This means you could have a mobile app and a regular window, say Chrome, or Photoshop, next to it taking up the other 2/3rds of the display. At least 3 of these offers pane on the right of the screen that is 1/3rd or less the pixels, making it a portrait orientation. When you hover your mouse over the maximise button, you’ll be presented with a grid of layout options. When Microsoft re-engineered snap modes in Windows 11, they likely had this in mind. In the case of mobiles, their actual aspect ratios differ greatly, but as a general rule, they’re portrait (taller than they are wide), so how’s this going to work? Most desktop monitors (and laptops) are landscape, either 16:9, 16:10, or in the case of some devices like a Surface Laptop, a more square 3:2 aspect. When we think through the differences between mobile and desktop apps, the aspect ratio immediately raises its head. Naturally, this won’t solve any issues with iOS exclusives, regardless, Android app support is a big feature and will look forward to using it this month.
That problem is really the fact that a lot of development is happening first in the mobile space these days and in plenty of circumstances, only on mobile, leaving desktop players like Microsoft, out of the loop.įor end-users that want the ability to interact with these mobile apps while using a familiar (and faster) mouse and keyboard, having them work natively in Windows 11 is certainly a win. This always felt like a hack, rather than a solution to the problem. Native support for these Android Apps will be a big step forward over the existing technique, which is to effectively use screen mirroring of an Android device using the ‘Your Phone’ companion app.
There are around 669,000 in the Windows Store and finally, Amazon’s Appstore has just 460,000. By comparison, there are around 2.2M in Apple’s AppStore. According to Statista, there are 3.4 million apps in the Google Play Store. While the Amazon Appstore does offer a fairly comprehensive list of apps, it’s not the same as integrating with the Google Play Store and what you will certainly miss, are any Android apps made by Google.
0 kommentar(er)
