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Google has released the first beta of Android Q. It won’t give the software its official moment in the spotlight until the Google I/O conference in May, of course, but we already know some important information about its direction.

Android Q will tighten up certain privacy elements. You’ll be able to give apps one-time access to your location. app project simple android app projects will be able to see where you are, without necessarily knowing that information until, and only when, you want it to. Such changes are both important and a deflection in equal parts. Google flicks digital parasites off us to avoid the realisation we are gradually becoming the parasites on its own great big, tessellated back.

This is nothing new, but there is another part to Android Q that is. Google is taking folding phones seriously, and doing so early.

Folding fast

Android standard procedure is to watch as companies like Samsung, HTC and Huawei play with new hardware and software features like children working on science projects. It can ignore the failures, and co-opt the obvious successes by creating platform-wide Android APIs, modules that standardise behaviours across apps and devices.

Google is often relatively slow to add these. For example, Samsung came up with its own version of split-screen phone apps, Multi Window, in 2012 with the Galaxy S3. project topics android project ideas for beginners of it was only added to standard Android four years later in 2016.

You can call Google slow if you like, but you can’t really call it “wrong”. Very few people use the feature, even those with Android tablets.

That Android Q jumps into optimisation for folding phones before any of the things are available to buy has weight. The first two important examples of these are the Samsung Galaxy Fold and Huawei Mate X.

These use a layer of software made by their manufacturers that determines how their display(s) behave when they are opened up. Much of the framework of this is in Android already, because Android apps have had to contend with enough screen sizes and resolutions to give developers a migraine since year one.

However, Android Q seeks to normalise these jarring shifts so the workarounds devised by Samsung, Huawei and others will not be needed in the future. Changes to the “onresume” and “onpause” fragments and the “resizeableActivity” manifest in Q make Android a more welcoming place for folding and multi-screen phones.

Prepared ground

There are three obvious reasons for such early moves. First, not every future maker of foldable phones will have the same budget, or the inclination, as Samsung and Huawei to work on a solution that avoids that crucial unfolding moment seeming as clunky as the gear shift of a rust-ridden 1991 Ford Sierra. Bad Android phones reflect badly on Android as a whole. Particularly expensive folding ones.

This is also an obvious opportunity for Google to advance ahead of Apple in one area. That we are only now talking about Apple registering “folding iPhone” patents suggests any hardware it will make is far off.

And is Google working on its own folding phone? Again, some patents suggest it may be. But by standardising folding display behaviour, “first party” hardware becomes less important. Google Pixel phones are at their most interesting, to nerds at any rate, when showing off the advanced camera processing not seen elsewhere.