Google boosts multitasking on Android with this Chrome browser feature

Google is officially rolling out a minimised custom tab feature on Chrome browser for Android. The feature makes use of the Picture-in-Picture (PiP) window to offer a more simplified transition between native apps and web content. Google in a post on Chromium Blog page said that this feature enables “multitasking across surfaces, enhancing the in-app web browsing experience.”

The PiP view of a Chrome custom tab is only accessible from native Android applications, essentially Google apps such as Gmail, Chats, and more. The feature will be available soon on other apps that use Chrome browser to open links, but not apps with built-in browser functions such as Meta’s Instagram.