Google initially launched picture-in-picture (PiP) with Android Oreo, enabling of us to multi-task by watching movies on a small, floating window whereas engaged on one other app concurrently. Annoyingly, although, customers are nonetheless not in a position to change the dimensions of the window, which stays fixed regardless of the dimensions and show decision of the gadget. Google, nevertheless, is seeking to change all that and put the person answerable for how they’d like their PiP home windows to appear to be.

With Android 11, Google is introducing a brand new class known as PipResizeGestureHandler within the SystemUI of newly-released Android 11 Developer Preview 2. Believed to have been first noticed by XDA, the category is alleged to be liable for detecting touches across the left, proper, high, or backside fringe of the picture-in-picture window. The new addition will allow customers to pull the PiP window to resize it with out altering its side ratio. There’s no obvious restrict on how massive or small the home windows could be, but it surely’s not instantly clear if Google will change that going ahead.

According to the report, the PipResizeGestureHandler class is a part of com.android.systemui fairly than com.google.android.systemui, which suggests will probably be a part of the AOSP and be accessible on all Android gadgets working Android 11 until an OEM, for some cause, decides to deprecate the function in its gadgets. What’s extra, the category falls beneath com.android.systemui.pip.telephone and never com.android.systemui.pip.television, suggesting that it’s meant for telephones and never TVs.

Do observe that the function is unavailable on the Android 11 DP2 launch and going by the report, can not even be activated manually for now. However, that could be very prone to change going ahead, so will probably be fascinating to see how that performs out with the upcoming releases.