[Nexus 7 Original Development] igotlostintampa:
Opinion From a Fellow Rom Addict/Reviewer

Lets start off with some general information relating to my experience with PA.

I have used Paranoid Android on my HTC evo 4g lte, and Samsung Galaxy sII, And have to say that i really liked all of the features that they offered. I found, however, that Paranoid Android in general caused a large decrease on my benchmark scores for my devices (tested with multiple kernels that claimed to be the best for the devices) I also noticed during my experimentation with PA, that i seemed to always loose a little butter when it came to switching home screens and opening apps and simply things like that, it wasnt alot, but it always made my experience with PA worsen just enough that i wanted to switch back to another JB/KLP rom in order to fix it, and get the issue out of my head.

Dont get me wrong, I love (ADORE) the features that are present in PA, but they just werent enough at the time to compensate for the loss of butter.

Then i got my Nexus7, Since, i have tried every noteworthy rom available for this device, however until yesterday, had completely avoided PA, because i need my butter on my device, and i like seeing my benchmark scores as high as they can be, it just makes me feel better about what my tablet/phone can do.

I installed PA PIE 3.1 yesterday, with no idea as to what pie was at all, i did not even think to look as 4.2.1 is labeled (Key Lime Pie) I simply assumed that it was the general step up from JB, with PA. I was playing around with dpi settings (160 (for everything) ) and turned everything in interface mode to (tablet) to see if that would cause any graphic issues as PA has done that to me in the past, and found no graphical issues worth noting, except in an application called "utorrent" and this app has not yet been optimized for tablets, so i took that issue to be application related, instead of PA related.

During this initial tinkering with Hybrid Settings to get everything in tablet mode the way i wanted, i decided to test around without installing a new kernel, and see if i lost any of my buttery goodness like i normally do, and i put the tablet through its general paces for touch response, incremental lag during homescreen switch, widget re-size, Dolphin zoom, quick setting/notification pull downs, app switching, app opening. and found that my experience was comprable to the roms (Liquid Smooth) and (Prime-dohah <- cant remember the full name, its the prime rom or Varis)

This was EXCITING! no loss in speed from some of the fastest and smoothest roms i have played with yet, I was almost giddy knowing i could finally keep PA on one of my devices.

After everything was set up the way i wanted it, i started going through the other config options, and noticed something in toolbars called PIE, and after reading the description, enabled it to see how it would work, i was excited, but i had tried things like it in the past, and they never measured up to what i expected them to be. I enabled Expanded desktop and tried out PIE...Please note that this is something ive been looking for on my phones and on the nexus for the past 3-4 months.

What followed, was 3-4 hours of bragging to others i know with android. I had full access to my screen with no loss of usability to the device. And PIE functions perfectly, no increase in lag throughout the device, no slowdowns. I had full access to my notifications and quick settings, battery status, but nothing that interrupted my view of the screen.

I will never even attempt using another rom that lacks the functionality of PIE.

I dont mind the new PIE 4 update, having it on all sides on 3.1 was causing issues in usability of the device, as i would always accidentally be opening it, so i am currently using it on the right side of my device, and keeping it there. I will be updating to 4 as soon as more is reported about it in this thread.

So i have to seriously thank the developers of this rom for this functionality, and say that you have my devotion and loyalty to this rom for the rest of its existence because of the pie functionality, I will no longer be testing other roms on this device because of it, only awaiting updates.

If this rom continues to progress as it has i will be purchasing the pro version for donating purposes. I also would like to know if i could have your permission to review this rom in the near future...