Android 15 vs Android 5 Lollipop: 10 Years Later!

[@docilelikewintercatfish]

A single android update felt like a new phone back then

[@Williybetacraft]

Yess!!That’s one of many things that I miss about old android phones

[@panjak323]

Now it feels like one gen older phone when you update Android

[@amaljoe367]

I still remember the day I installed the Lollipop update on my phone. It was like my phone was suddenly an entirely new device 😅

[@alskdj5701]

i remember installing it in my dad's galaxy s4. after that installation it started to overheat, hang a lot and had a poor battery life.

[@amaljoe367]

@@alskdj5701 Samsung was having a heavily skinned version of Android right - TouchWiz. Mine was stock Android, the experience was quite the opposite after the update.

[@farm7379]

And the change from dalvik to ART meant many apps weren't compatible anymore.... I remember many of my games stopped working

[@panagiotisiord8345]

Let’s be real Android is just now getting good

[@welfiblablabla]

Damn... Lolipop is 10 years ago?? I remember waiting for my phone to get this back then, when Sammy was painfully late to updates...

[@reggiexp69]

my lf g3 didnt get android 5 it had 2.3 worked great, and then it got androd 4 what ran horrible on 2gb ram with snap801.... i had a oneplusone back then they had low prices and high end specs... i think i traded that for the lg g3 2gb 16gb model cause i wanted a lg, still love oneplus but never got a new oneplus cause prices went to high (dont even remember wat software that ran i know cyanogenmod i tired taht on my lg g3 also but battery was even worse then official roms. i went xiaomi redmi note 3 i think after but mising 4g bands, and got a galaxy s8 great phone horrible battery life, a phone that looked like the nothing phone squar and glass front and rear i traded that for a huawei mate 10 pro that i didnt use much ended up selling the galaxy s8 for the same price i bought it 6 months befor and used the huawei mate 10 pro for 3years i think that phone was fire and then gave it to my mom and she loved it. i miss huawei. its wierd how i used to be up to date with waht software my phone had and i often installed customs roms etc with latest versions. but now days i just dont notice it works works.. anyway lolipop i dont actually remember my phones having that. like i remember android 2.1 2.2 2.3 and then 4.0 then i guess on xiaomi with miui i didnt notice what base software it ran since miui all looks the same no mather wat software it has its miui . i did hate android 4.0 like it was horrible heavy vs android 2.3 on lg g3....

[@vedanshchn]

I remember suggesting my Maths teacher to download it in her Nexus 5 and she absolutely loved it when she did!

[@DavidNgo86]

Still got 2 phones that shipped with Lollipop

[@DavidNgo86]

Galaxy S6 edge and Note 5

[@feta_cheesecake]

Came here to say the exact same thing…

[@floppa9415]

Its so ironic that now that we have the most colorful screens ever we get the most monotone UIs. Sad.

[@yeyecannotdrift]

“Material Fk You” fanboy gonna get salty

[@nurphurecarnium]

The UI on AOSP has actually becomes more colorful with the monet engine. It being monotone is a matter of preference, but I think it's much "cleaner" this way. I think it's like Kde vs Gnome on linux desktop, people say they like customization of Kde, but at the end of the day Gnome is more popular because most people prefer a "clean" UI.

[@eMorphized]

@@nurphurecarnium AOSP has lost basically everything that makes it usable now

[@Snaily]

Oh fuck off is Lollipop 10 years old. It still feels new.

[@Z_kun11]

It’s true😔

[@sauliusvitkauskas8741]

probably because of the flat design

[@stephenwakeman3074]

😂

[@timr.2257]

That's because Google has barely innovated for years 😂

[@-validites-]

​@@timr.2257neither has apple

[@ShellymanStudios]

Android in 2014 was peak Android. We had so many choices when it comes to Android phones.

[@travisbloomfield303]

Peak? Naw marshmallow is when it got great

[@jasimaneesahamed1033]

@@travisbloomfield303 Marshmallow was definitely the best of the bunch in my opinion...

