Multi-window on Android tablets, Google's next goal

It is true that we have seen Android devices with the real multitasking with windows, Samsung is a good example of this. But it is undoubtedly one of the features that is yet to be exploited, with the screen sizes that are currently handled, it is something that can be very useful, especially on tablets, and Google knows it. He has been working on a multi-window system for some time that, although it will not be in time for the launch of Android L, it could be included in some of the updates.

It is not a novelty, it is true, but it is a very important step since developers could include multi-windows in their applications knowing that many of the tablets (perhaps also phablets like the Nexus 6) officially support the feature. TouchWiz already offers this advantage, Microsoft He also made his bet, they even made fun of Apple's iPad, which has led them to start moving and the iPhone 6 already has an option that resembles it.

The mechanism that Google has devised, as can be seen in the screenshots that have been revealed, allows us to adjust the size of the two windows in which we could work simultaneously. To our liking? Not exactly, we will have to choose if an application occupies 1. 2 0 3 quarters of the screen (25%, 50% or 75%) and the other will fill the remaining space. That is, they can be divided into two equal halves or give one more priority than the other.

The interaction between the two windows is key for it to be something truly usable by users. Some of the functions that the native Android multiscreen system will have will allow, for example, copy and pass texts, images or practically any file from one application to the other with easy gestures, which will be the way to activate the feature, sliding the windows in question to one side.

As we read in AndroidAyuda, it does not seem possible that it is in time to be included in the improvement package of Android L(5.0), in fact, if they had intended to do so, the Mountain Viewers would have explained it on the day of the presentation. Yes, with the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 on the market, both with sizable screens, it could be time to launch a job that extends 2013 since.