Google is experimenting with a brand new characteristic for Android tablets that may enable customers to resize apps and rearrange them freely, similar to you may on Home windows or Mac-powered machines.
Known as “Desktop windowing,” the brand new performance is geared toward making it straightforward for customers to juggle between a number of apps. In keeping with 9to5Google, the brand new desktop home windows characteristic is presently out there on Android 15 QRP1 Beta 2 on the Pixel Pill.
Google says the brand new performance “permits customers to run a number of apps concurrently and resize app home windows, providing a extra versatile and desktop-like expertise.”
Google’s new desktop mode for Android options responsive layouts. (Picture Supply: 9to5Google)
Just like Samsung Dex on tablets, you get a set taskbar that exhibits the working apps in addition to your pinned apps. On high of every window, there’s a header bar that permits you to make the app fullscreen or minimise or shut it.
Google says all apps open in fullscreen by default and that customers have the choice to both resize the window to open it in windowed or break up display mode.
The bbotto taskbar is mounted and can be utilized to pin apps. (Picture Supply: 9to5Google)
The report additionally notes that customers can resize a window from any a part of the display, select to cover the taskbar, double faucet the header to shortly minimise or maximise apps. One other attention-grabbing factor to see is that “the desktop windowing surroundings seems as an app within the Recents multitasking menu”, permitting customers to shortly open their windowed apps.
To allow the brand new characteristic, open the Settings app in your Pixel Pill working Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2, scroll down and faucet on “System” and beneath “Developer Choices” activate the “Allow Freeform home windows” toggle. The now desktop windowing characteristic may quickly discover its technique to AOSP, permitting gadget makers to customize the performance to their liking.
