Like it or not, Flexible smartphones are the future and Google is betting big on that one.
Google has announced it is optimizing Android to account for a new form factor – foldable smartphones.
Google is enhancing its Android operating system to support foldable displays, combining interface changes with the operating system’s existing screen continuity feature.
Screen continuity is an API used by Android apps to detect when the screen has changed in size or rotated and adjust their interface accordingly.
Support for foldable smartphone displays can be added to this API, leaving it up to developers to ensure that their applications properly implement this feature.
The blog post also mentions that more than one manufacturer is looking into creating flexible phones. Aside from Samsung, other makers such as Huawei, LG, Xiaomi, Oppo, Lenovo and Motorola are all said to be working on a version of their own and the new handsets will start showing up beginning from 2019.
Ain’t gonna be buying any device foldable any time soon
I would like to see the video to understand what this foldable is all about
This is good. Innovation can’t stop surfacing
That one is their business ?
Nice one from google putting foldable phones into consideration
It’s nice, it shows we’re evolving
Good innovation
They should come up with something else, this foldable phone won’t last long… reminds me of flip phone back then
you can’t compare flip phones of ten years ago to a phone that isn’t launched yet
nice initiative from Google
I can’t wait to get my hands on a foldable. Google have no better choice than to key into this ASAP.
Android 9 has been through a lot ehn, lol. Was optimized for notched displays, now it’s gonna be the first to be optimized for foldable displays, great news though.
Really.let’s see how it goes
Technology just getting better day by day
Hmmm. Can u fold and put akara in it?
Well, till i see how amazing this foldable phone might be, am not thinking of it yet
All for the business
Foldable phones are here to stay…
No comment for now till i see for myself.
waiting patiently to see the availability
i love the idea of foldable phones. very innovative
Foldable phone r okay…but I dnt really see it as an option…
Just my opinion
Oga prof I and my house hold disagree with this.
Where fold-able phone will kickout or make more sales than normal phone
its just part of technology, to let us know its possbile, will not make to have more sales