If you’re reading this on an Android device with a bigger screen, fixed or folding, the next version of Google’s mobile operating system will force your apps to be better tenants of that screen real estate.
That’s the major news in Google’s aborted announcement Wednesday of the first beta release of Android 17, due sometime in the second quarter of this year: App developers won’t be able to opt out of screen orientation and resizing features when running…

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