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Extreme multitasking: the best floating apps for Android
Envious that some Samsung Android device owners with the Nature UX can detach the video playback in a hovering window? Looking with interest to those Tabs that have the Mini Apps drawer letting you pin notes and calculator on top of everything else?
Well, Android's versatility is here to help. There are solutions out there that allow you to "float" videos, a note list, calculator, even browser and whatnot, above anything else you are doing underneath.
Needless to say this aids significantly with multitasking on your handset or tablet as it lets you see and do more things at once. While not exactly a multi-window mode, "floating" apps can certainly come in handy at various situations, so check out the list in the slideshow below.
Best floating popup window apps for Android to aid your multitasking
Much needed in note-taking, floating the text above all screens your Android ventures might take you lets you carry and update reminders all the way with Floating Notes 2.
You can have up to four windows open at once, and there is even a widget to help you open them quickly from your homescreen. In addition, the app shares your musings with many services, including Dropbox, and can also insert them directly into an email or text message. There is also the first Floating Notes app, which is $1.26, but is not dressed up in the ICS-ish theme of the newer edition.
From the same developer as Floating Notes comes Cover Paint, the finger-drawing popup window that lets you jot and annotate stuff directly on whichever screen you are at the moment.
Hovernote is very similar to Floating Notes 2, complete with the ICS Holo theme and a price tag. It expands on the functionality with the numerous settings, and lets you shrink the note to a button if you need more of the screen space below. The notes can be shared with Evernote, Dropbox and other popular services you might be already using.
The FloatNSplit keyboard is a perfect tablet solution, as it doesn't obstruct the view over a piece of the screen you need to see, and you can instead place its halves anywhere that suits you best. Text prediction is a trial in the free version.
Live chat is another area you might feel the desperate need for a floating app - instead of going in and out to comment on something you see in another app, you just pin the chat window over the topic of concern, and fire your comments away.
LilyPad HD works with the Facebook and MSN/Live messengers, as well as Google Talk, and more IM clients suppor is on the way. After the trial period, you are left with only GTalk support for free, and have to shell out for the rest via an in-app purchase, but there is a 50% off promo going on right now.
Don't be jelly about the PopUp Play video function in Samsung's Nature UX. Stick It! works as well, and has more functions to boot. You can watch multiple popup video windows at once, resize them, and there is even a workaround for YouTube vids. The only downside is it is paid, but less than $2 to watch videos on your phone/tablet while doing something else underneath is worth it.
AirCalc is what it says on the label, a rather convenient way to quickly multiply, subtract, divide and so on some numbers you just spotted while browsing, or that you have sent in an email or during a chat session. All without leaving the app where the numbers actually reside.
Who wouldn't have a good use of popup browsing windows to quickly check something or resolve an argument without leaving the chat app, as fast as possible.
OverSkreen offers precisely this functionality, letting you float your stock browser in a window or more above all else, and have Wikipedia on while doing your homework - come on, we know you do it all the time.
Floating for geeks should be the AirTerm's description, as it allows you to pop a terminal window, fire up Linux commands to your Android phone or tablet, and watch the changing conditions underneath.
Super Video is not as feature-rich as Stick It!, but it does the job fine, and is free, letting you pin a video window in the air above your current interface or app screen.
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