Product manager: Boss, the folding screen is coming, do you want to follow? Boss: Follow! Front End engineer: Although the screen is still Android, but this adaptation can be very heady… Designer: Anyway, I used to make one design draft, but after folding the screen, I had to make two. Product Manager: They all said that, boss please don’t make me a killer with the killer app… Boss: So… That too!

“Folding screens” has gone beyond powerpoint to open up a new era, and in the near future, I believe this scenario is or will be in many developer teams.

As a consumer, it may be tempting to spend $2,000 on something new, but developers need to get ready for it now if they want to stay on top of it and even jump on the bandwagon in the coming screen era. After all, Samsung’s and Huawei’s foldable phones will hit the shelves in two and four months.

Seven Niuyun lists three key words for you: · adaptation · Spatial innovation · APP Shengwei hopes to help developers to be less anxious and more prepared.

adapter

Gracefully take the first step to the card table

“Fit” of “thunder”, has been detonated by “bangs screen” once. The speed with which an APP ADAPTS to a bangs screen has even become one of the criteria for judging whether an APP is “reliable”. In the past, King of Glory was criticized for its slow adaptation. If you don’t want your APP to fall into the same category with users with a foldable screen, the new design can be drawn now.

At the same time, it is predictable that adapting the “folding screen” will take more work than ever before. Folded up, it’s fine, but unrolled, almost square proportions can be disastrous without a customized fit.

The good news is that Android announced at this year’s Android Dev Summit that it’s going to offer native system support for screen continuity called Foldables. With this flexible display technology, the APP can be adapted to a foldable device.

Samsung has also released design guidelines for developers. The opening requirements of “seamlessly switching between screens” and “being active in multi-window mode” quietly challenge programmers and designers.

Only by solving the problem of adaptation can we sit gracefully on the table of the folding screen era.

Seven Niuyun suggestions:

· When the APP is continuously foldable, the current APP page must seamlessly continue to another screen and can be automatically resized to match the new layout, and vice versa. That is, applications need to be prepared to switch between multiple screens (different resolutions, densities, and so on).

· Multi-Resume allows device manufacturers to keep all visible applications active in multi-window mode. To enable multi-resume in Android P (9.0), add the following metadata to the application manifest:

Space innovation

The key strategy is to play by ear

“Fit”, just have the qualifications to sit at the table, want to be a winner, but also to see how the card should be played.

** In the “folding screen” era, the screen “big” is only one thing, “folding” is the key. How to understand the changes “folding” brings to interaction and fully explore the innovation behind this physical property is the key to the problem.

At present, the product form of foldable mobile phone easily reminds us of “straight plate”, “slide cover” and “flip cover” in the era of “pre-iphone”. For example, TCL has as many as five different folding methods in its plan for folding screens.

Folding inside, folding outside, folding in half, folding, bending, each form to the space of innovation is possible. Therefore, the significance of folding screen is not only to solve the contradiction between screen area and portability, but also to make the display of images jump from two-dimensional to three-dimensional space.

Now when we are in the “graphic design” when we often pursue the “sense of space”, the full screen with the most simple and crude way to directly present this. Design category is bound to be from the “plane” to the “space” for evolution, the innovation in the new art movement design masters of carlo scarpa has an example for us, not to use virtual interface make integral space is he, but to explore the possibility of various transition to restructure the whole space, become a part of the show to show.

In the age of folding screens, Seven Niuyun advises all designers to dig into the design treasure carlo Scarpa left behind for us.

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Imaginative sharing of future gameplay

On the basis of reasonable “adaptation”, the design idea of “space innovation” is added, and the result is inevitably “APP dimension enhancement”. The new gameplay of APP products in three-dimensional space is enough to make people look forward to. How will our daily mobile phone usage change? What innovations will evolve? We had a little imagination.

My favorite flip full keyboard mobile phone to come to life! Advanced imagination: During video chat, you and your partner can appear on both sides of the folding screen and interact with each other in space. Abnormal imagination: that wear on the wrist of the mobile phone, can join the function of sound transformer, had better still have hypnotic needle……

Advanced imagination: Use the folding of space to achieve virtual reality effect, after all, it is a “3D” property. Perverted imagination: Do you think the screen folds up at an Angle that looks a bit like… With vibrating motors on both sides… It doesn’t unfold!

How to Read: Elementary Imagination: This way you’ll feel more like a physical book! Advanced Imagination: Scenes from Harry Potter and Westworld could be brought to life if the screen could be made even bigger. But I know you can’t fold it more than 7 times.

How to play the game: primary imagination: the screen is bigger and the field of vision is better, or like NDS with half the screen to operate and display information is also good ~ advanced imagination: Mahjong can stand up to play! Visual games like “Monument Valley” also make use of the foldable screen to play with more twisted imagination: I could play it for a year just by folding it around

How to take photos: Primary imagination: Don’t worry about the “main camera” and “selfie camera”, as long as the good folding, selfie no worries ~ Advanced imagination: if cmos components can also be folded, the bottom of the large level of crushing people, full frame phone is not a dream! Abnormal imagination: Look, you are giving me a 90 degree bow! (Fold the full body photo slowly)

Even with the folding of the screen, will it directly create new usage scenarios? Maybe folding screens will give us more room to imagine.

A spoonful of cold water

Doubts do not dampen expectations

From the avalanche of reviews and interviews we’ve had with developers, there’s been a lot of misgivings about folding screens. “In the case of no breakthrough in battery technology, how can the larger display area of the foldable screen guarantee the use time?” “Will the foldable screen, like the transparent screen that went viral before, be more showy than useful?” “I have more expectations for the changes 5G will bring than folding screens…” …

In any case, the concerns and challenges of folding screens are the same for all developers. Therefore, in the face of the upcoming launch of the brand new products, we show more expectations, is the ambition to seize the opportunity in this draught. This reminds me of my doubts about the first generation of iPhone 12 years ago when it was launched. I think we all have a deep understanding of how big a trend the product of “turtle speed network without APP can not even change the wallpaper” will bring in the future.

Seven Niuyun’s advice to all developers is to face the new thing of folding screen with a positive attitude, learn new changes and prepare early from now on. “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!”

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