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In developers options, turning the animation speeds to .5x
Don't know if that's really an underrated feature, but would like to mention it anyway. Everything feels much faster after that. Pretty much the first thing i do when i have a new phone.
I was just about to say this, it's a game changer. Some OEMs (Android variants) even have options in the settings to set animation speed or disable them.
Speaking of, if your older phone is ever laggy or feels unresponsive, disable animations entirely. It made my phone feel brand new with how quickly it goes in and out of apps.
i disabled the animations on my old tablet just now. Very nice!
Love doing this when people complain their phone is slowing down due to age
Thanks for reminding, i remember that one if the older android days. Just adjusted it again, its still a really nice mod and speedbump!
I appreciate this setting still existing, especially because some custom skins/UI can be too slow, but IMHO I prefer a balanced/stock value as the animations nowadays are so polished and smooth that I'd rather use it that way than butchering them with faster speeds...
I am using MIUI right now and it has its own version of this, so I just use "balanced mode".
When I use AOSP I always use stock because even my SD 865 feels weird when the animation is too fast but the app is still loading, I think it kills the momentum lol.
Fun fact if you set it to 1.5x on a samsung, it behaves like an iPhone lol.
Isnt iOS pretty sluggish with the animations? I heard it was on the slower side (as if to show of the animation)
Yeah the reason Androids feel ‘choppy’ compared to iOS is that android lets you take action without finishing the animation, whereas iOS forces you to watch every animation until you can touch the phone again. This is a general trend with iOS, you do as the OS tells you to.
Same, at 1x it just takes too long for animations to complete.
Oddly, I set mine to 2x because I like the animation being more... Animated. If I wanted speed I would just turn animation off.
Why not just disable animations entirely?
That's a bit ugly, imo.
I've found it can break things in some apps as well as not look nice (Spotify wrapped, McDonald's app purchase loading, minor things I know)
Expand the list, these are apps I would never put on my phone. Is there a correlation? I am curious!
That's what I do as part of my initial setup on a new phone. It's so much nicer when you tap something and it just happens instead of waiting for an animation.
Yeah, it breaks some stuff, but only like loading circle animations that try to spin at infinite speed. Nothing bad.
Too fast
I do this mainly because I would get motion sickness from UI animation. Not trolling, see how most mainstream OS developers added disabling animation as an accessibility option.