preface
In this era of soaring technology and soaring dreams, ColorOS 15 is like a bright star, piercing the night sky, leading us into a new era of intelligence carefully woven by AI. It is not just an iteration of the operating system, but a magnificent revolution on how to use AI as the pen and smooth experience as the basis to redraw the smart application of mobile phones.
首发双引擎引领，ColorOS 15突破安卓流畅性瓶颈
The native experience of the Android system has been difficult to meet the experience needs of current users. Limited by the native framework, the single-threaded architecture of the Android system is difficult to cope with complex application requirements, resulting in visual lag. Android's native single-module performance solution will also cause the software and hardware to be uncoordinated, resulting in untimely system resource scheduling.
Over the years, OPPO has been taking fluency as the core R&D direction of ColorOS, and has built a three-in-one R&D system including "engineering technology organization + advanced research organization + patent layout". OPPO currently has six research institutes and six R&D centers around the world, and cooperates with Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University and many other universities to continue to explore the fluency optimization of the Android system.
Chen Xi, design director of ColorOS, believes that fluency should not only stay at the basic performance layer, but also extend to the sensory and functional level, so that the mobile phone is not only a tool, but also an extension of the body. He further proposed the ColorOS smooth three-layer system, emphasizing that through the focus design concept and dual-engine technological innovation breakthroughs, the new smooth experience of Android will be refreshed in an all-round way. ColorOS 15 comprehensively breaks through the limitations of the Android system through the new Aurora Engine and Tidal Engine. Zhou Haitao, Director of ColorOS System Development, shared the details of the development of the Aurora Engine at the meeting, and explained how to solve the system lag problem caused by single-threaded design through the new parallel drawing architecture.
The traditional Android system is limited by the single-threaded drawing framework and serial operation mode, and the next task will only be responded to at the end of the previous task, and it cannot be interrupted halfway, and user needs can only queue up and wait for a response, resulting in problems such as clicking and not following, and the system screen is stuck. At present, the industry transition scheme does not solve the underlying problems of Android serial and single-threaded drawing architecture, although it can achieve timely response to the operation, but the "picture flashing" sense of lag still exists, and the "one-size-fits-all" animation scheme obviously cannot really break the bottleneck of Android fluency. ColorOS 15, on the other hand, addresses the root cause from both internal and external aspects.
On the one hand, at the user-perceptible operating layer. ColorOS 15 introduces the industry's first parallel drawing architecture, through the parallel response architecture and the dynamic scheduling mechanism under the unified drawing framework, so that each resource thread can independently draw the picture, so as to solve the problem of screen flicker caused by resource conflicts, so that the system can respond quickly and the picture can be smooth and coherent.
We see that ColorOS 15 has comprehensively reconstructed the Android architecture from the bottom layer to the system layer and the application layer this time, and through the self-developed "Aurora Engine" and the new "Tidal Engine", it has brought us a silky experience comparable to iOS from control to senses, which is indeed a new height of redefining the smooth experience of the Android system.
At the same time, based on the characteristics of parallel response and unified drawing provided by the Aurora engine, ColorOS 15 realizes the industry's first parallel motion painting, and the system-level sliding animation effect also fully covers mainstream third-party applications.
On the other hand, at the performance scheduling layer. ColorOS 15's newly upgraded Tidal Engine breaks through the bottleneck of Android system in chip cache allocation through in-depth joint tuning and optimization with chip manufacturers. In fact, the ColorOS development team went deep into the chip cache computing unit, completely reconstructed the system cache allocation mechanism, and designed a cache allocation technology with intelligent and dynamic capabilities, which not only supports different PUs to flexibly allocate system cache resources according to the current task type, but also has a faster and more accurate allocation speed, and the overall fluency is improved by 22%, which not only performs well in daily operations, but also is easy in complex scenarios.
In addition, the new Tidal Engine is equipped with an exclusive self-developed full-stack algorithm accelerator, which reconstructs and accelerates the software library algorithms, and based on more efficient parallel operations, so that one instruction can act on multiple data units at the same time, effectively reducing the number of memory accesses, achieving up to 3 times the algorithm efficiency improvement, and significantly improving the fluency of different user scenarios such as multimedia, file decompression, and application initiation.
