Always On Display — a function with which you can quickly view basic information on the screen without pressing the power button.
For the first time something similar to Android market introduced by Motorola in 2013, releasing the Moto X. Since it’s been 4 years, and just now Google decided to implement this in their smartphones.
The impetus was the interest of Samsung, which had previously introduced the flagship devices with Always On Display. And hints at the advent of AOD in Google Pixel appeared in the systemUI file Android O.
Such functionality is relevant only in the case if we are talking about the OLED display. To Pixel and Pixel XL has such.
One of the users XDA-Developers have installed Android O Developer Preview 3 and found SystemUIGoogle.apk hints at the emergence of the activation system AOD “doze_always_on”. “doze” means Ambient Display. In other words, Android O switch, which will activate the AOD at the Pixel-level smartphones. The reference then is in the “tuner_prefs.xml” that only indicates that it is an experimental feature.
If Google decide to add functionality in the final build of Android O, rely on the protection against burning out of pixels, which Samsung has implemented. The protection is realized by a constant shift of the content on the screen after a certain period of time.
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