The Chromebook Flip got first dibs on a windowed Android apps experience today, but if you’ve been working with a Remix Mini, Remix Ultra or cracking Remix OS onto a PC, you already have an idea of how this works. Maybe it’s time to upgrade your hardware game?Jide thought it was time to up its game with the Remix Pro, a mid-range ...
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Multi-window on Android is no longer a feature reserved for custom UIs, with limited app compatibility: with the release of Android N, even in this early preview state, multi-window for the masses is making its impact felt. But while Android is finally getting the split-screen mode we’ve longed for, what about a more PC-like free-floating-window layout? That’s a much trickier question, and while the framework’s there, the
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Modern smartphones sure manage to stand their own against traditional computers, armed as they are with incredibly powerful hardware, as well as buckets of software, but there’s at least one area where the old-fashioned PC has continued to outdo them: multitasking. Even with increasingly deep pools of RAM making it easier to have more software in memory at once, tasks that require users to interact with multiple apps in quick succession can prove to be exercises in frustration – and a good ...
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If you could change one thing about Android, what would it be? Ask a dozen users and you’ll get a dozen different opinions, but odds are good that at least one of them will be thinking about the future of the platform on productivity-oriented tablets, and the promise of what multi-window support (which just might land in Android N) could bring. As it turns out, you don’t have to wait for ...
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Some of you are too young to remember the early days of computing. Back in the 1980’s most of us ran MS-DOS. In this environment your user interface was a black screen with a flashing white cursor (or some other color combination). From there you’d type a command to launch whatever program you wanted to run. That program might have been a word processor, a spreadsheet, an encyclopedia, a game, or some other “app”. Not only could you only run one program at a time, you had to exit out of it if you wanted to switch to another one. Yeah, try writing a research paper ...
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I’m Joe the Android Guy, and I’ve written over 1,500 articles for Pocketnow. How many of those were written on an Android-powered device? Sadly, only a handful. I would have expected someone with the moniker of “the Android Guy” to use that platform for the majority of the work he does. If you did too, I’m terribly sorry to disappoint you.Android is a great operating system. It scales from phones and phablets, to ...
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Apple introduced native multi-pane app tasking to iOS 9 before Android will. Right now, though, the feature’s availability is just about as limited as what you might see from a couple of OEMs’ Android devices — namely, Samsung,
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