Samsung's Always-on Display is making more and more users fall in love, including Google. The IT giant has decided to introduce suppo...
Samsung's Always-on Display is making more and more users fall in love, including Google. The IT giant has decided to introduce support to this feature in the new Android version 9 Pie so that all smartphones can have it by default.
Samsung has introduced for the top of the Android range the function Always-on Display that allows you to keep some important information, such as date, time and notifications lost on the AMOLED screen of your device. Information visible at any time, even when the phone is locked. A feature that Google wants at all costs.
The Always-on Display allows users to simply glance at the screen of their smartphone to get to know different details without having to grab and unlock the phone each time in exchange for a little battery. The function is particularly optimized from this point of view and the Galaxy addicted are crazy.
The Samsung Always-on Display integrated by default in Android 9 Pie
Precisely for this reason the Always-on Display is spreading like wildfire on other phones. A spread so extensive that Google has decided to add support for the function within its operating system: Android 9 Pie. The feature may already be present on the upcoming Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL but with a difference.
Although Google is evidently inspired by Samsung, the Always-on Display by Big G should offer a sort of Shazam always listening. A feature that even without using the smartphone will automatically recognize any song played around the smartphone with the artist and the title of the song visible on the screen.
Support is already present in Android 9 Pie and from the code we learn that once blocked the device will show the background for about a minute and then dissolve it with a black background. Samsung, on the other hand, also supports short animated GIF images to be displayed on a locked screen.
Google is not the first time that I copy the best ideas to bring them to default on Android. Apple is doing the same with iOS, even going so far as to buy innovative startups. Enthusiasts must not be content with this choice because the functions integrated into the system usually work better than those of third parties.
