[Nexus 7 (2013) General] DaveRichardson:
Not much of a solution, but I went into security or dev options or something and just set it to bypass the lockscreen. Has anyone figured out how to keep the Miui tablet calendar app after flashing Gapps? The GCal app (which is honestly pretty ugly) seems to replace the MiuI version.

Other thoughts:

Launcher: sucks that non-icon widgets are limited to the furthest left page. And why on that page can we only add widgets to the very center 4x4 grid? Huge waste of screen space. This is reason enough for me to not use it, which is too bad--I like it otherwise. Anyway, I would miss "Ok, Google" hotword detection.

When using non-stock launcher (GEL), widgets break on reboot. They're there, but you can't see them. You can add them, they'll look great, then you'll reboot and you'll have big swaths of empty space.

Notification shade: There is no reason for it to cover the whole screen. I think CM11 and other KitKat roms handle this about as well as possible. (Pull on the left for notifications [with one finger expansion], pull on the right for quick toggles...either of which only cover about 30% of the screen.) The Miui shade also only has notifications/toggles in the very center mass (like, 1/4 of the real estate it takes up!) and covers the whole screen. Also, Miui's shade doesn't come all the way down when the soft buttons are hidden in immersive mode.

Unique system apps: They're pretty, but not good enough functionally. These are really why I was interested in Miui for tablets. I think Android is better than iOS in almost every way, but the iPad gallery, music, calendar, and contacts apps are awesome. I was hoping Miui system apps would just be Miui-styled but otherwise identical copies of these. Unfortunately, they're all wayy too basic. Also, rather than using Android in-app settings (like every other Android app ever) you have to change them in the overall OS settings! They copied the single stupidest iOS feature.

-I liked the Calendar app (too basic and information-sparse for a tablet app, but better than Google's). Anyway, I lost this app when I flashed GApps.

-The notes app is slick, but I'm too invested in Keep to switch.

-Calculator is a calculator, with Miui colors rather than Holo dark Android colors

-The music app is attractive, but overstyled (too dramatically dark), kind of slow, and not functional (no convenient way to sort by different fields, tons of wasted space, sorting by Artists let you scroll through your 100s of bands by one or two at a time, etc). iTunes on the iPad is the best tablet music app I've ever seen, and I REALLY wanted this to be a clone, but nope. Also (like the video app) there's Chinese **** all over the place.

-The File Explorer is great (it should keep dual panes in portrait though, and swiping left and right should take you back and forth through the folder hierarchy. (See this app for an example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.clean). Nice though.

-Contacts app. Attractive, but no settings. It defaults to include every person you've ever exchanged an email with (rather than the much smaller list that are actually Google contacts), and there's no way to change this. Also, the search field scrolls up with your contact list, so as soon as you scroll down into your mammoth list of non-contacts, there's no quick way to say "forget scrolling, I'll just search" without scrolling alll the way to the top to get the search box back. Also, as you scroll, the letter popout goes through both lowercase and uppercase as you scroll "AaBbCcDd."

Things I really like:

-clean, dual pane, bright system settings

-recent app switcher is great

Ultimately, I'm resorting to the Google launcher and Google native or Holo design language app store apps anyway, so on the rare occasion that I'm in a Miui app (the file explorer, for example), is discordant instead of pretty.

Worth checking out though! I'll watch it develop for sure--I'm getting tired of the sparseness of Holo dark.