Video recorded by Andrew Cunningham and edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)
One of the Android Nougat update’s biggest additions for tablets and large-screened phones is its new split-screen multitasking mode. Samsung has supported its own version of this feature for years, and Apple added it to newer iPads in the iOS 9 update, but official Google support for it should make it usable on just about anything that runs Nougat.
Google hasn’t changed anything about the implementation since we first took a look at the feature in the earliest Nougat beta—that article and the video above lay out the basics of what it’s capable of and what it’s like to use. Now that I’ve had some time to play with the near-final version of the feature on a Nexus 9, I can say that the biggest pain point (as long as you have a fast phone or tablet) is going to be third-party app support.
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Source: Ars Technica – Android’s split-screen multitasking mode needs some help from developers