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Safe area

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

nounCommon term

In software engineering, safe area means: The part of the screen that is not covered by the notch, camera cutout, status bar or home indicator, where important content and buttons can be placed safely.

In Turkish: güvenli alan

How it is used

An Apple term (safe area insets, safe area layout guide); Android developers talk about window insets and display cutouts instead. Bugs where a button sits under the home indicator are often described as 'not respecting the safe area'.

Example sentences

  1. The Pay button is under the home indicator; the layout ignores the safe area.

  2. The background image can go edge to edge, but the text must stay inside the safe area.

Common collocations

  • safe area insets
  • respect the safe area
  • ignore the safe area
  • window insets
  • screenOne full view of an app that the user sees at a time, such as the login screen or the settings screen; apps are planned as a set of screens.
  • navigation barOn iOS, the bar at the top of a screen that shows the title, a back button and action buttons; on Android, the name also refers to the system bar with the back and home controls.
  • orientationThe way a device is held and the screen is shown: portrait (upright) or landscape (sideways); an app can support one or both.
  • screen densityHow many pixels a screen has in a given physical area, measured in dots per inch (dpi); high-density screens need larger image files to look sharp.

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