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Just want to know if I can have an iOS like OS on my Incredible. I'm aware I have an android, and if I really wated iOS I would get an iPhone. And I'm aware of MIUI, I'm currently running it.
If you you're aware you have an Android and if you really want iOS you would get an iPhone AND you're already running MIUI.....I think you answered your own question.
Keyboards said:
Just want to know if I can have an iOS like OS on my Incredible. I'm aware I have an android, and if I really wated iOS I would get an iPhone. And I'm aware of MIUI, I'm currently running it.
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To actually answer your question MIUI is the closest you can get to iOS like functionality, and there's nothing else out there even close.
If there's a specific feature you're looking for you can post and see if it has been implemented in an app or theme.
There's Android for iPhone, but porting the other way is much more difficult due to the closed nature of Apple's development process.
Ok, so what exactly did you answer? Besides MIUI which he obviously already knows about and doesn't except as an iOS replacement.
ITT ppl r saying "no".
I think..
Keyboards said:
Just want to know if I can have an iOS like OS on my Incredible. I'm aware I have an android, and if I really wated iOS I would get an iPhone. And I'm aware of MIUI, I'm currently running it.
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Try the iphone icons evo theme on top of miui. Gets it to look more like an iphone if that's what you want. It will be kinky like having your girlfriend wear a blonde wig over her brown hair.
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khanam said:
Try the iphone icons evo theme on top of miui. Gets it to look more like an iphone if that's what you want. It will be kinky like having your girlfriend wear a blonde wig over her brown hair.
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I may be wrong, but I'd assume the main reason he'd want it would be to run one of the many iOS exclusive apps.
In that case, an iOS app emulator seems much more likely to me, as any xda dev regardless of their device could work on it, rather than just one of our Inc devs porting the whole OS himself.
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I may be wrong, but I'd assume the main reason he'd want it would be to run one of the many iOS exclusive apps.
In that case, an iOS app emulator seems much more likely to me, as any xda dev regardless of their device could work on it, rather than just one of our Inc devs porting the whole OS himself.
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From the op it seems he wants an iOS like OS not ios itself?
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Buy an iPhone.
/thread.
why would u want a crappy operating system on ur fantastic hardware?
People, lighten up. It's not a bad question.
As far as I know, Android can be dual booted on a Jail Broken iPhone. It doesn't work the other way unfortunately.
If you ONLY want something that looks like that god awful OS (but it's still and Android OS), go with MIUI.
P.S. If iOS can be ported on a Android Phone, I would do it. Just for the sake of having it.
UndergroundWire said:
If iOS can be ported on a Android Phone, I would do it. Just for the sake of having it.
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Exactly. Why not have a phone that could do both
I was wondering if was even possible, i noticed that verizon doesn't even have a windows mobile 7 phone and i'd like to play with it for a bit and yes the whole xbox live thing interests me
Then you will have to wait for verizon to have a WP7 Phone. Even if a rom was somehow ported over and made to work with the Increbile, it would be very limited, and it's already been said that the xbox live function would not be able to work. I don't have the link for it but a quick google search should net you that information.
Bobboman said:
I was wondering if was even possible, i noticed that verizon doesn't even have a windows mobile 7 phone and i'd like to play with it for a bit and yes the whole xbox live thing interests me
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Bobboman, that would be an interesting concept. I wrote the thread regarding possibly porting over a BBerry 6 styled UI, but no takers and don't even know if it is possible at that.
MIUI gives you an iPhoneish experience and that makes me believe if somebody invested their time in prepping such a ROM resembling WP7 or BBerry 6, it could be accomplished. Again, i'm just speculating here, but I like where your head is at and I too look forward to anything our crazy bad ass Dev's come up with.
it really would, i did like MIUI but at the same time it felt way too much like the Iphone for me to continue using it though my ex girlfriend is using it on her droid OG
Bobboman said:
it really would, i did like MIUI but at the same time it felt way too much like the Iphone for me to continue using it though my ex girlfriend is using it on her droid OG
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I had the same issue. The trick to miui is using the aosp elements theme. No more iPhoney icons.
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There is a WP7 theme, if you just want the look. The info is in Android Themes and Apps.
