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I wouldn't mind multiview becoming the norm with official Android API support for apps made to support it. I didn't realize Samsung made it opt-in, but that mak
by yareally 13y ago
I wouldn't mind multiview becoming the norm with official Android API support for apps made to support it. I didn't realize Samsung made it opt-in, but that makes much more sense and calms my fears about it. We can already have multiple fragments displayed in an app, so it would make sense the next logical step is to have multiple apps open with some limitations and restrictions via official support in the Android API.
Just curious, but did support for it (for Google Apps) come at the Note 2 release or after its release?
- fpgeek 13y agoI believe it came with the Note 2 release (though possibly not with some specific models, like the US ones). I got my (international) Note 2 a few weeks after it came out and, IIRC, I had a least a couple of multi-window Google apps (maybe Chrome and Maps but not Gmail and YouTube?) from day one. From what I remember, the Note 10.1 (which came out a few months earlier) was much more limited on that front - only some Samsung apps supported multi-window, but that seemed to help pave the way for the Note 2 (and improved support on the 10.1, of course).
- saratogacx 13y agoThe multi-window feature and the google app support were available with the note 1 with the android 4.x update. Adding support is almost trivial with it being a few XML lines. There are also mods that let you multi-window any app which makes the feature much more useful.