Drag & drop for seamless multitasking

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Large screens show 42% more Chrome multi instance use than phones so adding drag and drop reduces friction and enables cross app gestures. AndroidX provides DragStartHelper to detect long press or mouse drags and build ClipData with multiple representations, and DropHelper to register targets and highlight supported types. Use view.startDragAndDrop with DRAG_FLAG_GLOBAL and DRAG_FLAG_GLOBAL_URI_READ to share URIs across apps and rely on onReceiveContent to handle the dropped payload.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 0:38Dragstart Helper
3. 1:55DragFlags
4. 2:51Drop Helper

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