Android development
Android 16 large-screen rotation can override a player app’s old portrait restriction
An app targeting Android 16 can become resizable or rotate on a large display even if its older manifest restricted orientation.
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The viewing journal — page 152
Practical reading about screens, players, Canadian viewing and the decisions behind a better setup.
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Broadcasters and channels
A channel closure notice has more than one date: the Documentary Channel example
Separate final broadcast, licence-effective and publication dates when checking a retired Canadian channel.
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Bravo Canada in 2019 and 2024: why the same name leads to different programmes
Reconcile Bell’s former Bravo-to-CTV Drama transition with Rogers’s later OLN-to-Bravo service.
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Atanarjuat: follow relationships and the making of a story
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner is directed by Zacharias Kunuk from a screenplay by Paul Apak Angilirq.
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Beans and Kanehsatake: plan two perspectives on a historical summer
Tracey Deer's Beans follows a twelve-year-old Mohawk girl during the 1990 Oka Crisis.
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Riceboy Sleeps: follow what a mother and son each want to understand
Anthony Shim's Riceboy Sleeps centres on So-young, a Korean mother, and her son Dong-hyun in suburban Canada during the 1990s.
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