Team Kang, also known as AOKP, says it will bring a whole new perspective to the Android UI.
The next version of Xiaomi’s well known MiUI is being developed in conjunction with the AOKP (Android Open Kang Project) team, also known as Team Kang. The team wrote a blog post making the announcement, revealing that it has been in talks with the Xiaomi for over a year now. Team Kang writes,
“With Cyanogen parterning with various OEMs and OnePlus grabbing hold of the ParanoidAndroid team, the folks at Xiaomi started considering that to have a larger share of the international market, they needed to collaborate with some established custom ROM community, and hence since last year we had been in close talks. With all the pieces of the deal in place, I wish to announce that all Team Kang members are working with Xiaomi on a new and refreshed MIUI 7, which will be finally based on Android 5.1, and be coming on the Mi 5.”
According to the blog post, MiUI 7 is being internally called MiKangy and will bring a whole new perspective to the Android UI. “MIUI 7, (which the team internally calls codename MiKangy, not to be confused with MiKandi), is a whole new take on the Android UX. The idea behind it is to kang all important features from the top ROMs like CM, PA, Omni and AOKP and create an experience which completely submerges the user in his own world. The UI will evolve with the user, and thus a few months after usage, the UI of each Mi 5 phone will be different – personalised to the traits of it’s individual user,” says the post.
Xiaomi’s MiUI has been a big part of the company’s success strategy. Unlike others, the Chinese smartphone maker has an entire community of users dedicated to MiUI and updates are sent weekly, with small or big additions all the time. Xiaomi’s devices are currently running on MiUI 6.
You can read Team Kang’s entire post here.
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