System-level AI, ubiquitous wisdom
Imagine that your phone is no longer a cold machine that you need to get used to, but like a dear friend who knows your heart well, and every touch is like a heart-to-heart communication. The AI in ColorOS 15 is like a blood of wisdom flowing inside the system, it perceives your every subtle movement and understands your every unspoken meaning. At the moment when your fingertips dance, AI has quietly analyzed and predicted, paving a fast channel to smoothness and convenience for you. Whether you're navigating through a busy work email or immersing yourself in an exciting gaming world, the AI ensures that every step of your move is silky smooth, with no lag or stuttering, just pure enjoyment.
But in many cases, under the new wave of technological revolution set off by generative AI, AI still seems to be the plaything of technology geeks, and has not really benefited the majority of ordinary users. OPPO firmly believes that AI should not be on top of the sky, but should be integrated into daily life to effectively solve users' real problems. Since the advent of ColorOS 14, OPPO has launched a series of useful AI features, such as "AI elimination" and "AI call summary", all of which have been well received.
Adhering to the concept of "using AI first, then making good use of AI", OPPO is committed to further lowering the threshold for AI use. With the debut of ColorOS 15, OPPO's terminals can invoke AI functions in a more natural and intuitive way, efficiently connecting AI capabilities with native mobile applications, and continuing to break through intelligent collaboration with third-party applications.
TIPS
In the process of building a truly user-friendly system-level AI, OPPO adheres to four core principles, namely:
Gut feeling. Empower the system with AI to provide users with an intuitive and natural interactive experience.
Highly efficient. The self-developed front-end scheduling model effectively integrates industry-leading AI technologies to provide efficient and comprehensive AI services.
Exclusive. Accurately understand user intent and provide exclusive personalized AI services.
Safe. OPPO puts user privacy first, and the private computing cloud fully protects user data to ensure privacy and security.
In ColorOS 15, Xiaobu is no longer just a voice assistant, but has been upgraded to a system-level AI interaction platform. This comprehensive upgrade makes Xiaobu a real "system brain", which can deeply understand the content on and off the screen, and accurately capture our intentions. With system-level AI capabilities, Xiaobu can perform a variety of complex intelligent operations. For example, in the "one-click question", we can directly interact based on the content displayed on the screen, upload pictures or files for Q&A, and even let it execute various instructions (ask about scenic spots, ask about food, ask about travel books, ask test questions, ask about product attributes, and even summarize articles and retouch photos, etc.).
ColorOS 15's AI is indeed a meticulous life assistant, which quietly integrates into our daily life and weaves a network of convenient life. From smart reminders of your meeting schedule, to adjusting your dress suggestions for changing weather conditions; From recommending the right exercise program based on our health condition, to automatically connecting to Bluetooth headphones to play your favorite music when we need it...... Every subtle move of AI is aimed at making your life easier and more efficient, and making the temperature of technology within reach.
At the same time, ColorOS 15 also has exclusive intelligent decision-making AI scheduling technology. It includes underlying algorithm logic, such as multimodal semantic understanding, multimodal context management, intelligent instruction execution, multimodal dialogue decision-making algorithms, and search-enhanced multimodal large models.
In this AI-led revolution, ColorOS 15 has also not forgotten its commitment to user safety. AI is like a loyal guardian, monitoring every corner of the system 24 hours a day, using advanced algorithms and encryption technology to build an indestructible invisible shield for our data security. Whether it's preventing malware from intrusion or protecting our privacy from prying eyes, AI silently guards our digital world, so that you can enjoy intelligence while also having a full sense of security.
But all of the above is not the core AI upgrade of ColorOS 15. In fact, the new system-level interaction brought by the "one-click question", and a number of AI capabilities throughout the whole system, make AI from early adopter to commonly used, which is indeed exciting. The fully upgraded "Super Small Cloth Assistant" plus a lot of practical and easy-to-use "AI retouching" and "AI office" functions make AI a know-it-all, a master of retouching, and a good assistant for learning and office, which makes people feel extremely practical. These are very concrete things, and they are worth talking about.
