Google's screen scrolling feature for Android's "not feasible"

Google's screen scrolling feature for Android's "not feasible"

Anyone expecting Google to produce a stock scrolling screenshot feature on Android is bad news - it won't. Responding in June last year to a request from users who wanted this feature to be natively supported by Android, Google told the development team this "and would provide updates, then about three months later," it postponed consideration of this problem to a later version. "Now, almost a year after this answer, Google added the update:" Status: impossible to fix (impossible) "No additional information has been provided on why Google thinks the function cannot be to include, but we'd be surprised if it were for technical reasons. Many manufacturers have increased support for screenshots in Android interface overlays, with Huawei's EMUI and Samsung's One UI offering the ability to take a screenshot containing more than meets the eye in the notch.

A question of legality?

One of the possible explanations for Google's decision not to use this feature could be related to patents: other smartphone manufacturers possibly have the keys to scroll through screenshots and, to get differentiation in a crowded Android market. , I do not want to let the search giant. This means that we can exclude this feature for Android Q and future operating system updates, although we can learn more about the new features that Google will include in its next update soon, at the opening of the company's Developer Conference on May 7. We will be posting Google I / O 2019 Live in Mountain View, California to keep you up to date with the latest Android Q news, and we will try to find out more about why displace 39; the screen does not appear. From Android Police via 9to5Google