Hi, I want to ask you all about the multitasking from jelly bean. Will it stop if you tap your home button to open new browser and other stuff making it as background application?
If for ICS, it will pause the youtube after you switched to other application and this is not called multitasking according to my knowledge.
Any feedback on this issue?
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if u use multitasking n u still press home button that's mean u're out frOm multiwindow n definitely the application will be paused at he background.
u just need to drag out frOm multiwindow when doing multitasking without pausing youtube when doIng multitasking.
maybe u can find out more on floating multiwindow！
i believe someone wll give u the right answer！
multiwindow of JB allows both apps to run.. it divides the screen into 2 windows
Real multitasking?
nokiamodeln91 said:
multiwindow of JB allows both apps to run.. it divides the screen into 2 windows
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I wonder why Samsung calls it mutiiview? It only makes two windows. How about calling it dual-window or dual-view. In general, I do not think that using multiview or long pressing the home button to cycle around recently used apps is real multitasking. While long pressing the home key does allows you to return to another active process, there is always the possibility that the OS task manger will kill something you put in background. This is most annoying, especially if your were editing a file and you now lose changes because the android task manger does its thing. (So as a rule of thumb I always save changes before putting an editor, like Polaris, in background.) The sad thing is that I think that android can do real multitasking (by using a "service" for example) but it appears to be up to the developer to incorporate this feature in their app. For example, it you press the home button when using terminal emulator to put it in back ground, you can always pick up where you left off. I've never seen this process killed. Ideally, I would like to be the one choosing which app to kill. Hopefully this is the case in the future.
In regards to the you tube question, when doing a long press, music continues to play, but it is paused once you make a selection from the tray of recently used apps.
For those of you that have modified your N7000 to have tablet ui via xperiacles work, do you find that when reducing a window (such that it goes to a task bar that you can bring it back up from), that the app is still actively running in background. For example, does a music video still play on if you do this?
I think it will defend the purpose of it if i switched application and it stopped the previous one. So I have to wait for stock jb to fully utilize my note.
Hmm with 2 cores it should had something better than this right?
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I seem to be only able to have 1 app open at a time?
I have to backbutton the app, then go to main screen to start another app..
How do i have 3-4 apps running, with the minimized apps that i can grab up top like my phone...
thanks
I'm not exactly sure what you are requesting here, but applications can run in the background. While you may need to go the Home screen to get back into an application you were previously in, it can still be running from before.
You mention of minimizing applications, which doesn't happen with the android system in terms of windows (min/max), but some applications open can be accessed throught he notification bar, if they have a ongoing notification.
Maybe you're talking of pressing and holding the N button to bring up the 8 most recent applications to easily switch between them?
If that is the case, there is also a nice application called Swipepad that may help you as well.
My android phone, with the slide down window at top is what i was referring to, where you can "pull" down the top of window,, and see your running apps...
thanks
jlm86 said:
My android phone, with the slide down window at top is what i was referring to, where you can "pull" down the top of window,, and see your running apps...
thanks
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What phone is that? It must be a customization of some sort since Android doesn't normally work that way. Like biohazrd51 said, just hold down the physical "n" button for short second and a "running" app list will pop up no matter what program you're in and even if the status bar you're talking about is hidden
jlm86 said:
I seem to be only able to have 1 app open at a time?
I have to backbutton the app, then go to main screen to start another app..
How do i have 3-4 apps running, with the minimized apps that i can grab up top like my phone...
thanks
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Back button = Exit. Just push the N button to go Home.. And as said, sounds like your phone is some tweak to Android, until Honeycomb there was no method provided by the OS itself to show "running apps" besides in the Settings->Applications view.
Sounds like something from HTC Sense. What phone/ROM you have?
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Just long press the N button you should get recent apps
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If you, as me owned a Galaxy Nexus, or another phone with a BUGFREE build of ICS, you might be missing "Recent Apps".
How ever, if you're on a 2.3 rom, you can get a pretty useable way of achieving this.
1. Find JKay Deluxe Setting, (Thanks for developing this!)
2. Open it and scroll down to "Double click enabled."
3. Click on "choose application for double click".
4. Choose "Task Manager" on the list.
5. Freaking enjoy endless clickin' from within apps, to change to other apps or exit em'.
This will do for me until AOKP gets stable.
Cheers.
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JKay setting, uninstalled TWLauncher. Customized stock.
Fast AND sexy as lightning.
