The Skype team added an innovative feature on Friday to the video calling app for Android tablets: A floating picture-in-picture window. This means you can use Skype(s msft) video calls and still see the other party when using a different Android(s goog) app.

It’s a pretty impressive feat mainly because Android by default doesn’t support running two apps on the screen at the same time. One exception is Samsung’s implementation of limited multitasking that allows for a pair of apps to be on screen and running independent simultaneously. You could even argue that Facebook’s(s fb) chatheads sort of work similar albeit in an even more limiting fashion.

Here’s what the Skype blog says about the feature and why it was added:

” In the spirit of wanting to provide a common Skype experience across as many OSes as possible, our Android team sought out a way to develop an experience…