#How to do split screen on android full

That's the sort of thing most apps updated to accommodate back in 20. In the case of video apps, to work in split- or multi-window mode, they need to have specific logic bundled in that responds properly to losing focus when you interact with another app.

#How to do split screen on android full

The full technical details here, but in short, one app always gets more attention, and it's the last one you interacted with.

For those that are unfamiliar, Android only really treats one app as fully active or 'topmost' and the recipient of the 'RESUMED' state. However you got it working, versions of the Netflix app before 7.64.0 were able to accommodate playback even when they lose focus in split-window, multi-window, or multi-display modes. Netflix playing content in split screen mode on the Z Flip. Some other phones, like the LG V60 in its Dual Screen case, also allow an app to take over a whole screen separately from free-form or split-window mode - frankly, this is all a little inconsistent across different Android devices. But, there are ways to force it to work anyway, like toggling the 'force activities to be resizable' setting in developer options or using MultiStar on Samsung devices in Good Lock. To be clear, the Netflix app doesn't officially support this at all (as far as we can tell), and by default you won't get the option to use it in split- or multi-window modes on most phones.

This small step forward is accompanied by an equally confusing step back, as sometime recently, Netflix lost the ability to do split-window multitasking - even if you forcibly enable it, playback will stop if you interact with a second window. For ages, you couldn't even play Netflix on Assistant-powered smart displays, though that has since been fixed.