[@slay3rgamingyt]

​@@travisbloomfield303Nah, Android pie was the peak

[@NerdFromDenmark]

I miss my nexus 5

[@ikubarus.6966]

But now there are even more choices 😂

[@erick-gd7wo]

Back then when Android 5 came out, almost no OEM bothered to provide update to the existing smartphones, even budget phones came out with Android 4 up to two years after Android 5. That's where the other side called android fragmented. Now the situation is better.

[@asandax6]

I'm still on Android 10

[@SupportIsraelLGBTQ]

There's barely any difference anyway

[@SupportIsraelLGBTQ]

​@asandax6 basically the same for most things

[@taavi948]

@@asandax6I am still on 9

[@BlackMercy-it1jp]

My 2015 HTC Desire 256g+ came with Android 4.4 and no you couldn't update it

[@Xi_Jinping_is_Pooh]

HTC M7/M8 still looks good 10 years later. They should make a modern version.

[@SupportIsraelLGBTQ]

They can't, wouldn't work with wireless charging :/ thats why they moved to glass

[@BrokemyiPhoneBMP]

I remember wanting the GPE of the m7 when it camd out. It was a god tier phone for its time. No clunky bloatware, no shitty UI. Just pure android on a flagship phone

[@Xi_Jinping_is_Pooh]

@@BrokemyiPhoneBMP Yes it was. It was lag free compared with other android at the time.

[@yogabudiwidiantoro3762]

Don't forget the M9 tho. I once owned that smartphone and it was a pleasant experience because it was my first HTC smartphone.

[@MinerAC4]

@@yogabudiwidiantoro3762 I just bought one recently. Was a pain to manually update in 2024, but once I got it to Android 7, it's quite the plesent phone to use.

[@AndreaIppolitoIppo]

Google Now is by far the feature I miss the most. SO useful.

[@asandax6]

Add Google+ too. Best social media app at the time.

[@fantasytky28]

and guess what..google trying to do the same thing replacing the working google assistant with the new shit gemini

[@thetechlibrarian]

No, it was inbox inbox is the best email client they ever was and they got rid of it

[@abc_cba]

The reality is that Smartphone Market has reached a plateau. I haven't seen anything significant with Android after Android 10, now the only sellers for Smartphone market will be cameras and A.I. Don't expect much.

[@lovescarguitar]

Even now, AI in this use-case is nothing but a buzzword.

[@panathatube]

If you're talking about vanilla Android i agree. But Android is much more than vanilla

[@niveZz-]

aosp android is mostly just a base for other oems for their own ui and features

[@mikes_channel]

Yup! Still rocking my Z Fold 3 and I tell everyone who will listen that I'm keeping it for a full 10 years until 2031. It really does feel like we've reached the pinnacle of smartphone design. Modern iPhones are basically perfect supercomputer slabs, and android has any other form factor you could wish for.

[@panathatube]

@@mikes_channel Until 2031 your battery will be like mashed potatoes. Plus this year the Z Fold 3 gets its last OS update and next year the last security updates. 6 years unprotected? Updates isn't just cosmetic changes and customization

[@kindofanmol]

This was such a nostalgic trip down memory lane, especially cuz of all that material design footage from back in the day. Thank you XDA team.

[@SanHydronoid]

I still remember flocking up to the parking lot after classes, to see my friend's Moto G that just received the update. Good times back then

[@mashrukahmed]

Man! I remember digging into the xda forum for new android roms and root tweaks back at that time. Those were the days!

[@wetzinalvarado6930]

Lollipop design was peak, the interface still looks modern

[@CalamityBaird]

I miss miss MISS the way notifications showed up in early android. Ticker notifications I think it was called. If I got a text, the contents of that text would scroll through the status bar without me having to swipe down.

[@jogabonito8989]

Same here. Something so elegant and efficient about using that space to display notifications instead of blocking the top half of the screen with text

[@Viruz32]

Same bro. When I upgraded to another brand of Android phone like 8 years ago and I lost that feature, I did everything I could to get it back without changing phones. But to no avail. I was so disappointed. I hated the pop-up notifications for the longest time. I'm used to it now, but now that you mention the status bar notifications, I'm upset again lol. I also miss the notification light. I used to customize the color of my notification light depending on the app. WhatsApp notifications would be green, Snapchat would be yellow, texts would be blue, etc

[@NopWorks]

Material Design 1.0 >>> Material You I'll take Lolipop notification shade & unique colors for each apps over the humongous pills, monocolor UI, and nonsensical shapes any day.

