I'm using the edge navigation feature of Android 10, where (among other things) the recent-apps button is gone, and a swipe from the bottom edge to mid-screen brings up a scrollable (left-right) strip of recent app thumbnails. You can still bring up splitscreen by longtapping the icon at the top of any of the thumbnails and from there splitscreen works the same. A lot about edge navigation is great but I miss the ability to flipflop between two apps by tapping the recent apps button. Now, it's either
- swipe up to access recent apps strip then tap the edge of immediate prior app, whose thumbnail is almost offscreen to the left, or
- swipe up to access recent apps then tap the icon for split screen, load the second app, then tweak the displays until the most relevant part of each app's display is onscreen in its half-screen space
each of these is timeconsuming and awkward compared to just tapping the recent apps button.
Related issue:
When you have multiple home screens, one is designated the primary. I'm not sure what it's called so I'll call it home[SUP]2[/SUP]. Tapping the home button once brings you to the current home, then tapping again brings you to home[SUP]2[/SUP]. With edge navigation, swiping up more than halfway brings you to the current home, doing it again brings you to the app drawer. I have not found any gesture that's assured of bringing you to home[SUP]2[/SUP]. You have to swipe up to get to current home, then scroll left or right to get to home[SUP]2[/SUP]. Getting this right means always knowing whether home[SUP]2[/SUP] is to the left or to the right of the current home. The more home pages you have, the harder it becomes to find your way home[SUP]2[/SUP].