Andrew Bonwick
Vice President of Product Development at Relm Insurance
Madhav Sheth
CEO of Ai+ Smartphone
Stephen Rose
CEO Render Networks

Xiaomi’s custom UI, the MIUI is probably one of the most popular custom ROMs on the planet right now because of the number of devices on which it is running. The latest iteration of the MIUI right now is the MIUI 11, which has been pushed to a lot of devices already by Xiaomi. Now, the MIUI 11 brings in a ton of new improvements, UI and UX changes as well. However, since the past two updates over the MIUI 11, there is not a lot of improvement, but surely a little bit of UI and UX changes. The notification shade on the MIUI running devices has been made significantly better. But, if the MIUI was missing one thing that the users wanted – that was the app drawer. In the Android ecosystem, the app drawer has been a pretty customary addition, and it plays a very important role in the entire Android experience. But, the MIUI has been devoid of it since long until the coming of MIUI 11. But, the good news for the MIUI users is that the latest alpha version of the MIUI update might change this for the users by bringing the app drawer onto their devices.

MIUI 11 App Drawer Addition
The thing to note about the app drawer in the MIUI 11 is that it is not enabled by default unlike the other Android builds or the stock Android. Therefore, the MIUI 11 users will have to go to the Home Screen settings of their phone and enable the App Drawer from here. What’s interesting is that the latest MIUI Launcher update also brings a lot of features from the Poco launcher as well. To recall, the Poco launcher had first made debut with the launch of the Xiaomi sub-brand’ Poco F1 which was running on the phone by default. However, the Poco launcher is available separately for devices as well. The new update for MIUI internalises these features for the Xiaomi custom ROM.