[@MaxArthey]

If I remember correctly, Lollipop had a terrible memory leak issue on release. I recall only being able to have like one app open at a time and anything in the background would close instantly. Fun Times when trying to listen to music!

[@sysodo927]

I learned soo much about Android back then, it seemed more open back then with ROMs, definitely paved a part of my career managing mobile devices

[@davidbarker7091]

As a long-time user of Android on it, I do love the Whimsy of videos like this. I myself never got a phone that came with lollipop. I had to root my device to get Android lollipop on it. It was quite refreshing coming up from Ice Cream Sandwich and Kit Kats and to lollipop. I'm also glad that the material U designs stuck around.

[@AmanKumar-yj5od]

Credit should be given to nova launcher modern android after lolipop are hugely inspired by this launcher

[@bassyey]

Lol nova launcher is now owned by some marketing company.

[@lukemothug]

​@bassyey whats a good launcher now?

[@fantasytky28]

@@lukemothug niagara

[@NopWorks]

​​@@fantasytky28 Niagara is good but I prefer the classic style launcher instead of trendy & quirky quick access app list.

[@thawkade]

​@@NopWorksTry Lawnchair

[@drifterz2578]

The update to lollipop made me feel like i have a brand new phone

[@vedanshchn]

I loved the colorful Material Design which they turned into a Back and white mess first and now a colour tint which makes the screen look as if it has underwent a screen burn-in. I still have a few old Droids and I’d anyway prefer using their UI over what we have today. The bright red KZbin UI with navigation bar at the top looked so appealing! The last app which stayed with that design i.e., WhatsApp has also adopted the new Material You design and that particular app looks absolutely horrible.

[@NopWorks]

I hate Material You with my heart. Every app was colorful with Material Design. Now they're all so dull. Stopped updating my Pixel to avoid it, and switched to Samsung to escape it for good. I can't deal with humongous buttons in notification shade.

[@TM-dd2jq]

Damn we're getting old Nostalgia is simultaneously the best and the worst feeling in the world 😭❤️

[@Nelly.Jackson]

0:33 That was me back in the days... Now days OS updates is not that exciting because most of features we already have them on custom roms

[@o.m.2188]

Yeah, for this reason I ended flashing new custom roms every second day a few years ago. I don't miss anything on my OP12 today but back then when I flashed a custom rom for the first time on my Galaxy S3 it was an uncomparable expirience compared to stock 4.4 with Samsungs Touchwiz UI...

[@phritza]

I prefer elements of the Android 5 UI. Mainly because screens have gotten bigger, yet we see less elements on display at once, like with the app switcher and the quick settings. Seems like more wasted white space. Also, I think Lollipop was one of the first to introduce pop up notifications which would get in the way of the UI, I 100% prefer the older notification style (Android Jellybean?) where the text would read across the top without blocking any of the UI. It makes more sense now with displays getting bigger.

[@itsAlzatron]

The Lollipop app switcher is far superior than what we have today

[@AndreySavin]

2:24 those song titles bring a tear to my eye, what a truly special time 2014 was for music

[@akib.h]

10 years already 😢🎉

[@boutepe]

I miss my HTC One and also loved Sense UI and Blinkfeed which was just awesome.

[@feathercatilizerpro]

Man back in the days, I searched for all options like OTP Updates to custom ROMS just to get lolipop update on my device and for some reason I liked the onscreen navigation button so much that I rooted the device just to edit system build.prop file and enable it natively. Ig I was weird 😆

[@yorgeabouttstudio]

I miss the old material design. Lollipop is still so beautiful and I wish I could have it just for the way it makes me feel when I use my phone.

[@DavidNgo86]

Material Design 1.0 is the best

[@kevinpitts3548]

I remember back in the day when doing app updates in the play store, it would download more than 1 app at a time. Now it downloads one, then installs it. Other app stores like samsung and Apple can do it.

