Pen Window lets you launch one of 19 different
apps in a floating window.
One of the things I like to do is open the Samsung Gallery
App in a floating window and use it for a photo reference window when drawing and painting.
Bubble - style notifications inspired by Facebook chat heads pop up near the top of the screen, and you simply tap on them to bring up
the app in a floating window.
Not exact matches
There's a new file - storage system, an
app dock similar to the one on Mac, the ability to drag and drop content
in between
apps, and
apps that
float in separate
windows.
Vivo has also thrown
in a Picture
in Picture mode for gaming, which lets you run messaging
apps such as WhatsApp, Line, and Facebook Messenger - among others -
in a
floating window.
Better yet, you can choose which of your
apps to dock
in the drawer to launch
in a
floating window.
A Control Panel shortcut now appears
in the Modern «Change PC Settings» menu and you can pin Modern
apps to the desktop taskbar — a first step
in cross-environment integration but remember there's no
floating Windows Store
apps in the desktop yet and no changes to the Start Menu.
Yes, it's nice that you can run up to three
apps on the screen and one
in a
floating window — or two
in split - screen mode — but MultiWindow works with only six
apps.
Like Samsung's Muilti
Window View,
Floating Apps allows users to run multiple apps in individual windows at the same time, including the Browser, AudioWizard, BuddyBuzz, Calculator, Calendar, Countdown, Dictionary, Email, Sticky Memo, Stopwatch, To Do List and Video Pla
Apps allows users to run multiple
apps in individual windows at the same time, including the Browser, AudioWizard, BuddyBuzz, Calculator, Calendar, Countdown, Dictionary, Email, Sticky Memo, Stopwatch, To Do List and Video Pla
apps in individual
windows at the same time, including the Browser, AudioWizard, BuddyBuzz, Calculator, Calendar, Countdown, Dictionary, Email, Sticky Memo, Stopwatch, To Do List and Video Player.
A picture -
in - picture mode that's currently restricted to Android TV devices running Nougat will be brought to more devices via Android O, letting users watch videos
in floating windows while working on other
apps.
The Skype team added an innovative feature on Friday to the video calling
app for Android tablets: A
floating picture -
in - picture
window.
You can open almost any
app as a resizable
floating window in Pop - up View.
Being able to minimize a compatible
app to a
floating bubble, only to pop it back up
in a
floating window is a thing of beauty.
Once you've got the
app installed, enable Taskbar's main service using the switch at the top of the screen, at which point you'll see a small
floating interface
in the bottom - left corner that you'll be using to launch Freeform
Windows.
When watching a video on WhatsApp, picture
in picture lets you watch the video through a
floating window while you do other stuff like texting your friend or browsing the
app.
You'll already be familiar with this
in the YouTube
app, but when it is implemented across the board,
app developers will be able to have their video
apps continue playing
in a small
floating window while you navigate to other areas of the
app or to completely different
apps entirely.
Even if a particular
app is not compatible with this, you can at least use them
in a
floating window.
If you haven't seen it
in action yet, Picture -
in - Picture is a feature that shrinks down videos into a smaller
floating window so that you can continue to watch as you make use of other
apps.
This enables you to open a
floating window in apps that support the feature, like VLC and YouTube Red.
Use Slide Over (
floating window) on iPad:
In iOS 11, on iPad, you can now have one
floating app window running on top of your main
app.
Like Samsung, it takes advantage of the large screen so you can use two
apps side - by - side or open them up
in a
floating window, which can actually come
in handy when copying text between
apps or need to use a calculator.
Although you can already run two
apps side by side, picture -
in - picture lets you exit an
app and still see a
floating window of one of the supported
apps, such as YouTube and Google Maps.
If you click on the Recent
Apps button in the navigation bar you'll find a set of apps that can be launched as floating windows, which are occasionally useful although I never found myself using them on a regular ba
Apps button
in the navigation bar you'll find a set of
apps that can be launched as floating windows, which are occasionally useful although I never found myself using them on a regular ba
apps that can be launched as
floating windows, which are occasionally useful although I never found myself using them on a regular basis.
Non-VR
Windows apps can be attached to blank walls or left
floating in the air to let you look between them as if you were looking between computer monitors.
But if you want to put modern
apps into
windows on the desktop, you'll need to shell out for a third - party tools like Actual's Multiple Monitors, RetroUI Enforce or ModernMix that
floats the
app in a smaller
window over the desktop.
And while it doesn't sound like there's a full - fledged
windowed mode, Google does mention «picture -
in - picture» support that can allow things like video clips to
float above other
apps.
Picture
in Picture PiP mode creates
floating window of an
app while you can continue using your phone.
Apps can be placed
in a
floating window, being able to move around the screen like a desktop
windowed app can be, or minimized into an icon for easy access later.
Applications can now be used
in Floating Mode after long pressing the notification window, tapping on the floating button or by going to Recents > and tapping on the same app floating
Floating Mode after long pressing the notification
window, tapping on the
floating button or by going to Recents > and tapping on the same app floating
floating button or by going to Recents > and tapping on the same
app floatingfloating button.
We found that if you don't have any
apps open when you create a
floating window, it'll open your most recently used
app in the background, just
in case.
Almost every
app can be used
in multi-
window mode, and these
apps can even be dragged down from the corner and placed
in a
floating window, a la a desktop program on a computer.
This means that Android users will finally be able to enjoy their videos
in a
floating movable
window that will run atop other
apps.