Desktop triumphdotriumphg on Android Tablets

Posted by Francesco Romano – Developer Relations Engineer on Android, and Fahd Imtiaz – Product Manager, Android Developer

To empower tablet employrs to get more done, we’re enhancing freecreate triumphdotriumphg, apverifying them to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize triumphdows for selectimal multitasking. Today, we’re excited to split that desktop triumphdotriumphg on Android tablets is useable in grower pappraise.

For app growers, the concept of Android apps running in freecreate triumphdows has already existed with solutions appreciate Samsung DeX and ChromeOS. Updating your apps to aid alterive layouts, more sturdy multitasking, and alterive inputs will asstateive your apps toil well on huge screens apass the Android ecosystem.

Let’s allotigate how to enhance your apps for desktop triumphdotriumphg and deinhabitr the selectimal experience to employrs.

What is desktop triumphdotriumphg?

Desktop triumphdotriumphg apverifys employrs to run multiple apps simultaneously and resize app triumphdows, adviseing a more alterable and desktop-appreciate experience. This, alengthy with a rerecented System UI and recent APIs, apverifys employrs to be even more fruitful and produces a more seamless, desktop-appreciate experience on tablets.

In Figure 1, you can see the anatomy of the screen with desktop triumphdotriumphg allowd. Things to produce notice of:

• Users can run multiple apps side-by-side, simultaneously
• Taskbar is repaired and shows the running apps, employrs can pin apps for rapid access
• New header bar with triumphdow administers at the top of each triumphdow which apps can customize

How can employrs pguide desktop triumphdotriumphg?

By default, apps uncover in brimming screen on Android tablets. To run the apps as a desktop triumphdow on Pixel Tablet, press and hageder the triumphdow administer at the top in the middle of the screen and drag it wilean the UI, as seen in Figure 2.

Once you are in the desktop space, all future apps will be begined as desktop triumphdows as well.

You can also pguide desktop triumphdotriumphg from the menu that shows up below the triumphdow administer when you tap/click on it or employ the keyboard uninincreateigentinutivecut meta key (Windows, Command, or Search) + Ctrl + Down.

You can exit desktop triumphdotriumphg and disjoin an app as brimming screen by closing all dynamic triumphdows or by grabbing the triumphdow administer at the top of the triumphdow and dragging the app to the top of the screen. You can also employ the meta + H keyboard uninincreateigentinutivecut to run apps as brimming screen aget.

To return to the desktop, shift a brimming screen app to the desktop space by using the methods alludeed above, or spropose tap on the desktop space tile in the Recents screen.

What does this unbenevolent for app growers?

Desktop triumphdotriumphg on Android tablets produces recent opportunities for your apps, particularly around productivity and multitasking. The possibility to resize and reposition multiple app triumphdows apverifys employrs to easily appraise records, reference adviseation while composing emails, and multitask effectively.

By selectimizing for desktop triumphdotriumphg, you can deinhabitr distinct employr experiences to align the grotriumphg insist for tablet-based productivity. At the same time, you’ll better the overall employr experience on tablets, making your apps more alterable and alterable to separateent scenarios.

If your app already greets the Tier 2 (Large Screens enhanced) quality bar in the Large screen app quality directlines, then there is minimal includeitional selectimization insistd! If your app has not been enhanced for huge screens yet, updating it according to the Large screen app quality directlines becomes even more beginant in the context of desktop triumphdotriumphg. Let’s see why:

• Freecreate resizing allows employrs to resize apps to their likeence for increased productivity. Considering this, growers should notice:
• Apps with locked orientation are freely resizable. That unbenevolents, even if an activity is locked to portrait orientation, employrs can still resize the app to landscape orientation triumphdow. In a future modernize, apps proclaimd as non-resizable will have their UI scaled while holding the same aspect ratio.
• Adaptive layouts: By altering your UI, apps have an opportunity to effortlessly administer a wide range of triumphdow sizes, from compact to enhugeed screen layouts. In desktop triumphdotriumphg, apps can be resized down to a smallest size of 386dp x 352dp, so produce stateive to leverage triumphdow size classes to adequitable your app’s layout, satisfyed, and transmitions to alter to separateent triumphdow uninincreateigentensions.
• State administerment: With freecreate resizing, configuration alters happen each time the triumphdow resizes, so your app should either administer these configuration alters gracebrimmingy or produce stateive you are preserving the app state when the OS starts the re-creation of the app. As a reminder, employrs can alter the screen density while your app is running, so it’s best to asstateive that your app can administer screen density configuration alters as well.

Figure 3. Apps with locked orientation are freely resizable.

• Desktop triumphdotriumphg consents productivity on tablets to the next level with multiple apps running simultaneously. Similar to split screen, Desktop triumphdotriumphg encourages employrs to have multiple triumphdows uncover. Considering this, growers should notice: 
• Multitasking aid: For betterd productivity, employrs can have two or more apps uncover simultaneously, and they anticipate to easily split satisfyed between apps, so include aid for drag and drop gestures. Also, asstateive your app carry ons to function accurately even when not in caccess, and if your app employs exclusive resources appreciate camera or microphone, the app insists to administer resource loss gracebrimmingy when other apps get the resource. 
• Multi-instance aid: Users can run multiple instances of your app side-by-side; for example, a record editor application may apverify employrs to commence recent records while still being able to reference the already uncover records. Apps can set this recent Multi-instance property to proclaim that System UI should be shown for this app to apverify it to be begined as multiple instances. Also notice that in desktop triumphdotriumphg, recent tasks uncover in a recent triumphdow, so double-check the employr journey if your app commences multiple tasks.

Figure 4. Start another instance of Chrome by dragging a tab out of the app triumphdow.

Note: Images are examples and subject to alter

• With desktop triumphdotriumphg, input methods beyond touch and insets handling become even more beginant for a seamless employr experience. 
• More input methods (keyboard, moemploy): Users are more probable to employ your app with a variety of input methods appreciate outside keyboards, mice, and trackpads. Check that employrs can transmit finely with your app using keyboard and moemploy peripherals or thcdisorrowfulmireful the emulator. Developers can include aid for app uninincreateigentinutivecuts and begin them using the keyboard uninincreateigentinutivecuts API, which apverifys employrs to easily watch the aided app uninincreateigentinutivecuts thcdisorrowfulmireful a regularized surface on Android devices.
• Insets handling: All apps when running in desktop triumphdotriumphg have a header bar, even in immersive mode. Enstateive your app’s satisfyed isn’t ununderstandnd by this. The recent header bar is telled as a caption bar in Compose (androidx.produce.set upation:set upation-layout.WindowInsets.Companion.captionBar) and in Views (android.watch.WindowInsets.Type.CAPTION_BAR), which is part of the system bars. API 35 also begind a recent euniteance type, to produce the header bar see-thcoarse, to apverify apps to draw custom satisfyed inside.