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TL;DR
- Strings point out Google is engaged on a Movement Cues characteristic that can seemingly assist customers mitigate movement illness.
- Apple added the Car Movement Cues characteristic in iOS 18 that provides animated black dots to the perimeters of your display that mimic the course of your car to scale back sensory battle and assist cease movement illness.
- Third-party Android apps may also forestall automotive illness, however Google might bake within the characteristic for the broader Android market.
Android and iOS have lengthy reached phases of maturity, so Google and Apple now have a look at one another for inspiration on what the subsequent characteristic could be for his or her respective working methods. Apple launched a Car Movement Cues characteristic in iOS 18 to assist iPhone and iPad customers combat movement illness (kinetosis). Nonetheless, movement illness isn’t a difficulty just for Apple customers, as Android customers will be equally affected. Whereas there is a free Android app that helps cease automotive illness (launched a few years earlier than Apple introduced the characteristic), Google is now engaged on bringing the characteristic to Android telephones.
An APK teardown helps predict options that will arrive on a service sooner or later primarily based on work-in-progress code. Nonetheless, it’s attainable that such predicted options might not make it to a public launch.
Google Play Service v24.46.30 beta consists of strings that point out Google is creating a characteristic to assist customers combat movement illness.
Code
<string title="motion_sickness_enabled_key">motion_sickness_enabled</string>
<string title="motion_sickness_settings_activity_label">Movement Cues</string>
<string title="motion_sickness_settings_page_description">Present visible cues to mitigate the movement illness.</string>As you possibly can see from the strings, Google’s characteristic is prone to be known as Movement Cues. When enabled, Movement Cues will present visible cues to assist customers combat movement illness.
Apple’s Car Movement Cues characteristic in iOS 18 provides animated black dots to the perimeters of your display that mimic the course of your car. This helps cut back the sensory battle between what you see along with your eyes and the movement your mind feels via your internal ears with out massively disrupting the studying or watching expertise.
Whereas the strings are unclear on Google’s actual implementation, we presume it is going to be much like Apple’s. The characteristic can even seemingly be delivered via Google Play Companies (for the reason that strings have been noticed within the Play Companies app) and sure not via an Android platform, so there’s hope that it’s going to roll out throughout a number of Android variations so long as the system has Google Play Companies.
This characteristic will not be at the moment stay inside Play Companies. We don’t know when it is going to be launched to customers or if it ever will.Â
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