Beginning with Android 13, the one approach to see the taskbar on a book-style foldable is to swipe up from the navigation deal with to the highest of the display. However that’s altering with Android 15 and with the upcoming construct of Android, Google is including a button to rapidly carry again a bigger taskbar on the underside of the display. Google is working to optimize the taskbar in order that it may well present up on a smartphone with out making every little thing else on the cellphone look smaller.
You’ll be able to have a taskbar present up now on a cellphone working the Android 15 Beta, but it surely comes at a value. | Picture credit-PhoneArena
In Android 15 Beta 4, Rahman found a taskbar function that can give customers the choice to have a taskbar seem on the backside of the display always with out altering the scaling of the show. Hopefully, this smaller smartphone taskbar shall be able to go by the point Android 15 is launched though it nonetheless is not prepared for prime time.
If you’d like a taskbar proper now in your Android cellphone working the Android 15 Beta, it may be performed however you will need to make a change to the show making every little thing too small to view. Go to Settings > About cellphone. Faucet on the phrase “Construct quantity” on the backside of the display six occasions to allow developer choices. After you have performed this, return to Settings > System > Developer choices. Below the Drawing heading (it comes after the Enter heading) faucet on Smallest width and alter it from 411 dp to 600. You may see the taskbar on the backside of the cellphone.
Most definitely you will need to swap again to 411 dp as a result of it is going to be too laborious to learn the display. In case you do determine {that a} taskbar is not price squinting laborious at your cellphone, ready for the smartphone model of the taskbar to be out there, hopefully in Android 15, might be your greatest wager.
