I love the transformations that the OS goes through based on device, very much like responsive web design.
My favorite feature is running phone apps on the side with the Windows8-like split view, great idea. I wonder how that translates to portrait.
My favorite feature is running phone apps on the side with the Windows8-like split view, great idea. I wonder how that translates to portrait.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ3krff1JCE&feature=yout...
It's not limited to only one column, like in Ubuntu and Windows 8, it splits the apps even, so you can use them fully, and you can even expand or contract one over the other. I think that's a much better implementation.
But Ubuntu's idea for using the phone apps on the side is not too bad either, but that secondary app seems to be meant more as a "companion" app rather than another full app that you want to use in the same time, and give it equal share of the screen (especially on larger screens).
It will be interesting how they deal with installing phone apps on the tablet. They might just allow carte blanche or might require a developer to opt in to avoid issues with phone specific apps being unusable on the tablet.
If you mean having apps work on bigger screens, it looks like side stage lets them keep phone apps at a reasonable phone size. They might require opt-in to make phone apps fullscreen - that seems reasonable. (Although it sounds like one of their goals with QML is to make it easy to write apps that grow with screen size, so they're hoping that almost all apps will be able to do it.)