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Bobboman, that would be an interesting concept. I wrote the thread regarding possibly porting over a BBerry 6 styled UI, but no takers and don't even know if it is possible at that.
MIUI gives you an iPhoneish experience and that makes me believe if somebody invested their time in prepping such a ROM resembling WP7 or BBerry 6, it could be accomplished. Again, i'm just speculating here, but I like where your head is at and I too look forward to anything our crazy bad ass Dev's come up with.
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Cooking a ROM that has a similar feel to WP7 and actually porting it (which is what the OP wants) are two entirely different animals. Customizing the appearance of the UI is one thing... actually implementing the functionality that's core to WP7 is an entirely different animal. Since WP7 is not open source, a successful port is extremely problematic at best... even Android to Android ports have their limitations (such as those found in the Desire Z ports).
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Cooking a ROM that has a similar feel to WP7 and actually porting it (which is what the OP wants) are two entirely different animals. Customizing the appearance of the UI is one thing... actually implementing the functionality that's core to WP7 is an entirely different animal. Since WP7 is not open source, a successful port is extremely problematic at best... even Android to Android ports have their limitations (such as those found in the Desire Z ports).
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Thanks for actually trying to explain the difficulty in porting such a ROM instead of bashing me for asking or proposing a similiar idea.
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Thanks for actually trying to explain the difficulty in porting such a ROM instead of bashing me for asking or proposing a similiar idea.
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No bashing here. Some rabid purists would say, "If you want the ____ experience, you should buy a ____ phone". Hell, one of the main bennies of our phones is customization.
Like I said though, it would be possible for someone with talent (that I admittantly lack) to come up with a similar UI. But without access to source, porting the functionality that we'd want from WP7 isn't especially probable.
thanks for explaining that najaboy i figured that it was as simple as getting ahold of stock windows mobile 7 giving it the Inc drivers and going from there
i saw that the HD2 is running it so i thought it might be possible to bring it to the inc even with basic functionality if i knew how to even attempt it i would my self
and yea themeing is not something i'm interested in, i do like the stock look of android but windows mobile 7 would be fun to play with i think
and saying if you like it so much why don't you buy it is such a stupid thing to say as 1) verizon doesn't have it and 2) when i upgraded to the incredible windows mobile 7 wasn't even out yet
Came across this a few minutes ago, it's basically a post your homescreen affair similar to alot of threads throughout xda...but for iPhones.
Just found it funny how the author expressses his joy at seeing different "customisations" on the iphone when they all look pretty much the same...
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/37signals/beMH/~3/WpE-PQf3Yes/2913-the-home-screens-of-37signals
Now compare with any post your homescreen thread on xda for laughs.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1055084
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Excellent!
Apple. Think Different.......
If you really wanna see some iphone homescreens then look at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1114377&page=107
that url you posted is pretty damn old
goa200 said:
If you really wanna see some iphone homescreens then look at http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1114377&page=107
that url you posted is pretty damn old
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The URL is 4 days old..?! Not really "pretty damn old". And yes, those screens in ur link look nice, but they are jailbroken..soooo...that isn't quite the same. U don't need to root ur android, to change icons, Widgets, themes etc..
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I wonder when apple will introduce this revolutionary feature called widgets, can't imagine staring at an app drawer all the time.
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I wonder when apple will introduce this revolutionary feature called widgets, can't imagine staring at an app drawer all the time.
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Soon apparently. I love my gs2, and have no desire to go back to a iOS device BUT don't forget how far ahead the iphone was in 2007 when it came out. Apple is a wildcard and can come out of nowhere with some amazing tech. That said I don't think ios5 will draw many android users back, its just to late.
This is why android open source will eventually bring the sales of iphones to rock bottom..
There are so many factors why android is far superior ..
The only people that buy iphones are the ones that had no interest in changing there phones..
Lets not forget though that the iphone set the ball rolling for all our phones ...
Saying that...it didn't really warrant a new thread in the SGS 2 themes thread..you should of posted in the iphone forums ..
I hate Apple and everything, but some of the Android fanboys in this thread are as bad as Apple fanboys. OP for instance, this thread has no use but to bash the iPhone.
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Soon apparently. I love my gs2, and have no desire to go back to a iOS device BUT don't forget how far ahead the iphone was in 2007 when it came out. Apple is a wildcard and can come out of nowhere with some amazing tech. That said I don't think ios5 will draw many android users back, its just to late.
