6.0 is poised to feature: an improved home screen with multiple home pages, Â a brand new web browser with multi-tab browser, a redesigned media player interface, and a much improved
tab app switcher.
Not exact matches
While there's a slight pause when you're opening
apps and switching
tabs in Amazon's Silk browser, those are acceptable, considering that navigating the tablet's home screens and using the
app switcher is snappier than ever.
Rather than force you to use a poorly emulated button combination to call the task
switcher up, BlueStacks simply presents each individual Android
app in a
tabbed format across the top.
While there's a slight pause when you're opening
apps and switching
tabs in Amazon's Silk browser, those are acceptable, considering that navigating the tablet's home screens and using the
app switcher is snappier than ever.
Instead, it now mixes open
tabs with open
apps in the Task
Switcher menu.
Other tweaks like a horizontal
app switcher and a
tabbed notification shade add nothing to the Android experience, and many of the changes (with the possible exception of some customization settings for the status bar and fingerprint sensor) seem to have no real purpose.
This way, you can switch between
tabs on the
app switcher instead of having to go to Chrome in the
app switcher and then finding the
tab you want.
And this latest video shows how you can add individual Chrome
tabs separately in the
app switcher feature so that the
tabs themselves get treated as their own
apps.
Starting with Android 5.0 Lollipop, Chrome
tabs could exist individually in the
app switcher.