Drag & drop for seamless multitasking
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Large-screen users run Chrome 42% more often in multi-instance mode than on phones, so adding cross-app drag-and-drop reduces friction. The talk shows concrete APIs: DragStartHelper from AndroidX Core to detect gestures and build ClipData, calling view.startDragAndDrop with DRAG_FLAG_GLOBAL and DRAG_FLAG_GLOBAL_URI_READ, and DropHelper from AndroidX Drag and Drop to declare MIME types, highlight targets, use addInnerEditTexts, and receive content via onReceiveContent — working end-to-end across apps.
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