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The biggest problem is that android is not focusing on the low end where most of their users are. They need to make the UX on these older and slower devices _be
by waynenilsen 7y ago
The biggest problem is that android is not focusing on the low end where most of their users are. They need to make the UX on these older and slower devices _better_ with every update, not worse
- noxToken 7y agoWouldn't that be up to the device manufacturer and in the case of the app themselves, the app devs? Samsung has TouchWiz and LG has (I think it's called) Home. There are 3rd party launchers available to download that will use a smaller footprint. I had an older HTC phone that was great for dev testing perf on lower end devices. It had a terrible memory leak that caused the phone to run slower overall, and you had to make numerous tweaks to fix it. One of them was to replace the default launcher. It made an immediate difference. Although I do concede that Google's apps are terrible for lower end devices.
- zaarn 7y agoOn the low end there is Android One, which does take out all the bloatware that slows down most of the low end. It's pretty good in my opinion.
- slezyr 7y agoMay be you meant Android Go? Android One is full of google's own bloatware.
- zaarn 7y agoI guess you've never had the pleasure of all the bloatware that OEM's put into low end phones? The last samsung phone I bought had 2GB free of 8GB on delivery, almost all of that space being used by their bloat. Google's own software isn't that heavy in comparison and Android One comes with very little of it, most of which you can still disable.