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magic.dave
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"Part 1/2: This is just a technical demo - don't get up
Yes we are working on our interpretation of multi-windowing. It will be very different from what you know and expect.
The video shows a first draft, do not make up your mind just yet, you haven't seen 10% of it
For testing purposes we launch it via notification - apps opting in and out. The approach is clean, it's an extension to Android API, apps can be started like that by providing a simple window flag, Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTI_WINDOW.
You know multi-window is hard to get right. Cornerstone failed and was buggy. Cyanogen got their asses kicked by Google for merging it. Samsung wrote a half assed implementation that works with a hand full of s-apps and breaks the rest. Its still tough and we don't assume that we can cover everything, but it's looking alright - no bad fallouts until now.
Multi window is a highly wanted feature, people pooped their pants for hardcoded mms pop-ups for christs sake. they are buying fricking Samsung plastic phones for whacky s-multiwindow.
We think these implementations suck and we want to get it right this time. If what we have in mind will pan out, minds will be blown. If not we can still do the configurable notification enhancement thing - that's cheapo plan B.
Part 2/2 will hopefully be a demo of a first plan A draft - multi windows put to good use so to say, fingers crossed."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cuFusMeUS-8
Yes we are working on our interpretation of multi-windowing. It will be very different from what you know and expect.
The video shows a first draft, do not make up your mind just yet, you haven't seen 10% of it
For testing purposes we launch it via notification - apps opting in and out. The approach is clean, it's an extension to Android API, apps can be started like that by providing a simple window flag, Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_MULTI_WINDOW.
You know multi-window is hard to get right. Cornerstone failed and was buggy. Cyanogen got their asses kicked by Google for merging it. Samsung wrote a half assed implementation that works with a hand full of s-apps and breaks the rest. Its still tough and we don't assume that we can cover everything, but it's looking alright - no bad fallouts until now.
Multi window is a highly wanted feature, people pooped their pants for hardcoded mms pop-ups for christs sake. they are buying fricking Samsung plastic phones for whacky s-multiwindow.
We think these implementations suck and we want to get it right this time. If what we have in mind will pan out, minds will be blown. If not we can still do the configurable notification enhancement thing - that's cheapo plan B.
Part 2/2 will hopefully be a demo of a first plan A draft - multi windows put to good use so to say, fingers crossed."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cuFusMeUS-8
