Google To Bring iPad Pro-Style Split Screen on Android Tablets

The team behind Google's Pixel C invited users to .

It has not yet been detailed whether the DisplayPort support will be arrived through N or reached to some existing Android devices through an update to the existing Android Marshmallow. Bowers to a question asked about what features the team could have missed on the Pixel C by posting, "Split screen is in the works".

Google's consumer hardware director, , notes that split-screen is in the works for Android N, the operating system's next major release. Maybe over the coming months, tweaks to the software will let Android better advantage of the Pixel C's hardware capabilities, but in the mean time, we're left with a device that seems to fall in the tablet version of the uncanny valley.

Google's Pixel C, promoted as the first Android tablet "built end-to-end" by the Internet giant, debuted on the at $499 plus $149 for an optional magnetically attached full-size keyboard.

The team also admitted the fact that Android ecosystem doesn't have good number of tablet-optimized apps.

Fans will be delighted to know that the team also confirmed that Multiwindow support is well under way.

Speaking in a , they discuss future plans to improve things: "We're working hard on a range of enhancements for Android in this form factor". Google has now joined the fight with the dispatch of its Pixel C, an Android-based gadget that serves as a tablet and note pad for the individuals who like the idea of a physical console associated with a slate.

To recall, Apple introduced the split-view feature with iOS 9 this year and it has been limited to tablets. To get around this, a split-screen option will make life easier for tablet users and enhance Android's utility. Unfortunately, the Googlers were assailed by questions concerning the negative reviews and buggy performance of the tablet, not to mention some of the design and feature choices.

Google is working to add new features on its Pixel C tablet is Google's flagship tablet. It sounds like we'll have to wait til Android's next major "N" revision to see multitasking improvements, however.