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Android 15 Might Permit More Apps to Utilize Full Display

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From using the phones only for calling purposes to spending at least more than half of the day on phones, technology and demands grew.

It’s nostalgic, when we used to play “snake game” on the phone with a maximum 2-inch display. But as the technology started to expand, the size of the display also increased as per the demands of people.

Beyond question, as compared to the past, today we are using phones with the suffix “smart,” which undoubtedly makes the phone smart. The Android smartphone brands are offering more and more facilities and features as per convenience, so that users get an enhanced experience.

Now that we’ve added an extra layer of upgrading, it’s time for the upcoming Android 15. And the reports indicate that Android 15 is poised to force a few applications to go edge-to-edge by default.

According to Mishaal Rahman and colleagues at androidauthority, it seems that Google intends to make the entire space available on the display occupable by default in Android 15, the next version of the green robot.

For going edge-to-edge, the application needs to opt-in by putting into attention a few APIs. This is due to the fact that drawing the UI behind the navigation bar and status bar probably does not make sense for each application, especially in scenarios where there are interactive elements such as buttons that would overlap with the system bars. Before empowering the edge-to-edge mode for the applications, developers have a way of addressing these overlaps.

But here is the question: why has Google so far chosen not to bring to bear this mechanism for each application? The code was discovered in the latest Android 14 QPR2 beta 3, in which a few clues have been spotted as to how the Mountain View Giant may be planning to force an application to occupy 100% of the display in Android 15.

Back in Android 11, Google had announced a new page in the settings named App Compatibility Changes, the purpose of which is just to permit the developers to activate individual system behaviors for their application based on the target API level.

The reports unveiled that initially, by inquiring into the code of Android 14 QPR2 BEta 3, a new change to the compatibility of the application was made called EDGE_TO_EDGE_BY_DEFAULT. The description reads, “Make the app go edge-to-edge by default if the target SDK is Vanilla Ice Cream or higher.”

It is expected that Vanilla Ice Cream is the codename for Android 15, which makes us think that this compatibility change will be applied to applications destined for the forthcoming version of the robot. Considering that Google annually obliges developers to update their apps by implementing the latest APIs, most of the software on the Play Store should target Android 15.

However, at the moment, Google itself has not revealed anything officially yet regarding this change in Android 15. So the reports are based on expectations.

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