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Google debuts Android N with new multitasking app features

2016-05-18
and what we learned from our user research is that over ninety-nine percent of the time people only selected app within the last seven so we decided to simplify by automatically removing apps in the list that you haven't used in a while this then makes it much easier to find the app that you're looking for also based on popular demand we finally added a clear all button at the top yeah feels good but my absolute favorite feature is something that we call quick switch you can now flip to the previous app you're in just by double tapping the recents button from anywhere you can think of it like a simplified alt tab and it's amazingly useful in so many situations for example let's say I'm in a phone call I'm trying to coordinate an event I can flip over to the calendar app I was just in by double tapping the reeses button at the bottom right from there I can check my schedule and then flip back to the dialer by double tapping the recents button again it's pretty cool now many of you also asked for the ability to display more than one app at the same time so we've invested a lot of effort in redesigning our window management framework in n and we're introducing two powerful new windowing modes in this really split screen and picture-in-picture split screen is designed for tablets and phones and it's really simple to use so for example let's say I'm watching a video on huge YouTube to learn how to make the best nachos I can long tap on the resource button to enter multi window and from there launch something like Google keep for example now I can update my shopping list for ingredients while I'm watching the video the second mode picture-in-picture is designed for Android TV and it's a great way to let you keep watching something while you perform another task for example let's say I'm watching a live TV program on retro gaming and they're talking about pac-man and I want to see if I can install and play the game myself I can put the live content into picture and picture mode to keep watching it and then go ahead and perform a voice search for pac-man this will then give me an option to install the game from the place store all the same times watching the contact it's pretty cool
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