I'm just kind of sick of Android in general, tbh. Google has killed off almost everything that made it fun to play with new Android versions, and somehow made it less intuitive/easy to use for advanced/experienced users in the constant pursuit of - ironically - ease of use. For example: why is it now a swipe and three taps to disable wifi in the Quick Settings panel, when previously it was a swipe and one tap?
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It drives me nuts that I need to drag down twice to adjust screen brightness. It just feels icky to do that second drag, even hiding the brightness slider behind a button would be better.
I don’t like material or material you. They feel confused and they mix layers on top of your content which gets in the way to me. I don’t like the loud colour sections on headers against the stark white content backgrounds, it’s all too much.
Despite fear of sounding snooty, material is bauhaus design without the authentic materials, and the design elements are so focused on purism of being “material” that they forget they could be straightforward.
I didn't like it a ton initially, but after seeing the new Sync for Reddit redesign, and seeing how perfectly they've implemented it, I love it. Props to the Sync dev, they really got the idea behind Material You. Can't wait for the alpha of Sync for Lemmy.
i don't completely hate it, but seeing the same same UI in every app doesn't feel good.
Ironically, one of the reasons I left Reddit in the first place was because I knew that old.reddit.com was going to be next on the chopping block and I hated the new design.
I'm resigned to the fact that I won't be able to avoid that aesthetic, even with a move to Lemmy since old.lemmy.world obviously doesn't exist (I'd love it though).
No, I love it.
I love Material You when apps are designed to work with Monet color theming and use the default system navigation bar. Apps that deviate from that become an eye sore.
That being said, Material isn't my favorite design language for mobile OSes. I still prefer interfaces based on layers of gaussian blur, like iOS 7, Windows' Aero and similar.
I'm pragmatic, as long as it's easy on the eyes and conducive to read (in the sense in which you "read" an image, can't think of a better word), I'm good. I have always tended to cram everything and the kitchen sink in one screen and the push for material you has taught me the importance of a clean composition.
For now I'm good, but I'm open to change.
Reading from an app that uses material you design
I like it. I wish it was a little more customizable though. How much larger you want your headlines to be, for example. But I guess that's up to app developers.
All in all a pretty nice and comfy looking design language I think.
What's the biggest difference between Material and Material You, other than the custom colorization?
- Most corners are more rounded by default, especially buttons, which are pills now instead of rectangles. You could make them pills before and they offered examples showing how to do it, but hardly anyone did.
- Buttons are a little bigger, and there's a little more padding between most things.
- There are more transition effects, making apps feel a bit more fluid and "interesting", in a good way, I think.
- Nav bars and rails do a much better job of highlighting the active item, by adding a pill-shaped background behind it. (This one addresses a frequent complaint that I received when using material components on websites.)
- The rest is somewhere between "exactly the same" and "really minor", but the minor changes vaguely contribute to a different feel from before.
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I love it and I wish more apps used it, it's actually a really good design interface and android's bigger problem is design fracturing than any particular design paradigm being bad. So many iOS apps feel like part of the same platform, and so many reddit apps are still using fucking holo UI
Give me back Android 7, just in dark mode
I'm still liking it a lot.
I like it. I'd like it even more if it one day accomplishes the goal of making every application on an Android phone look graphically consistent.
I didn't think I'd like it but I really do
I like it, I don't know
It's alright, but I'm not obsessed with having everything conform to it like some people are
I'm not really a fan, there's too much empty space. I really like the Android 10 look and feel, but I understand that was for smaller devices.
I thought it looked really weird before I got to use it, and I still think that, now that both the apps I use, and my OS, have received the updated to M-You. I think it uses the available space horribly, and the color schemes it attempts to provide never feel like what I want
Absolutely like it. This design is very cool and has huge potential
My main issue is the lack of good contrast, it really hurts.
After having just upgraded to Linage OS on my OP 7 Pro, I am actually enjoying Material You. It's a nice change.
When MY first comes out everyone around seems to be a huge fan of it. I thought I was the one who got ancient tastes.
I love it
Same, I like how playful it can be