In 2013, Samsung introduced the new “S Pen window” feature on the Galaxy Note 3, that worked separately from the existing split screen feature.
In 2014 on the Galaxy Note 4, Samsung combined those two features, which meant that one can e.g. directly transition a window from pop-up to split screen and vice versa.
The feature worked well, except the minimum pop-up window size was far too large, and the pop-up windows did not go behind the virtual keyboard.
In 2015, on the Galaxy S6, some UI changes were made:
Unlike a side bar with a list of supported apps that allowed apps to be launched directly in to pop-up view on top of the currently running app without interference, instead an app grid of supported apps for multi-window mode appeared in a split screen, which requires the already opened app to support multi-window and also interferes with the screen width or height (depending on how the device is held).
Also, the camera app, something Samsung advertised once with (vimeo.com) was no longer supported since the Galaxy S6 and Note 4 with Android 6.0 update (although the Android 5.0 update already disabled entering pop-up mode during video recording).
In 2013, Samsung introduced the new “S Pen window” feature on the Galaxy Note 3, that worked separately from the existing split screen feature.
In 2014 on the Galaxy Note 4, Samsung combined those two features, which meant that one can e.g. directly transition a window from pop-up to split screen and vice versa.
The feature worked well, except the minimum pop-up window size was far too large, and the pop-up windows did not go behind the virtual keyboard.
In 2015, on the Galaxy S6, some UI changes were made:
Unlike a side bar with a list of supported apps that allowed apps to be launched directly in to pop-up view on top of the currently running app without interference, instead an app grid of supported apps for multi-window mode appeared in a split screen, which requires the already opened app to support multi-window and also interferes with the screen width or height (depending on how the device is held).
Also, the camera app, something [Samsung advertised once with](https://vimeo.com/312837765) was no longer supported since the Galaxy S6 and Note 4 with Android 6.0 update (although the Android 5.0 update already disabled entering pop-up mode during video recording).
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