Android 16 will ignore app orientation restrictions on large-screen devices.

Until now, some app developers have relied on screen orientation restrictions, causing the app to simply not take up the entire screen area on large display devices.

Android 16 for apps with Target SDK 36 will ignore the attributes and APIs used to restrict the orientation and resizability of the app interface. This change only affects devices with large screens (i.e. dp > 600) such as foldables, tablets and desktop devices including Chromebooks.

Therefore, this change will not affect phones, flips and external screens of foldable devices. Also, this change does not apply to games.

Users will have the option to choose to use the default behavior set by the app, or ignore these restrictions.

In API 36 (Android 16), app developers can enable an attribute to avoid this system behavior and buy themselves time to adapt the UI, but this attribute will disappear in the next API 37.

🔗 Full article at Android Developers

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