
Depending on your phone model, you may need to confirm the ADB connection on the phone itself with a pop-up message. Plug your phone or tablet into the computer with your USB cable. Use Keyboard Shortcuts In Chrome, you can cycle between the open. Now, there are two ways you can toggle between Chrome tabs in full-screen mode. In macOS, it’s located at: /Users/ your username/Library/Android/SDK/platform-tools You can go full-screen with a press on F11. In Windows, you’ll find it at the following location: /users/ your username/AppData/Local/Android/sdk/platform-tools Next, you’ll need to open Command Prompt (in Windows) or Terminal (in macOS) and navigate to a folder named “platform-tools” where your Android SDK is installed. Step Four: Verify Your Device Connection with ADB Make a note of your app’s APK name before continuing. In our example (Chrome for Android), the full address is: Īnd the APK name we’re looking for is “.”

After the “id=” identifier tag, the address will show the APK name of the app. Imeters trying to open up a Stainless- custom tab from within a webview inside of an Google android app. Then, open the Chrome overflow menu in the top half of the screen and tap "Move to other window.When you’ve reached the desired app’s Play Store page, take a look at the web address in the browser URL bar. Tab Revolution is a Chrome extension that lets you view tabs in full screen mode. Long-press the Android overview button to open the split-screen app selector. First, open Chrome and pull up at least two tabs. There's a special workaround for Chrome that Google added at the last minute during the Nougat beta test. You can't just launch two copies of Chrome because the split-screen app mode doesn't allow multiple instances of a single app. Next, you need to have Chrome-this won't work with other browsers right now.

Google mandates that OEMs implement the standard multi-window mode to make things easier on developers. That's not very many phones right now, but the good part is all Nougat phones will work the same way. There's a trick to it, though.įirst thing's first: you need to be running Android 7.0 Nougat or higher for this to work. Running two browser windows side-by-side is one of the primary use cases for split-screen, but it's not at all clear how you do that in Android.
