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dastha2002
dastha2002

Reputation: 71

How to detect when device goes to multi-window mode of Android N

I want to get notified from my background service when the user switches to multi-window mode. Is there a way to get this information by a service other than the activities involved in the process.

Also I have noticed that when an overlay is clicked on the area of the foreground window it automatically switches to the activity under the area. Can this be prevented?

Upvotes: 6

Views: 6025

Answers (2)

Geralt_rivv
Geralt_rivv

Reputation: 121

You must add ViewTreeObserver. And check if device enter in Multi-Window mode

getActivity().isInMultiWindowMode()

Upvotes: 5

anand krish
anand krish

Reputation: 4415

isInMultiWindowMode() is added in API 24 to check device is in Multi window or not, it returns a boolean value. when ever device goes to Multi window it triggers onConfigurationChanged() method. There you can handle Landscape and portrait mode.

@Override
public void onConfigurationChanged(Configuration newConfig) {
    super.onConfigurationChanged(newConfig);
     if(newConfig.orientation == Configuration.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)
      {
        //do something
      }else{

      }
}

Upvotes: 1

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