MIUI, which may be overhauled, is bigger than the MIUI 13 change, and the name is not MIUI 14.
MIUI, as the biggest pride of Xiaomi, ushered in its own Waterloo under Xiaomi's drastic MIUI 12.
The various "grand plans" depicted at the press conference filled the expectations.
Super wallpaper, privacy mode, small window mode, and especially brand new animations.
"We developed our own physics animation engine that rewrites the underlying rendering mechanism. Through the MAML illustration engine, Folme animation engine, MiRender rendering engine, perfect dynamic fillet, advanced color mixing, control-level real-time blur, physical space motion, dynamic forms and other elegant visual and animation effects are realized. Thanks to this advanced technical architecture, the system animation has a new look. ”
All kinds of new features, I thought it would usher in a jump in word of mouth, but what I did not expect was that in this year, MIUI 12 was "verbally criticized".
Bugs and poor fluency have become the biggest slot points in MIUI 12.
It wasn't until the arrival of MIUI 13 that the biggest bug of poor fluency of MIUI 12 was alleviated.
In 2022, as the most basic fluency of a UI, it is also somewhat incredible.
MIUI 13 is not yet the end of Xiaomi's solution to fluency.
Recently, a new version of MIUI was exposed, and Xiaomi may launch a special version of MIUI called MIUI Go.
The new version of the system will limit/disable features such as floating windows and Game Turbo mode to improve system fluency for low-power devices with less than 4GB of memory.
The system named after Go, Google itself has.
Android Go is Google's Android system for low-profile phones, and has currently released Android 12 Go, which can automatically save battery life and storage space by sleeping long-unused apps, and the startup speed of apps on Android 12 Go will be increased by 30%.
MIUI Go may also be based on Android Go custom systems.
And customization, will it add more functions, resulting in bloated system?
This raises the question, in today's hardware performance is very powerful, is it still meaningful to launch a lightweight system?
In China, almost all native systems have been complained about, and the last hydrogen OS, which is characterized by lightness and simplicity, has now been switched to Color OS.
Motorola mobile phones equipped with a native system will definitely see comments that the system is not good.
Because they are all too simple, in other words, too few functions.
Common functions in custom UIs such as game assistants, small window adaptations, and video assistants are missing or simple in these types of native systems.
But a word often heard in a feature-rich custom UI is bloated.
This session of netizens, a little difficult to serve.
So, what kind of system is a good experience?
That is probably a customized system with rich functions, excellent fluency and stable system.
This has a certain contradiction, rich in functions, the probability of BUG will certainly be greater, the impact on fluency is also greater, and the requirements for the software capabilities of manufacturers are a bit high.
Wanting everything, just like MIUI 12, the ability to optimize the underlying layer of the system is not enough, resulting in poor fluency.
And MIUI 13, from the dark horse experience and online feedback, compared to MIUI 12, the fluency is improved.
This improvement is not necessarily the result of the improvement of software optimization capabilities, compared to MIUI 12, MIUI 13 is weakened in terms of dynamics.
The animation of the lock screen is gone, the desktop search box is no longer real-time blurred, the blurred background of the search interface and folders is gone, and the animation of the control center is also weakened.
The increase in the fluency of MIUI 13 is definitely directly related to the weakening of the animation effect.
In the view of dark horse, this practice is desirable, a system, no matter how many functions, if the most basic fluency can not be guaranteed, more functions have become a drag.
This idea is the same as the miUI Go or Android Go such lightweight systems, which is not very meaningful for terminal equipment with powerful hardware, it is completely a big horse-drawn cart.
However, for manufacturers with insufficient system optimization capabilities, this kind of "de-complexity and simplification" optimization can ensure the most basic fluency.
Especially for MIUI, it may be more necessary to "de-traditionalize and simplify", first lay a good foundation for fluency, in order to avoid the turmoil of MIUI in the past two years.