New Galaxy S8 aspect ratio 18.5:9!
RedRobo
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This new Samsung Galaxy S8 aspect ratio could play havok with my universal builds!
http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15092590/samsung-galaxy-s8-plus-screen-size-aspect-ratio-edge
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Oh, goodness no...
This is getting ridiculous. And Apple are probably coming with an edge to edge display as well, so it might become standard. This will wreak crazy havoc once again. And I was becoming so happy that things were finally normalizing a bit.
I hope that means it will not overscan past 16:9, but simply put a black bar or so up top to compensate.
I don't think so, read something earlier where Google where telling developers to prepare app to resize for a 2:1 screen! Spanning from 4:3 to 2:1 is crazy!
More info here: https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/03/update-your-app-to-take-advantage-of.html
Seems that if there is meta data within "android.max_aspect" element within our apps build and that this states 16:9 then the new phones will put black bars either side of our apps and our current builds will be fine.
Does anyone know if this is already added as part of our builds? If not could it be added within the publisher, possibly as a check box?
It would be good to have the option to choose to support 2:1 as I see more phones going to 2:1 ratio soon and we should probably start designing for it now.
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