Is OPPO behind Android 16’s best multitasking feature? We asked and found out.

Android 16 includes a great split-screen multitasking system , allowing one app to take over 90% of the screen space while the second app occupies the remaining 10%. This is extremely similar to OPPO’s Boundless View and OnePlus’s OpenCanvas multitasking systems. But did OPPO actually donate this feature to Google for Android 16? OPPO executive Zhu Haizhou claimed on Weibo earlier this week that Android 16’s 90:10 split screen feature was a “small contribution from OPPO” to Google. Check out the machine-translated screenshot below. However, we asked OPPO to clarify whether it had indeed formally contributed this feature to Google: The Google ’90:10′ split-screen multitasking feature you mentioned indeed draws inspiration from OPPO’s Boundless View. Boundless View is a productivity-enhancing feature first introduced on the OPPO Find N3 in 2023 and subsequently extended to our bar-style phones, the Find X8 Series, via ColorOS 15 last year. It significantly expands usable screen space ... Read full article.