When announcing the iPhone 14 Pro, Apple presented as one of the significant innovations in this model the “Dynamic Island”, a design element that effectively hides the front camera hole and turns it into a kind of notification window that expands or shrinks in width depending on the required content at that moment. The device itself has not yet arrived in stores, but it seems that a nimble developer managed to create a design kit for Xiaomi devices that accurately reproduces the behavior of the “E”.
In the design kit, Grumpy UI, the new notification window is located at the top of the display, although not in the way that the camera integrates into it like in the iPhone 14 Pro – the hole still appears next to it. The notification window expands to show a song playing in the background, and with one click it grows to show the song and artist details. The rounded design looks almost exactly the same as that of the iPhone, and since it is still a design kit in development, it is likely that in the coming weeks it will look even more similar to the original.
It should be noted that currently, the Grumpy UI design kit only supports the Chinese language, and has not yet been officially approved by Xiaomi for distribution in the store. Assuming that Xiaomi will approve the design scheme, and it will be translated into additional languages, the users of Xiaomi’s devices will have the option of adopting an interface very similar to one of the most significant innovations of the new iPhone models.
The question is, of course, whether “dynamic island” is really necessary on Android-based devices, an operating system that already benefits from its own advanced notification system.