{
  "id": 6621469,
  "title": "The iPhone Duo's Slick Opening and Closing Animation Has Already Been Reproduced on the Galaxy Fold 8",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/the-iphone-duos-slick-opening-and-closing-animation-has-already-been",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-10T16:31:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IGN",
    "slug": "ign",
    "url": "https://www.ign.com/articles/iphone-duo-animation-has-already-been-reproduced-on-the-galaxy-fold-8"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Apple revealed its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, during its surprise and shine event. The announcement came on the heels of a thriving market for folding phones. Naturally, someone has already replicated the Duo's impressive opening animation on an Android device. Although the iPhone Duo won't launch until October 23, one of the standout features highlighted was the A20 Pro chip's ability to power both displays simultaneously. This enables the Duo to showcase an opening and closing animation that gives the impression of the screen expanding at specific angles. While this unique feature is exclusive to Apple's new phone, a software developer on Reddit successfully recreated it on a Galaxy Z Fold 8. The video shared by user moomanjohnny on the GalaxyFold subreddit demonstrates how the outer display fades out as the phone opens, and the inner display assumes control, revealing the home screen and expanding it once fully opened. This was achieved by utilizing data from the hinge sensor and crafting a transition animation using a screenshot of the home screen. However, implementing this animation across Samsung's launcher isn't straightforward. The necessary permissions for such implementation reside within Android's background processes, making it a system-wide feature. SystemUI, a privileged system component, layers itself on top of apps and controls their rendering. It does so by receiving a list of surfaces and compositing them on the screen using SurfaceFlinger. This is due to the inherent security risks associated with such implementation. It seems unlikely that any vendor has made these APIs accessible beyond SystemUI. The potential for this kind of opening animation to be supported on the Galaxy Z Fold 8 remains uncertain. Nevertheless, Samsung's Mobile Twitter account showed considerable excitement about the iPhone Duo during Apple's event, suggesting that such functionality might eventually make its way to Samsung's foldable range.",
  "summary": "What's stopping the animation from being implemented throughout Samsung's launcher is that the permissions necessary for that only exist in Android's background processes.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}