Waiting to KANG it up with stable build.
I don't understand what you are saying. App switching in GB or Replacing App switching in ICS?
I've always long pressed the home button and got a list of the last six recent apps. I even seen a mod to make it 8 apps. I hate the recent apps in ICS. I would much rather have GB's recent apps with icons instead of the bulky screen shots. I try to avoid doing double button presses on physical buttons, I don't want to wear it out, like the issue with the Iphone 3G and 3GS had.
I don't like ICS, so until there is something that I have to have that is ICS specific, I will stick with GB. Maybe I can hold out till JellyBean.
I do the same but with Smart Task switcher.
way way better than any other multitask app
gedster314 said:
I don't understand what you are saying. App switching in GB or Replacing App switching in ICS?
I've always long pressed the home button and got a list of the last six recent apps. I even seen a mod to make it 8 apps. I hate the recent apps in ICS. I would much rather have GB's recent apps with icons instead of the bulky screen shots. I try to avoid doing double button presses on physical buttons, I don't want to wear it out, like the issue with the Iphone 3G and 3GS had.
I don't like ICS, so until there is something that I have to have that is ICS specific, I will stick with GB. Maybe I can hold out till JellyBean.
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Task Manager is the app you're taken to if you long hold home button and then press Manage Applications. A list of the apps and an exit button for each. Sorry you didn't understand mate. I kinda agree. But I don't rly care how it looks, as long as it allows for quick switching and exiting. Long press doesnt allow for quick exiting.
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JKay setting, uninstalled TWLauncher. Customized stock.
Fast AND sexy as lightning.
Waiting to KANG it up with stable build.
Ok, I didn't catch that you were looking to kill apps from the first pop up.
Funny how with Froyo and Gingerbread, the idea was to not kill apps and let Android manage it and now in ICS they are making it easy to kill apps again. I got quite use to letting Android kill them for me.
I also like that it only shows the last few apps. Drives me nuts that the Ipad just lets the recent apps list grow and grow. Sometime I get a little @nal and want to kill everything and it takes several minutes to close everything and I en threalize I should have just rebooted instead. I also hate in OSX, when I hit the read X, I WANT THE APP CLOSED and not hanging around in the Dock. And why is it MAC users have 150 apps on their Dock. Like I really believe you use all those apps regularly. I guess if they had a windows machine, they would be the ones who could not see their wallpaper through all the folders and app icons on the desktop.
Sorry for the Apple rant. I have my rants about Android, Windows and Ubuntu too.
Hey forum.
Had XZ för about 2 weeks now and I'm happy with it... but;
Is there any way to remove the navigation buttons when you play games?
I mean, when you look at videos, they are hidden.
This is so disturbing when you play a game where the controls are pretty much at that location, and you accidently
press "Home" and leaving the game, or "Back" button to go back
fieskmask said:
Hey forum.
Had XZ för about 2 weeks now and I'm happy with it... but;
Is there any way to remove the navigation buttons when you play games?
I mean, when you look at videos, they are hidden.
This is so disturbing when you play a game where the controls are pretty much at that location, and you accidently
press "Home" and leaving the game, or "Back" button to go back
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Hahaha I made the same mistake yesterday while playing Mario on my phone, it can be annoying indeed.
Btw, wrong section.
fieskmask said:
Hey forum.
Had XZ för about 2 weeks now and I'm happy with it... but;
Is there any way to remove the navigation buttons when you play games?
I mean, when you look at videos, they are hidden.
This is so disturbing when you play a game where the controls are pretty much at that location, and you accidently
press "Home" and leaving the game, or "Back" button to go back
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But how to exit the game later if there is not buttons
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Dsteppa said:
Hahaha I made the same mistake yesterday while playing Mario on my phone, it can be annoying indeed.
Btw, wrong section.
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Ye, really a pain in the ass sometimes.
Got the thread moved my moderator ^^
abd_alazeez2002 said:
But how to exit the game later if there is not buttons
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Well, as far as I know, all the games got menu that allows the player to exit the game.
You could mention one that doesn't have it?
fieskmask said:
Well, as far as I know, all the games got menu that allows the player to exit the game.
You could mention one that doesn't have it?
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devil's attorney for example
Check this topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39249117#post39249117
This app "full!screen" temporary hides the notification bar and replaces the navigation buttons, but does require root.
Did not really bother with the app "buttonsavior" because "full!screen" covers all functions I need.
