Google bans Android phones from having three or more notches
Google is building official notch support into Android P, but it's laying down some ground rules first: two notches is the limit. In a blog post for developers yesterday, Android UI product manager Megan Potoski wrote that Google is working with device partners "to mandate a few requirements" for app compatibility purposes. Among those are limits on notches.
The mandate says that Android P phones can't have "more than two cutouts on a device." Only one notch is allowed per side, and notches are only allowed on the top and bottom edges — not the left and right.
At this point, we haven't even seen phones with two notches, so the ban on tri- or quad-notch phones and left- and right-side notches is all theoretical. But the switch over to notched phones felt like it happened overnight (well, in the span of a few months), so putting some restrictions in place before things devolve should be helpful for making sure that apps continue to run properly on these strange new screens.
But I want a notch on my notch.
(Score: 4, Funny) by PiMuNu on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:28AM (5 children)
TFA has a photo of a phone, with no explanation for what feature TFA is referring to. Notch is the lead dev on Minecraft right?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:32AM
I'm guessing its the receding hairline.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 01 2018, @08:38AM (2 children)
Notch sold Minecraft to Microsoft and is now on some beach enjoying margaritas.
(Score: 2) by PiMuNu on Wednesday August 01 2018, @10:57AM (1 child)
So Google has up to two notches but Microsoft has none?
(Score: 2) by coolgopher on Wednesday August 01 2018, @01:00PM
Natch.
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:24PM
The explanation is there; you just have to follow the link in the first line of the "official notch support" article to a different article that explains it.
So 2 links deep.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"