[@negativeplayer4446]

FACTS: • Android 5's settings is much more convenient and easier to navigate the Android 12's. • The design is more original; distinct and easily recognizeable as Android. • Quick Setting Shortcut is better designed in terms of useability. They could've stuck with the Android 5's animation theme throughout Android. In gestures: • Going home would push the current application app across the screen towards the status bar. • Switching between apps would only show an animation akin to a slideshow. • Swiping down from the Quick Settings Shortcut would open the settings; with the same animation as openning the Quick Settings Shortcut panel. • Openning chats in messages, areas in settings, etc... expanded the rectangular icon you're pressing. App openning and Closing animation: • Should resemble like Android 5's, but in this case, it's as if water is filling the screen from where the app is placed, quickly expanding to engulf the entire display. • And bring back the TV-style sleep animation, with a seamless transition to the AOD, especially when turned off from the lockscreen; with just the Clock remaining. And design wise: • Settings should revert back to Android 5, but with a much more modern look. • Remove the pill button layout of modern Android in place of smaller buttons placed lower for convenience. • No more explicit sliders on the Quick Settings Shortcut. Instead, a brightness and Volume icon would appear which, when pressed, can be dragged up or down, which is accompanied by its icon appearing. • The ability to swipe left and right in Messages to switch between chats. • Desktop-level File Manager. Features: • Drag and drop. • Dex mode (Google doesn't know how easy it would be if Android had it. Samsung, being a SK company, of course has sucky software optimization). • Ability to copy text, even from images and other sources you normally wouldn't be able to. • IOS calculator (much more useful than all the mostly useless AI features Google has been releasing for years).

[@niyonsv]

In one post Lollipop version (or was a mod or something) we could access the app drawer by swiping up the Recents/Overview screen. I think it was called QuickSwitch then.

[@markusTegelane]

the original Material Design was so beautiful in my opinion

[@Z_kun11]

There was material design 1 (which was the best) through android 4.4 - 7.1 Material design 2 was android 8 - 11 And material design 3 (sucks💀❌) is android 12 - now

[@rising_fredo_pixel]

Its peak was android 6 marshmallow

[@prog4mer80]

Android 5.0 lollipop 🍭 was one of my dreams as a Galaxy S3 user, and even in 2024 it's still gorgeous ❤️❤️

[@TheNJK57]

The video I didn't know I wanted to see

[@AwrlsLimited]

I think that Android 4.4.4 with touchwiz on the galaxy S5 was the best! This however may just be bias from my side😂.

[@xidstheapple]

I remember my samsung tab 3 v tablet using kitkat 4.4.4 and I'm trying to find a way to make it looks like lollipop. But samsung touchwiz is just something else

[@o.m.2188]

Yeah, you needed to flash another bootloader in order to install Lollipop. I still have a Galaxy Tab Note 2014 and I remember, we used lots of kernel and bootloader parts from the Galaxy Tab S Exynos 5420 branch which got Lollipop officially from Samsung.

[@jacobhoefle]

the material design they envisioned but never executed would still be better then what we have today.. i hope some day sth like that will come to us

[@AffectionateBeignets-mx2qd]

One thing with Android 10-11 years ago was that the difference in experience was real, htc had its own look and feel, samsung with its TouchWiz. You could look at the UI and tell which was which. Now its all the same, be it design or software. I know keeping it as close to stock helps in rolling out updates quicker but you gotta miss those times.

[@extremeboss5282]

Samsung still has a feel different from stock. Many Chinese OEMs with their UIs do this too. HTC dumped its UI for Stock Android though.

[@Haritsa-N]

I still remember when my Xperia Z2 got the Android 5 upgrade & 6 eventually! Man, those days Sony devices & their UI were simply outstanding & lovely! Most of the Flagship designs today remind me of then Sony's Z series. Those days receiving those "new update available for your device" notifications were so joyous. The excitement for your device to boot up with the new firmware! 😍 Alongside, I had resurrection remix based on Android 5 flashed on my Xperia L. Makes me so emotional! ❤

[@rukkumanithirupathi3635]

Moto g series phones where a gem with lollipop untill it was taken over by lenovo

[@DannyHamdan2004]

Honestly, I wish if companys like don't rush the updates and let us have fun with android releases for longer like...why update every year??? Like you can take much longer to cook something cooler and better and also give more relaxing times for developers for supporting older phones like not everyone able to upgrade and they are stuck in what we call it today dead systems...

