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Google releases Android N Developer Preview 2

The next major version of Android will have support for viewing multiple apps at once, thanks to split-screen and freeform multi-window features, support for faster upgrades, and a number of other changes affecting the user interface, performance, and battery life. Android N isn’t ready for the public yet… but Google released a developer preview in March. […]

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Android N’s experimental freeform window mode turns Android into a desktop-style OS (almost)

The next version of Google’s Android operating system will be the first to have built-in, official support for multi-window mode, letting you view more than one application at the same time. Some companies, including Samsung, have been offering their own multi-window solutions for Android for years, but they’ve always had to alter Google’s software to […]

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Android N to support “freeform” multi-window mode as well as split-screen

The Android N Developer preview includes support for split-screen mode, allowing you to run two apps in side-by-side windows. But eventually you may be able to run multiple apps in resizeable windows… much the way you can on a Windows, OS X, or Ubuntu computer. Google calls this mode “freeform,” and makes a slight mention […]

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Android N: Upgrades and app installs are much faster

Google’s Android N developer preview introduces support for viewing multiple apps at the same time thanks to split-screen mode, an enhanced Quick Settings panel, and much more. One thing I’m particularly looking forward to? It takes less time to upgrade to Android N or apply any system updates. That’s because Android N changes the “optimizing apps” portion […]

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Google releases Android N developer preview

As expected, Google is making the first developer preview of Android N available more than two months ahead of the company’s Google I/O developer conference. One of the biggest changes in the new version of Android is support for multi-window mode, allowing you to run multiple apps side-by-side, assuming developers enable support for multi-window. But […]

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Android N to support split-screen apps, notification changes, and more (Leaks)

Google had been expected to unveil the next major version of android at the Google I/O developer conference in May. But it looks like developers might get early access a little sooner than that. An article published at Ars Technica (and then quickly removed) suggests that a developer preview may be coming early… and then spills […]