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TL;DR
- Strings point out Google is engaged on a Movement Cues characteristic that may seemingly assist customers mitigate movement illness.
- Apple added the Automobile Movement Cues characteristic in iOS 18 that provides animated black dots to the perimeters of your display screen that mimic the path of your car to scale back sensory battle and assist cease movement illness.
- Third-party Android apps also can 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 can be for his or her respective working techniques. Apple launched a Automobile Movement Cues characteristic in iOS 18 to assist iPhone and iPad customers struggle movement illness (kinetosis). Nonetheless, movement illness isn’t a problem just for Apple customers, as Android customers could 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 which will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly 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 contains strings that point out Google is growing a characteristic to assist customers struggle movement illness.
Code
motion_sickness_enabled
Movement Cues
Present visible cues to mitigate the movement illness. As you may see from the strings, Google’s characteristic is more likely to be referred to as Movement Cues. When enabled, Movement Cues will present visible cues to assist customers struggle movement illness.
Apple’s Automobile Movement Cues characteristic in iOS 18 provides animated black dots to the perimeters of your display screen that mimic the path of your car. This helps cut back the sensory battle between what you see together with your eyes and the movement your mind feels by your interior ears with out massively disrupting the studying or watching expertise.
Whereas the strings are unclear on Google’s precise implementation, we presume will probably be just like Apple’s. The characteristic will even seemingly be delivered by Google Play Providers (for the reason that strings had been noticed within the Play Providers app) and certain not by an Android platform, so there’s hope that it’ll roll out throughout a number of Android variations so long as the gadget has Google Play Providers.
This characteristic will not be at present stay inside Play Providers. We don’t know when will probably be launched to customers or if it ever will.
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