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2008: Crude beginnings for Android

2009: HTC Sense gives us a Hero

HTC Sense is the grandfather of Android skins, it made HTC and gave a user experience you didn’t get elsewhere. It was based on HTC TouchFlo from Window Mobile.

2009: Motorola gets in a Droid Blur

2009: A mod army

2010: Arise Samsung TouchWiz

2010: What about Mi?

2013: Getting in touch with Emotion (UI)

2015: Oxygen OS: A breath of fresh air?

A pure Android future?