Why disabling split screen option on Android??
The most recent update, 2.92, turns off option to use Ingress in split screen. Thankfully, Android allows for overriding such stupid decisions of some developers wanting to disable usability features of the OS, via Developer Settings -> Force activities to be resizeable.
If that is not a bug and was done intentionally, Niantic, have you thought what split-screen means for Ingress players? I'll name what can be on the other half of split screen:
1. A messenger to coordinate ops
2. A google sheet to link to right keys in right sequence
3. A walkie-talkie to communicate
And you just denied us those opportunities on default Android settings. What the hell??
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Are you sure it's Niantic doing it? Telegram, Discord, Google Maps, as well as Ingress, are all having difficulty with it for me on my Pixel 4XL with the latest Android 12 release. I can get Ingress (and the other apps) in to Freeform mode.
Yes I'm sure. I haven't updated OS and all other commonly used apps I have haven't changed their behavior. Also, here's a bug report already:
Thanks for the info. Hopefully it was an oversight that they'll fix in the next release... so it's probably gone forever at this point :/
I don't believe it was ever intended to be split screen. Every time I've tried it, things like the GPS location stop updating in the non-active window, meaning that it would be a great way to lock an account in place.
Before Android 10, the inactive half would be paused, yes. Maybe you referred to that issue. But Android 10 brought "multi-resume", fixing that and making Ingress just work while you do something on the second half.
I have android 10. I used split screen mode. Because it made it easier for me to like photos sent from the link. Sometimes you had to turn on the link 10 times for the portal to appear. That's why I had split screen mode on. On one half of the Telegram,on the other Ingress. It was a very stupid Niantic decision.
With the new update, the portal not appearing has been fixed, it now shows the first time when opening the link.
I noticed it. That's why I don't care a bit now. But it's a pity. A few times I charging portals on one half, and the other half watched the series.
Use developer settings to return that functionality back ;)
Thank u 🙂 . It worka. For me it was force activity windows to resize.
Another vote for bringing it back :) it works well and is quite useful
Yeah I did it too... glad it works but it's kind of silly to have to force it.
En algunos móviles XIAOMI se ha desactivado también en una actualización varios de ellos se ha hecho actualización y ya funciona, pero en el caso de XIAOMI era con Pokémon.
It seems it's a bug from updating Unity. The same issue happened with the recent Pokémon Go update that also updated Unity.
I don't believe Niantic really needs you to justify EVERY ONE of their actions.
You don't need to give him any attention at every opportunity either
Hopefully a bug but since it's happened in both now it feels like either bug they don't care about or intentional