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Which two simultaneous apps do you "split screen" most?

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John Robertson

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Sep 20, 2021, 11:47:22 PM9/20/21
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I'm curious which two apps you split screen most on your Android phone?

Here's a tutorial on YouTube for quickly creating an Android homescreen
shortcut to bring up your two favorite apps in a top/bottom split screen.
<https://youtu.be/zR5EgKyEdM4?t=130>

I mostly splitscreen my SMS app on top with my photo gallery below it.
Sometimes I splitscreen a navigation app with real-time traffic cams.
Other times I splitscreen a web brower on top with notetaking on bottom.

Mostly I wonder which two apps you most splitscreen on your Android phone?
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John Doe

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Sep 21, 2021, 1:31:51 AM9/21/21
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None. Back when resolution was scarce in Windows, I ran most applications
full-screen. Now, with a big high-res monitor, I still run browsers full-
screen (with tabs). I certainly won't be attempting to run smartphone apps in
windows, for the obvious reason, also because most apps struggle to work in
the screen space provided.

Voice commands would be nice, like for switching from one app to another
while carrying data around. Unfortunately, so far the smartphone OS frowns on
scripting/macroing. Google could implement voice-activated scripting, but the
scripting part is problematic for them.

Andy Burns

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Sep 21, 2021, 1:32:40 PM9/21/21
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John Robertson wrote:

> I'm curious which two apps you split screen most on your Android phone?

Phone screen is too small to use split screen for me, but I do often use split
screen on my tablet, youtube together with firefox, so I can lookup things from
the web while watching videos.

Joerg Lorenz

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Sep 22, 2021, 1:08:03 AM9/22/21
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Am 21.09.21 um 05:47 schrieb John Robertson:
> Mostly I wonder which two apps you most splitscreen on your Android phone?

None. The screen is simply too small for that on Pixel 4.


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