{"id":48367,"date":"2015-12-11T16:53:31","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=48367"},"modified":"2015-12-11T16:54:35","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T16:54:35","slug":"google-confirms-multi-window-support-is-coming-in-android-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mobilefun.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/12\/google-confirms-multi-window-support-is-coming-in-android-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Google confirms multi-window support is coming in Android N"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Google recently released the Pixel C, a 10.2-inch Android tablet with a beautiful glass and aluminium build and a nifty keyboard attachment. It seems like an ideal work tablet at first blush, but dig deeper and you’ll find a bit of a deal\u00a0breaker: there’s no way to have two apps on screen at once.<\/p>\n

(That’s likely a consequence of the Pixel C’s troubled development. The tablet is speculated to have begun life as a Chrome OS laptop<\/a>, before being switched to an Android device.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Not having split-screen or multi-window support was\u00a0once was a given for\u00a0a mobile OS, but things have changed \u2014 since Windows 8 and iOS 9, both of Android’s major competitors have enjoyed split-screen functionality. Android surely needs better split-screen support\u00a0to make the Pixel C a viable option, and Google have confirmed that it’s on the way.<\/p>\n

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Speaking in a Reddit AMA<\/a> (Ask Me Anything) interview with the Google Pixel C development team, Android and Chrome UX directory Andrew Boyers\u00a0stated that better split-screen support would be coming to the next version of Android, version N:<\/p>\n

We’re working on lots of things right now for N that, of course, we wish we had, you know, yesterday. But we’d spoil the surprise of N if we shared all of them. Split screen is in the works!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Android and Chrome UX director Glen Murphy also chimed in:<\/p>\n

We’re working hard on a range of enhancements for Android in this form factor. There are many things, like multi-window, that we’ve been spending a lot of time on \u2014 hopefully we can share more about this soon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Android N \u2014 Nutella? \u2014 should be announced at Google’s I\/O conference in May or June next year, followed by a general release in autumn. We don’t know too much about it yet, but a new focus on improving Android on tablets would make sense.<\/p>\n

What other features would you like to see Google add to Android? What could make things better for Android tablets? Let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n

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