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Some sort of indication that split screen is supported?
I have only used the sdk / emulator for a couple hours now, but was curious if there is a plan to create some way of making it obvious / easy to either show the user that the app supports using both screens, or actually providing a shortcut to making the app use both screens when it is available? Or maybe even a system setting on a per app basis to use both screens when possible etc.
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Do you mean that the app could say "hey, present me on both screen" without any user interaction?
If yes, I would absolutley love to see this feature, but rather in system's settings, I would like to request this action from my app itself.
For example, if the app requests a spanning of it's view, the user will see an alert with "confirm" and "cancel". If the user confirms this action, the app will be spanned or not.
This will raise an event on which the app can subscribe to.
tscholze Yeah the idea would be ideally to show some indication on the screen that the app can go over both displays. Either the app could call to show it, or even the system could recognize the app supports both displays and could show some icon or animation to encourage the user to go full screen (or easily click the icon to do so as well).
Mostly just came up because I was using the emulator and couldn't figure out how to go to both screens, til I remembered the video of the lady pulling it from the bottom over the middle.
- Sounds great. Let's wait until the next SDK release. Maybe Microsoft will provide such useful feature in the future. Finger crossed
