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haythem souissi
haythem souissi

Reputation: 3273

Cut phone screen on two parts that do simultaneously two things

Can i create a program which will cut phone screen on two parts.

Those two screen will do simultaneously two things, for example to watch a clip and to read and write sms.

I think that: 1) i need to create a home luncher application first. How can I create a custom home-screen replacement application for Android?

2) Then i can start two fragment in my activity. http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html

3) Finaly i open app1 in first fragment and app 2 in second fragment. Can i do that, open an application in a fragment?

Any other ideas will be usefull.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 632

Answers (3)

neteinstein
neteinstein

Reputation: 17613

I think you need a modified version of the Android ROM to be able to do this. With the standard ROM you can only have 1 application running in foreground at any given time.

Samsung has done something similar on the Galaxy Note by allowing you to watch video while doing other things.

If you don't want to change the ROM you could implement this on your own apps, but not on all the apps.

Upvotes: 3

Lalith B
Lalith B

Reputation: 12239

You can customize the launcher and the homescreen and lancher, check out the links below

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/packages/apps/Launcher2.git

How can I create a custom home-screen replacement application for Android?

Compile Launcher/AOSP from Eclipse:

Android Launcher application compilation on Eclipse

Read this for your information on how to compile and run your custom launcher. https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/android-developers/zI9LPeU1mbc

Upvotes: 2

dawoodman71
dawoodman71

Reputation: 395

I'm no expert, but it seems to me that you can have one application with two fragments in it. The top fragment would display video and the bottom fragment would have the messaging. Since fragments are only API 11 and up you don't have to worry about old phones being able to handle it.

Your step 3 states that you'll open apps in your fragments and I don't think that's how they work.

You can think of a fragment as a modular section of an activity, which has its own lifecycle, receives its own input events, and which you can add or remove while the activity is running (sort of like a "sub activity" that you can reuse in different activities).

Read more about Fragments here: http://developer.android.com/guide/components/fragments.html

Upvotes: 2

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