Google Android has long supported multi-tasking. On most phones and tablets that just means an app can run in the background while you’re using another in the foreground (for instance you can ...

The software is based on the work done by chip-maker Rockchip to bring multi-window support to Android. It lets you run apps in resizeable windows that you can drag anywhere on your tablet’s ...

Android technically lets you do this: it implemented multi-window support in Android 7.0, but apparently and for some reason, popular reading app Pocket hadn't added it yet. Now it's working.

Enhancements to the Android N help the mobile operating system shine and prepare Android to compete in the detachable tablet market.

The source did not indicate whether Google decided to proceed with including a multi-window feature in Android L, some future version of Android, or possibly abandoned the effort altogether.

A reddit user has posted a screenshot and steps on how to enable a hidden developmental feature in Google's Android M Developer Preview - multi-window support.

Now, thanks to some much-needed optimizations, people are using the multi-window mode a lot more. The blog post states that multi-windows use has increased 18-fold since introducing the optimizations.

This is Android M’s “highly experimental” multi-window mode for tablets Buggy, busted, and buried, but intriguing nonetheless.