Floaters
There is another category of Android applications that can be displayed on the screen within a movable window. I call these programs floaters. Floaters behave just like a window in a modern desktop computing OS. Most can be resized, minimized, and maximized, and some even support multiple instances, allowing multiple windows on the screen at the same time. See the figure here.
The advantages of using floaters are not as great as you might expect. They really don’t work all that well on an Android phone with a small display. Screen real estate is already at a premium, and managing windows on top of ...
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