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Some sort of indication that split screen is supported?
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
The design choice is to leave the user in control of when an app is spanned. An app can launch an activity into the second screen when it is unoccupied by another app though and we have a sample showing how in the sample repo on GitHub, linked on our documentation at https://aka.ms/dual-screen
Keep the feedback and questions coming and maybe attend our developer day online stream on Feb11th: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/virtual-events
Hakon_Strande From a user perspective I would find the spread full screen functionality to be a frustrating feature if I didn't know when an app supports it. Even now when I try to make an app full screen, when I see it is not supported (aka content split right down the middle) I end up changing the app back to a single screen manually, whereas if there was some small indication of support for the screen type, it could help teach users about when to use the feature, or even provide easy access to it.
As an example of what spawned the idea was the Google Pixel 4's radar functionality. They show a very subtle light indication from the top of the screen when it is able to be used. (albeit a far less useful feature than spanning an app full screen to be sure).
Attended the dev stream, lots of good info and looking forward to upcoming updates!
