raised the technical part to function much better shape. Gave further right against Apple and competition became increasingly fierce. On the other hand, the manufacturers have not changed their interface, added features and left everything getting heavier. Consider a basket of eggs, which gets increasingly more eggs and do not increase their capacity in the same proportion. It’s almost that.

The most representative of this interface has not evolved that line is the TouchWiz. Samsung changed some lines, removed some features that overflowed when they appeared in droves at the Galaxy S4, put a stoned look that started there in Windows Phone and was soon adopted by iOS 7. But look how much longer this all-consuming performance, and this is a giant problem – growing even more

Launching the Galaxy S5 when I was in Barcelona (since the spokesperson for Samsung still has not sent in the unit and this is why. just so that we do not have review of it), played with the gadget for a few minutes. Yielded a nice video, a hands-on and a smug feeling that hardware that is almost as powerful as my computer can not run Android in its flat shape. For more you can use four cores to well over 2 GHz, accompanied by 2GB of RAM, the interface does not rotate with the expected flow of such a powerful device. Yes, he received resources and tools that consume the hardware, but the same hardware grew in proportion and performance has not kept up. Guilty? The Android? There but the interface. Doubt it? Look how much occupies Android on Nexus as the Nexus 5. A little over 3 GB occupied for the operating system and its native resources. When you look at a 16GB model of the Galaxy S5, is free to use, which closes in an account of almost 5 GB of space occupied by an interface only 8 GB. Ultimately, as an interface with 5 GB of occupied space can occupy little performance over an operating system that does not even get to 4 GB?

Yesterday LG launched its latest flagship , the G3. The machine Optimus UI brings a reworked user interface and other resources – as a part of notifications in a widget, which is outside the area of ??Android notifications. LG, unlike Samsung, learned and cut some (many) resources to alleviate the burden of the interface, but added others recently. We have a quad core processor running at 2.5 GHz and 3 GB of RAM (almost the same thing as the computer editing this text, which runs a much heavier operating system than Android), which should make Android more smoother than any other hardware (even better than the Nexus 5, which has lower hardware), but this is not the reality. The animations do not run smoothly than a Windows Phone, for example, can in their transitions. Fails to catch, as in TouchWiz, but the most observant and quick eye, it appears that there is a smooth as it should be. The culprit? The hardware? No, the interface.

If you look at some brands like Huawei and ZTE, the situation is even worse. Android is so modified, but modified so that it arrives with visible rotating crashes when you are on a dual-core 1.2 GHz (remember that the iPhone 5 is on a dual-core 1.3 GHz with 1 GB RAM and much better wheel, with basically the same hardware). Windows Phone follows a more similar to what Apple and BlackBerry are standard, limiting the tools of their manufacturers for some apps, without modifying the interface. It works and the operating system runs without crashing, smooth.

When using a Nexus 5, which had for some time on my hands, I noticed how smooth is Android on a hardware last year, but with wheel transition animations smoother than flagship this year – which received better processor, more RAM and more GPU higher wattage. The culprit? The lack of a modified interface. Another company that goes by the hand to clean your operating system to ensure better performance with a not very expensive hardware to manufacture, is Motorola. The Moto G has far superior performance to all its direct competitors, even with a cooler price and a simple guy. The culprit? Almost any software modification. The Moto X came with hardware average cost, but hit the front with the top equipment line of its year. Running games such as heavy and with an Android without crashing. The culprit? The clean, almost pure. Android

Some of these changes, such as TouchWiz itself, does not allow uninstall apps that already come pre-installed. They are there, take up memory and you have no choice to take to open space and install a nifty game that just came out. Are there and if you do not accept this, there is no choice -. Unless switch manufacturer

Finally, suffer most from this type of customization is using a low cost. He no longer has a powerful hardware and still have to deal with a heavy, clumsy interface, which does not always fit the icons correctly on the screen, low resolution – remembering that the modified interface could be optimized for small screens and low resolution, solving this problem. The user experience on a gadget such as the Galaxy Ace of life, is always problematic and locked.

Well, with so many negative and heavy side, there is something that still saves the modified Android? Yes, there are good reasons to continue with a fat interface features: antivos some apps work better and there are more features that Android has created. An example is the quality of the camera of the latest handsets from the Galaxy line and G, LG. Much of the good quality comes from the image sensor, which is not much different on both devices, but the bulk of income is in post-processing, where the software created by the manufacturer into action. It is he who makes the Galaxy S5, for example, focus so fast. It is he who causes the sensor to capture as many frames per second (both manufacturers). On the side of Samsung, there is the fingerprint reader, which is a solution from Samsung and not Android.

Anyway, there are negatives too heavy, but there is a balance in hand with others that are worth pen. The big question of need, is that there are some apps that already do something similar (just yet), created by Google itself or other companies. Returning to the example of camera, have the camera app from Google, which is much better than the native Nexus.

The big advantage of Android is filing offer more performance without the need to increase the hardware itself – that’s why (one reason, there are other strong well) that the iPhone 5S has almost the same hardware of the iPhone 5, which would be an average cost of Android, and it runs a lot better shape than many Androids much more stocky. Motorola goes this way, unnecessary strip, puts only what you really need and the end result is a stocky smartphone, less abusive price. On the other hand, you have a Swiss Army knife – much more than it should have -. Changed the interface, with the weight on the overall performance

Which side are you going? Would you rather have everything you need (and what does not, without the possibility of taking these apps), or go into something cleaner and search solutions of their need for Google Apps Play

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