INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Google launched its first Developer Preview of Android 11 much earlier than anticipated, and the tech giant has now followed it up with a
second developer-focused (DP2) release of its mobile OS, building on some of the initial improvements and adding a few extra.You can
update is still intended purely for developers, but we can still learn plenty about what Google aims to introduce when Android 11 does hit
the mainstream.One of the main new additions found in DP2 is support for apps to communicate with the hinge sensors in foldable phones,
allowing them to detect the angle that the phone is folded at and behave accordingly.While there are multiple ways in which this information
could manifest within app changes, perhaps the most pertinent one would be the ability for the app in question to change its view and input
method when it detects the screen to be folded, dividing its display and keyboard between the two halves, for instance.Apps will also be
able to set a preferred screen refresh rate, so for the increasing amount of phones that feature variable rates (the Google Pixel 4 being
among them), the handset will be able to adjust automatically when open.Some improvements to additions from the first Developer Preview have
landed too, with 5G detection getting more granular so that apps can more accurately tell when a user is on a high-speed network and adapt
its experience accordingly.Apps will also be able to access more details when it comes to call screening functionality, so they can now
report more specifically on the reason for a call being rejected, enable users to mark them as spam from within the app, and access the
build given the history of Android updates.