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I'm really looking forward to this feature on iOS !
Or rather, I'm really looking forward to seeing Google or HTC sue Apple
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OP for instance, this thread has no use but to bash the iPhone.
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Yeah. And...?
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Yeah. And...?
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And since it's in no way related to the SGS2, and is only about the iPhone, it belongs in an iPhone forum, or maybe in general/offtopic discussion on xda. Not in the SGS2 Themes and Apps forum.
I did have some fun looking at it though ^^
Even though I'm a GS2 owner, I think this thread is a bit sad.
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lol - they all look the same.
I customised my homescreen for my iphone 4 when i had it and i actually went and changed a lot of the default icons from the ones i picked. It took me a while to figure out where the system folders were kept to change each icon individually.
with android every home screen is pretty much different.
I heard the IOS 5 will support Widgets and better notifications as part of the change list.
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I didn't know where to take this, but since I kinda live here I thought I'd ask you guys, it's sort of a dumb general question I've been wondering.
I'm not sure what goes into an OS, I mean, we have TouchWiz and AOSP and it seems like whether you go one way or another you're stuck in either the TouchWiz or AOSP world. I know there is Sense as well (and maybe more I don't know of) and there are people trying to port that over but this all leads to my actual question. What is stopping one of you from making your own entire OS for the GS3? Now I'm not expecting one, nor am I asking for one, I'm just wondering what is stopping the community from making one. It seems like if I was a developer, I'd have some fun taking a stab at creating an OS. Is it app compatibility? That's the only thing I can think of, but then again I'm not a dev so I don't know squat!
Just a random question I've been mulling over, if it's a futile question then oh well, if it's too much to explain then maybe you can lead me to an article or page where I can read up on it.
I'm just a curious fella.
Ah haha. Don't worry, it's good to be curious. You learn stuff
I think the main reason is that it's an enormous amount of work. I mean, in distributing or creating anything really, there's the prototyping stage-determining what components work best for what the OS will/should feature, the development stage-actually building the OS from the ground up, including drivers, sensors, etc, and then the testing stage-finding and squashing bugs, and making the final adjustments.
It's really a lot of work, and I think thats why we've only seen companies come up with new OSes for Android because they have the time, money, resources, and personnel to get it done and distributed.
I don't think it's like "oh no one has come up with the idea for an OS"...its actually implementing those ideas that is the difficult part
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Ah haha. Don't worry, it's good to be curious. You learn stuff
I think the main reason is that it's an enormous amount of work. I mean, in distributing or creating anything really, there's the prototyping stage-determining what components work best for what the OS will/should feature, the development stage-actually building the OS from the ground up, including drivers, sensors, etc, and then the testing stage-finding and squashing bugs, and making the final adjustments.
It's really a lot of work, and I think thats why we've only seen companies come up with new OSes for Android because they have the time, money, resources, and personnel to get it done and distributed.
I don't think it's like "oh no one has come up with the idea for an OS"...its actually implementing those ideas that is the difficult part
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That's more or less what I figured, well I only figure as much as the part with companies having all the time, resources, and personnel. But I kind of hoped it would be possible for like a group of 10-15 devs to get together a brew up an OS but I guess not. That's cool though I mean I guess you have to respect the OS'es that do exist in today's market, no matter how clunky and full of bloatware they may be.
I've been thinking about this for a while but what prompted me to come here and ask about it is I read this article about how this rag-tag team from Nokia made their own OS and they say in the article that the team hopes to inspire newcomers.
IMO it's still pretty cool, and I think every dev here should have a little hope, maybe companies will start looking to places like XDA to hire developers for their R&D eh?
Anyway thanks for the info CNexus
Keep in mind aosp is the pure system as Google intended it. It's android at its purest form. TW MOTOBLUR SENSE these are all skinned add on to the OS that manufacturers add into it to make it unique. Mostly marketing purposes to say my device is better than that guys because I have these features.
But a true stock aosp rom is Android at its purest, that is how the Nexus line is distributed. When I received my Gnex it was almost perfect as it came not one single app on Sprint bloatware was on the device.
