There's a growing affect about the web that aback it comes to Android, banal is best. Abounding bodies accept the apple-pie attending of Google's eyes for Android, but manufacturers like LG will add appearance and capacity on top of this abject to differentiate themselves from the pack. But these OEM skins, as they're called, aren't consistently as ascendant as you adeptness think.
The bark acclimated by LG accessories is accepted as LG UX, and it fabricated its admission all the way aback on the LG G4. Before that, it was accepted as Optimus UI, so it's had affluence of time to abound — now it's absolutely a appealing able interface overall.
We're activity to booty you on a beheld bout of LG UX and analyze it to the "stock Android" UI from the Google Pixel. While it is by no agency banal Android, it isn't as far as bodies would accept you believe, and the changes aren't all terrible. The screenshots are from the new LG G7 ThinQ, which ships with LG UX 6.0, the latest adaptation of LG's bark which is based on Android 8.0 Oreo.
Lock Screen
Let's alpha with the card that greets you every time you deathwatch your phone. With LG UX 6.0, LG fabricated the accomplishments of notifications semi-transparent on the lock screen. You can still see the white background, but the lock awning wallpaper is additionally visible. Banal Android uses a solid white accomplishments that isn't cellophane at all.
LG additionally afflicted the larboard quick barrage app. While the bottom-right bend still brings up the camera, the larboard is afflicted from Google Assistant to LG's phone app.
Home Screen
The absence home awning for the LG G7 ThinQ has a cardinal of apparent changes from banal Android. First, LG absitively not to accept the Pixel Launcher's new broadcast berth which adds the Google chase accoutrement beneath the rows of apps. Instead, the chase accoutrement is abstracted from the dock, placed appropriate aloft the row of apps.
LG doesn't accommodate banal Android's "At a Glance" affection which shows the accepted date, forth with added accordant advice such as accessible agenda events, flight advice and cartage information. Instead, LG autonomous for a acclimate accoutrement from a acclimate app they developed.
The absence home awning doesn't accept an app drawer. Instead, LG Home launcher places all apps on the rightmost page. Any new app will additionally add to the home awning like it would on iOS. This change is a far cry from banal Android which food all apps in an app drawer that you can admission application a bash up gesture.
On the leftmost home folio is AppFlash, a Google Now-inspired app which displays a account of accessories you may be absorbed in and a row of frequently acclimated apps. Banal Android has the Google Now page, which not alone has a account of articles, but assorted tabs absolute added information. For example, the Upcoming tab displays claimed advice such as reminders, flight Information, and drive information. You can additionally adumbrate accessories in your feed, clashing LG's AppFlash.
If you wish, you can bandy AppFlash out for a affection alleged Smart Bulletin. Smart Bulletin is a alternation of widgets that accommodate admission to LG-developed apps such as LG Health, Calendar, and Music.
As for anniversary launcher's settings menu, LG's home awning has abounding added customization options, including the adeptness to administer capacity and change the filigree size. You can additionally acclimatize the action aback annexation amid home pages.
The Pixel Launcher from Google's adaptation of banal Android alone has a few customization controls. You're bound to allotment whether to appearance Notification Dots, what advice is displayed in the At A Glance widget, whether to appearance the Google Now page, whether to acquiesce the launcher to circle to landscape, and whether to accredit app suggestions on the top of the app drawer.
For those of us who accept to accept an app drawer, LG has two added launchers installed. "Home with abstracted app list" brings aback the app drawer and includes the advantage to accumulate the app drawer button from the antecedent adaptation of Android, or for a added banal look, alter it with a bash up gesture. There is additionally EasyHome that enlarges argument and icons, adds widgets which can be customized to alarm your admired contact, and adds the app drawer button to the dock.
App Drawer
If you accredit it, the app drawer in LG UX is still altered than stock. First, its apps are organized horizontally, acute a bash to the larboard to see added pages. Banal Android uses a vertical arrangement, acute a bash up to acknowledge added apps.
The accomplishments on LG UX is abundant added cellophane than banal ,showing all of the home awning wallpaper. Banal Android uses either a white or atramentous background, depending on the wallpaper (black wallpaper changes the accomplishments to black).
Additionally, LG allows you to adumbrate apps, align apps individually, and array apps by download date. Banal Android is bedfast to an alphabetical arrangement.
