Google Is Adding Android Support For Foldable Screens (techcrunch.com) 22
At its Android Developer Summit today, Google detailed plans to bake support for folding phones into the mobile operating system. One of the first Android phones to hit the market with a foldable display looks to be from Samsung with a launch date of "early next year." TechCrunch reports: "You can think of the device as both a phone and a tablet," Android VP of Engineering Dave Burke explained. "Broadly, there are two variants -- two-screen devices and one-screen devices. When folded, it looks like a phone, fitting in your pocket or purse. The defining feature for this form factor is something we call screen continuity."
Among the additions here is the ability to flag the app to respond to the screen as it folds and unfolds -- the effect would likely be similar to the response of applications as handsets switch between portrait and landscape modes.
Among the additions here is the ability to flag the app to respond to the screen as it folds and unfolds -- the effect would likely be similar to the response of applications as handsets switch between portrait and landscape modes.
finally! (Score:2)
phone displays have become so large, they no longer easily fit in my pants pockets. now, i'll be able to fold the phone and they'll fit again!
And they keep others horrible things (Score:1)
Like the damn AMP results in Chrome, and worst of it the google search bar at the bottom of the launcher in Pie, that you cannot disable!!! wtf!!! In all my android phones for years, first thing I did was to delete this bar, did this from 2.3 to 8.1, and now with 9 google decide for you that the bar will be there eternaly and you cannot remove it.
I hate AMP and this search bar so much that I switched to Microsoft Launcher and Edge, after using Android since almost the beginning, unfathomable...
just combine multiple phones (Score:2)
Re: (Score:2)
Supposedly the phone was in a case to obscure the pre-production model design. Maybe that's BS and it's really as thick as a brick of course. We'll see soon enough.
I'm sure joining two phones together would have a few use cases but frankly I think that would be more pointless than this [youtu.be]. On the other hand, plenty of people use flip covers with their phones and this would could essentially work the same way if the tech is good enough. Normally the screen would be protected by the back of the flexible display,
Unleash the slashdot hate! (Score:1)
Next iPhone (Score:1)
Rather Have Physical Keyboard and Flat Screen (Score:2)
I have already broken 3 screen protectors on a Galaxy Note 8. I hate rounded over screens because they are too vulnerable. The blue lines going up the screen edges don't look too good either.