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After a long spell of silence, there suddenly seems to be a lot of news surfacing online about Android N once again.
By tech2 News Staff / 18 Apr 2016 , 12:55
After a long spell of silence, there suddenly seems to be a lot of news surfacing online about Android N once again. And after the news about native, there now appears to be another bit of news that points to 3D Touch-like gesture support in Google’s Android N update.
According to the guys atwho聽not just discovered聽the new feature but also got it working with help of a third-party app developer,聽the new feature is expected to make an appearance due to requests by OEMs who have already utilised a pressure-sensitive display similar to Apple’s 3D Touch implementation. These may include companies such as聽Huawei, Gionee and others who have already announced smartphone’s with pressure sensitive displays.
Tagged as聽“setDynamicShortcuts(List)” the feature allows users to press down on the screen to reveal shortcuts that get to you specific places within an app. This would be enabled on the homescreen for now, but its applications for the same are more in-depth like jumping to the last saved point into a game directly thanks to the shortcut option from the app’s icon.
The developer of the launcher who managed to get it enabled tells that a pressure sensitive display being the fastest option is not the only option to get it enabled. The same developer as seen from Phandroid’s video demo of the feature got it enabled with a swipe down instead.
Tags: 3D Touch Feature Android, Android, Android 3D Touch, Android N, Google Android N feature