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Tl; DR
- A new 90/10 shared screen report is now available in the latest version of Android Canary, allowing a more flexible multitasking on high screens.
- This function allows a main application to use 90% of the screen while keeping a secondary application in a small ribbon, which can be exchanged with a single tap.
- Although previously in development, the final version adds the 90/10 option alongside the existing 70/30 division, rather than replacing it.
Most Android phones have high rectangular screens that can comfortably accommodate only one application to the screen at a time. In a pinch, however, you can use the divided Android screen mode to perform several tasks with two side -side applications. This mode generally divides the screen, with an application to the upper half and the other at the bottom, but you can also resize them to a 70/30 division. Now, with the first Android Canary version, a new 90/10 screen configuration everywhere is available.
The new 90:10 android report allows you to reduce one application to only 10% of the screen, leaving the other to occupy the remaining 90%. This configuration allows you to focus on a main application while keeping a secondary at hand. The use of an application that occupies 90% of the screen seems almost identical to the full screen mode. Although the application in the 10% ribbon is too small for active use, widen it is simple: simply press it and it will exchange places with the largest application, resize to take 90% of the screen.
Here is a video that we recorded earlier this year which shows the new divided screen ratio 90:10:
Google has developed the shared screen feature 90:10 since the beginning of the year, and we have previously reported that it could appear in a quarterly version of Android 16. When we spotted the functionality, it had a major drawback: the 90:10 report replaced the scope of 70:30 existing instead of completing it. Fortunately, the Android Canary version includes reports 70:30 and 90:10, a welcome decision that avoids alienating users who prefer the old configuration.
Here is an image that shows all the divided screen ratios available in the Android Canary version of July:
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Although the functionality was put online in the Android Canary version of July, it is not its first public appearance. It is part of the Source of Android 16 and already ships in certain operating systems based on Android 16, such as Samsung’s One UI 8. In the development of this functionality, Google seems to have been inspired by the multitasking system without limits of OPPO, although Oppo has declared that it had not directly contributed the functionality to Android. Anyway, it’s great to see Google improve Android’s divided screen mode, because the experience of the action has often felt dull compared to the most advanced multitasking features offered by OEMs.
