According to what was reported by Mishaal Rahman and colleagues at Android authority, it seems that Google intends to make the entire space available on the display occupiable by default in Android 15, the next version of the green robot.
Android 15 to introduce edge to edge display
The discovery we are reporting to you today was made by sifting through the code in the latest beta of Android 14 QPR2 (Beta 3), where some clues were identified as to how the Mountain View giant may intend to force applications to occupy 100% of the display in Android 15 .
Some of you may remember how in Android 11 Google introduced a new page in the settings called App Compatibility Changes , the purpose of which is to allow developers to activate individual system behaviors for their apps depending on the target API level (essentially a number that indicates how an application should behave based on the version of Android it is launched on).
The colleagues mentioned at the beginning have discovered, by examining the code of Android 14 QPR2 Beta 3, a new change to the app’s compatibility called EDGE_TO_EDGE_BY_DEFAULT, whose description reads: “make app go edge-to-edge by default if the target SDK is VANILLA_ICE_CREAM or above” (i.e. “make the app go edge-to-edge by default if the target SDK is VANILLA_ICE_CREAM or higher”).
Vanilla Ice Cream should be the code name of Android 15, which leads us to think that this compatibility change will be applied to apps intended for the next version of the robot; considering that Big G forces developers to update their applications annually by implementing the most recent APIs, in the near future most of the software on the Play Store should target Android 15.
