Many users have longed for a multi-window capability in Android – that is, to be able to open at least two apps or more at a time, scaling the apps down to occupy lesser space on the screen and relegating them to “windows”. Rumors of the feature have been bandied about, and a lot of tweaked Android ROMs and UIs have made their own approximations of the feature, but never officially from Android.


Android Police has posted a part of an Android commit dated January 27th, 2015 that mentions the feature briefly, giving root to a possibility that we might see the feature in Lollipop soon. The commit was for Android’s WindowManager Service, and it mentions the feature as if it were a future feature. The image below shows that part of the commit.

multi-window-commit

The text mentions an issue that may be related to the overview screen. The text suggests that taps outside a “stack boundary” will be switched off until “multiwindows” is probably active or live. That’s very little to go on, but it’s something.

At the very least, we know that multi-windows may still be something that Android is actively pursuing. We hope to see it within Lollipop’s lifetime, even as hardware capabilities are on the rise – allowing more possibilities of software multitasking features that before were just pipedreams.

SOURCE: Android Police

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  1. Of course there is. The size of the Nexus 6 should tell you. I was thinking that when it first came out, but I feel they should have implemented that with Android L from the start.

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