{"id":283828,"date":"2018-11-08T08:08:08","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T06:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=283828"},"modified":"2018-11-08T08:10:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T06:10:25","slug":"android-will-support-foldable-smartphone-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/283828-android-will-support-foldable-smartphone-displays.html","title":{"rendered":"Android will support foldable smartphone displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has <a href=\"https:\/\/android-developers.googleblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> it is optimising Android to account for a new form factor &#8211; foldable smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>The company is enhancing its Android operating system to support foldable displays, combining interface changes with the operating system&#8217;s existing screen continuity feature.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>This follows Samsung&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/283800-samsung-shows-off-smartphone-with-foldable-display.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>recent unveiling<\/strong><\/a> of its first smartphone with an InfinityFlex foldable display.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Expect to see foldables coming from several Android manufacturers, including one Samsung previewed today and plans to offer next year,&#8221; Google said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/283800-samsung-shows-off-smartphone-with-foldable-display.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Samsung shows off smartphone with foldable display<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced it is optimising Android to account for a new form factor &#8211; foldable smartphones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":283830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[397,42532,55320,55322],"class_list":["post-283828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-android","tag-foldable-displays","tag-infinityflex","tag-screen-continuity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":283832,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283828\/revisions\/283832"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}