I have a Razr flip phone that I often use folded halfway (laptop style) and watch videos on the top half while I do other things.

Certain video apps center the content across both halves of the screen and I have to activate split screen and put a random app on the bottom half of the screen.

Long story short, is there a way to split screen only 1 app to only the top half of the screen? I’ve tried to search for something but I’m coming up empty.

    • Mananers@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      What kind of phone are you using? My Samsung has that ‘freeform’ option but it’s called pop-up.

      My wife’s pixel 6a only has split screen, and that forces 2 apps.

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        1 year ago

        How can all these Android versions have this, meanwhile AOSP (Lineage, GrapheneOS,…) have nothing…

        Edit: okay I found this feature, but it crashes my damn Launcher

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      1 year ago

      I see the freeform option and I have tested that out. It’s the closest to what I want to do.

      I just wish I could click the split screen mode and only choose 1 app to run in the top 50% of the screen and have the other half just be black.

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          1 year ago

          I have the Razr+ as well. I was just looking for an option that rather than split between 2 apps, have only one app running on the top half of the screen.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t know if that will be a thing. The only phone I’ve been able to do anything even remotely close to this was an LG Wing.

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    Install Android Studio on your PC and create a new empty app. Plug in your mobile and deploy that app. Now select that app as the second one for the lower half. It should be all black, if its all white, change the background color.

    Or look if there is an all black app in the store, probably a screen tester app.

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    I’m using Android 14 on a Pixel and gesture navigation. To get split-screen, I gesture up to open the app switcher, then long-press on the icon for the app I want to split-screen. This pulls up a menu that has an option for split-screen.

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      1 year ago

      I am able to do split screen in this way. What I am looking for is to run only 1 app but just in the top 50% of the screen.

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    1 year ago

    I’m not sure if it’s an Android feature or Samsung feature, but try hitting the sideways hamburger menu (3 vertical lines button that’s always on the bottom} and then holding your finger on the app you want to half screen. See if you notice anything happen… if not it’s a Samsung thing.