Will stock android OS make my legacy apps work well compared to custom android UI/ROM?

[vikram112]

I use some apps that are extremely critical for my productivity however those apps have not been updated in recent times and alternative options for these apps are not as good as these apps.
I have a Xiaomi Mi 4 phone. MIUI version (Xiaomi's custom UI/ROM added on top of android) earlier was 8.XX and android version is 7.1.2. I recently updated my phone from MIUI version 8.XX to 10.XX (however android version is still 7.1.2). After the update, the apps on my phone stopped functioning properly. Even though android version never changed, it is the phone manufacturer's custom UI/ROM update that broke my apps which makes me wonder if i were to use a phone with stock android rather than a phone with custom android bloatware, would my apps not break?

I don't mind not having the bug fixes and security updates released with each update as i don't do any browsing on my phone and use my phone only for a few apps.

 

[anon(10614692)]

Whether custom or stock firmware, if an app was written for an older version of Android, they may cease to work, therefore, if the apps haven't been updated it's best not to update the phone

 

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[Rukbat]

MIUI is the launcher, which has no effect on apps. Updating one app (the launcher is just an app) has no effect on other apps. (MIUI is not a ROM. The ROM is 7.12. If you had updates to 7.12, like a new build version, you could find an older version and flash it - but you'd have to back everything up first - flashing a ROM gives you a phone without anything you've downloaded to it or done to it.)