Google has a young garb code for Android. The semi-open nature of Android has ensured that makers of Android handsets and developers of Android apps experience considerable exemption to change the user interface (UI).

The less capable Apple iOS platform besides allows developers to intention apps equally they see fit, provided Apple’s UI guidelines aren’t trampled in the process. But Apple doesn’t get iOS hardware partners reimagining the basic device interface–which some would argue is for the best–the way that Google partners HTC and Samsung receive done.
Despite a marginal edge in openness, Google has recognized that a number of guidance near Android themes and styles could bring some gild to its unruly mobile ecosystem. In keeping with the company’s recent UI overhaul of its websites, Google is requiring its hardware partners to include the unmodified Holo theme on Android 4.0 devices–the native theme in Android 4.0 (a.k.a. Ice Emollient Sandwich)–for the sake of compatibility.

“Before Android 4.0 the variance in organisation themes from device to device could construct it hard to intention an app with a single predictable feel and feel,” pronounced Google software engineer Adam Powell in a blog post. “We laid out to ameliorate this place for the developer community in Ice Cream Sandwich and beyond.”

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