Block Miui's trampling on Android design

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This article is hiding from years of Android native design-style promoter who has brought us such excellent articles as the MIUI and Penrose ladder and the Android and Holo Theme. This paper is its personal view on the position and role of MIUI in China's Android ecosystem, and we welcome the viewpoints of different positions and angles to collide and contend with each other.

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Maybe a year abroad will cause a lot of bad consequences. And for me, the most deadly is the unfamiliar with the national conditions. Let me review the situation before I go abroad. At the time, Android 4.1 had barely been released, and Android 2.3 was still the big head in China and even the international market.

Of course, at the time, I had expected that Android 4.X would be more popular than many people imagined, so I set myself a task early on, which is to use the power of the tech-sharpness team and the front network to popularize Android design to Chinese developers and users. I was even complacent about my own foresight. Of course, the facts also prove that my judgment is correct.

Today, Android 4.X has already won nearly 56% of its share (this month will rise, certainly). However, I did not expect that even if the Android 4.X won more than half of its share, there are still variables.

Yes, the variable is MIUI.

I always thought that native Android was more common in China. After all, one of the most important questions about Android apps in the know is that it brings considerable traffic to the front.

Whenever I see this data I will feel very relieved that my efforts are valuable, I am in the spread of Android design in China to do my best to contribute.

But yesterday, the dream was mercilessly shattered.

The origin is Jing two days ago. FM's Android client release. Originally expected of it, because I vaguely remember one day last year, I and Jing. FM's official micro-blog in a comment on the Android client, it seems to be "will follow the Android design, rest assured" response. As a result, I was disappointed in the instant of the client's--ios style Icon. After installing into the application, I almost spit out, and the IOS client is not the same interface design, small scary Guide interface text, in the notice drawer Shong feel bursting quickly control ... In less than a minute, I did not hesitate to uninstall it.

But the next day, I saw a very ironic screenshot.

In the native interface, disgusting unbearable ugly interface, in the MIUI incredibly harmonious. With a bad feeling, although already in the heart of the general have their own answers, I still sent a micro-blog.

Novadng-tsuyukusa: I'm just curious, MIUI in the domestic occupancy is really so big? can make an application to want to let oneself in the original life look like excrement to also be optimized for it? (6-1 12:39)

In this Weibo comment, I was brutally and ruthlessly pulled out of the dream. Although I can vaguely guess, but MIUI in China's share still let me surprise.

Carloslol: Reply @NovaDNG-tsuyukusa:miui and millet desktop high-low collocation, share at least one-third. The point is that a lot of the rest of the two-thirds is for smart machines, not the target customers of apps. So the ratio is actually higher. (6-1 12:40)

Xiaoyao Small Demon: MIUI in the domestic far far more than the original stock, MIUI below also have the factory of their own customization, native in the domestic is very small things. It's no exaggeration to say that "the ability to brush miui" is an important indicator of how many people with Android have a little bit of knowledge about choosing a mobile phone. " (6-1 12:44)

The more brutal reality continues to hit me: MIUI's free sms service is the iMessage of China's Android, where almost all the top three of App sources have two millet machines, and most of the rest are MIUI; even the unidentified Google The Service downloader is also MIUI's work.

I was completely in despair.

Even if I find out the MIUI in the design of a lot of mistakes, even if the pan-MIUI effect of how to make me nauseous, even if MIUI marketing means by a lot of people curse, still can not change this cold reality. In China's Android industry, MIUI is the big head, the original is the minority. It's ugly, it's ugly design, but it doesn't matter, "Chinese users think it works", "Chinese users think it looks good," which is enough to make his market share higher, dominate China's Android industry.

At least I have been reluctant to believe that MIUI will become the majority in China, a decisive voice, so that an application at the original interface to look like a piece of excrement to be optimized for it.

This is really a sad thing.

I have always felt that the promotion of Android design in China is a way to break the wall of the blockade from a certain angle, China and foreign developers. Unexpectedly, the biggest obstacle to the promotion of Android is not the wall, but the MIUI.

As long as MIUI is the big head of Android in China, the effort to promote Android is doomed-you know, on the MIUI, the apps developed on Android will only become awkward. So instead of making your apps look nondescript on most phones, it's better to follow MIUI's set of UI solutions. Anyway, not MIUI users, there are a lot of smart machines as a function of the machine, or they do not care about the design.

Users of native Android design are marginalized. Most of the UI for domestic applications is IOS UI or 2.3 style, and these two styles, on the MIUI will not appear to be inappropriate, but on the Nexus mobile phone is a cancer in general. The significance of the existence of the front net has changed in my unaware state. Yes, MIUI users do not care about Android design, they only care about MIUI, in the MIUI is not good-looking, this machine can brush MIUI ... Android design? What is that? Can I have it?

That's the way it is. In my opinion, MIUI is the enemy. The enemy is very strong. My strength is too weak. Unexpectedly, for China's Android industry, MIUI is the right path, and I and Android design is evil. In the eyes of most people, what I did was completely unreasonable. Like the pathetic mantis, I tried to stop MIUI this chariot from trampling on Android design with such a tiny body.