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Targeting Android 16 (API 36) removes your ability to opt out of edge-to-edge and enables predictive back system animations by default. Here are six concrete UI regressions you can reproduce quickly, plus CI guardrails to catch them before release.
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Apple has made iPhone apps meaningfully resizable in iPhone Mirroring and on iPad. Here’s a fast, reproducible 90‑minute audit to find the UIKit/SwiftUI assumptions that fail when your ‘fixed iPhone’ UI gets a new canvas.
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Targeting Android 16 (API 36) changes the rules on large screens: the system can ignore your app’s orientation, aspect ratio and resizability restrictions. This checklist turns that policy shift into a concrete pre‑release audit you can run across Compose and legacy Views to catch the breakpoints before Play reviews and user ratings do.
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From 31 August 2026, Google Play requires new apps and updates to target Android 16 (API 36), with extensions only until 1 November 2026. This guide is the practical checklist for native, React Native, Flutter, and PWA/TWA pipelines — including why Play Console warnings can stick around after you’ve already fixed the build.
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