Android will soon ask if you want to enable Desktop Mode or mirror your screen when connecting to an external display. A new “don’t ask me again” checkbox allows the system to remember your preference ...

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When you hook your Android phone up to an external display, most apps don’t do anything special. However, certain apps, such as Google Slides, Drastic DS emulator, and Filmic Pro, have special ...

Google’s work on an Android desktop mode continues with desktop windowing coming to external displays with an upcoming Android 16 QPR1 Beta. Desktop windowing was introduced in Android 15 QPR1 as a ...

It looks like Android 16 will add a feature that lets you screen record what you’re doing on an external monitor. This is an expansion of a current Android 15 feature that enables you to screenshot ...

Scrcpy is a free and open source utility that lets you mirror the display of an Android device on a Windows, Mac, or Linux computer so that you can interact with your mobile apps on your laptop or ...

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Through the past several years of Pixel phones, none have supported the ability to use the USB-C port to put anything on an external display. But with the latest Android 14 beta, Google has finally ...

Google’s Pixel 8 smartphone is the company’s first phone that you can plug into an external display since the Nexus 5, which was released more than ten years ago. Or at least, it will be very soon.

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