Google Chrome is learning to use more of your phone’s screen
- Google is updating Chrome for Android to utilize more of your phone’s screen.
- With Chrome 135, the browser will start displaying content behind the navigation bar.
- Google is currently testing this change with a few users before a wider rollout.
Android has long allowed apps to utilize your phone’s entire screen by rendering content underneath the status and navigation bars. However, many apps did not take advantage of this capability. Google introduced a change with Android 15 that forced apps to go edge-to-edge, prompting developers to update their apps to conform with the full-screen layout. While some apps have already been updated to use your phone’s entire screen, Chrome is just getting around to it.
Google has announced that it has started testing an updated version of Chrome for Android that draws content “up to the bottom device edge by extending the viewport into the gesture navigation bar area.” As shown in the following illustration, it extends Chrome’s UI right to the bottom edge of the screen, displaying content behind the navigation bar.
from Android Authority https://ift.tt/pC8n3vQ
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