New Galaxy S8 aspect ratio 18.5:9!

RedRoboRedRobo Member, PRO Posts: 682

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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  • pHghostpHghost London, UKMember Posts: 2,342

    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.

  • pHghostpHghost London, UKMember Posts: 2,342

    @article said:
    Android automatically resizes apps to work with various screen sizes, so you won’t have to worry about mobile games and other apps doing the same.

    I hope that means it will not overscan past 16:9, but simply put a black bar or so up top to compensate.

  • RedRoboRedRobo Member, PRO Posts: 682

    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!

  • RedRoboRedRobo Member, PRO Posts: 682

    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.
    @adent42 @ForumNinja

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