[mkhalil06]

So, development for this phone is off to a bang only a few days in and we got root
but since its still an unstable process, someone on XDA has posted instructions for how to make any app work with multiview

no root needed!!!



Slightly more detailed guide:

1. download APK manager


2. make a folder called apk manager on your desktop extract everything in the zip into that folder

3. download this


4. Replace the file at the following path with the one you just downloaded:
C:\Users\(w/e your username is)\apktool\

5.open the apkmanager folder that you previously extracted to your desktop

6.drop the apk you want to modify into the folder called "place-apk-here-for-modding"

7.double click on the script file

8.Select option 9
wait for it to finish

9. go back to the apk manager folder and open the projects folder
inside, open the folder for the apk you are modifying
open the AndroidManifest file with notepad

10. find the first set of code that looks like this

<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>


and modify it so that it looks like this...


<intent-filter>
<action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
<category android:name="android.intent.category.MULTIWINDOW_LAUNCHER" />
</intent-filter>


11. go all the way down to the bottom of the file and find this:
</application>

12. Add all this stuff before it so that it looks like this:

<uses-library required="false" name="com.sec.android.app.multiwindow" />
<meta-data android:name="com.sec.android.support.multiwindow" android:value="true" />
<meta-data android:name="com.sec.android.multiwindow.DEFAULT_SIZE_W" android:value="632.0dip" />
<meta-data android:name="com.sec.android.multiwindow.DEFAULT_SIZE_H" android:value="598.0dip" />
<meta-data android:name="com.sec.android.multiwindow.MINIMUM_SIZE_W" android:value="632.0dip" />
<meta-data android:name="com.sec.android.multiwindow.MINIMUM_SIZE_H" android:value="598.0dip" />

</application>


13. Save the file in notepad

14. go back to the script and select option 11

15. When it asks if it is a system app press [N]

16. After it is all done, select option 12

17. When that is done select option 24 to quit

18.Go back to the APK Manager folder;
inside the "place-apk-here-for-modding" folder you will see a new apk that begins with the word "signed"

19.Take that apk out and put it on your phone and install

[MiXoLoGiSt]

When I click the link it is giving me a note found error.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

[mkhalil06]

When I click the link it is giving me a note found error.

Sent from my Galaxy Note 2

sorry, should work now!!

[EatMyTracers]

Doing this right now.

[sillyrabbitt123]

thanks. do you do this on the phone or on the computer and then load the apk back on the phone

[Tari]

Hah, neat. I'd thought about that sort of thing before, but I never thought it would be quite so easy to decompile Android apps. Nice!

[mkhalil06]

i havent tried to make my own yet

i've just download some of the ones at the bottom of the first post that have already been made

i'm assuming u would have to download that program referenced in the first post and make the changes that way

[sillyrabbitt123]

i havent tried to make my own yet

i've just download some of the ones at the bottom of the first post that have already been made

i'm assuming u would have to download that program referenced in the first post and make the changes that way

oh i see the links now thanks! are these files safe? thanks!

[mkhalil06]

they run just fine on my device
and of course they work with multi-view

[vNaK]

Nice find, gonna try this out now.

[kslghost]

This does seem to indicate that Verizon didn't remove multi-view from those apps, it simply never added those lines of code to the apps that aren't supported. I believe Chrome doesn't even come with the VZW Note 2 so that's something that could be added by Google?

[jsadler09]

I saw this over there and have installed Chrome, Twitter, Netflix, and Skype. All 4 show up in multi-view. I've only tried Chrome and Twitter so far, but they work well. With Chrome and the stock browser I can watch a vide on YouTube.com while surfing. This is awesome!

[gafly]

I'm thinking there needs to be a sticky thread made with all of the modified apps and their download links. I imagine this list will start getting much longer fairly quickly since it's so simple to do!

[DroidXcon]

I'm thinking there needs to be a sticky thread made with all of the modified apps and their download links. I imagine this list will start getting much longer fairly quickly since it's so simple to do!

As soon as a note 2 adviser is appointed that will happen

From my Galaxy Note 2 via Tapatalk

[sillyrabbitt123]

they run just fine on my device
and of course they work with multi-view

I got chrome. Its sweet having youtube on one browser and another browser running at the same time. Thanks.

Sent from my SCH-I605 using Android Central Forums

[sudbury78]

Reading the instructions gives me a headache. I'm so confused with terminology. I will have to find someone who knows android to help me.

[NHBass39]

Reading the instructions gives me a headache. I'm so confused with terminology. I will have to find someone who knows android to help me.

Any videos on how to do this?

[sillyrabbitt123]

Reading the instructions gives me a headache. I'm so confused with terminology. I will have to find someone who knows android to help me.

just curious why not use the apks in the link already done?

[mkhalil06]

its a very simple process
I made a slingplayer apk that now works in multi view

if you guys want me to make a noob step by step guide let me know

[asabino]

its a very simple process
I made a slingplayer apk that now works in multi view

if you guys want me to make a noob step by step guide let me know

Please

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[elvis1935]

its a very simple process
I made a slingplayer apk that now works in multi view

if you guys want me to make a noob step by step guide let me know

I think it would be interesting.

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[mkhalil06]

i put it in the first post

[sudbury78]

just curious why not use the apks in the link already done?

I have no idea what an apks is rabbit hence my headache but now seeing the noob process i will give it a try!! Thanks OP

[sillyrabbitt123]

I have no idea what an apks is rabbit hence my headache but now seeing the noob process i will give it a try!! Thanks OP

got it. if you look for the apks [apps] in the link from xda a bunch are done already for you.

[sudbury78]

can you supply the link please? i for some reason cant get on that site.... thanks much

Edit: Nevermind its already there. Oops.