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Android “L” UI compared against MIUI 6 on Xiaomi Mi 4

One of the most awaited announcements from Google is its new version of OS — now known only by the name Android L. We’ve reported before that it promises a significant boost in performance and even in battery life, but one of the most noticeable change is its layout. Here is a comparison from a thread at MIUI’s site of the awaited Android L against the new MIUI 6 that was just announced last week.

Left: MIUI 6 | Right: Android “L”

MIUI’s Lock Screen allows you to swipe up or left to launch Camera app. Android L adds sideways swipe that gives access to your dial pad.

MIUI 6 shows the number of notifications inside a circle. Android L, on the other hand, lets you reply directly to notifications with its “Smart Lock Screen”.

Tiled and flat are MIUI’s icons while Android L’s are cut-out and most are already familiar.

MIUI offers an entire frosted background to make the icons pop out more. Stock Android L limits the icons inside a window.

The notification bar of the MIUI 6 can accessed by swiping down anywhere on the screen. Users may swipe left and right to go to notification toggle.

With Android L swipe down once for the notification bar, twice for the notification toggle.

Still on a frosted background, MIUI’s Recent Apps can be viewed as apps or cards. Swipes up to close.

This is Android L’s Recent Apps function that swipes sideways to close card-like apps.

Icons for MIUI are uniquely animated – tiles have shadows when you move them, they shake like in iOS, and have “firework” effects when you delete them.

Animation for Android L are seen while setting options and on Recent Apps.

From what we can see, MIUI 6’s interface is going after an iOS look. Partner that with the Mi 4’s display and we’re looking at colorful tiles on a Full HD resolution. Android L, however, still keeps its classic appeal but definitely with some tweaks. Both look very easy to navigate around with and are aesthetically pleasing in their own ways.

But if you were to choose, which user interface would better suit you?

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17 Comments

Komento says:

10 years ago

O tapos?
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TessPinga2 says:

10 years ago

Agree. What’s the point of this article?
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Emily says:

10 years ago

Yung recent apps ng MIUI also copied the recent apps by Windows Phone by Microsoft?
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Di nga says:

10 years ago

Tech Site kasi to.. kahit engadget, gsmarena, anandtech, tomshardware eh nagrereview/nagcocompare ng interfaces.

magcomment ng may sense hindi un makapagcomment lang. gamitin din kasi ang utak paminsan minsan
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francis says:

10 years ago

no second thought, miui has the best customizable os in smartphone world… so many awesome themes to choose from, and hindi lang theme yung napapalitan, almost everything changes like dialer, messenger, lockscreen, settings, icons etc.
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Justin says:

10 years ago

All this just to compare UIs?

Wow, dude. You either need to look for something more substantial to write about… or get a life.
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EveryoneIsACopycats says:

10 years ago

but then, when did miui ui copied from? it’s pretty obvious from iOS.. I know since I own both device :))

though what I hate about android is those clutter ui to start with(and samsung for overdoing it), It’s pretty cool they’re doing the minimalistic style this time :P

Read my name and deal with it, originality is a thing from the past :))
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Christian says:

10 years ago

I’m not digging Android L’s interface. It seems to use more power and memory. I’m wondering how they could achieve Peoject Volta with it. With Android L’s launch, I am not as thrilled as the time when my Nexus 7 transformed from JB to KitKat.
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