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Of course, the biggest player to enter the Android desktop experience has been Samsung, which introduced its DeX experience with the S8. DeX, for which Samsung has developed a companion dock, has gone the extra mile in working with vendors. Microsoft and Adobe have modified their Android apps to support Windows like user interface features such as fully resizable windows. In contrast, many Android apps in other environments can only toggle between two window sizes based on their tablet and phone resolutions.
That illustrates one of the coque integrale galaxy a3 2017 weaknesses of Android on the desktop, which Google may be addressing via Android apps in Chrome or a new OS that merges the two or simply ignores. The challenge of trying to master the transition between mobile and desktop proved too much for Ubuntu, which recently threw in the towel on its mobile efforts.
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