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Thank you for your support!

If I can put together enough money for a 6 day hotel stay in San Francisco later this year I will be joining Samsung at their developer conference.

I hope that I can use that opportunity to provide more developers with the resources/info needed to give us a greater DeX experience!

Also, I hope to speak to some of Samsungs DeX development team to provide feedback from all of the community to enable DeX to be pushed further.

I hope that I can do more there to enhance your DeX eperience as a thanks for your support!

Samsung has asked me to give a presentation because of my DeX Hub app, I want to use that opportunity to teach developers more about developing for DeX, to remove any current boundaries and to encourage more to develop with DeX in mind when developing software for Android.

I will be looking to create an open source application template which will make it clear to developers how they can best utilise DeX features, and only add to their apps, improving the experience everywhere (including tablets and phones), to give them more incentive to adopt support for DeX!

And hopefully the template will show them how they can add all of these DeX optimised features and make the additions useful on phones too. (i.e. right click context menus being called when long pressing the item on the screen of your phone).

I am working on creating a library that they can just place in their app, and it will redirect events based on the device types, to reduce the amount of code they need to develop within their apps, so even the lazy developers may find it easy enough to justify dropping in the library and change one line of code to redirect the functions to this custom library to handle everything required for touch & mouse/keyboard devices.

Also the template will provide a modular design system which can enable them to create one UI which can shift where elements of the UI are displayed to utilise extra screen space on a desktop/tablet, but also scales back down to the phone very well too! (currently, the design is better than anything that I have used in my current DeX apps, and hopefully, once I have created an effective template that many can start developing from, I will look to bring more of the features to my published apps). It also brings a more effective system to update the apps UI when adjusting the window size! (this will be beneficial on phones too, as it improves UI updates when changing the phones orientation!).

I am aware that some Google developers went to Samsungs event last year, so I hope that Google see this template, and consider cloning it in some ways for all developers to work from a better scalable design for all new apps built for Android no matter what the users device type or input is!

I know that even a few Google developers need a few tips about developing for DeX/Android desktop, as one of the comments in the Chrome bugs/feature request page seemed to suggest that the guy didn't know how to use Androids native functions to detect DeX or anything like it (for example Remix OS).

I will also try to find the guys who work on the hardware side of things at Samsung and see if they would consider creating a 'lapdock' for DeX as many of us on here have said that we want something like this for when we need a larger display, but don't have a desk on hand to place in the middle of the street to perform the tasks that we want to do!

I know that most of us are strong enough to carry a desk on our back with a monitor, keyboard and mouse sellotaped to it :rolleyes: but it can be a little difficult to fit through doorways when doing this... :eek: So we simply want a 'lapdock' for those times that we plan to walk through doorways! ;) :p

I know that most of my apps users are "hit & run" users and only (litterally) 1% have donated, but for those that have, I feel responsible to ensure that I do what is best for them, aswell as myself. :D