Google patents smart drag and drop for Android

25 April 2017
Android apps will soon know the specific content you want to share and have a relevant app for it.

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  • Anonymous
  • upq
  • 27 Apr 2017

Funny... you can already do this kinda with the multiwindow feature on touchwiz( or whatever they call it now a days).

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    • Anonymous
    • 3Jn
    • 26 Apr 2017

    Savor, 25 Apr 2017While Google tries to innovate, Apple is too busy painting ... moreNext laggy touchwizz, listen Samsungs Pr rival, Touchwizz is now the best os there is till applecpies it and calls it iwizz.

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      • Anonymous
      • 3Jn
      • 26 Apr 2017

      Savor, 25 Apr 2017While Google tries to innovate, Apple is too busy painting ... moreHe he, first of all here is no such thing as ..nokia...phone. Its a nobody using the nokia name as a brand barganing tool, to sell anonher average Android phone to gullible , sentimental people...its..no. ...nokia.

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        • AnonD-647900
        • Y7u
        • 26 Apr 2017

        This seems interesting, cuts a few steps and saves some time; quintessential Google.

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          • Anonymous
          • nXR
          • 26 Apr 2017

          Can you smell what the rock is cooking?

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            • AnonD-579931
            • 7wx
            • 26 Apr 2017

            This will probably end up on the next Android that will likely come out with the next Pixel phones due out this fall. Or maybe the next one.

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              • AnonD-569198
              • YdR
              • 26 Apr 2017

              The next thing the hideous U.S. patent office will grant a patent for is finger-pointing.

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                • AnonD-656673
                • gMJ
                • 26 Apr 2017

                Anonymous, 25 Apr 2017Welcome to 1992. Windows 3.1 has this function long time ago.Shame windows is still not touch friendly, an Android 1.3 feature

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                  • AnonD-656673
                  • gMJ
                  • 26 Apr 2017

                  AnonD-79703, 25 Apr 2017This! I came here to write exactly the same! Safe for the "... moreIt wasn't a native Android feature, but now they want it on native Android apps, now that it has multiwindow feature. Maybe if you said it's a TouchWiz feature, it would have made sense, but windows? You're comparing 5 inch with 15 inch. Are you even sane ??

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                    • AnonD-656673
                    • gMJ
                    • 26 Apr 2017

                    Anonymous, 25 Apr 2017And people think Android is such a great OS. Google doesn'... moreDo you even use Android? Almost all the file managers in store has this feature since 2.3, or maybe older.

                      AnonD-238991, 25 Apr 2017if it was apple that patented this technology everyone woul... moreusually they will say "android already have that feature 20 years ago"

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                        • ajamil76
                        • thw
                        • 26 Apr 2017

                        Good google drop and drag I like project google

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                          • AnonD-79703
                          • F1R
                          • 25 Apr 2017

                          AnonF-610558, 25 Apr 2017 Um... First of all, every single file manager i've tried ... moreWhy are you comparing one retarded OS to one even more retarded? :D
                          and: name one file manager that has true drag-and-drop (and also - multi app support so I can drag a file from a file manager to conversation in telegram to share it)

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                            • AnonF-610558
                            • 46m
                            • 25 Apr 2017

                            Anonymous, 25 Apr 2017And people think Android is such a great OS. Google doesn'... more Um... First of all, every single file manager i've tried on android has drag-n-drop, Second do iPhones even have file managers?

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                              • AnonD-664702
                              • fC%
                              • 25 Apr 2017

                              Thanks OtherWise Apple Will Copy That Feature.

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                                • Anonymous
                                • q9m
                                • 25 Apr 2017

                                AnonD-79703, 25 Apr 2017This! I came here to write exactly the same! Safe for the "... moreAnd people think Android is such a great OS.
                                Google doesn't even have basic drag and drop for a file mgr. How old is Android now?

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                                  • AnonD-79703
                                  • F1R
                                  • 25 Apr 2017

                                  Anonymous, 25 Apr 2017Welcome to 1992. Windows 3.1 has this function long time ago.This! I came here to write exactly the same! Safe for the "AI" and other hyped lingo it's definitely a blast from the past.
                                  Windows could probably add a "content based switch" but given that it's so easy to manage apps on desktop and you don't need it noone "reinvented the wheel"...
                                  Google once again at it's best

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                                    • Anonymous
                                    • nC3
                                    • 25 Apr 2017

                                    Welcome to 1992. Windows 3.1 has this function long time ago.

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                                      • Nsr
                                      • 25 Apr 2017

                                      if it was apple that patented this technology everyone would be crying with hate here

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                                        • AnonD-647854
                                        • 9E6
                                        • 25 Apr 2017

                                        This will be for the pixel 2017