Google is testing a brand new function for Android tablets that can allow you to resize apps freely and organize them in your display screen at will, making it simpler to juggle a number of duties. The “desktop windowing” function is now out there as a developer preview and for apps that help it, you would even have multiple occasion open.
Currently, apps on Android tablets open in full-screen by default. When the brand new mode is enabled, every app will seem in a window with controls that mean you can reposition, maximize, or shut the app. You’ll additionally see a taskbar on the backside of your display screen along with your working apps.
Once the function is rolled out to everybody, you possibly can flip it on by urgent and holding the window deal with on the high of an app’s display screen. If you will have a keyboard hooked up, it’s also possible to use the shortcut meta key (Windows, Command, or Search) + Ctrl + Down to activate desktop mode. (You can exit the mode by closing all of your energetic apps, or by dragging a window and dragging it to the highest of your display screen.)
Google notes that apps locked to portrait orientation are nonetheless resizable, which could make issues look a bit bizarre if sure apps aren’t optimized. However, Google plans to deal with this in a future replace by scaling the UI of non-resizable apps whereas sustaining their facet ratio.
For now, customers can entry the developer preview within the newest Android 15 QPR1 Beta 2 for Pixel Tablets. We nonetheless don’t know when the function is rolling out to everybody — or if it’s going to come to the Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold.
