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Samsung’s Foldable Highlight Need for Wear OS 5 and Adaptive Layouts
Samsung recently introduced its Galaxy devices, including foldable phones and smartwatches, offering new opportunities along with challenges for app developers. To grasp the potential of these devices, developers must create applications that can adapt to multiple screen sizes and formats.
The giant has introduced its latest devices, including the Galaxy Z Fold 6, Galaxy Z Flip 6, Galaxy Watch 7, and Galaxy Watch Ultra, featuring different screen sizes. This suggests that to reach the potential of these devices, developers must build applications that are capable of adapting to various screen sizes and formats, requiring innovative design and development strategies.
To prepare their applications for the upcoming generation of Android devices, developers should keep in mind that their applications are ready for Wear OS 5. There are testing options for this through the Wear OS 5 emulator. The new platform version brings many changes for developers since it is based on Android 14.
Wear OS 5 also provides the next iteration of the watch face format, integrated with more features for expressive and individual watch faces. The Korean giant is upgrading its software to make applications look better and more attractive on all its devices, including smartwatches. Window size classes make it possible to adapt the app layout when the available display area changes, for instance, when folding or unfolding a device or in multi-window mode.
The adaptive app documentation is continually upgraded with the latest tools and APIs to help developers scale across screens. While SoundCloud and Peloton already offer experiences that work across all their users’ preferred screens, noticeably, Google has introduced a beneficial partner on board with Samsung.
The Korean brands offer all form factors for Android and, as market leaders, are certainly a good driver for instant adaptation on the part of application developers.
Samsung is one of the most appreciated brands in terms of innovation; now, with the latest development, the company has started a new era with the Galaxy AI features that arrived with One UI 6. 1. Now to bring more new change, it is expected to get an Apple for summarizing notifications.
Galaxy users will receive a summary of notifications with One UI 7
According to the tipster, chunvn8888, Samsung is testing an Apple-like AI feature that will summarize notifications. However, it is not confirmed if the feature is exclusively available for the Galaxy S25 or if it will be available with Galaxy AI.
Meanwhile, it is expected that Samsung could bring more enhancements to its features, which will bring a completely fresh experience for users. It is expected that the company will provide the feature for all smartphones, irrespective of their price range, through One UI 7.
As far as the One UI 7 availability is concerned, it is expected that the company will introduce the One UI 7 beta program in the next couple of weeks. If this prediction is true, then most probably it will introduce the stable in early January or with the Galaxy S25.
Samsung has delayed the One UI 7 beta program so much this year; now the good news is arriving: The beta program is expected to be live in the next couple of weeks.
One UI 7 beta may be available in the next 15 days
Last month, Samsung announced that One UI 7 will be available for Galaxy devices next year; this is related to the stable version. In addition, the beta program is also expected to be available later this year.
Now, it is more confirmed after the statement of reliable tipster Ice Universe. According to the statement, he claimed that Samsung will take another half-month to start the beta program.
Beta forums updated
Apart from the tipster statement, more developments are done to ensure that the One UI 7 Beta is near. According to the information, the beta forums for the Galaxy S24 and Galaxy S23 series are for the devices. Another event is also taking place in SD, C24, in Korea. This confirms that it will be available next month.
Earlier this month, Samsung conducted SDC2024 in the US to discuss several topics based on the future opportunities. Now to go into more details, the company is preparing to do one more conference as SDC 2024 in Korea. It will hold the Samsung Developer Conference Korea 2024 online on November 21.
Samsung Electronics has been hosting developer events in various forms every year since 2014 to emphasize the improvement of software.
Samsung SDC 2024 in Korea key highlights
According to the information , the SDC 2024 in Korea will be attended by Jeon kyung-hoon, president and chief technology officer.
In this conference, several futuristic topics will be covered, including:
- generative AI S/W platform
- IoT healthcare
- communication data
- open source development culture.
Along with the discussion, the conference also showcased the performance of different divisions of the company, including Samsung Electronics’ research and development results on generative AI technology (Samsung Electronics Samsung Research Vice President Lee Joo-hyung and Executive Director Koh Hyun-mok) and Improving the user experience of Samsung Electronics’ software and device platforms (Samsung Electronics Device Platform Center Vice President Jeong Jae-yeon and Samsung Research Executive Director Kwon Ho-beom). For more information, you can check here.
Apart from these, it is also possible that Samsung could introduce the One UI 7 timeline for the Galaxy devices. So it is very crucial for Galaxy users to check out the conference. Hope that we may atleast get more information about the