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Google: No More Than Two Notches Per Android Phone

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

takyon writes:

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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:44AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @01:44AM (#716019)

    Look! I am incompatible with everything out there! Any effort on your part to make me work is clearly a violation of my intellectual property!

    But I have the Logo everyone wants, because I have the marketing skills to make everyone think I am better than the other options.

    When I saw the picture of it, all I could think of is what a pain in the ass to code for when every Tom, Dick, and Harry starts putting notches into different areas so as to not step on each other's copyrighted and patented positions.

    What a fsckin' mess! Only Apple and Microsoft are in a position to make something like this work. Corporations that are so large they don't need to be compatible with anyone. If patent and copyright law is not enough, incompatibility is just another corporate tool to keep others from building interoperable stuff.

    People will continue to buy the stuff anyway because... well, because.