Google's Android P supports same HEIC format as Apple, has software display notch like iPh...
Google on Wednesday revealed a slew of details about the next version of Android, codenamed Android P, including a pair of features following in Apple's footsteps.
Most significantly, devices running Android P will support the same HEIC version of the High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF). HEIC files are roughly half the size of JPEGs, an important achievement given the growing size of both apps and camera resolutions.
HEIC files can include several photos, or even short videos, though Apple doesn't use the format for iOS's Live Photos.
Android P will also natively support devices with edge-to-edge displays interrupted by an iPhone X-style notch, which Google refers to as a display cutout. A number of Android devices -- such as the Essential Phone -- already make use of notches, but until now vendors have had to customize Android accordingly.
In development, app creators can simulate "narrow," "tall," or "wide" cutouts, letting them know where to avoid displaying content.
Android P is now available in preview form, but the final version won't reach the public for several months and even then, only to a very limited amount of devices. The most recent publicly released version of Android, "Oreo," has approximately 1.2 percent adoption, according to Google itself.
Most significantly, devices running Android P will support the same HEIC version of the High Efficiency Image Format (HEIF). HEIC files are roughly half the size of JPEGs, an important achievement given the growing size of both apps and camera resolutions.
HEIC files can include several photos, or even short videos, though Apple doesn't use the format for iOS's Live Photos.
Android P will also natively support devices with edge-to-edge displays interrupted by an iPhone X-style notch, which Google refers to as a display cutout. A number of Android devices -- such as the Essential Phone -- already make use of notches, but until now vendors have had to customize Android accordingly.
In development, app creators can simulate "narrow," "tall," or "wide" cutouts, letting them know where to avoid displaying content.
Android P is now available in preview form, but the final version won't reach the public for several months and even then, only to a very limited amount of devices. The most recent publicly released version of Android, "Oreo," has approximately 1.2 percent adoption, according to Google itself.
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What's wrong with the notch? It allows for the task bar to be offloads to a part of the front face that would otherwise be called a forehead. It's a benefit for users all around.
i would be very surprised if several notched phones didn’t show up later this year, or early next year.
Is it really true that people don’t understand why Apple came out with the notch? I find that hard to believe at this late date.
first of all, we’ve seen mockups without the notch, but with a Samsung-like top black strip, and without a matching strip on the bottom, the phone looks horrible. Using the notch allowed Apple to make a full frame screen that didn’t look really unbalanced. In addition, I don’t see a problem because the “horns”, as some call them, allow Apple to put the information that normally resided on the top of the screen, on the sides of the notch instead. This means that Apple didn’t have to use screen real estate for that info as usual.
overall, I think the notch is a good thing, and as most people find, they quickly forget it’s there.
in addition, it should be obvious that Apple did that because they needed that space for all of these sensors, and that they are attempting to make the notch narrower, and eliminate it entirely, in the future.
I'd like to see iOS 12 offer some user configuration options or a way to see more data.
No you don't. You just want to complain.
Back on topic - all of these Android devices that have hurriedly stuck a notch in as “the latest design thing” without understanding why the X has it, and why it’s shaped the way it is, are just mindless (and ugly) parroting. Especially when you just know Apple will want to remove it, and be truly “edge to edge”, when they are able to in future.
probably silly, but just a random thought.
There is no bizarre Safari behavior in landscape. You may be referring to one of the betas.