[Nexus 5 Android Development] 1username4thisforum:
If you like the obtuse feature blatantly ripped off from Apple that is known as Headup you should try an Iphone. You'll love how dumb they are

Besides improved graphics speed, Lollipop has been a pretty big fail

from 5.0.0 though

5.0.1 and

5.0.2, while waiting for the next update to come out.

There was supposed to be big improvements to battery. I've defended LP battery life since it came out, but there just is no defending it.

It eats through battery at a noticeable amount faster than KK, to the range of unusable for many people.

There was supposed to be improved brightness control.

It is even worse than on KK, and I am still stuck using a 3rd party app

Headsup notifications

The idea of it, the previews before it was actually in my hands - looked awesome.

Now if I get a notification, it completely blocks the whole status bar (other icon notifications, date, time, wifi/cell signal) until the big notification with a large icon and minimal text goes away, or I dismiss it.

Usage Before: I could be doing something on my phone and get a notification and have zero interruption to what I was doing and see the whole status bar.

If I was not using the phone and pick it up to see the notification, then I can see if I have missed calls, emails, and the time.

Not only does the old way show more information, it does not take any extra time to dismiss a notification to see the others.

The way I would use this, is if I had received an email or call and missed it, but then hear a text on my phone and pick it up to see the notification - I immediately see I have a missed phone call at the same time as I see I have a text.

This is useful because if I just received a text from someone that I previously missed their call, I skip texting and call them back.

No input required from me, more useful information displayed

Usage After: I get a really pretty iphone style display that takes up the whole top part of the screen, completely blocking everything in the status bar to show me someones face and a few words beside it. It looks really really nice, if I was a 16 year old girl heads up notifications would be my favorite feature ever like OMG!

If I don't want to stare at the same picture and few words for 4-7 seconds I can stop what I am doing and swipe it away.

If I want to see other notifications, or the time, or status bar, I can swipe away the notification, or wait for it to go away by itself.

I understand how some of you might not understand how this is an issue.

But it results in significantly more time spent with the phone in my hand and the screen on eating up battery just to see the same information that used to take less than a second and no input from me.

Volume panel: Do I even need to say anything here? They had good intentions, but the actual delivered product is less than teriffic.

If you don't agree just wait for the next incremental update when Google changes it...

and then the placement.

Same thing as heads up basically, it used to be located in a spot that I could hold my phone in my regular size hands, adjust the volume, and then use my thumb to make a change to ANY VOLUME my phone had.

Now its unconviently located at the top of the screen, so I can try to unseat my phone from my hand and have it slide down in my hand a bit to easily access the new volume panel, at risk of it dropping right out of my hand and smashing, or use another hand to adjust the volume.

Once again, more time spent to do the exact same thing on KK

more time with the screen on draining battery

Now before someone starts crying and tells me to go back to KK.

I'm not saying KK is better and LP is worse.

I'm saying they did a ****ty job with a lot of stuff on LP and they should stay true to Android instead of copying Apple.

It's not just me either, lots of places have noted how Google is not even able to follow their own guidelines and have many mismatching things in their current apps/though android.

If Android is going to become a crappy knockoff of Apple running on these discount built phones I'll just go all the way and get an Iphone for that build/image quality no Android phone can match

TLDR:

-Takes longer/more input/time/hands to do the same **** on LP than KK

-battery life improvements are actually battery life decreases

-**** headsup and its stupid god damn applesqueness

-why not just erase the ****ing status bar if you want to block it so much