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Samsung Begins Official Rollout of One UI 8 to Galaxy Devices (news.samsung.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by nemeski@mander.xyz to c/android@lemdro.id

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[–] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

There's a lot of small QOL features across the system and changes to the UI that depending on your taste, either like or dislike. For folding devices, it adds a huge ton of enhancements too that Google hasn't bothered to add. I personally can't go back to stock Android because of how lacking it is by comparison. Stuff like:

An older style notification shade where you don't have oversized setting toggles
Built in sync with Windows for notifications, copy and paste, file system mounting over Wi-Fi
Customizable lock screen, notification shade, volume bar, "navigation gestures", task switcher
Built in support for half open folding states for numerous stock apps with additional utilities for apps that don't support them
Override app aspect ratios for apps on folding devices
Samsung Pay which works a whole lot better than whatever Google keeps renaming GPay into
Allows any app to become a free form floating window before Android 15
Allowing me to get away from how personally hideous Material U looks
Built-in "Tasker-like" feature

There's a lot more stuff here and there but these are just things off the top of my head.