[@wilkgr]

Hot take, but I think Android 9's gesture navigation was better than on the newer versions. I detest the swipe in for back gesture, but at the same time I don't want a soft key for multitasking

[@soraygoularssm8669]

as someone who used android from the original mostly missed second and third version but been on the journey consistently through 4 to 14 now and someone who used ios since iPod tough 4, I gotta say after android 5 nothing changed literally, maybe android 12 was a little bit of upgrade, but ios is taking more drastic changes which is nice, and android more afraid of risk than ever

[@soraygoularssm8669]

althoguh I have to say over the years what android is seeing is perfect optimizations, no lags no slowness no nothing, no sudden freeze or crashes, it feels super duper smooth now, and has really good optimizations with the battery, and we are seeing much better design consistency now

[@andikappradana]

The time when phones were still exciting! 3 OS and so many innovative manufacturers. Zoom lens on a phone, full frame sensor can be attached to a phone, headphone jack, even magnetic charger before magsafe. Gold era of smartphones

[@kuyaAriel23]

I can still remember this when it was released. I was amazed with the UI big change

[@thetechlibrarian]

2:29 I really liked material design. It’s my favorite air of android

[@EnricoChi]

Lot of moments remembering

[@CubeClarityGaming]

10 years.. oh wow. Android Lollipop was definitely a well-designed and a favorite version of mine. It makes me so nostalgic to look back and remember the innovation Android had back then. Ever since I was young, I've always loved Android ever since Eclair when my dad worked for Verizon and would switch out work phones with top-of-the-line Android specs. I got to really see the innovation of Android through his work phones and I always found each phone he moved onto to be awesome and innovative. Will always be an Android fan til the end ✌️

[@dankvader420]

One thing I'm not a fan of in modern Android is the rounded corners. They're everywhere, and in a way it's a change that has made the UI experience more like a toy and less like something used for work or entertainment.

[@Ignacio.Romero]

Squares are dated

[@bassyey]

That's your concern? You should be more concerned about the space Pixels waste. Horrible UI with large padding and large spaces between items.

[@dankvader420]

@@bassyey Yeah the padding is another thing I don't like…you can sometimes fix it by increasing your DPI but it's still there…

[@d9zirable]

That was always an inevitability the moment they started stretching screens all the way to the corners

[@dankvader420]

@@d9zirable It doesn't have to be like this. Look at Sony's phones, or the Galaxy ultra ones…they still keep the sharp corners.

[@GGori_99]

I hope symbian was still around

[@dlsygaco]

Material design was so beautiful back in the day. The animations were just not that fluent, and it wasnt fully realized by google. There was no unity to the design. I owned a nexus 5 way before and it was seriously ahead of its time and was sooo cheap.

[@o.m.2188]

I still have an old Galaxy Tab Note 2014 with Exynos 5420 which also came out with Android 3 or 4. I remember we had to change the bootloader in order to install Android 5 because of ART. Of course, no support from Samsung. It's still running on a custom ROM, ResurrectionRemix 5.8, should be Android 7.1.2 nougat. I mainly use it to control a bunch of Sonoff-switches at home because its wifi only. Battery health is still 83%, btw. ...

[@Joreg_Catapang]

Who in here also love the design of android 5 I gave old lenovo tablet so basically aosp android I love the design really modern at the time I wish you can still keep the icons for apps to stay Android 5 than using the new it ruin the old classic look Also I wish I can still use the old version of apps like the green tint of google play store I really like that Also the hamberger menu of google play store than the google account profile I miss that to, also the classic banner of your google account in google apps I miss that And the last is I wish most app still works on Android 5, Android 4 already dieying to support google now android 5 is next My lenovo tablet is the lenovo pb1 750m I wish I have the higher unit because It cant run anymore when I update playstore because of 1gb ram

[@maplesyrup_1239]

Lolipop had the best system game tho

[@WhattaFook]

With the white background looked like facelift windows mobile.

[@yeyecannotdrift]

Material Design 1 so beautiful 😢

[@joelconolly5574]

Man I wish HTC would make a modern version of their One M8. If Sony could pull it off then HTC would've too. Too bad they can't keep things consistent.

