The new multi -tasking of Android 16 seems cool, but one Plus still beat it

Android Authority Recently, Android 16 got hands with the new multi -tasking. Overall, it seems terrific. From what we have seen, it will be smooth, easy and easier we have in Android 15 today. But as good as the new version of Google in Android 16, I wish it was to resemble multi -tasking UI from another Android brand.

First of all, what makes multi -tasking so big in Android 16? I will start to explain why multi -tasking in Android 15 is so bad.

Although other Android manufacturers have developed their (and better) multi -tasking solution, today the ancestral version in Android 15 is a very basic spiral screen approach. This allows you to open two apps on your phone simultaneously, either with a adjusting size in 50/50 splats or using the bar in the middle of the screen.

In practice, it has never been so useful. Can it be helpful to see two apps at the same time on your phone? Of course, even on a phone like Google Pixel 9 Pro XL, keeping apps in half makes most of them difficult or difficult to visit.

Recently. , You can shrink all your apps into bubbles and live in the bubble bar near the corner of your screen. Apps opened from the bubble bar do not capture your entire screen, so you can get these bubbles apps on your home screen or when you are using another application. The video is a good demonstration of how it works.

It is easy to benefit on the current multi -tasking solution. Instead of running two apps simultaneously in the tight, squad Windows, you can run them in a very full -screen scenario by switching them faster than ever before. It’s also easy to see if you want a WhatsApp or telegram app in your bubble bar, how it will be useful, how you like your phone when you have easy access to all your conversation.

Well, great! So what is the problem? As I am glad I am happy to see Google’s Android multi -tasking, and to upgrade the bubble bar, it is still not similar to the current gold standard for multi -tasking on Android – this gold quality is open canvas.

The first was released with the OnePlus Open and later spread to non -folding phones like One Plus 13 and 13R, Open Canvas One Plus has a custom approach to Android multi -tasking. At first glance, it seems too much like Android’s regular spiral screen multi -tasking UI. You got two apps on your screen simultaneously, each is running in a normal 50/50 distribution.

The thing that makes the open canvas unique is that you can shrink one of these apps into a small silver, while the other mostly lifts the screen. Once you do this, you see that your central app is mostly in full -screen view, which you can use as usual. When you tap your other, shrinking app, it changes places with your primary/full screen.

After using open canvas on my One Plus 13 for the past few months, this approach to multi -tasking is so good. For example, when I need to check my shopping list while adding luggage to my target cart, it is uncertain to be able to hop back between Google Cap and target, while adding luggage to my target cart. Moreover, when I look at my list in Google Cape, I can remove it and allow the target app to run usually.

I like this point because it gives you the best in all the worlds. You can easily rotate between the two apps simultaneously, when you are working with it, turn off an app quickly, and easily return to the traditional 50/50 spiral screenwave in these rare events where you want. The best thing is to activate open canvas is a roof. Swipe below three fingers, tap the two apps you want to use, and you are away from the races.

Clearly, I am very happy to see that Google Rittennic multi -task combined with Android 16. What we have is better than what we have, and the bubble bar approach really looks like an important upgrade. But I have some concerns.

One, to activate the bubble bar is the same swipe -up indicator to go home, which has only reached the right corner. I’m sure It also does not appear that you can switch from the same UI to the same UI from the Bubbles without interruption, which, despite the end of the world, has been beautifully handled by some open canvas. Likewise, I prefer that open canvas build on existing multi -tasking interface, rather than introducing a new system to learn and adjust it, instead of introducing a new system.

All of this recognized nutrition, and complaints or not, I am looking forward to raising a hand on Android 16’s bubble-fed multi-tasking. I am not sure if it is enough to eliminate open canvas as my choice of multi -tasking UI, but I definitely want to see if it can be.