All you will have left is the BACK button and HOME button, you can set size and transparency \ color.
(These should be set kinda small and transparant and placed in the left and right corner so you do not see them to much.)
Then you can as assign long press and swipe up to each button, so you basically have all functions covered.
- Restore systembar (So you can get your original navigation buttons back anytime you want.)
- Open apps menu (Opens the option menu of the current app.)
- Show notifications (Shows the on-going events of the notification bar.)
- Show recent apps
The only downsides I found are:
- When you restore systembar the battery percentage no longer shows on the official notification bar.
(This is fixed after rebooting the phone, perhaps anyone knows another way of getting it back?)
- I did not find out how to close apps from the recent apps function like you can with the build in task manager.
(This is not a big problem as you can regain the official bars anytime you want.)
I really love using the browser and games using this.
Kind regards, Stefan.
Thaevil0ne said:
Check this topic: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=39249117#post39249117
This app "full!screen" temporary hides the notification bar and replaces the navigation buttons, but does require root.
Did not really bother with the app "buttonsavior" because "full!screen" covers all functions I need.
All you will have left is the BACK button and HOME button, you can set size and transparency \ color.
(These should be set kinda small and transparant and placed in the left and right corner so you do not see them to much.)
Then you can as assign long press and swipe up to each button, so you basically have all functions covered.
- Restore systembar (So you can get your original navigation buttons back anytime you want.)
- Open apps menu (Opens the option menu of the current app.)
- Show notifications (Shows the on-going events of the notification bar.)
- Show recent apps
The only downsides I found are:
- When you restore systembar the battery percentage no longer shows on the official notification bar.
(This is fixed after rebooting the phone, perhaps anyone knows another way of getting it back?)
- I did find out close apps from the recent apps function like you can with the build in task manager.
(This is not a big problem as you can regain the official bars anytime you want.)
I really love using the browser and games using this.
Kind regards, Stefan.
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Thank you, I will for sure check this out :good:
Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
farhanzs said:
Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
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no you not losing it..... after all the build up to pie.... it seems its come more dysfunctional.!
remember they removed action memo.... by the time we get to android X the s pen will become just ahead scratcher!
farhanzs said:
Any one else having this issue please report or am i missing something
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It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
It is now only available as up and down, no right or left (at least I couldn't find it)
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When in recent menu, just click the app icon. You will see the multi-window floating app option
It is soooooo annoying that you cannot swipe down and left/right from a corner to resize it to window view. Same thing with not being able to change recent apps view for a list.
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Yeah this is totally a feature I used often. Especially when playing YouTube video and don't want to interrupt the playback I could swipe from either top corner and start using another application without interrupting the video or sound.
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edwardob said:
no you not losing it..... after all the build up to pie.... it seems its come more dysfunctional.!
remember they removed action memo.... by the time we get to android X the s pen will become just ahead scratcher!
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was having a bad day until I read this! [email protected] head scrather :laugh::laugh::laugh:
and can anyone Confirm I will suffer no " Sudden device death syndrome" if i Chose not to update until i Change this device?
really don't Understand how removing useful functions count as upgrades or Improvement. i still havent forgiven samsung for removing action Memo and easy chart. Why take away a useful function???
Glad I found this. I thought I was going mad.
Largely on the same subject, so rather than start a new thread...
Where has the button gone that swaps the top and bottom apps around when running two apps in splitscreen mode?
There used to be a few handy buttons between the two running apps, have they been ditched?
Multi window gone
My phone just updated and now my multi window feature is gone, I've gone thru every setting to find it
When viewing you're recent opened apps, each app has their icon at the top centre of it. Click on the icon. You'll get a small pop-up menu with options. You can choose: App info, open in split screen, pop up mode (where you can resize the app) and lock it.
I don't know yet what the lock functions does.
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As mine is in Dutch, could be that the lock function has a different name in English.
The lock function: If you lock an app, and then close all recent apps, the locked app wil stay open. So if you're playing a game, you can lock it, close all recent apps and the game will stay open and running.
MSRemmert said:
Glad I found this. I thought I was going mad.
Largely on the same subject, so rather than start a new thread...
Where has the button gone that swaps the top and bottom apps around when running two apps in splitscreen mode?
There used to be a few handy buttons between the two running apps, have they been ditched?