[@garrytehbest]

I still have my note S2 and Note S4 running android 4 and android 6 and I still boot them every so often because I love how old android works simpler but more workable, like widgets were cool same with side loading from an SD card and then making that SD card emulate internal storage, I'm aware you can still do that but to have done that, that far back was wild, or getting Bluetooth Le to work with the 3.4/4.0 protocol was cool. Android 6 also had a thing where you could send the devices audio to two different output sources at the same time and it didn't lag what so ever, android 5 also brought with it split screen apps and OTG docking which I thought was pretty cool.

[@Jonas-ej7id]

Interesting timeline we live in. Google keeps removing features from Android that were present a decade ago for the sake of "simplicity" And Apple is keeps adding more features

[@israelramirez0202]

on a related note, RIP to the absolute GOAT Google Play Music. we'll never have a better music library app.

[@NageshPattanshetty]

I remember installing the dev preview on my Nexus 5. The lollipop was a huge visual overhaul over the KitKat. In the beginning, I missed the blacks of the KitKat over the all white lollipop. But I eventually got used to the new look. The first two iterations were slow in response and I felt that it was a downgrade in both look and speed. Then they released the last dev preview and then the first public build after 2-3 days of the last preview. The phone was so, so fast! I had never seen it this fast and it felt like such a huge upgrade! Then, the layers theme engine came in and later evolved into the substratum. It was such an amazing time! I miss all those themes! However, nothing to date has been as immersive as the CyanogenMod themes. I later developed two widget apps and launched them on the Play Store. Now, my days of theming are over.

[@vanshamb]

I still remember android 6 marshmallow, you wanna know how? Cuz i fricking used it yesterday, i have a tablet, which runs android 6, couldn't find any custom roms, or I would've updated it

[@flying_Night_slasher]

Please tell me your tablets specs, brand, model, etc

[@vanshamb]

@@flying_Night_slasher Lenovo tab 3 10 plus, ram 2gb,storage 16gb, what do you need this for?

[@flying_Night_slasher]

@@vanshamb to see if I can help you but I'm turning up blank as well; sorry I couldn't find anything.

[@uishido8845]

Lollipop was the reason I stopped using custom roms. I was just happy with it. I then switched to iphone a year later and just recently switched back from the 14 Pro Max to the Pixel 8 Pro. I am no fanboy for either side and love both of them but Lollipop will always have a special place in my ❤

[@37izzu]

I only got update for Lollipop on my Galaxy Grand Prime in the mid 2016. Even though I was almost 2 versions left behind, but I kinda love the update, especially with the color of status bar finally match the app that you’re using (for example dark blue on Twitter, dark green on Whatsapp, etc), just like on iOS.

[@rishabhchawla]

system interactions buttons getting worst after andriod 9 and 10. That was the limit of maturity. For example quick toggles and wanting to remove buttons at the bottom just to introduce swips gestures. Adding only security patches is more than enough now a days. Each new android version is adding more complexity than ease for the user.

[@alifpr]

I remember installing it on my Nexus 4 and getting so excited because it really made the phone feel brand new 😂

[@command.terminal]

I still have my Sony Xperia Z Ultra running Lollipop, still works fine, exception of certain apps which grown heavy over time and a shorter battery life, still makes for a good book reader it is light, thin (almost same as iPad Pro 13”)

[@Michael-yp2ep]

what about security ?? Is it save to use the phone without missing sec. Updates or is it still save bc of googleplay store updates ?

[@command.terminal]

@@Michael-yp2ep dude! As I said, it is not my daily driver, it is just being used as book reader!

[@Michael-yp2ep]

@@command.terminal okay 👍

[@mr_ice117]

I miss the HTC M7, it was the best phone ever. Perfect for me in every way, the loud dual speakers, good camera, long battery life and excellent predictive text on the keyboard. It guessed right so often. Both the iPhone and Samsung ones suck even now. The headphone jack pumped out some serious power and the sound quality made me cry the first time I heard it

[@MathieuTechMoto]

Android 5 was so simple, easy, and fast to use, it was nice not having to change a million settings to use the phone, like battery management and notifications, permissions, etc

[@rising_fredo_pixel]

No. Android 5 wasnt fast at all, that was Android 6

[@MK73DS]

I still remember the day rooting wouldn't void my warranty and prevent me from using dozens of useful apps.

