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Do you know that Android OS shares different appearances on the smartphones of two other manufacturers? For example, Android on a Samsung phone will look differently than Android on a Google Pixel phone. Let’s see it in detail. 

Android manufacturers and Skins

Every Android phone doesn’t look like the same. But here, the appearance of the hardware is not the only thing. Android device manufacturers utilize custom skins to create a unique looking operating system. Moreover, you will have to know more about Android before knowing skins precisely. This post will help you learn about skins in detail. And you will also know why smartphone makers use modified Android. 

Stock Android

Google has developed Android as an open-source OS. Manufacturers use Android on their devices with customization because of the open-source specialty of it. Moreover, Google provides a source code after making the required changes and updates to Android. And many know this real source code as “stock or vanilla” Android. 

Smartphone makers, including Samsung, LG, and more, begin with stock Android but instead of using the original version, they use the modified version of stock Android.

In simple terms, stock Android is only the beginning, and manufacturers modify it based on their liking. After Google launches a new Android version, it depends on smartphone makers how they will customize it to use on their mobile devices. 

Android skins

Do you wonder what an Android skin is? Let’s make it simple. It is nothing but a customized or modified version of stock or original Android. See these Android skins:

  • Xiaomi MIUI
  • LG UX
  • HTC Sense UI
  • Google Pixel UI
  • OnePlus OxygenOS
  • Samsung One UI

These are some examples of Android skins. These skins provide excellent benefits to Android users. They are created by customizing the original Android. If we talk about the most used skins, it is Samsung One UI. Skins help modify everything on an Android phone, including the Settings menu, lock screen, notification drawer, and more. 

Features of an Android skin vary from device to device. For example, Android on Samsung devices comes with huge features compared to others. Samsung Galaxy Fold combines several useful features on its folding screen. With correct skin, a manufacturer can load a device with unique features and also can make the device beautiful. 

Manufacturers also follow some specific Google guidelines so they can integrate Google services like Play Store and apps on their phones. 

Problems with skins

People also think that Android skins are responsible for not receiving updates on time. And it is also true that several smartphones with Android OS face the latest updates issues. That means they don’t get updates for many months. But are Android skins really responsible for not getting updates on time?   

In this guide, you have already learned that after releasing an update by Googlefor Android and providing source code to the Android Open-Source Project, it depends on the smartphone makers how they will use it on their devices by modifying the stock Android. 

However, Google can take benefit of this culture of Android skins. Google can provide the latest updates first to its Pixel phones because third party manufacturers will need time to get.

Source: Take Advantage Of Stock Android Without Rooting

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