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As far as I can tell, it's an Android thing. They even call their display manager thing (I don't know the right term for it) SurfaceFlinger: https://source.andr
by craftyguy 9y ago
As far as I can tell, it's an Android thing. They even call their display manager thing (I don't know the right term for it) SurfaceFlinger: https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/ https://source.android.com/devices/graphics/
- bitwize 9y agoThe surface in SurfaceFlinger is in the context of "drawing surface", a term of art in computer graphics to refer to a window, bitmap, or other thing that can be drawn on/blitted to.
- HillaryBriss 9y agoit seems they have also reused these two familiar words in a way that could add some confusion to the Android developer's life: * "bundle" (as in "app bundles", a feature that lets Google Play deliver an installer with a stripped down set of resources to the end user's device) * "action" (as in the new feature of the UI known as an "action" which some have alternatively describe as a "visible intent" or a "deep link with parameters." or something)