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Extreme multitasking: the best floating apps for Android

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Extreme multitasking: the best floating apps for Android
Envious that some Samsung Android device owners with the Nature UX can detach the video playback in a hovering window? Looking with interest to those Tabs that have the Mini Apps drawer letting you pin notes and calculator on top of everything else?

Well, Android's versatility is here to help. There are solutions out there that allow you to "float" videos, a note list, calculator, even browser and whatnot, above anything else you are doing underneath.

Needless to say this aids significantly with multitasking on your handset or tablet as it lets you see and do more things at once. While not exactly a multi-window mode, "floating" apps can certainly come in handy at various situations, so check out the list in the slideshow below.

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1. Lawliet posted on 11 Dec 2012, 06:51 3

Small apps ?

2. nnaatthhaannx2 posted on 11 Dec 2012, 06:57 7 2

I like the ones that Samsung put into the TouchWhiz UI on the tablets.

3. HTCFreak posted on 11 Dec 2012, 08:09 9

The beauty of android!♥

7. shuaibhere posted on 11 Dec 2012, 11:01 4 1

Exactly this is what i was thinking to post...

4. networkdood posted on 11 Dec 2012, 10:25 1

I use a floater for video and for the calculator. Devs on XDA need to create an all-purpose mutli-task screen for any task assigned to it.

6. networkdood posted on 11 Dec 2012, 10:28

On-top calculator

5. networkdood posted on 11 Dec 2012, 10:26 2

Hey, Phonearena, your slideshow is really screwy....

8. hobble posted on 11 Dec 2012, 11:30 2 1

Are they calling widgets floating apps now?

9. remixfa posted on 11 Dec 2012, 11:59 5 1

10 more apps you will probably never find in iOS. :)

10. rizevnarastek posted on 12 Dec 2012, 03:17

It just adds to show that Samsung didn't innovoate any of it's S features, they just bundled them together under a new franchise. Those things are great but I just wish that I wouldn have to use 3 different apps to do almost the same thing. For example... If I already have a built-in Video player and I can't uninstall it then i want that Video player to have as many features as possible and not being forced to download a third party app... just no point in that now is there...

11. Reluctant_Human posted on 12 Dec 2012, 03:32

U guys forgot Mobo player. Its one of the best free video players and lets you do the same thing as the Samsung video player.

12. ghanemsam posted on 12 Dec 2012, 04:18

popcorn player is awesome as a pop up video application

13. revenge_of_jpeg posted on 07 Feb 2013, 11:15

I use Popup Dictionary for translation. It is floating and useful when I read something

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