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Troy Tiscareno Even before MD, Android's app development environment had good ways of managing different resolutions and screen shape issues. That doesn't change the fact that that virtually all apps are laid out for a rectangular screen and that they won't fit properly on a square screen. Sure, the screen can scroll and technically function in most cases, but that's not the same thing, by far, as being optimized to work on a square screen. That would require different layouts and, often, different app designs to accommodate the reduced screen area.