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posted by chromas on Wednesday August 01 2018, @07:20AM   Printer-friendly
from the common-sense-notchctl dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:35PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday August 01 2018, @04:35PM (#715778) Journal

    In contrast to those above, because you just GOTTA have your display reaching to the very edges of the surface with no bezel whatsoever. Because.... because.... oh, because people think it looks cool.

    This makes me want to develop a phone with notches all around the screen bezel and have my screen start after the bezel. You know, the way that actually makes sense instead of looking cool.

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