Design with vitality is good design
"See nature, see yourself", the design of ColorOS 15 has also ushered in a great refresh. Through natural light and shadow, we can comprehensively reshape the quality of details such as shape, color, quality, movement, and state, and show our diverse and rich selves in a universal and beautiful design with powerful and personalized editing capabilities.
ColorOS 15 takes OPPO's philosophy of "Easy and Simple Design" as the cornerstone, and pursues the best balance between aesthetics, texture and user experience in the midst of change and simplification. We love the way ColorOS 15 draws inspiration from natural light and shadow, which uses light and shadow to shape and restore reality, finding the perfect balance between "nature" and "self".
The completely refreshed desktop and system icons are designed to create authentic and minimalist texture icons that meet the user's perception. As mentioned earlier, these designs are inspired by natural light, and the icons are soft and unburdened, with delicate and comfortable light and shadow.
In terms of interface, the design of real-time color mixing blur + diffuse projection is very thoughtful, and the texture improvement they achieve not only includes the tactile experience, but also covers the visual characteristics of the object, such as color, shape, etc. We believe that this change is more of a subjective feeling, determined by personal observation and experience. Through these innovative designs, ColorOS 15 not only improves the aesthetics of the interface, but more importantly, optimizes the user's interactive experience. Many of us love this combination of real-time color blur and diffuse projection, which creates a more realistic, natural, layered operating environment.
ColorOS 15 not only updates a large number of animation effects in the system scene, but also creates a new set of Aurora visual effects. By combining the actual needs of users and the characteristics of functional scenes, a unique visual animation full of details and surprises is designed, making scenarios such as boot guidance, fingerprint unlocking, fingerprint payment, charging, and incoming calls more natural and dynamic.
At the same time, ColorOS 15 provides high-quality rich templates and material styles and wallpaper resources through the development of efficient and intuitive combination settings, bringing us a personalized experience for thousands of people.
In short, this time, OPPO has designed it with a sense of natural familiarity and a sense of surprise of wisdom, helping us to enjoy a smooth, comfortable, and intuitive all-weather experience when pursuing the personalized expression of smart vitality.
Ease of use is the most tangible value of existence
Over the years, ColorOS has insisted on co-creating and continuously polishing functional details with users around the easy-to-use experience. ColorOS 15 introduces easy-to-use details such as "Album Reversible Editing", "Native Mutual Transmission with iOS", "Industry-leading Window System", "Live Photos", and newly upgraded easy-to-use star functions such as "Fluid Cloud", which sublimates the value of ease of use again.
Thanks to the accumulation of ColorOS on the folding screen, ColorOS 15 brings the most powerful "free split screen" in history to the straight board machine, which can make the split screen application display on the full screen, 99% of the application can be divided, just drag the segmentation bar to enlarge the application window, the application information display is clearer, and you can quickly switch with a single click.
ColorOS 15's "Free Floating Window" takes "fast in and fast out, comfortable operation, and lightweight multitasking" as the core, completely revolutionizing the user experience, making mobile phone operation more handy, and life and work more efficient and convenient. Whether it's chatting with friends while immersively watching short videos, quickly checking the meaning of words when reading foreign classics, or quickly checking locations and navigating when looking for popular attractions, "Free Floating Window" can be easily achieved.
ColorOS 15 also supports dual floating windows in parallel, which can be quickly switched by clicking on the buoy, making multitasking easy and efficient, and truly realizing lightweight multitasking. In extreme scenarios, we can open double split screen + double small windows at the same time, and media bloggers can upload videos on four platforms at the same time, comprehensively improving the efficiency of content creation.
In addition, the easy-to-use function of "Drifting from Fluid Cloud to Dynamic Island" to transfer files to and from iOS supports all kinds of file transfers; The newly upgraded ultra-clear live photo can record everything that happens in 1.5 seconds before and after the shutter for a total of 3 seconds, making the still picture vivid and flexible, making the fun more than a moment, and the upgraded fluid cloud can realize a sense of intelligent reminder with a sense of life. Even the reversibility of the album is well thought out, so that even if you have to manipulate and crop the photo, you can get back to the "original".