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Keep in mind aosp is the pure system as Google intended it. It's android at its purest form. TW MOTOBLUR SENSE these are all skinned add on to the OS that manufacturers add into it to make it unique. Mostly marketing purposes to say my device is better than that guys because I have these features.
But a true stock aosp rom is Android at its purest, that is how the Nexus line is distributed. When I received my Gnex it was almost perfect as it came not one single app on Sprint bloatware was on the device.
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But isn't installing an AOSP app for TW akin to trying to install a program for windows on a mac? I understand what you're saying, that all the OSes out today are just manipulations of AOSP but aren't they still full fledged operating systems in their own right?
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But isn't installing an AOSP app for TW akin to trying to install a program for windows on a mac? I understand what you're saying, that all the OSes out today are just manipulations of AOSP but aren't they still full fledged operating systems in their own right?
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It's not like Mac vs. Apple Windows... Some apps require you to be running TW while other require Sense. This is because they call upon the modified frameworks to work. I'll provide a story as an illustration.
Back when I had an Evo 4G, I liked the weather animation when unlocking the phone (if it was raining, it'd wipe away water drops when you unlocked the phone: pretty nifty). The only reason that worked is because HTC had modified the framework to allow animations while unlocking. If I was able to decompile the unlock app and try to install it on a TW Rom, it wouldn't work because the basic framework wouldn't be there to back up the commands from the app. The base system was still Android, but that certain app would be calling upon function from the Sense framework while I was running the TW framework.
Although it's tough to find an adequate comparison to the PC world, here's the best I could think of. Some Windows applications require third-party programs to be installed. For instance, if I want to play Minecraft on my computer, I have to have Java installed. Minecraft won't work at all w/o Java, because it calls upon functions that only Java can handle (I know I'm butchering this explanation, but bear with me). If we are making a correlation to our phones, Java would be the modified framework (TW or Sense or Motoblur) and Minecraft would be an app (or mod) that requires the modified framework to run.
All that being said, app developers want their apps to work on as many phones as possible, so the typically don't call upon those framework functions within their apps. So most everything in the Play Store will work on TW, Sense, or Motoblur as well as on AOSP phones.
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The main apps that will rely on frameworks are ones that are bundled with the phone (pretty much all Samsung apps). This is why we don't have those on AOSP roms. Pretty much all of the Samsung apps rely on the TW framework and will not work if it's not there (just like Minecraft won't work if Java is not installed).
I know you didn't mention mods, but they typically rely heavily on frameworks so it's really important to ask if an AOSP mod will work on a TW rom. Most-likely, TW mods will not work on AOSP roms.
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It's not like Mac vs. Apple... Some apps require you to be running TW while other require Sense. This is because they call upon the modified frameworks to work. I'll provide a story as an illustration.
Back when I had an Evo 4G, I liked the weather animation when unlocking the phone (if it was raining, it'd wipe away water drops when you unlocked the phone: pretty nifty). The only reason that worked is because HTC had modified the framework to allow animations while unlocking. If I was able to decompile the unlock app and try to install it on a TW Rom, it wouldn't work because the basic framework wouldn't be there to back up the commands from the app. The base system was still Android, but that certain app would be calling upon function from the Sense framework while I was running the TW framework.
Although it's tough to find an adequate comparison to the PC world, here's the best I could think of. Some Windows applications require third-party programs to be installed. For instance, if I want to play Minecraft on my computer, I have to have Java installed. Minecraft won't work at all w/o Java, because it calls upon functions that only Java can handle (I know I'm butchering this explanation, but bear with me). If we are making a correlation to our phones, Java would be the modified framework (TW or Sense or Motoblur) and Minecraft would be an app (or mod) that requires the modified framework to run.
All that being said, app developers want their apps to work on as many phones as possible, so the typically don't call upon those framework functions within their apps. So most everything in the Play Store will work on TW, Sense, or Motoblur as well as on AOSP phones.
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The main apps that will rely on frameworks are ones that are bundled with the phone (pretty much all Samsung apps). This is why we don't have those on AOSP roms. Pretty much all of the Samsung apps rely on the TW framework and will not work if it's not there (just like Minecraft won't work if Java is not installed).
I know you didn't mention mods, but they typically rely heavily on frameworks so it's really important to ask if an AOSP mod will work on a TW rom. Most-likely, TW mods will not work on AOSP roms.
