aosp-missing-features

A long-term, evidence-based tracker documenting UI / UX and system features missing from AOSP that have existed for years in OEM Android skins and iOS.

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📌 Overview

This repository documents feature gaps in AOSP where functionality:

• ❌ Does not exist in AOSP
• ✅ Has existed for years in OEM Android skins (Samsung, Motorola, OnePlus, Xiaomi, etc.) or iOS
• 🧪 Is already proven, stable, and widely used

The goal is not customization for its own sake, but tracking technical and UX debt in AOSP.

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🎯 Why this exists

AOSP is often described as clean or minimal, but in practice it has also become:

• Less competitive in daily usability
• Increasingly dependent on third-party apps for system-level behavior
• Behind OEM Android and iOS in multiple core interaction areas

Many of the missing features documented here are:

• Mature
• Expected by users switching platforms
• Already implemented multiple times elsewhere

This project provides a neutral reference layer above discussions, opinions, and bug reports.

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📂 Scope & Non-Goals

Included

• System-level UI / UX features
• Audio, automation, multitasking, gestures, widgets, media controls
• Features present outside AOSP for multiple years

Excluded

• Pixel-exclusive features

  Pixel features are often upstreamed to Android later.

• Root / custom ROM functionality
• Cosmetic theming or launcher-only tweaks
• Experimental or niche mods

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🧭 Feature index (tracked)

This table is the authoritative index.
Detailed breakdowns live under /features/.

Feature	Category	Available in (OEM / iOS)	Years Available	AOSP Status	Issue Tracker
Per-app volume control	Audio	Samsung, Motorola, OnePlus	≥5 years	❌ Missing	Link
Volume buttons control media (screen off)	Audio	Samsung, Motorola	≥4 years	❌ Missing	Link
System-level automation / routines	Automation	Samsung, Apple	≥5 years	❌ Missing	Link
Freeform / floating windows (phones)	Multitasking	Samsung, Motorola, Xiaomi	≥5 years	❌ Missing	Link
Widget stacks	Widgets	iOS, Samsung	≥4 years	❌ Missing	TBD
Media controls in Live Updates	Media UI	iOS, Samsung, OnePlus	≥2 years	❌ Missing	TBD
Reliable motion gestures (chop / twist)	Gestures	Motorola	≥10 years	❌ Missing	TBD

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🔗 Issue Tracker integration

All known Google Issue Tracker references are collected in:

📄 ISSUE_TRACKER.md

If a feature matters to you:

1. ⭐ Star the issue
2. ➕ Leave a short comment describing your use case

This is the primary signal Google tracks.

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🗂 Repository structure

aosp-missing-features/
├── README.md
├── ISSUE_TRACKER.md
├── CONTRIBUTING.md
├── features/
│   ├── audio-and-media.md
│   ├── automation.md
│   ├── multitasking.md
│   ├── gestures-and-input.md
│   └── widgets-and-home.md