Getting a split screen on android to see two apps simul, sim, together.

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I use Google Maps & like to have my music playing in the van, and as said elsewhere, I don't have a connected radio due to phantom noises from the speakers woo woo, so I use this BT speaker, https://amzn.eu/d/1LQkJt2 which is quite good for the money, I can advance or reverse to tracks, it can pause and I can control the volume, but I cannot see any track details.

So I wondered if there was a way to have a split screen & there is.


For Android, not clue for IOS but it will be similar perhaps.

  1. Open Google Maps, then open your music or actually any app it seems,
  2. Press the recent apps button bottom left on the phone, then tap the google icon mid top of the app, like you see below.
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  3. A drop down menu appears.
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  4. Select, Open in split screen view.
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  5. I selected Samsung music as it works best for me, the big icon is where the album cover picture would be.
  6. You can switch side by tapping the dividing line, and if in portrait mode you can save it as an app pair, I didn't bother, but here's what it looks like.
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  7. If you would like to see how to open a saved pair of app just ask, it's simple enough, but a lot of pictures to take
 
It works on my Tab A too :) :) I have a Amazon fire tablet too in the van so that will get tried as well as it's a good size.

I can even keep an eye on either of my batteries.

Or any two apps you like, not sure if it does three???
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Oooooh! Ark at her!! The new Android guru! :D

I have trouble enough farting about with apps on a tiny screen as it is without splitting them. The mobile phone should go in Room 101 for sure.

Nice work though Kev.
 
I just thought of an even better use, 2 sat nags side by side, one of which could be Organic maps, not sure if WC would work to see any posted POIs as you travel, but Organic will.

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barryd said:
Oooooh! Ark at her!! The new Android guru! :D

I have trouble enough farting about with apps on a tiny screen as it is without splitting them. The mobile phone should go in Room 101 for sure.

Nice work though Kev.
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Hence my mention of tablets for our old peepers.
 
Two sat navs!! Arghhh!

Actually I did mean to set up my old TomTom alongside the google maps sat nav this year but purely for entertainment value as it swears and says funny stuff if it gets near wild spots, Aires, LPG etc but the second cig socket is knackered in the cab and I was too thick to think about using a double adaptor until I was 50 miles from home.
 
barryd said:
Two sat navs!! Arghhh!

Actually I did mean to set up my old TomTom alongside the google maps sat nav this year but purely for entertainment value as it swears and says funny stuff if it gets near wild spots, Aires, LPG etc but the second cig socket is knackered in the cab and I was too thick to think about using a double adaptor until I was 50 miles from home.
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I think you might find there are other sellers, or is squeaky tightness another of your many problems?

tight as a duck's arse, which is watertight :D :D
 
Just been down to the van for the fire tablet, but it am flat, so I must have not turned it off last time. I'll see if it is amenable once charged up.

It's extra size but not too much bigness like the tab A 10'' may lend itself to van navigation.
 
Pudsey Bear said:
I just thought of an even better use, 2 sat nags side by side, one of which could be Organic maps, not sure if WC would work to see any posted POIs as you travel, but Organic will.

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Being a flash git [in truth, just impatient when we bought Brunhilde to have a working satnav] we have 2 Camper 780 Stanavs, so can have them side-by-side physically ... :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
Dunno if you already have the answer, but the following works on my Samsung A9+ :
  1. Launch the first app you want to appear in the split screen
  2. Click the 'hamburger' menu icon (the one that brings up the currently available apps to switch between)
  3. Press and hold the app you launched in step 1 and release when the screen splits.
    The system loads up that app in the right-hand side and pops up a selection of apps to choose for the left-hand side.
HTH
 
GeoffL said:
Dunno if you already have the answer, but the following works on my Samsung A9+ :
  1. Launch the first app you want to appear in the split screen
  2. Click the 'hamburger' menu icon (the one that brings up the currently available apps to switch between)
  3. Press and hold the app you launched in step 1 and release when the screen splits.
    The system loads up that app in the right-hand side and pops up a selection of apps to choose for the left-hand side.
HTH
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Tap the dividing line to switch or save the pair.
 
Robmac said:
3 voices telling you where to go Steve?

I couldn't handle that!
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The Pioneer Satnav was corrupted [missed on the PDI! when we bought the M/Home just before COVID restrictions were lifted in Scotland, Rob; the Dealer promised to send a Garmin Camper 780 [turned out to be an Avtex CAMH badged version], but took ages to send it, so I bought a Garmin 780 Camper SatNav in the meantime. There have been 1 or 2 occasions where one or the other Satnav is playing silly buggers and not finding Aires [usually where co-ordinates or S4S aires are involved, so Elaine can fire up the 2nd Satnav and play around with settings to get the thing to work, so I swap to the updated version and Elaine does a'encore une fois' rejig on the 2nd model. Satnavs are great when they work [and we/I certainly take them for granted], but are incredibly frustrating when they throw a hissy fit - first world problems! :ROFLMAO:

Steve
 
I've been messing with the Amazon Fire for a bit, and I can't see a way to split screen it and as it doesn't have GPS anyway, **** why not? I've abandoned that project, it'd be easier to just get a used 8 inch Samsung that has it all, but I won't bother, at least untill I've tried the phone on split screen first.
 
True Tom if you don't look at the signs when entering the road end, which is getting more and more difficult with the ever-increasing proliferation of signage of all types, and the councils not looking after the street furniture, allowing bushes etc to obscure the signs.

Having said that, how good are the sat navs at not guiding you down these roads?
 
TJBi said:
But sends you under bridges with 2m height limit.
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Pudsey Bear said:
Having said that, how good are the sat navs at not guiding you down these roads?
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IME, they all have issues in the right (wrong?) situation. Both Waze and Magic Earth have tried to send me across a bridge that was over a foot too narrow. CoPilot seems more reliable in UK -- although it updated its maps and then tried to send me round a massively convoluted route last Monday. CoPilot was also the app that tried to route me down an underpass with a 2.5m height limit even though I'd told it the van was 3.1m high. Google Maps seems no better or worse IME, but it needs an Internet signal (or you need to have downloaded the right offline mapping) and has let me down because of this. Of commercial GPS devices, both Navigon and TomTom have also let me down.
Now, with all that said, all satnav apps (including Google Maps) needs GPS, which a quick search suggests a Fire HD 10 doesn't have.
 
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