Overall, there’s not much new in the MIUI Android Q beta. Right now, it’s still all based on MIUI 10 with none of the promised MIUI 11 features available at the moment.

For those unfamiliar, MIUI is a custom Android skin known for its features and customizability. Xiaomi began as a software company in 2010 with MIUI as the product.

Xiaomi has released a beta version of an MIUI app suite for just about any phone running Android 4.0 or later. The MIUI Express app is more than just a home screen launcher. While it replaces your ...

With MIUI 12, Xiaomi has fully embraced the standard navigation gestures from Android 10. The stock implementation is intuitive enough and Xiaomi’s additions make it more functional.

MIUI 13 source code reveals that the Xiaomi 12X will most probably come alongside the Xiaomi 12 next month. Meanwhile, a Redmi K50 with MIUI 13 based on Android 11 is also in the works.

But now MIUI 11, based on Android 10 for most Xiaomi devices (with the few exceptions to soon be upgraded), is upon us and arrives as more an iteration of MIUI 10 than an all-new skin, but it does ...

MIUI 12, which is built atop Android 9 and Android 10 (depending on the device on which it will be rolled out), also changes how storage, memory and power consumption usage are displayed on the ...

It is well known that the development of MIUI is carried out away from Android. Proof of this is that there are currently mobiles with MIUI 11 and Android 9 or even Android 7 as the base system.

The company says that MIUI 9, which will roll out to most Xiaomi devices (including those dating back to 2012 like the Mi 2), will deliver performance that’s almost indistinguishable from stock ...

While the most recent of those phones will get a version of MIUI based on Android 5.0 Lollipop, older models will get the new user interface, but they’ll be stuck with an Android 4.4 KitKat base.