Android tablets will no longer be large mobile phones: Google is working on a floating window system for multitasking

We have been hearing information about the merger of Android and Chome OS for more than 10 years, and even a few months ago this issue made headlines again after statements by some executives of the search giant.

Although Android is an operating system perfectly adapted to mobile phones, Its tablet version does not end up taking 100% advantage of this type of device, especially when multitasking is sought.

While we wait for the merger with Chrome OS, Google has brought back a practical function with which they want to considerably improve the experience of using tablets as “everything” devices.

With floating windows, Android tablets will stop being just “big phones” and embrace multitasking

It is about the floating windows, a feature that we all take for granted in desktop operating systems, such as Windows or different Linux distributions, but that in Android seems to have been relegated to some “desktop” modes such as Samsung Dex.

According to Android Authority, Google is working on a “floating bubbles” which could already be seen in some other beta of the previous version of Android 15, and which was nothing more than a system of floating windows with which we could have different applications running on the desktop simultaneously.

That feature never materialized in any final version of Android, but now it could finally arrive in Android 16, after mentions of this feature appeared (called “floating bubble” in the code of version 2510 Android Canary).

According to this information, the way to open applications in these bubbles or floating windows would be by dragging the icons to the corners of the screen. Since Google has added a tutorial to the code of this early version of Android, hopefully it won’t be long before we see this feature hit devices.