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Oh wow that makes a ton of sense. Thanks for clearing all that up. Cool, well, I feel like I have a better understanding of all this. Also your explanation wasn't butchered, I'm not entirely inept at technology so I understood it just fine
Thanks everyone
By the way topherk...
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It's not like Mac vs. Apple...
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I think you meant Windows vs Apple
sevenpioverthree said:
Oh wow that makes a ton of sense. Thanks for clearing all that up. Cool, well, I feel like I have a better understanding of all this.
Thanks everyone
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No worries.
I know this is off-topic, but where is your screen-name from? I'm trying to think of the significance of 7 pi /3, rummaging through my history of geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, but can't think of anything that explicitly relies on that number. If you convert (7 pi/3) from radians to degrees, you get 420 degrees... is that the reference?
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By the way topherk...
I think you meant Windows vs Apple
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You're right, I'll edit it.
topherk said:
No worries.
I know this is off-topic, but where is your screen-name from? I'm trying to think of the significance of 7 pi /3, rummaging through my history of geometry, trigonometry, and calculus, but can't think of anything that explicitly relies on that number. If you convert (7 pi/3) from radians to degrees, you get 420 degrees... is that the reference?
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Yeah lol, it's pretty stupid I know. But I am a math minor and a physics major, and I used to enjoy the greens regularly (not so much anymore, as my major gets exceedingly difficult) so I just kinda did the conversion in class one day out of boredom. I might get it as a tattoo just for the laughs, the average person wouldn't even get it and the ones that do will just chuckle and move on
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Yeah lol, it's pretty stupid I know. But I am a math minor and a physics major, and I used to enjoy the greens regularly (not so much anymore, as my major gets exceedingly difficult) so I just kinda did the conversion in class one day out of boredom. I might get it as a tattoo just for the laughs, the average person wouldn't even get it and the ones that do will just chuckle and move on
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Yeah, I've never really been intrigued by the "420 culture" but yours is one of the more clever references that I've seen. Kudos on that, as well as the physics major. I went the engineering route (Structural), but I shared plenty of classes with Physics majors (should've really went for minors in Physics and Math, it was really only 5 or 6 more classes).
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Yeah, I've never really been intrigued by the "420 culture" but yours is one of the more clever references that I've seen. Kudos on that, as well as the physics major. I went the engineering route (Structural), but I shared plenty of classes with Physics majors (should've really went for minors in Physics and Math, it was really only 5 or 6 more classes).
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Yeah well sorry to disappoint you haha but be proud you're only the 2nd one to get the reference. I don't really smoke anymore though gotta focus on school.
That's cool that you did physics too, makes me happy actually. I tell all my friends to pursue a career in science but they all say they hate math, i just want more scientists in the world ): I don't know how people don't see the beauty in math
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PLEASE stop developing and supporting the recent surge in themes and icons imitating iOS.
Have some pride, please.
I'm giving everyone benefit of the doubt that when choosing smartphone, they weighed the options of all different OS' available.
So why are you trying to make the device that you chose look like iOS 7??
If you want a 'pretty' phone, then stop hiding in your Apple closet and convert to full-time Apple fan-boy.
So please have some pride and customize to droid's limitless abilities, and not imitating another's.
I don't like iOS, it is a horrible operating system. But it does look kind of nice. And if anyone wants to have the iOS theme with the android software and hardware then let them. Why do you care if someone else likes the look of iOS or not? Just ignore it.
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I think the idea is to “pick n mix” styles themes ect. To suit personal preferences.
Im have a gingerbread rom on my Xperia play but its using
Jellybean Icons
Jellybean Layouts
Jellybean Status Bar
Jellybean Widgets
Xperia S Apps
Xperia T Keyboard JellyBean Themed
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Im not an apple fan boy but I do like their messaging layout
Apple's gay lol. Period
Ok Apple got there first and built a cool and friendly UI
but ... decided to cash ALL the money for itself.
So is actually part of the normal evolution to copy the IOS UI
On Android, every company (software and manufacturer) can get a
share. And using a cool UI makes people happy on cheaper phones
and all major manufacturers happy.
Apple simply set the grounds...
I don't understand yet the utility of this thread..
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