[@therichieboy]

I use OneUI. That is my experience of android from a decade ago...

[@starkiller7278]

Android lollipop really was a turning point for the OS. And then a few years ago A12 was another turning point.

[@niyonsv]

I still remember updating our Nexus 7 tab from KitKat to Lollipop ❤

[@BojanBojovic]

I remember I rushed to install the lollipop on my Nexus 5 just to find out about the memory leak problem which was not solved until version 6.

[@arnavranjan1913]

Best updates were android 4.1 jellybean Then android 5 Then android 8 Then android 10 (last os to have access to /android/data folder) And then android 12 with major design overhaul.

[@JamesGalaxy41]

Android 5 felt like the beginning of the future

[@RichardRatner.1972]

Big love Alex. Kindest regards, Richard U.K

[@lforlight]

Android 4.4.4 was peak Android design

[@TheRareLoot]

Lollipop/Marshmallow was goated. iOS has always had the higher quality software compared to everything else tho. Lollipop and marshmallow was last time I used android on Nexus 5 and HTC one M8. Now I got a pixel 7 pro at the moment

[@Rinnara21]

Aaaaaw the HTC one m8 was my very first Android phone. Coming from an iPhone 5 I was so impressed with the differences 😊

[@Matej1473]

I liked stock Camera app in 4.4.4, because very clean UI and control with one finger. This is reason, why I like my Nexus 4, because Android 5.1.1(non-root) with launcher from 4.4.4, great nostalgia with unique design for smartphone.

[@BigBadroid]

Lollipop slapped back in the day. Still remains my favorite visual overhaul of android and I especially miss the stacked recents menu from android L. Samsung gives us the option to use a vertical stack with Goodlock now but that horizontal stack was elite!

[@YOURTECHFRIEND]

Phones looked better back then! 🤩

[@erikrajk]

Remember when lollipop released it was so big overhaul that it looked like new os

[@dungtuanle8572]

Damn... The HTC One M8. Such a beautiful device.

[@RenzoMorini_857]

i still use the slide up app launch animation from lollipop on nova launcher, looks elegant

[@oneplusaim1582]

What my Google feed has spent the last like 10 or so years gathering all of my information. My Google discover page is filled with XDA 9:00 to 5:00 Android Android authority. Mine gives me exactly the information that I'm looking for and frequently informs me of the new stuff that's coming out. I cannot set up a phone and not have the discover page

[@jacobnathanielzpayag3885]

I remember when Lollipop was first announced. I liked the new design language. It felt more cohesive and professional compared to Holo.

[@invasivesurgery4595]

Lollipop is still the best. My friend and I just recently talked about how we all miss lollipop.

[@neodidi]

Honestly... I feel old.. Hehe... I remember I was super excited to get a new phone when I saw the android 5 lollipop video.. God! I saved up and couldn't wait.. But android as come a long way honestly and android 15 truly feels futuristic and neat...

[@prodbydanai]

Android 5 used to be my favorite Android OS for a very long time... Now, I don't have any favorite.

[@Jordansklar0698]

I thought lollipop was ugly 4.4.4 kitkat always my favorite

[@pedrosanciny6345]

What is advantage of predictive back gesture? I never felt like I need it.

[@Remberto11]

Android 4.4.4 the best 😎

[@SDRIFTERAbdlmounaim]

i agree, if not for major apps requiring newer versions, kitkat ( especially CyanogenMod based kitkat ) is the absolute best ❤

[@sihamhamda47]

Agree, Android Kitkat is the "Windows 7 of Android"

[@prog4mer80]

Android 5.0 is the best

[@Whisler]

the 2014 android was Android Kitkat. the current dominent android of today is Android 14

[@bright_existence]

Here I'm still using samsung J5(android 5.1.1 lolipop) in 2024. planning to buy a new phone this month.

[@guyunknown9123]

IOS taking notes since 2014 or so. Shameless creatures flaunting the stuff like they invented it

[@honda_maniac]

I hated the gesture buttons integrated into the screen when there was that massive chin