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Re: Sync PC Directory to Android?

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In article <e8tee3F93huU2@mid.individual.net>, Nigel Wade wrote:
> You should be able to switch between apps relatively quickly
> using the recent apps button ...

The limiting aspect of Android is that you can only have a single 
instance of any given app open at a time, so you can't switch quickly 
between two documents in the same app.

Some apps (e.g the browser) explicitly support multiple simultaneous 
open documents ... but even with those it's slower to switch from 
another app and then to select the required document (if that's what's 
required) than it might be to switch to one of several instances of the 
app each with a single open document.

> ... but not have multiple apps. visible at the same time.

You can split the screen between two apps in some versions of Android, 
and even have floating windows. This may require some cooperation from 
the apps themselves so not all apps may be able to do it.

-- 
Cheers,
 Daniel.
 

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Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-10 14:46 +0000
  Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? tony@mountifield.org (Tony Mountifield) - 2016-11-10 14:53 +0000
  Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 16:08 +0100
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-10 15:39 +0000
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 16:52 +0100
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-10 17:27 +0000
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Bob <Bob@the.builder> - 2016-11-10 11:36 -0600
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 19:08 +0100
  Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? AL <l45236747@invalid.com> - 2016-11-10 10:24 -0700
  Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Bob <Bob@the.builder> - 2016-11-10 11:27 -0600
  Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Bob Martin <bob.martin@excite.com> - 2016-11-10 18:31 +0000
  Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> - 2016-11-10 19:24 +0000
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-11-10 21:29 +0100
  Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-13 08:36 +0000
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-11-14 09:28 +0000
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-14 09:41 +0000
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-11-14 10:21 +0000
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-11-21 23:55 +0000
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-22 08:44 +0000
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-11-22 17:49 +0000
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-11-22 21:35 +0100
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-11-23 08:37 +0000
          Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Nigel Wade <nmw@local.domain> - 2016-11-23 09:31 +0000
            Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2016-11-23 12:37 +0000
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? tlvp <mPiOsUcB.EtLlLvEp@att.net> - 2016-11-15 00:39 -0500
    Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Piet <www.godfatherof.nl/@opt-in.invalid> - 2016-11-15 09:41 +0100
      Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-11-15 08:57 +0000
        Re: Sync PC Directory to Android? Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2016-11-15 17:45 +0000

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