Play around with ICS for a little bit and you'll quickly pick up on a new UI element that appears inspired by Windows Phone: All of this is smoother than it has ever been on Android. Once you've reached the end of your pages of apps you'll start flipping through widgets.
Instead of an endless scrolling cube, you get pages of apps that you flip through. The app launcher gets a bit of a facelift. Folders are quick to open and easy to rename, just tap on the name of any open folder and type away. Drag any icon on top of another one and they'll create a folder.
Shortcuts work the same way they always have, while Folders get a nice update in ICS. Widgets are resizable just as they were in Honeycomb. You get multiple home screens (five by default) that you can populate with shortcuts, widgets or folders. Different than both iOS and Windows Phone, but with a design that's just as credible. Elements of the design and many of the first party apps are just clean. It's different, it's clearly a play on the whole Android theme it's the type of UI you'd expect from an OS named after a robot.Īt the same time it's no longer awkward.
The UI is either going to pull you in or turn you off. Holo and ICS aren't iOS nor does it look like they ever will be. Ice Cream Sandwich is Android maturing, it's the second implementation of Holo allowing us to finally plot a trajectory for where Google sees this thing going in the near term. Holo is still distinctly Android in that there are still multiple home screens with support for widgets, but it's also different. Part of that surely has to do with the very contrasty nature of the theme, but it's also the choice of font (Android 4.0 replaces Droid Sans with Roboto) and hard edges sprinkled throughout the UI. Ice Cream Sandwich feels a lot like Android meets Windows Phone. I was surprised to see an evolution of Holo used in ICS, but the theme has grown on me.
It was different, which earned Google points for sure, but it wasn't exactly comfortable. When I first met Holo, Google's Honeycomb theme, I wasn't convinced that it was something that would last.
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