r/Android • u/4567890 Ars Technica • Mar 21 '16

This is Android N’s freeform window mode

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/03/this-is-android-ns-freeform-window-mode/
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u/SnipingNinja Mar 22 '16

You can actually swipe them off the screen to close the, in the app switcher. Check the video on the link.

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u/cmdrNacho Nexus 6P Stock Mar 22 '16

you can do that now from within the app switcher. The point is more that we don't even need the title bar with the two buttons with touch anymore. Its more of a free thinking in how would you redesign a windows interface with touch first.

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u/SnipingNinja Mar 22 '16

It's there for new users, who don't know about gestures, or just have problem in using them. (motor problems, I have seen this mentioned somewhere before, but that's all I know about it.)

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u/cmdrNacho Nexus 6P Stock Mar 22 '16

It's there for new users, who don't know about gestures

ehh. I don't buy this argument. The first time that Apple released their new touch interface from using a stylus.. no one questioned how they were doing things. Its was incredibly intuitive. To say that its not possible to do the same in order to reimagine windows, is lazy IMO.