Was just re-reading a chapter from my dissertation and went to go read it in the new Office app (unified Word, PP, Excel, Sticky Notes, and Office Lens + some other stuff). Planning on reading while changing songs in Spotify I opened the document and three finger swiped to send it to the secondary screen and it sent the document but kept the home menu on the main screen. If I open another document it does close the previous document on the secondary screen and open the new document on the primary screen. If I close the menu on the main screen to open another app, leaving the document on the main screen, it'll keep the document up as if the app was started on the second screen. I think Microsoft is starting to add dual screen support to their apps and lucky for us some of that code seems to work on the G8X. I think whatever code allows this is the same code that makes it so that on Samsung Dex and other Android desktops it open the document in a new app window vs in the same app window as the menu. I've noticed this behavior in a few Microsoft apps but nowhere else in Dex. I'm sure others have discussed this but it seems like LG basically treats the other screen as an external monitor which take up every new "window" apps produce or is produced by the system when you open something on the second screen. This might also be why other launchers don't work because they can't/don't produce new "windows" that can be put there. Anyways, sorry for ranting on but this is super interesting to me. Thoughts (especially from developers who might actually know the nuts and bolts of this)? Edit: I did a bit more investigation with other MS office apps on Android and none of them exhibit this same behavior even the Word app which on Dex I believe does pop a new window when opening documents like the Office app. Obviously this throws my later theory about windows into doubt.
New Unified Microsoft Office App Supports Dual Screen
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Maybe this is in preparation for the Surface Duo. BTW can you share any pictures of the new Office on your G8X?
I was the one who originally posted this on the LG G8X subreddit (not sure why this is copy-pasted here like this but I'm a new user here so search the title of this post and you'll find the Reddit thread). I'll upload a screenshot (or screen recording) for you when I get a chance! But yes I think this is definitely prep for the Duo.
Here you go! Sorry about the background audio. But as you can see the app opens a new window when opening documents and can do two different type of docs at the same time. But if you try and open another of the same document type it'll replace the current window. Google Docs work the same except you can open two of the same document type without one overlapping the other.
Yes, so sorry I forgot to credit you. I replied your post on Reddit. Now it's on xda news
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