Questions tagged [samsung-s8]

Use this tag when you have a specific question about programming for the Samsung Galaxy S8 device (display issues etc.)

Samsung Galaxy S8 is a mobile phone with a 18:9 ratio edge-to-edge display, face scanning and a voice recognition-based virtual assistant called Bixby.

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RenderScript low performance on Samsung Galaxy S8

Context I have an Android app that takes a picture, blurs the picture, removes the blur based on a mask and applies a final layer (not relevant). The last 2 steps, removing the blur based on a mask and applying a final layer is done repeatedly, each…
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Get the correct screen display size on Galaxy S8

In my app I am currently using windowManager.getDefaultDisplay() to determine the screen size. With the new Samsung S8 navigation bar, that can be shown and hidden using a 'dot' on the bottom left, I get the same display size for navigation bar…
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Android S8+ warning message "does not support the current Display size setting and may behave unexpectedly"

I have this warning message in Samsung S8+ Android 7: APP_NAME does not support the current Display size setting and may behave unexpectedly. What it means and how can I remove it? Thank you
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Android camera-2 API Recording Preview was squished in Portrait Recording in Samsung Galaxy S8

I am facing the squished preview in Samsung S8, I'm using camera-2 API for recording in my project with the support for only 1920x1080 resolution. Quality of recording is good, but the preview is not proper in S8. I tried this solution Samsung…
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Samsung S8 - Keyboard Wont Stay Up - Landscape Locked App

Background: We are developing an app that requires that the login page be locked in landscape mode. The app is on the app store, and it works for all the physical/simulated phones we have tried. Issue: Here's a video that replicates the issue on a…
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UnsupportedOperationException: Unknown error -2147483648 when try initialise camera device using samsung camera sdk

I am using samsung camera sdk to use camera apis.My applications Camera is working fine except the Samsung S8+ and S9. These 2 mention device is unable to start the camera device on. Getting the following errors: Fatal Exception:…
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Trouble expanding image in samsung s8

As screen height of samsung s8 is quite large.My images in LoginUI(attached) were looking small.I calculated phone's height in dp programmatically. DisplayMetrics displayMetrics = getResources().getDisplayMetrics(); float dpHeight =…
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Android App crashes with "android.app.RemoteServiceException: can't deliver broadcast" exception on Samsung Phones

My app crashes after a while (After running OK for more than 12h) with stacktrace as mentioned below: android.app.RemoteServiceException: can't deliver broadcast android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage…
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Restricting an app's screen size based on a phone's resolution

I am developing an application in android studio which is displayed correctly on 1080x1920 phones(and lower) but for phones like mine(s8) the app gets messed up and i can't find a way to fix the app's ui for every screen size. So, i was wondering if…