Only apps specifically designed to run
as floating apps will work, so you have to seek them out.
We were able to open the AudioWizard settings
as a floating app and easily change the audio profile as we listened to our music.
Not exact matches
The most interesting feature here is that the
app lets you select a lower torso (customizable by sex and skin tone)
as part of your view, presumably to help you locate your
floating head in the VR space.
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The voice remote» in YouTube TV shows up
as a
floating action button in the
app.
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.
There is, of course, a little bit more to it than that,
as our recent extensive look inside the PS4 Pro discusses; there is an additional 1 GB of DDR3 RAM specifically for swapping out non-game
apps, and 1 GB of RAM dedicated to two functions, one half allowing developers to hit 4K render targets, and the other half dedicated to handling a 4K version of the dashboard; delta compression technology, enhanced 16 - bit half -
float support and much more - full details and an interview with system architect Mark Cerny is within the prior link.
Joshi, who joined the team last year from Brodies, had previously worked
as a software developer at CodeBase, the UK's largest technology incubator, and
as head of product and partnerships at cashflow forecasting
app Float.
Minimized
apps stay on the screen
as a
floating icon, which you can tap at any time to re-open.
You can open almost any
app as a resizable
floating window in Pop - up View.
Since Google uses Material Design on their text messaging
apps, they've always been using a
Floating Action Button
as the «New chat» button.
Now tap on the button and start using the
apps as floating windows.
The clipboard is will be available
as a
floating bubble above all other open
apps which lets you easily access it and select whatever material you want to paste next.
As you can see in the screenshots above, Gmail 5.0
App has a Red accent color similar to Google +
App, it also has a
floating action button on the bottom right to compose Emails.
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.
Tap the divider on the Tab S3 though, and you can either swap the placement of both
apps, close the multi-tasking session, or open one of the
apps as a separate window, aka a
floating app.
Android has a permission that allows
apps to draw on top of other
apps, but
as fun
as that may sound, it has mostly been used to create
floating multitasking utilities.
Some
apps, such
as Mix and Weather, open within
floating windows rather than taking over the whole screen.
You'll even be able to open a third
app as a
floating window.
You can then shrink the
app to a
floating bubble and have it follow you
as you navigate between
apps, similar to Facebook Messenger's Chat Heads.
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.
Multi-Window doesn't just take a single form, either: on phones, it can also show up
as a small
floating window above another
app.
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.
The new dock extends the amount of
apps you can pin to the bottom of the iOS home screen, but it also acts
as the main way to control what
apps can
float or be used side - by - side.
Accessible via desktop or in VR, games and
apps appear
as large
floating tabs.
There's now a
floating compose button at the bottom, which sits in the same place
as a similar button for in the new Calendars and Contacts
apps, essentially elevating the main function so it's easy to access.
At the end of the tutorial, I was transported to Oculus Home, which still appears
as a swanky home with brick walls and
floating tiles displaying your
apps and games.
This is a hidden,
floating turntable display of
apps used and options to lock the screen, access settings and
float music,
as well
as other items in the toolbox.
The
floating notifications come very handy when you are using any full screen
apps,
as games and camera
app take up entire screen area, and incoming calls usually distract in such cases, but the
floating notifications are little widget - like pop ups that appear on the full screen
apps.
However, currently, there are no in -
app animations, so
floating buttons etc don't do much other than just act
as a simple button.