Latest Android 16 QPR2 finally forces all app icons to follow the "Material You" colour scheme, but....

a year ago by tinned_tomatoes to c/android

... the Messages conversation shortcut for my girlfriend has made her into an ugly demon. It's kinda crazy that Google also applies it to deep-link shortcuts as well. Feels very lazy.

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BuckenBerry 42 points a year ago

I still don't understand why google decided to make all icons the same color. It's a usability nightmare and seems to ignore how we notice color before shapes. The colors are also pretty limited and most icons end up looking the same.

I understand wanting all icons to be consistent but I wish google should have tried changing the saturation to be more consistent or shifting all colors to follow one app.

It doesn't help how most stock launchers don't let you use icon packs and google wants to kill 3rd party launchers.

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VoteNixon2016 30 points a year ago

This is the same Google who decided that their entire suite of apps should have slightly differently-shaped blue/green/red/yellow icons instead of anything recognizable

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definitemaybe 8 points a year ago

I mis-click Google apps almost daily. It's the stupidest fucking icon design.

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Quill7513 3 points 10 months ago

when consistent branding supersedes accessibility in priorities

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kratoz29 1 point 10 months ago

Meh, I like it 🤷🏻

My first Android device came with Android 10/11, but it wasn't until Android 12 that I started to dig the Android UI.

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BuckenBerry 3 points 10 months ago

Fair enough. I actually like most of material U's decisions.

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Steve 0 points a year ago

Yah. This doesn't work if you are scrolling through several dozen apps in the app drawer. They all look too much alike.

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tinned_tomatoes 4 points a year ago

This setting doesn't affect the app drawer, it's just for the home screen which are apps you place manually to be fair - I like the consistency.

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ikidd -3 points a year ago

Idk who the fuck decided monochrome was a good idea. It's so goddamn ugly and impractical. Must have been a rust dev

Edit: 7 rust devs with no sense of humor and counting.

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sem 6 points a year ago

I'm not even a rust dev lol, I just don't like jokes at other ppls expense.

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specialwall 3 points a year ago

You have beef with a programming language

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