“A secret split-screen option hidden in Apple’s iOS 8 has been leaked in a new video,” Rich Trenholm reports for CNET.
“App developer Steve Troughton-Smith posted the video showing how an app can be resized to take up a smaller portion of the screen,” Trenholm reports. “Catchily titled ‘UISimulatedApplicationResizeGestureEnabled,’ the footage shows the developer changing the size of an app by dragging it to one side with two fingers (the dots on the screen).”
Trenholm reports, “The app can take up a quarter of the screen, half the screen, or three-quarters of the screen.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Far from a “secret.” It has already been announced as a coming feature at WWDC.
Yeah, but to the public? NO. Very naughty.
I thought I read that the fractions available would be 1/3, 1/2 and 2/3. I think UIFake might be more appropriate.
Um, Steven. Much as I honor the name of Troughton, the greatest of Doctors… You just killed your NDA. Apple’s not going to be pleased…
Live and learn.
…Note how he disabled comments at his source video. Oh so naughty.
Thought Apple relaxed the NDA this time around
You have more insight than I dear goddess. I apologize.
The process of screen splitting is not very much Apple-like. Clinky and jumpy like that. I guess it’s still developing.