[OnePlus 5T  Questions & Answers] paatha13:
What are you talking about.

What community?

Over here?

On XDA?

Give me a break.

Those community are only 2-3% of all users across global.

Very vast majority of users and customers they don’t know what’s the difference between android version and you talking about AOSP???

Really??

Hahahahahaaaa

We really make me laugh.

Majority of people my dear friend are buying iPhones,Samsung,Huawei,Xiaomi devices and they don’t have any idea and they don’t care about any kind community or any customization offer by AOSP.

Don’t make wrong conclusions based with minority of people like you and me that we are more hardcore users and we love playing with our phone and testing new thing and new experiences.

People and users out there THEY DON’T simple care or have an idea.

They just want a phone to work for 4-5 things doing with them and that’s it.

As for missing customization or level of quality AOSP offer you are wrong because non AOSP has the reliable level of face recognition OOS offer.

Sorry but never did never will.

And of course with substratum theme you can change the position of clock wherever you like example k-knock manager app many option customization of status bar that none AOSP offer.

Also you can change the notifications icons and move it from the left to right and battery,WiFi,data on the left.

Have you heard about,probably not.

None none of AOSP offers that.

You better tested and you will surprised with the level of customization.

Even with xposed and gravity box or flat style bar indicator module I can customize status bar way better and with more option than any AOSP rom offer.

OOS also offering full(unlimited)accent color customization that many AOSP simple don’t but only 8-10 colors offers(really have you worked latest open beta 11-12 as I have with my OP5T??)

Probably not because if you had you wouldn’t talk with such words against OOS.

With substratum theme you can change the color background of the notifications center by any color want not only transparency level.

Can you do that with AOSP without using substratum??

The answer is no.

You can also customize headers and volume/brightness bar control with many different option.

And of course you can change icons at settings menu or status bar or notifications center with many different look and feel icons.

Can you do that with AOSP??

The answer is no.

As for gesture navigation from third party app they are more hit and miss and by any chance they don’t provide the same smooth and reliable experience and of course you should already know that their nothing optimized better that a feature to work as native.

And you should already know that third party app use more battery than what natively a whatever rom offers.

Sorry but your knowledge and experience you are having from customization aspect are limited because you mention things that I can do with rooting that you don’t even know.

And probably you haven’t work many substratum theme and you should and will be surprised how many customization offers.

I recommend you try Ozone,Flux,Spectrum,Valerie,K-klock manager,Sprite as I’m using all of them.

You can change dozens aspect of UI like black or dark or any other color background theme with many major app like Gmail,YouTube,Nova launcher,File managers,Photo gallery,Dailer app,WhatsApp and many more that NONE AOSP Offer today.

And you can add whatever color want and combination with the dark or black or any other color background theme.

For example black theme background with red text or cyan or whatever color

Or dark theme background with yellow text

Or transparent background theme app mention above with whatever color as combinations.

At the end I’m also offering you a free coffee meeting to show you the level of customization I can do with substratum theme and rooting using Magisk or Xposed module and tweaks and of course let known each other.:p

We will be surprised with those dozens and dozens customization option that NON any kind stock or custom(AOSP)rom can do out of the box by ITSELF only.