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Will the iPhone ever have Multitasking
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[doublepost=1541710396][/doublepost]You can always purchase slor app also and have depth editing inside the photos app as an extension
Apple wants you to buy iPad. It is about milking its cows
Its not that it can't be implemented but the screen ratio of the iPad makes it easy to use iPhone ratios for multitasking. This is why you can do 1/3 or 1/2 screen but not in between, or the 1/3 screen size overlay.
The iPhone is 16:9 or longer for the new models and the ratios are unknown to devs.
The reason a lot of apps won't multitask at all is because they chose not to code for it. Its a hassle and very few people use it. Its almost like the polish on an otherwise completed app.
Even in iOS on the iPhone a video app doesn't have to stop when you switch away from it, it can keep playing the sound and the video ticker going to start the video in sync when you switch back too it. VLC has a setting for it but you can watch movies and reply to a text without the movie pausing (play audio in background in settings). A lot of devs just choose not to do this because a lot of people watching something on their phone are actually watching something.
Picture in picture is device dependent and delegated by Apple. Some apps just can't/won't do it. If your app uses the built in AV player its relatively easy. However if you use your own player for various reasons it might not even be possible for your app to do PiP at all.
Another issue is the gestures required and their convoluted nature. I feel multitasking on the iPad feels unnatural. I'm stopping normal gestures half way I'm long pressing apps in a way that would normally cause them to be moved on the home screen. It feels like something I came up with at work on a friday night before a long weekend.....
Aside from that the phone is multitasking its just utilizing its screen space efficiently. Like with a laptop you don't have as many windows open on the same screen/plane as you do an ultra wide monitor.....typically.
The iPhone is 16:9 or longer for the new models and the ratios are unknown to devs.
The reason a lot of apps won't multitask at all is because they chose not to code for it. Its a hassle and very few people use it. Its almost like the polish on an otherwise completed app.
Even in iOS on the iPhone a video app doesn't have to stop when you switch away from it, it can keep playing the sound and the video ticker going to start the video in sync when you switch back too it. VLC has a setting for it but you can watch movies and reply to a text without the movie pausing (play audio in background in settings). A lot of devs just choose not to do this because a lot of people watching something on their phone are actually watching something.
Picture in picture is device dependent and delegated by Apple. Some apps just can't/won't do it. If your app uses the built in AV player its relatively easy. However if you use your own player for various reasons it might not even be possible for your app to do PiP at all.
Another issue is the gestures required and their convoluted nature. I feel multitasking on the iPad feels unnatural. I'm stopping normal gestures half way I'm long pressing apps in a way that would normally cause them to be moved on the home screen. It feels like something I came up with at work on a friday night before a long weekend.....
Aside from that the phone is multitasking its just utilizing its screen space efficiently. Like with a laptop you don't have as many windows open on the same screen/plane as you do an ultra wide monitor.....typically.
