Android’s Holo theme is practically dead; does anyone actually care?

Android was not always the pretty, refined operating system we know today. Pre-Matias Duarte, Android was a conflicted, hideous mess that drastically changed in color, design, and overall look with nearly each iteration. Cupcake (1.5) and Donut (1.6), for example, had a white undertone with orange and Android green accents. Both of these versions also had the original incarnation of the app drawer, a virtual drawer which was accessed by pulling a tab up from the bottom of the display. Eclair (2.0) still had the virtual app drawer, but traded the white undertone for black. By the time Froyo ...

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