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Android Authority found hidden code in Google Photos version 7.96.0.99 revealing an in-development feature that lets users pick a playback speed—0.25x, 0.5x, 1x, 1.5x, or 2x—for animations made from multiple photos. The update would also add a preview screen before saving the GIF, which currently isn't offered, with finished animations saved to the camera roll and backed up to Google Photos.
Android devices include a developer options menu, accessible after tapping the Build Number field seven times in Settings > About, that lets users adjust animation speeds. Within this menu, setting the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale and Animator duration scale to 0.5x makes system animations play twice as fast, a feature that has existed since Android 4.0.
A developer has built a custom animation set for the Galaxy Z Fold 8 that mimics the smooth folding transitions expected on Apple's rumored foldable iPhone, sometimes called the iPhone Fold or iPhone Duo. The recreation shows how Apple's anticipated software polish could look when applied to Samsung's existing foldable hardware.
A website is digitizing Henry T. Brown's classic engineering reference '507 Mechanical Movements,' adding animations to illustrate how each mechanism works. Not all 507 movements are animated yet, but completed ones are marked with color thumbnails, with more being added over time.