Question about SenseUI.....

#1 (**permalink**) 10-24-2009, 10:35 PM

Coming from winmo, i was fed up of coverups upon coverups hiding a OS with new versions of standard features and still having the native ones hidden in the background just to make it enjoyable....

Now.... since Android is completely open source, Is HTC's SenseUI a coverup only having the standard Android UI under the hood, or did HTC REWRITE the standard Android apps and replaced them with theirs????

From this i mean, is HTC's version of the Album, Music, Contacts, Browser etc. an add-on having the vanila versions hidden somewhere like they do with winmo and can be reverted to, or are they ACTUALLY the classic apps redone by HTC???

I really hope HTC rewrote the OS cuz it really works well together (somewhat of a HTC OS all together)

dfitzpatrick · #2 (**permalink**) 10-25-2009, 07:13 PM

huh?

Sense UI is indeed an overlay of the standard google OS. It extends functionality but doesn't really replace the core principles of it like TouchFlo did.

As far as their apps, I believe they would work on a generic Android OS as well. I don't see any Sense UI tie-in's in the individual apps... Sense UI I believe is just a glorified task launching interface

coldsweat · #3 (**permalink**) 10-26-2009, 02:40 AM

Yeah, Next time you add a widget you can see that you can choose between HTC widgets and Android ones. The HTC selection of apps is more extensive, but you still have all the stock Android ones, they haven't been replaced afaik...

#4 (**permalink**) 10-26-2009, 06:59 AM

I know the widgets are obvious cuz no hacking is needed for that, but i really mean all the standard apps meaning music, dialer, sms, contacts, web, album, etc. IMO HTC took advantage of android being 100% open source and redid those to make them better

Htc sense is the whole deal rather than just widgets

v3lly2 · #5 (**permalink**) 10-27-2009, 10:42 PM

yeah, you can use all of htc's programs instead of the google ones. or you can use both.
the contacts is the htc contact card with people centric communication.
the weather is htc weather
you get htc mail
the web is pretty much google, but you get htc's bookmarks page
footprints, messges, photo album, its pretty much everything you will see on like the diamond 2, but with sense instead of touchflo. well thats what i noticed.

**bradart** · #6 (**permalink**) 10-28-2009, 11:33 AM

HTC didn't modify or replace any apps at all. They just added some of their own.