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Yep, that was also removed. You can't popout the selected app, you can't switch app places. So, if you opened firstly viber (for example) and then youtube at the bottom and then decide to switch the apps place so you can type on viber without covering the youtube video - tough luck, now you have to close both app and open them again vs 2 taps in 1-2 seconds that will not interrupt anything. Also you miss the popout swipe from corner as said from others. You also miss the swipe up + hold for instant split screen (really useful when you play a video @ youtube, will not interrupt the video). You have the swipe up + hold for google assistant... but you don't have the same for the recents - go figure why (never mis-triggered the assistant, so it's not that). So many things are missing, half baked or straight forward broken - really disappointed. I like some aspects of the android 9 one UI, but others are just mind blow not polished at all or missing. I guess to have a "new" things for one UI 2.0 or note 10. After all, why you need a good multiwindow functionality on a phone marketed for multitasking and multiwindow? The note 9 really is more than ever an s9+ with a head scratcher.
grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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Just to add to this, you can switch between multi view and currently open apps by holding down on the previous apps button for 2 secs then you can choose by 2 second press if you want multi window or just currently open apps.
I don't like that if you want to choose an app not in the recent window, you have to close all to be able to choose an app. Their multi-window has taken huge steps backwards. Kinda disappointing since that has always been a defining feature.
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Well, I will correct myself, you can swipe to the home screen while choosing and select a different app that is not already in the recent window.
When you open Samsung members app the first thing that appears is something called advices... if you tap you will see some changes on the pie update ...
Other pie screwups
That's not all you've lost, my friend. The multi window setting is gone, as you know. The ability to swipe from the corner to resize and go multi window is gone, as you know. However, additionally, i noticed the following:
- The ability to enter your fingerprints to access Samsung browser secrecy mode is gone/disabled. You can only enter using iris scan or password.
- The phone optimisation edge panel is gone and nowhere to be seen.
- when you deactivate the nav bar in favour of swipe gestures, you cannot long press on the recent apps swipe area to enable split screen multitasking, as you would have with the recent apps button on the nav bar.
I hope there's a bug fix coming and soon
Try multi window app
farhanzs said:
Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
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Try the edge screen app Multi Window for quick popup windows..
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farhanzs said:
Thanks bro....but what about the feature where we can resize the window by swiping from top right or left
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Bo21 said:
I don't like that if you want to choose an app not in the recent window, you have to close all to be able to choose an app. Their multi-window has taken huge steps backwards. Kinda disappointing since that has always been a defining feature.
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Well, I will correct myself, you can swipe to the home screen while choosing and select a different app that is not already in the recent window.
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You can also use the search bar for the app you want when in the app switcher multi window selecter.
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high_voltage said:
Yep, that was also removed. You can't popout the selected app, you can't switch app places. So, if you opened firstly viber (for example) and then youtube at the bottom and then decide to switch the apps place so you can type on viber without covering the youtube video - tough luck, now you have to close both app and open them again vs 2 taps in 1-2 seconds that will not interrupt anything. Also you miss the popout swipe from corner as said from others. You also miss the swipe up + hold for instant split screen (really useful when you play a video @ youtube, will not interrupt the video). You have the swipe up + hold for google assistant... but you don't have the same for the recents - go figure why (never mis-triggered the assistant, so it's not that). So many things are missing, half baked or straight forward broken - really disappointed. I like some aspects of the android 9 one UI, but others are just mind blow not polished at all or missing. I guess to have a "new" things for one UI 2.0 or note 10. After all, why you need a good multiwindow functionality on a phone marketed for multitasking and multiwindow? The note 9 really is more than ever an s9+ with a head scratcher.
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You can also swipe the multi screen spliter inbetween each app to fully open the bottom app and then select a different app for the bottom... it's still hokey but quicker than exiting out of both apps
Instructions...
https://www.sammobile.com/2019/01/04/how-to-open-apps-in-multi-window-one-ui-android-pie/amp/
grtmoby said:
It is not missed but working differently.
You need to long press the open program button at the bottom of the screen and then choose the second window program you want.
Hope this helps
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This is not working for me. I'm holding the 3 line open app navigation bar button....nothing.
Hey,
Not sure if anyone else has noticed but after the OneUI update I cant swipe down from top left to resize windows.
This was a really useful productivity feature when multitasking (especially at work).
you used to be able to enable "popup view" then you could swipe down from top left to "pop-out" windows but now the only way to do this is a long-winded long press on multiview window then long press again on the top of app then select pop-up view... its much less effective than just swiping down (also you need to follow this same process for each window you want to have floating...
