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Originally Posted by geneven View Post
what amazes and disappoints me about Android is that I can't carry through my chess dream even on the Acer Iconia A500 I now have.

All I want to do is sit here reading a chess book (I have some ready in the Kindle app) and play through the moves using a great chess display program such as Scid, which I have in a good Android version.

But I see no way to display both programs at once even on the 10 inch screen I have! I can look at the moves or look at the commentary on the moves -- take my pick!
Then you will LOVE this...
Android gets multi-windowed UI with new Wind River software modules

Or this...
Windowed Android UI by Ixonos Makes an Appearance

In the meantime, you can also read this for technical reasons regarding why Android isn't natively windowed... yet:
https://plus.google.com/105051985738...ts/XAZ4CeVP6DC

In the meantime, today you could multi-pane (instead of windowed):
http://www.onskreen.com/cornerstone/

Hope this was helpful or at least genuinely hopeful information. Cheers!
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