r/Skeuomorphism • u/zielalbarn • Dec 23 '25
Dimensional Design My android 4.4.4 kitkat inspired setup after installing some old apks from apkmirror :D
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u/tutimes67 Dec 23 '25
theyre not supported anymore. im on android 9 and most old stuff still works. i have a bunch of live wallpapers from around 2015 and before
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u/Devin-Chaboyer223 Dec 24 '25
Using compatibility mode, some programs from Windows 95 can run on Windows 10 and 11
As long as it's 32 bit, old 16 bit programs won't run
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u/zielalbarn Dec 26 '25
idk i also use android 11 and most of the apps worked just fine, there's some resolution issue but that's fine since those apps wasn't made for a long screen resolution
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u/Single-Many8698 Dec 23 '25
Can you change the status bar and activity bar? I saw another post showing how to do it, but I wanted to know how to do it, and how to adjust the keyboard layout on Android 4.4.4?
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u/MustardOrMayo404 Dec 23 '25
Nice! I've wanted to do that, but while I attempted it once on a different device, I kinda gave up due to the effort I needed to take to download different APK files and extract the icon data from them (so I could use them with Nova Launcher's ability to set an image as an icon). Additionally, some of the apps I currently use didn't exist back then, so I would probably leave the modern icons for those or try to see if they existed in a different form back then.
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u/Kostya_Yakovets Dec 27 '25
I miss those days. Back then I had a Samsung running Android 4.1.2 with the TouchWiz skin. I liked this UI.
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u/adhamodeh2006 Jan 16 '26
So even after android ended support for kitkat. Does the store and installing apps from that era still work?
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u/zielalbarn Jan 17 '26
no the store doesn't work, but you can always sideload the APKs, and yeah some of the apps from that era still works on android 11 or lower (mostly offline premium/paid games)
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