TIPS: A brief history of ColorOS time over the ages
Each generation of ColorOS has been reviewed and reported in great detail, and now in retrospect, the release of ColorOS 13 with the theme of "Aquatic Everything" two years ago seems like yesterday, and ColorOS 14 a year ago is a deep experience of the convenience of "everything belongs to AI". Today, at the moment of the official debut of the "ultra-light, more comfortable" ColorOS 15, we will first talk about the story of the past generations of ColorOS in a chapter.
ColorOS 1.0, icon skeuomorphism to life. On September 23, 2013, the first generation of ColorOS with the theme of "Smart Painting Rebirth" was officially launched in the world. The first generation of ColorOS chose to start from life, and depicted a lot of life-like textures and details on the icons, making the icons more able to show the meaning of related applications. And this skeuomorphic style also makes the atmosphere of humanistic feelings very strong. It can be said that in that era eleven years ago, the horizontal comparison of ColorOS was no less amazing and practical than any subsequent major version change.
ColorOS 2.0, redraw commonly used icons, adhere to the skeuomorphic style. In September 2014, the ColorOS 2.0 system, the theme of the version is "Elegant Bloom", following the skeuomorphic style, in order to make the icon more compatible with the system, based on the characteristics of the icon, most of the commonly used icons on the market have been redrawn, which has improved the recognition of the icon, is more intuitive and simple, and makes it closer to life.
ColorOS 3.0, "Batch Move", makes it easier to organize. ColorOS 3.0 was unveiled at the OPPO R9 series launch event in March 2016, and it continues to be optimized on the basis of the previous two generations of ColorOS system, with the theme of "simple in form, easy in heart". The basic elements of the icon are more uniform, and each icon is divided according to the golden ratio. In addition, after the desktop icon is optimized, you can tidy up the cluttered desktop. Press and hold the icon to edit the desktop, click "Batch Move", and check it to move the icon to the specified position.
ColorOS 5.0, Zhimei Shuangquan, 4×6 desktop layout. Two years later, on March 19, 2018, the ColorOS 5.0 system with the theme of "Smart and Beautiful" was launched, in this system version, ColorOS incorporated more light and color into the icons and desktops, giving users a warmer and more comfortable feeling. THE POINT IS THAT THE DESKTOP ICON LAYOUT STARTS TO DEFAULT TO 4X6, AND USERS CAN ADJUST BETWEEN 4X6 AND 5X6 ACCORDING TO THEIR PREFERENCES.
ColorOS 6.0, Zhimei has no borders, and interactive animation is more direct. In March 2019, ColorOS 6 was released, and then it was first installed on OPPO's original Reno series models, starting a new legend. Since ColorOS 6.0, the ColorOS system has been fully upgraded, and it has begun to enter the second stage of ColorOS development - the era of comprehensive upgrade and optimization. Version 6.0 incorporates a borderless design concept into the desktop layout and icons, with white layout, new wallpapers and icons to make users feel very fresh.
Intelligent assistant (providing multi-scenario active intelligent services from seven modules), ultra-clear visual effects (optimizing video playback, significantly improving the image quality of short videos), privacy and security (staying away from fraud), etc., have also been comprehensively upgraded, echoing the theme of "smart beauty without borders". It can be said that the word "wisdom" has a real sublimation on ColorOS 6.0.
Also from 6.0 onwards, ColorOS has broken through the boundary, not only in the optimization of the desktop layout and icons, but also in the game in terms of touch, and the control and response of the game have been specially optimized.
ColorOS 7.0, the concept of borderless evolution, system optimization. ColorOS 7.0 was released in the spring of 2020, which is essentially an optimization and improvement of "unleashing nature" on the basis of ColorOS 6.0. In addition, the first-of-its-kind UI First fully optimizes the system, fully improving the application startup speed and system resource utilization efficiency, making the use process smoother and the image editing more convenient
ColorOS 11, customized exclusive system, more personal creativity. In September 2020, the ColorOS system once again made an iterative digital leap, skipping the so-called "8, 9, and 10" versions, and directly came to ColorOS 11, presenting the theme of "creating borderless". From this generation, the ColorOS system has entered the third era - the era of self-creation. In this version, our system can be created by ourselves.
