Very few exceptions go beyond customising new menus and buttons. One of them is OPPO, which has spent many years transforming the mobile Android OS into the phone company’s own reskin, ColorOS.
Launching alongside the OPPO Find X8 series its its latest Android 15 remake, ColorOS 15. This operating system melds the arts with software ingenuity to create a swift, pleasant-to-look-at, and user-friendly system that offers features that conventional Android wouldn’t be able to offer. ColorOS 15 introduces even more optimisations and unexpected features, like the Apple-compatible Touch To Share. We attended an operating system workshop where OPPO’s engineers and directors discussed its (OS’s) core purpose, what users ask for, and how it delivers extra perks to users and make itself unique in a sea of Android handsets.
SPEED IS OF THE ESSENCE
A critical but oft-overlooked aspect of Android is the feeling of productivity when navigating between apps. Users don’t have time to sit around and wait for loading screens, and the milliseconds of waiting for Android Animations to resolve can add up over a long day of phone use. Unfortunately, having no animations makes it hard for users to visualise navigation, so it has to be intuitive, pleasant, and faster than a blink of an eye. ColorOS’s pleasant and intuitive scrolling has improved significantly in its 11 years of existence (since 2013). Of note, OPPO said ColorOS 15 contains over 800 animations to convey its seamless browsing experience.
The real magic, however, is engineering. More specifically, OPPO revamped its Android rendering framework (Luminous Rendering Engine and Trinity Engine), giving it a parallel rendering response that allows multiple inputs to be executed, unlike conventional Android rendering, where it’s serial/sequential.
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