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Google Reveals the Real Purpose of Android's New Terminal App
AppWizard
March 18, 2025

Google Reveals the Real Purpose of Android’s New Terminal App

Google introduced a Terminal app on Android as part of the March Pixel drop to facilitate the integration of more Linux applications, tools, and games into the Android environment. The app is not intended to create another desktop environment, as Google aims to avoid confusion from multiple window management options. The focus is on supporting Desktop Linux applications similarly to ChromeOS, while allowing users to install alternative Linux desktop environments if desired. Future enhancements include GPU acceleration and the ability to install applications via Flatpaks or APT repositories, with the recent Android 16 Beta 3 update adding support for multiple tabs within the Linux Terminal.
Google preps new features for Android desktop windowing, including a minimize button
AppWizard
November 26, 2024

Google preps new features for Android desktop windowing, including a minimize button

Google is enhancing the desktop windowing capabilities of Android with the upcoming release of Android 15 QPR1, which will introduce features such as buttons to minimize applications and the ability to open them in new windows. The desktop windowing feature allows users to operate multiple applications in resizable windows, with a taskbar for managing running and pinned applications. Users can activate desktop windowing by dragging a fullscreen app's pill or using a keyboard shortcut. A new “multi-instance property” for developers will enable apps to launch as multiple instances, and a minimize button will allow users to minimize and reopen application windows via the taskbar. The Android 15 QPR2 Beta 1 release has also introduced an “app-to-web” feature for select applications, enhancing usability.
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