2y ago

Samsung blocks Google Wallet on the Galaxy Z Flip 5's cover screen

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According to this article, Samsung doesn't block that, it's just badly implemented:
https://9to5google.com/2023/07/27/galaxy-z-flip-5-google-wallet/
I mean that makes sense. Samsung doesn't bill it's front screen as a full phone, it's supposed to be just a window for quick info at a glance. It's probably more just Google hasn't made its app compatible with the flip's cover screen. In any case at this point the screen on the flip 5 is actually a decent size so it should be able to run any app like the razor.
- Razor phone runs the app. From the article, it fails because Google makes the app run as using play services and Samsung has a whitelist for apps to go the small screen, it can add the shortcut, but since it launches an intent behind play services, that is blocked.