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I'm Aliaksandr, building With Alia, an Android AI companion centered on one continuing personality. I recently shipped a UI change: the conversation stays central, history and settings live in the header, and starter phrases send with one tap. The bottom navigation is gone. The reason was simple: I wanted opening the app to feel like returning to a conversation, with fewer places competing for attention. But removing navigation creates a trade-off I don't think a cleaner screenshot can answer. History and settings still exist; they're just less prominent. A returning user might appreciate that. A first-time user might wonder where everything went. The starter phrases raise a similar question. One tap gets you past an empty input, but it also means the phrase sends immediately instead of becoming a draft you can edit. Fewer taps can also mean less room to choose your words. The new UI is available publicly and I've checked it myself on a Samsung. I don't yet have independent first-use feedback establishing that these changes are easier for other people. If you've simplified a small app: what did you remove that you later had to bring back? I'm especially interested in cases where a cleaner screen made a basic action harder to discover. With Alia supports English and Russian. For anyone who wants to see the actual interface: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.withalia.app Disclosure: I built the app; this post was drafted with AI assistance.   submitted by   /u/Ok-Assistant914 [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/1 10:53:12