Google will lastly be updating the App Pairs function for the native model of Android 14, giving customers a method to save sure split-screen apps on their cellphone.
For individuals who want a refresher, App Pair is a multitasking device permitting Android homeowners to open two apps, place them side-by-side, and work together with them on the identical time. The annoying factor was you couldn’t save them on Pixel {hardware}, so that you needed to redo the pairing each time you closed them. That’s, till this newest leak, which was found by freelance tech journalist Mishaal Rahman who shared his findings on Twitter.
He got here throughout a “launcher flag” digging by the recordsdata of the second Android 14 beta “that, when enabled, surfaces” a brand new ‘Save app pair’ choice “in the context menu of split-screened apps”. Rahman states the choice doesn’t work in the mean time, however he does count on it to work as supposed later down the road. There’s no indication in his findings whether or not or not the function can be obtainable with the launch of Android 14, nonetheless.
Now chances are you’ll be asking: “doesn’t this already exist on Android?” Sure, it does. The issue was split-screen saving was by no means obtainable on the bottom model of Android OS nor on Pixel. It is one thing often added by third events to their respective tech. Samsung, for instance, gave customers the flexibility to avoid wasting app pairings from the get-go when it launched its personal rendition of App Pairs to Galaxy telephones again in 2017. Pixel units, for no matter cause, have lagged behind.
Improved multi-tasking
Staying on this thread of Google taking part in catch up, trade leaker Nail Sadykov found one other new multitasking feature within the newest Android 14 beta. This time, the working system will can help you “use system navigation” whereas dragging and dropping objects. So, you’ll be capable to seize a photograph from one app, “open another, [then] drop it there” with out a lot problem. It additionally works with textual content. Highlighting a string of phrases permits you to transfer them to some place else, successfully eliminating the necessity for copying and pasting.
Similar to Rahman’s findings, the improved drag and drop device does exist on different smartphones from iOS to Oppo {hardware}. It is simply that Google has been somewhat sluggish on the uptake. Hopefully, these quality-of-life updates will seem on the Pixel 8. Whereas they’re not probably the most game-changing additions, the small stuff does add up, and it might probably flip an okay system into one thing particular.
Talking of the Pixel 8, a latest leak for the Professional mannequin reveals it might be getting a thermometer of all issues. It’ll be subsequent to the digital camera lenses on the rear. We’re undecided what Google intends to do by including a thermometer to Pixel, which appears a fairly random inclusion.
When you’re completed catching up on our protection of Google’s subsequent flagship, make sure you try TechRadar’s checklist of the greatest Pixel handsets for 2023 in the event you’re seeking to improve.
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