This clever Android screen hack will allow you to multi-task on your smartphone or tablet like you would with a desktop computer.

Hands-on: Multiple users, lock screen widgets round out Android 4.2 A look at the launch-day update that throws us some more yummy jelly beans.

It's relatively simple to make use of the multi-window mode now that Xamarin supports it. Here's how. Xamarin has updated Xamarin.Android to support the latest version of Android -- version 7, aka.

So you have that beautiful quad-core processor, but aside from games, what do you really use it for? Rockchip's newly unveiled upgrade to its Android multi-window system enables the windowed use ...

Android Police has more details and graphics showing how the multi-window feature would work.

To help prepare for the foldable future, Android Pie added an optional system called multi-resume, which allows devices to let all visible apps run simultaneously without being paused.

Split-screen support for apps is basically its marquee feature. And after testing it out on the Pixel C, the final version of Android N can't come soon enough.

It would have multiple Android apps on screen at a time, all enclosed in floating windows, just like a real desktop OS. Android N's split-screen mode asks apps to deal with being resized on the fly.

Android has been around for 16 years and it hasn't used the touchscreen to its full potential by overlooking multi-touch.