Someone needs to port a tiling window manager to iOS or Android. On a platform where screen space and user interactions are at a premium, it seems you'd want to minimize the amount of window resizing actions and maximize the usable screen space.<p>I use XMonad (<a href="http://xmonad.org/" rel="nofollow">http://xmonad.org/</a>) on my desktop and love it. My Android tablet (a Nexus 10) is big enough that it needs something like this; would be great to have two or even three windows open at a time.
Like quasar but much more polished :)<p>The problem with quasar was that is was so different that there was allot of stuff that became weird as ipad user interfaces are not designed for multiple windows.<p>I had quasar however I have not tried this.<p>I wonder how battery consumption is effected?<p>One a side note: my next pad will probably be some kind of linux thing. Just tired of the apple lock in.
One of the main reasons Apple has not implemented something like this is that they<p>A) try to retain backward compatibility<p>B) don't outfit the devices with enough RAM.<p>The iPad 2 and Mini only have 512 megs of RAM. With that in mind, note that just displaying a MapView can easily consume between 40 and 100 megs of RAM it gets real tight real quick. Open a few apps that use a decent amount of RAM while having tabs in Safari etc. and you're going to start getting a lot of crashes.<p>They may have to start deprecating a bunch of devices if they want to add this feature.<p>"But it works now" NO, it "kinda works" - with the right mixture off apps / conditions it will run out of memory and crash.
<i>> The most useful feature is the ability to swipe between desktops and applications, just like on OS X. Swiping four fingers in either direction switches desktops or applications, even using the same animation as on the desktop.</i><p>Uh? <i>That</i> is the most useful feature? That has been available without any modification since iOS 5: <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/12/ios-5-features-new-multi-touch-gestures-for-ipad-2/" rel="nofollow">http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/12/ios-5-features-new-multi-touc...</a>
I wonder if Apple will follow jailbreaker UI when if and when they introduce a true multitasking/windowing system on iOS. They did so with multitasking and mission control UI designs.<p>I doubt Apple would introduce true windowing however, they seem to keep a large development/design crowd away from Android simply because developers only have to target a couple of screen sizes/aspect ratios.
Here's a video with with a demo
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teFyAqj1eog" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teFyAqj1eog</a><p>Just amazing how close to an official product this gets quality wise. I really regret updating to 7.1, too bad this guy plans on releasing it commercial instead of open-source.
How much of the current wealth of Apple is due to jailbreakers ? 20%? 30%? If not for jailbreakers, there would have never been the appstore for iOS nor OSX. The popularity of the iPhone would not have been nearly the same if not for jailbroken applications then for the appstore applications. Apple should issue apologies to each and every jailbreaker.