Does anyone know how to get the older much better way of working again? - or has it gone for good?! :crying:
Cheers
UKGav said:
Hey,
Not sure if anyone else has noticed but after the OneUI update I cant swipe down from top left to resize windows.
This was a really useful productivity feature when multitasking (especially at work).
you used to be able to enable "popup view" then you could swipe down from top left to "pop-out" windows but now the only way to do this is a long-winded long press on multiview window then long press again on the top of app then select pop-up view... its much less effective than just swiping down (also you need to follow this same process for each window you want to have floating...
Does anyone know how to get the older much better way of working again? - or has it gone for good?! :crying:
Cheers
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It was already discussed a few times. It's removed, all the good multiwindow features that we had in nougat/oreo in galaxy phones are gone. The oneUI solution is close to the google stock one. No swipe from corner, no menu between two split screen apps, no fast way to split screen via holding recents or swipe/hold (but it fires google assistant for example), no hold card in recents for fast split or popout. Everything was removed and this is really bad for my productivity. Feature that was marketed, especially with the note 9 that is phone for productivity and multitasking, feature that samsung were praised for how much better is vs the other android makers solution - removed. Well, good job.
Wow, I had not realised all. Of that is now gone... Sadness!!
high_voltage said:
It was already discussed a few times. It's removed, all the good multiwindow features that we had in nougat/oreo in galaxy phones are gone. The oneUI solution is close to the google stock one. No swipe from corner, no menu between two split screen apps, no fast way to split screen via holding recents or swipe/hold (but it fires google assistant for example), no hold card in recents for fast split or popout. Everything was removed and this is really bad for my productivity. Feature that was marketed, especially with the note 9 that is phone for productivity and multitasking, feature that samsung were praised for how much better is vs the other android makers solution - removed. Well, good job.
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Wrong, if you mean split screen mode it still exists. On OneUi you gota open recent apps and then hold down on app icon to get a menu and from there you got split screen mode. Also popup window exists still aswell. Which can be found in same menu as split screen. Swipe from corner can be enabled again in settings on One UI
Jake.S said:
Wrong, if you mean split screen mode it still exists. On OneUi you gota open recent apps and then hold down on app icon to get a menu and from there you got split screen mode. Also popup window exists still aswell. Which can be found in same menu as split screen. Swipe from corner can be enabled again in settings on One UI
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Read my post again, I never said those features are removed. We(I) were talking about the shortcuts that were fast and convenient. Simple two examples:
I am watching youtube, decides I want to also msg on viber. Before I can only hold recents - open viber and start typing without the video interruption. Right now you will go to recents, video WILL interrupt, you will press the icon on the card, select split screen, then viber, then you will press play and wait for the video to start. Second scenario is when you decide you want to switch two split screen apps place - there is no mid menu anymore, so you need to close/open them. pop-out is also a lot slower to do and with more steps. Generally it's 3-4 times slower to do the same now vs oreo and the funny thing is - they easily could had avoided that - popout from corner option in the advanced menu, swipe recents and hold for instant split screen (right now it's like that for google assistant - swipe and hold, never mistrigger it so it's good) and return of the mid menu between two split apps. Simple, but they removed it all. They even removed in the newer second base that was released after the first one a leftover for hold recents when navigation bar is on for instant split screen.
I am still expecting this option to be reenabled by samsung. It was seriously useful as hell and now i feel my phone is half broken
bluecry said:
I am still expecting this option to be reenabled by samsung. It was seriously useful as hell and now i feel my phone is half broken
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Have you tried Good Lock app with MultiStar module?
It brings back most multi window features.
BluePhnx said:
Have you tried Good Lock app with MultiStar module?
It brings back most multi window features.
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Looks like it might solve a bit. However i cannot access it from my country through samsung store. Do you have any suggestion where I can get it safely online? Thanks.
bluecry said:
Looks like it might solve a bit. However i cannot access it from my country through samsung store. Do you have any suggestion where I can get it safely online? Thanks.
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Try Nice lock from xda:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-note-9/themes/nicelock-module-download-links-module-t3923844
It's Good Lock for the places that can't get it from Galaxy store.
Everything you need is on first post, the launcher and modules...
Edit.
It doesn't bring back the hold down recent key for multiwindow though. You now have to have an active app running, tap on recent key, select and hold down the second app you want and slide it to top or bottom of screen to activate split screen.