Multi-Window Idea..

[chadrehmet]

OK bare with me here,

When you pull up recent apps (holding down the home button) long press the app you want and move it to the top window. Then do the same with the app you want on the bottom.

It would be so much more convenient rather than the current method of holding down the back button. Then scrolling apps and setting them, etc.

I don't know if its possible but I thought I would share my idea and maybe get some of these great debs something to mess around with!

What do you guys think?


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[lmike6453]

I gotta say i dig it. I am currently not a multiwindow user at all because of its implementation is "too many steps" at the moment.

 

[Samzebian]

wow yea that's a great way to implement mw, makes it so much faster to use.

Only issue is if you try to swipe left or right to close apps, you might enable this mode by accident. I think it's a great idea tho, if a dev can whip that up somehow it would be neat

oh and we need mwc that was on the Note II, make every app available in mw

 

[chadrehmet]

Using the module "mw apps manager" in xposed installer, I have access to all the apps in multi window. I just hate all the steps currently to get what I want.

BTW, this note has so much potential.

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[mynameismolotov]

wow yea that's a great way to implement mw, makes it so much faster to use.

Only issue is if you try to swipe left or right to close apps, you might enable this mode by accident. I think it's a great idea tho, if a dev can whip that up somehow it would be neat

oh and we need mwc that was on the Note II, make every app available in mw

It's available and working (assuming you've rooted, of course, and requires Xposed Framework to be installed): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bjbinc.mwmphone&hl=en

 

[Samzebian]

It's available and working (assuming you've rooted, of course, and requires Xposed Framework to be installed): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bjbinc.mwmphone&hl=en

See I didnt even see that.

I still havent rooted yet, waiting out for unlocked bootloader and roms

 

[mynameismolotov]

See I didnt even see that.

I still havent rooted yet, waiting out for unlocked bootloader and roms

Why wait? Root is fun! Plus, with Xposed you don't even need ROMs to do most things. It's more work / trial and error, but you can change so much with the various modules. Go on, look down at your phone. Look at him, sitting there, silently begging to be rooted. To have his full power unleashed. Make your phone happy. Root the **** out of the little guy.

 

[Samzebian]

Why wait? Root is fun! Plus, with Xposed you don't even need ROMs to do most things. It's more work / trial and error, but you can change so much with the various modules. Go on, look down at your phone. Look at him, sitting there, silently begging to be rooted. To have his full power unleashed. Make your phone happy. Root the **** out of the little guy.

Haha well I've gotta exchange this one, . He's been bad on signal and he's (gasps) CHINESE!

I want a Korean one lol

 

[DaWolf850]

This is great for convenience, but what about discoverability? There's no way you'd ever know this was there unless you read about it. That's fine for us power users, but for a regular user I think Samsung's solution might work better.

 

[chadrehmet]

I'm not a developer by any means, I'm just wondering how hard this would be.

Long pressing the app thumbnail in recents gives you a context pop-up menu with two options. 'App info' and 'remove from list'.

It would be awesome to add just two more contexts to that menu. 'Add to top multiview window' and 'add to bottom multiview window' or something along those lines.

I would be willing to pay for someone to make this happen!

Multiwindow has been out since roughly the launch of the s3, so about 2 years... Its time to tweak it for convenience.

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[Krazie316]

The funny thing is I was thinking about that same method for multi-window last week. That would be a much more convenient method or addition for those who want to use both or keep the current method.

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