Android 12 is where they started making everything worse with the quick action and settings redesign, and it’s been going downhill since.

  • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOP
    7·
    8 hours ago

    AFAIK, it’s just the base Android UI because it’s the same in LineageOS and vanilla builds.

    • The quick actions have gone to hell. There’s nothing quick about them anymore and customizing them is even worse than it already was.
    • Every UI element is oversized and seems made for the hot doggiest of hotdog fingers
    • The organization of the settings, especially the network/mobile settings, somehow makes even less sense than before
    • You can’t configure a wifi profile without a gateway. God forbid I want to do anything on a local network.
    • You can’t disable the connectivity checker and Android treats not being able to reach Google with not having internet. And if there’s no internet, you have about 5 seconds to catch the prompt to stay connected otherwise it’ll disconnect.
    • Even if you do catch the prompt to stay connected to the no-internet wifi, the DNS resolver will not use its DNS server unless you’re in airplane mode. I’ve got a RasPi-based “internet in a box” mobile server that’s useless when accessing it via my phone (unless in airplane mode) because I had the sheer audacity to configure it to use proper DNS hostnames and SSL certs.
    • The wallpaper / background config is just awful nowadays. I don’t know if that’s “Material You” or what, but just let me pick an image or no image or a solid color. Don’t present 3 different apps to handle changing the background, two of which do nothing.
    • On the Google side, they’re shoving more Gemini shit in
    • Now Google is gatekeeping even the apps you want to sideload
    • Even with animations disabled, there’s still too many animations/transitions. I’m using an e-ink phone and this alone just destroys the experience.
    • Gesture navigation is just terrible but at least you can dig through the settings to re-enable 3 button nav
    • A litany of other small gripes
    • ElectricMachman@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 hour ago

      I know it barely scratches the surface, but the Accessibility settings menu has an option to disable animations. Failing that, there are settings within Developer Options (yes, I know) to speed up or disable most animations.

      • Iced Raktajino@startrek.websiteOP
        1·
        56 minutes ago

        Yeah, I’ve got all those turned off. Actually, they came disabled by default (one of the OS customizations Minimal does in their base image). I usually turn those to at least .5x on my other phones to make things feel faster, lol, but in this case, they were already off.

        But there’s still subtle transitions and some animations that aren’t affected by that. One of the latter is the animations on the lock screen when you’re entering your pin. Those have to be disabled separately in the security settings (and weren’t disabled by default by Minimal).