There are two sorts of people that’ll read this article: Those that think the Hinge Angle Sensor feature in Android 11 is interesting, and those that do not.
There are two sorts of people that’ll read this article: Those that think the Hinge Angle Sensor feature in Android 11 is interesting, and those that do not. This feature has big implications for the future of foldable devices. That’s a term that refers specifically to devices with foldable displays – but Hinge Angle Sensor functionality in Android could have implications that expand well beyond this relatively category of devices. It’s about the hinge!
Before now, Android worked with a class called Device State – showing one of five device Postures. This “information about the state of the device” in Android “only includes the description of the state for foldable devices.” That’s per Google’s Android developers documentation as of June 10, 2020.