In addition to 1000+ experience optimizations, panoramic lighting effects, multi-screen interconnection, etc., we have the most complete "creation" experience and truly enter a new stage of the ColorOS system.
ColorOS 12, comfortable and borderless, from the eyes to the heart. In September 2021, ColorOS 12, with the theme of "Freedom Without Borders", was finally unveiled under the watchful eye. The light and shadow of the acrylic icon has quality, noise reduction, cross-screen interconnection, more exquisite quantum animation, and safer privacy protection, which is not only comfortable for the eyes, but also comfortable for the heart. This time, its biggest highlight is OPPO's first Omoji,Users can choose their favorite characters as avatars according to their preferences,Whether it's from the look、Color matching、Hairstyle or accessories,Even the small details of the blink,It's very similar to the original。 Users can use this feature to add fun and increase the sense of interaction on their phones when recording videos or videos with others.
ColorOS 13, aquatic everything, openness, symbiosis, and co-prosperity. As an important project of OPPO in 2022, ColorOS 13 has achieved the most powerful upgrade and optimization in OPPO's history, bringing ColorOS into the fourth stage - the integration of all things. The theme is "Aquatic Everything", inspired by the vibrant, fluid, and inclusive nature of "water", resulting in a fluid, vibrant, and inclusive UI and animation. Different from the theme positioning of the borderless series, ColorOS 13 has set the theme as "aquatic everything", obviously to make the system show more inspired vitality, and at the same time lose the sense of fluidity it deserves. And there is a breakthrough in the fluency of the system, which is as smooth as water and embraces all things.
In addition to the aquatic design, ColorOS 13 is also characterized by comprehensive and smooth performance and animation innovation and security and privacy (more refined security control of the whole lifecycle of third-party applications).
ColorOS 14, create and change together, and enjoy the wisdom of unbounded intelligence. In November 2023, ColorOS 14 was released, which has a lightweight large-scale model end-to-end deployment solution and a new Xiaobu based on the AndesGPT large model. In fact, many innovations in ColorOS 14, the latest achievements of OPPO's self-developed Pantanal intelligent cross-terminal system, and the AI large model AndesGPT are impressive. As the 10th anniversary of ColorOS, ColorOS 14 has been very popular in the market since its release, and its improvement in the field of intelligent integration can be said to be quite huge, bringing a large number of new experiences in connection and efficiency.
For example, ColorOS 14 is also quite rich in new features in terms of efficiency improvement, adding a new way to interact with ubiquitous services: fluid cloud. This new fluid cloud interactive experience can be presented in the status bar in different forms according to different service statuses and the priority of different information, so as to display real-time services with high effectiveness and high attention with low inconvenience. In addition, the fluid cloud also supports cross-device circulation.
Today, ColorOS 15 is here, the rhythm is as usual, the innovation is as expected, and the demand for "lightness" and "freedom" is just right. By the way, in order to warm up the atmosphere with the release of ColorOS 15, not long ago, ColorOS officially announced that the theme of ColorOS previous versions has been put on the shelves of the OPPO theme store, which can be regarded as a prelude to nostalgia and prospects.
postscript
ColorOS 15 brings all-round upgrades and innovations with a fully reconstructed ultra-light and smooth experience, efficient and practical system-level AI, a new design that is both natural and self-contained, and an easy-to-use experience with details everywhere. We believe that AI is the most creative artist when it comes to ColorOS 15. It is no longer satisfied with a cookie-cutter interface design, but dynamically adjusts the phone interface according to our unique preferences, living habits, and even changes in our mood. From colorful theme switching, to accurate news and information, to the APP layout that fits your daily needs, AI uses its smart hands to draw a unique and personalized picture for everyone. Every time you unlock it, it's a novel exploration, and every time you use it, it's a spiritual resonance.
To sum up, ColorOS 15 and AI are subverting our traditional perception of mobile phone operating systems in an unprecedented way. It not only makes mobile phones smarter, but also makes mobile phones an indispensable smart partner in our lives, accompanying us to explore the unknown and enjoy the infinite possibilities brought by technology.
ColorOS 15 was first installed on OPPO Find X8 and OnePlus 13, and the official version upgrade plan of the old model will be launched in November.