Android @lemdro.id dantheclamman @lemmy.world 11mo ago

Android 15 may require edge to edge mode

www.androidpolice.com Android 15 could finally reclaim some free screen real estate

Your apps may look a lot prettier on Android 15

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It looks like they have no better way to monetize their site than to flood people with ads. So sad.
- Ublock origin on Firefox works fine for me
  
  Thank you Android Firefox.
- Yeah androidpolice quality really fell after the owner sold it unfortunately. Before it was a pretty great site for android news and Nexus (N6 owner here!) And pixel leaks but now is no better than a tabloid.
  
  I've found Android Authority to be pretty decent. As a bonus, they have Rita!
  
  You can try 9to5google
- At least it didn’t tell you your phone had a virus. 🫠
- Would you rather have a pay wall?
- Use ublock origin and bypass paywalls clean, I dont get this
- Unfortunately I don't have a better idea
And do they add the option to hide that gesture bar? Its useless, its for gestures just hide it.
- I agree. Most custom ROMs already have such option.
- how would you trigger circle to search?
  
  I have a Galaxy S24 with the gesture bar hidden. It lets me do circle to search by holding down where the gesture bar would be.
  
  The same way you trigger text selection or screenshot. Just swipe up and hold, and it would be the 3rd option to the other 2.
  
  What?
  
  You could just do it on a blank space I guess
I know some people won't like this, but overall I think it is a cleaner look and also makes full use of the screen real estate available. Now it's not like... 100% ideal from a usage standpoint, but I think it's better than just having black bars are the top and bottom (or sides in landscape mode), as that just sorta defeats the point of an edge to edge display.
I don't think it is "forced", just the new default (unless explicitly disabled in a view), which is nice to see. Additionally, I didn't see much relevance to Play Store - it seemed to be a system-level thing.
Finally! I hate the extra padding that usually doesn't follow the rest of the apps colour pallet and ends up looking half arsed.
That looks worse to me

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