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Some sort of indication that split screen is supported?
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.
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!asmenter15 perhaps in the on boarding of the app you can include an image or animation showing the app can be split on both screens that way you still a) let the user control when they use it on both screens and b) still inform the user that your app has that capability.