Notifications
Notifications are handled the aforementioned on both banal Android and LG UX — no changes to address here.
Quick Settings
LG arranges the Quick Settings (QS) tiles in four columns against stock's three. Like the app drawer, stock's Quick Settings accomplishments adjusts based on the wallpaper of the home screen. The accomplishments is additionally semi-transparent (the aforementioned as the app drawer). LG uses a solid white accomplishments that is absolutely opaque.
The accuracy slider is additionally different. For LG UX, the slider is alone accessible on the aboriginal bash of QS (when alone the top six tiles are shown), while banal reveals the slider afterwards the added swipe. Additionally, the slider is dejected on banal Android while LG uses a azure color.
The tiles are a ablaze adumbration of gray on LG UX, and they change to azure aback activated. Stock's tiles become atramentous with a white accomplishments aback activated (or white with a atramentous one if a aphotic wallpaper is selected).
The accessory figure on LG's Quick Settings (which launches Settings) is amid in the upper-right bend instead of the bottom-right. Additionally, the pencil figure activate in banal (which allows you adapt the adjustment of tiles) is replaced by an "EDIT" button activate in the bottom-right bend on LG UX.
Multitasking UI & Split Screen
Unlike banal Android, LG included three means to admit split-screen mode. The aboriginal adjustment is continued acute the contempo apps button. The added to continued columnist the app in the multitasking appearance and annoyance it to the appointed breadth to activate the process. However, the third way (which banal Android doesn't have) is by acute the figure to the larboard of the "X" while on the contempo apps screen. Selecting this button moves the agnate app to one ancillary of the awning and lets you aces the added app from the added apps in the multitasking view.
Share Menu
With LG G7 ThinQ's skin, you'll acquisition four changes to the allotment menu. The aboriginal is the accomplishments is now gray compared to banal Android's white background. Second, the icons are angled squares compared to stock's circles. Third, the allotment card itself is angled at the corners, while banal uses aciculate edges. Finally, the absolute allotment targets at the top of the card aren't afar into their own breadth — they're artlessly added options amid your approved allotment targets.
Settings
Settings is accession breadth area LG fabricated a lot of changes. Notably, LG UX uses colors for the icons while banal uses gray for all icons. Additionally, the argument additionally shares this aforementioned gray color, while LG absitively to use a black.
LG afflicted the name of options such as "Security & location" to "Lock awning & security." The adjustment of adjustment is additionally different. For example, "Sound" is the sixth advantage on banal while LG fabricated it third.
The adjustment is additionally altered in anniversary submenu, with Network & Internet authoritative "Wi-Fi" the added advantage while banal has it first.
You will additionally acquisition new options in both the primary Settings card and in submenus. For the G7 ThinQ, there is a new advantage alleged "Extensions," which manages abounding of LG's new appearance such as Floating Bar (a baby row of apps which you can admission from any screen) and KnockON (double tap to deathwatch or sleep).
LG additionally pulled out the Arrangement Updates affection from "System" (where it is amid in banal Android) to the capital Settings card for easier access.
Finally, application the three vertical dots in the upper-right bend of Settings will acquiesce you to about-face to Tab View. Tab Appearance is an another adjustment of Settings area options are organized in tabs. With this layout, LG reduces the cardinal of submenus, acceptance you to acquisition what you charge at aboriginal glance.
System Animations
The alone apparent aberration amid arrangement animations is the action for closing an app. Closing an app on LG UX 6.0 zooms into the middle, compared to stock's slide-down animation.
Phone App
LG's Phone app uses a blooming and atramentous blush arrangement forth with a white background. Like the banal Google Dialer, the app is disconnected application tabs with the dialer as the aboriginal tab. LG includes the accession of a fourth tab, Groups. Banal Android's Phone app uses a dejected and white blush scheme. The absence tab is your admired and frequently alleged contacts.
Messaging App
LG additionally replaced Android Messages with their own messaging app. The best cogent beheld aberration is the blush arrangement on the capital menu, with Android Messages opting for dejected and white while LG autonomous for orange and white. While you're in a bulletin thread, Android Messages will change colors to bout that contact's picture.
What do you anticipate of LG UX 6.0? Is it abutting abundant to banal Android for you, or is it too far off? Let us apperceive in the comments below, and acquaint us what banknote you appetite us to analyze next.
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