Amazon Kindle for Android gets support for split screen and notification center.

Split screen is one of my favorite feature on Android and today I'm more than glad to see Amazon kindle join the bandwagon of apps supporting this feature. With this update, users will be able to multi-task while reading.

This update will also allow Amazon Kindle to show new releases, deal alerts, and more in the notification center. No need to open the app to discover what's new anymore. The update is already available globally to download in Google Play Store.

Pocket for Android gets split-screen mode support.

Formerly known as 'Read it Later', Pocket is an essential app for me to save articles and videos for reading and viewing later. My daily intake of articles on the web is pretty big and commuting time is not enough to read them all, making Pocket a must-have app on my supported devices. 

Besides saving content for later, Pocket also strips the articles of ads and presents them in a read-friendly format similar to reading view in Edge, the Microsoft browser for Android. As such, the article looks nicer. Pocket is also very easy to use. You come across an article and want to save it for later, simply tap the share icon and tap the Pocket icon in the Share menu. 

The app was released in 2012 and has since been updated several times. Among one of its features, is the ability to highlight things you find interesting in the articles you read. Here again, this is a simple enough feature, but very useful. Pocket improved it by grouping the highlights in the order they appear in the articles; which makes sense.

In version 6.7.9.0, Pocket is getting support for multi-window on Android 7.0 or higher. Pocket developer says, "with split-screen mode, you can multi-task like a pro and use Pocket along with other apps on the same screen, at the same time."  I very rarely use split screen on my devices. At least, I know it's there in case I need it.

Download the update in Google Play Store.