A group of five recently-used apps are displayed at the bottom of the interface, along with the Google Search bar and Google Assistant above. It’s a little on the cluttered side, but it comes with several useful features. Subscribe to 9to5Mac on YouTube for more videosīeside the animations though, I really like the Pixel 2 XL app switching interface. Granted, it’s running a developer beta (so is the iPhone X), but I’ve always found this to be one of Android’s key weaknesses from a visual interaction perspective. The lack of rubber-banding still makes a big difference when it comes to animations, but beyond that I found the animations to be a little jerky on the Pixel 2 XL. Animations on the Pixel 2 XL aren’t as smooth as the iPhone X, which should come as no surprise. Swiping through apps is similar as well, as all of your running apps are displayed via a familiar card interface. The mechanics are slightly different, but the end result is the same. Invoking the app switcher on the Google Pixel is similar to the iPhone X, as it requires a swipe-up gesture from the bottom of the display. Watch our hands-on video walkthrough for more. Although Android P is still in beta, I wanted to showcase how some of the Pixel XL 2’s multitasking features stack up against the iPhone X. The interface works similarly to the iPhone X, in that swipe gestures can be used to invoke the app switcher. One of the things that I found interesting about Android P is its updated multitasking interface.
As you may have heard, the latest developer beta for Android was just released, called Android P, and Google makes it super easy to enroll and install the beta on a select few Android phones. I recently got my hands on a Google Pixel 2 XL, primarily because I’ve long planned on migrating my business line from Google Voice to a standalone phone, and figured an Android phone would give me a good opportunity to catch me up on the platform’s features.