May 10, 2013 at 09:19Turn on Samsung Multi Window in a foreign application
The new Samsung smartphones have a very interesting feature - Multi Windows.
It allows you to run two applications simultaneously in one window.
Unfortunately, besides Samsung, few people support this feature so far.
But in fact, it’s not so difficult to add to an existing application.
It will look like this.
To alter the application we need:
We will train on the Safari to go application (since I would like to use it in parallel with the dictionary)
Now the application can be installed on the device.
With the same ease, Multi windows support can be added to your new application.
Plus a bunch of goodies with drag and drop content from one application to another.
Sources:
www.modaco.com/page/news/_/android/developers-add-support-for-samsung-multi-window-to-your-apps-r823
developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing .html
developer.samsung.com/s-pen-sdk/technical-docs-09
P.S. Supported devices:
Samsung S3
Samsung S4
Samsung Note
Samsung Note II
Samsung Note 8.0
Samsung Note 10.1
It allows you to run two applications simultaneously in one window.
Unfortunately, besides Samsung, few people support this feature so far.
But in fact, it’s not so difficult to add to an existing application.
It will look like this.
To alter the application we need:
- apk application file
- Jdk
- android-apktool
code.google.com/p/android-apktool/downloads/list
We will train on the Safari to go application (since I would like to use it in parallel with the dictionary)
- Unpack the apk file into the
apktool.bat d -s com.safaribooksonline.apk ./com.safaribooksonline folder - Make the following changes to the AndroidManifest.xml file
... - We create or supplement the file \ res \ values \ dens.xml
... 632.0dip 598.0dip 632.0dip 598.0dip - We pack everything back into the apk file
apktool.bat b ./com.safaribooksonline An
apk file will be created in the folder
\ com.safaribooksonline \ dist \ com.safaribooksonline.apk - We generate a key for signing the apk file (since the application will not be signed with the original key, it will not be updated from google play)
I took the name of the store and Alice straight from the SDK. But if you wish, you can exchange for something more original.
keytool -genkey -v -keystore my-release-key.keystore -alias alias_name -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000 - We sign the application with the generated key
jarsigner -verbose -sigalg MD5withRSA -digestalg SHA1 -keystore my-release-key.keystore com.safaribooksonline.apk alias_name
Now the application can be installed on the device.
With the same ease, Multi windows support can be added to your new application.
Plus a bunch of goodies with drag and drop content from one application to another.
Sources:
www.modaco.com/page/news/_/android/developers-add-support-for-samsung-multi-window-to-your-apps-r823
developer.android.com/tools/publishing/app-signing .html
developer.samsung.com/s-pen-sdk/technical-docs-09
P.S. Supported devices:
Samsung S3
Samsung S4
Samsung Note
Samsung Note II
Samsung Note 8.0
Samsung Note 10.1