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Dieter Bohn<\/a>:<\/p>\n

But there was one line on Google’s support page<\/a> for the update that caught my eye (emphasis mine): “In addition to long press, you can now firmly press<\/strong> to get more help from your apps more quickly.”<\/p>

“Firmly press” sets off alarm bells because it sounds a lot like the iPhone’s 3D Touch, which enables different actions depending on how hard you press on the touchscreen.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

But now, it seems that Google has done the same thing for the touchscreen that it does with the camera: use its software algorithms to make commodity parts do something special.<\/p>

[…]<\/p>

Essentially, this new feature lets you press harder to bring up long-press menus faster. In fact, Google’s documentation for Android’s Deep Press API explicitly says it should never do a new thing, it should only be a faster way to execute a long press.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Via Nick Heer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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As of last year, the hardware-based version of 3D Touch no longer exists; new iPhones do not have the component that registers touch pressure, and iPads never did. It’s kind of interesting that Google decided that now was an ideal time to replicate in software the ability to detect pressure — something which, as far as I can figure out, iOS does not do.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n