Tips and Tricks: Split Screen on Android Phone

Well, My Sony Xperia Z5 received Android 7.1.1 Nougat update several months ago.  A unique feature that I used but a lot of people still have not used in Android 7.1 is the split screen.  Samsung introduced this feature several years back with Samsung Galaxy Note and Galaxy S.  Android now includes this feature within the Android environment.  Soon, with Android 8, there will be PIP (Picture in Picture feature).



Split screen is useful for:
- making notes and referencing at the same time
- checking information
- work and play, combined
- Specific to Samsung Galaxy Note, you can scribble in split screen and click and drag a file or item across

To activate split screen is simple, just press and hold active apps list (soft button on the right that looks like a stack of 2 cards.  A split screen of your current active app and the previous app will appear (currently active on top, the predesor will on bottom screen.

The easiest use that I keep coming back to is checking IMDB when watching a TV Series as reference.  I don't need to go back and forth between 2 apps, so I still watch the tv series and checking IMDB at the same time.

You can do this for work related matters and more, like opening a link to website on the bottom from an email, etc.  Of course, I would recommend that you do this for bigger screen phones (5.5" or above).

Have fun, guys