How to use any app in Multi-Window Mode on Android 7.0, including Pokémon GO

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One of the novelties of Android 7.0 is the inclusion of a Multi Window Mode that allows you to get more out of your devices, especially what offers good behavior when running more than one application at the same time. Of course, this possibility has restrictions, which luckily it is possible to avoid with various developments. We tell you how to do it.

The fact is that this functionality of the new version of Google's operating system, called nougat, has as restrictions that the applications that can be used with it must be compatible natively, and this is something that is not especially numbers today. And, for example, the vast majority of games, such as Pokémon GO, they do not offer (and, right in the Niantic title, that it is active is something important).

Is one of the must-have Pokémon GO apps o Pokémon TV Since a good detail that you have to know is that, in order to reach a successful conclusion, apart from having Android 7.0 in the terminal, you do not have to do anything else for what no need to unprotect (root) the device in question. Of course, in a model with user interface customizations, the operation may not be adequate.

Developer options in Android 7.0

Multi-window mode for everyone

First of all, and as we always comment, the responsibility of following these steps is the sole responsibility of the user himself and it is recommended that the battery charge is greater than 90% and, others, that a Backup of the data on the phone in question. Now you have to do the following:

  • Activate Developer Options in Terminal Settings. In the About phone section, under the build number, press continuously until you receive a message that this has happened
  • Open the developer options and look for a section called Force the resizing of activities that are resized. Click on the slider or the option, whatever appears to you
  • Reboot the device
  • Once this is done, you will be able to use any application, including Pokemon GO, in Multi-Window Mode

Some questions to know

The performance, in general, is quite good but some developments when manipulating the other that is running they pause, so in multimedia players or Netflix this can be a nuisance. Asidem, when the orientation is landscape, some dimensions are not adequate, so you have to turn the terminal again so that everything can be seen correctly.


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