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Someone needs to port a tiling window manager to iOS or Android. On a platform where screen space and user interactions are at a premium, it seems you'd want to minimize the amount of window resizing actions and maximize the usable screen space.

I use XMonad (http://xmonad.org/) on my desktop and love it. My Android tablet (a Nexus 10) is big enough that it needs something like this; would be great to have two or even three windows open at a time.

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Not trying to force a competition between Windows and Android, but this is a place where Windows tablets shine: You can have two windows open at a time, anywhere, in almost any app. When you open a picture attached to an email, it opens in a window side-by-side with the email. I can have a game open alongside a walkthrough for that game. It's incredible.

You can kinda do it with the Xposed framework and XHaloFloatingWindow (http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.zst.xposed.halo.floatingw...).

You can snap applications at borders and have a bar between to resize them, kinda like a tiling manager. But from my experience, it's not nearly as good as a tiling window manager, or even Windows on a tablet.

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