The three Play Console pre-release findings for 0.22.3, resolved:
- Orientation restriction: the in-stream SENSOR_LANDSCAPE lock is now applied
on compact devices (sw < 600 dp) only. On tablets/foldables/desktop windows
it is a large-display anti-pattern (Android 16+ ignores it there outright)
and unnecessary — the aspect-ratio letterbox renders correctly in any
orientation; the lock was always a phone-ergonomics choice. No manifest
restriction existed, and resizeability stays unrestricted.
- Edge-to-edge determinism: the stream window now sets
LAYOUT_IN_DISPLAY_CUTOUT_MODE_ALWAYS explicitly (and restores it on the way
out) — SDK-35 enforcement makes that the immersive default, pre-15 devices
letterboxed the notch as a dead bar; being explicit gives both the same,
correct behaviour. The stream's own letterbox is black, so the cutout region
can never show anything wrong.
- Deprecated edge-to-edge APIs: audited — no in-app use of
setStatusBarColor/setNavigationBarColor/systemUiVisibility/translucent
flags or theme attrs; enableEdgeToEdge (androidx.activity 1.13.0) is already
in place with explicit SystemBarStyle. What the scanner sees are androidx's
own API-level-guarded compat branches, which Google documents as ignorable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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