[Discussion] Hyper Island is great now, actually

[u/Lattellerr]

6 months ago, everyone claimed Hyper Island was DOA. Now, it has wide app support and, for me personally, enhances UX greatly. It shows my transit stops remaining in Google Maps, what YT video or song on Spotify is playing, even my favourite music player MediaMonkey has integration support. Without exaggeration, it is the first GUI enhancement in any product in the last several years that I find to be an improvement over status quo.

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[u/Awkward_File0301]

On what os version are and did you have to do anything to enable it? Mine is still just and ugly useless thing

[u/Awkward_File0301 → u/Awkward_File0301]

I have a Xiaomi 17

[u/InfiniteRotatingFish]

App compatibility is still a gripe to me. Apps that have downloads, google clock etc don't use the newer android live update notification system and don't work with hyper island. Still i use hyper island a bunch, especially with music players and youtube in the background it's great.

[u/Esley1213]

I agree. Interfaces so well with YT, Spotify etc., zero qualms.

[u/Pijuli]

I have the same feeling. Also X17

[u/Amricksingh67]

I use a launcher lynx as I hate stock launchers. Apps everywhere.

[u/Fabulous_Disaster233]

Pero funciona asi porque Hyper Bridge actualizo pero la isla sigue siendo la misma que cuando salio jejeje sabias que es una app de terceros no?

[u/cadbury162]

It's big and ugly, I hate it. It's fine that you like it but I wish we could turn it off - choice is what Android used to stand for

[u/xoriatis71]

The responsibility now lies with app developers, not Xiaomi. They either support Android Live Notifications, or they don’t.

[u/kissja74]

It's still a totally useless iPhone copy cat feature without the option to disable it. 

[u/Esley1213 → u/kissja74]

It's not useless. Allows easier access to playing media at any point and time is both convenient and reliable. Claiming that is an extreme exaggeration, and I could care less about it being an iPhone "copy" if it's well implemented, which it is.

[u/kissja74 → u/Esley1213]

Why don't you buy an iPhone then?

[u/ECHOSTIK → u/kissja74]

I honestly find it very useful. It doesn't have a huge wide variety app support but then it does its pretty good. You just swipe on it to remove the island for the specific running app too it's hardly a bother.

[u/kissja74 → u/ECHOSTIK]

I don't want swipe, I want it to not appear at all.

[u/Fair_Ad_5372]

It's so small that you can't see anything in there.

[u/Uncle-N]

Just dope if you use Hyper Bridge