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[MENTION=3318880]teegunn[/MENTION]

I remember trying that a few years ago, (I even contributed to some of the code on their forums - and was asked to work for them as a result), but I thought that the project was too limited as (back then at least - i'm not sure about now), the app couldn't scale third party apps, meaning that it wasn't effective at doing what I wanted primarilly (which was for all apps to scale to the external display), but it was also limited back then, due to stock Android not having support for 'freeform' windows to allow true multi-tasking... although there were a few of their own apps (such as a calculator) designed to be run in a floating window format, but it was only effective in desktop mode, meaning that it would be useless to syncronise the experience across two 'experiences' (phone & desktop mode).

It was nice to see a product attempting to acheive this (hence I was happy to publicly share code on their forums to help improve it), but it just couldn't (due to OS limitations) deliver the end product which I wanted. Jide has announced that this summer they will bring us a 'proper' unified computing experience similar to Dex, but this may require some effort to root your device and install a custom ROM to use it, resulting in a loss of NFC payment support (which I always use), and making it too difficult for the "tech-n00bs" out there to acheive, and obviously, I think simplicity & end-user experience is key in all of this.

Although Jide may be able to work with other hardware vendors to bring this functionality to their devices without the costs of R&D to develop their own, and Jide has worked with hardware vendors in the past to bring desktop Android PC's & laptops to market. But unfortunately we haven't seen a fully fledged 'Unified Computing' experience from them yet, but as I said, that should be coming from them later this year!

http://www.jide.com/remixos-for-mobile

I can certainly say that I am more confident that 2017 is the 'true' beginning of effective Unified Computing, and I think that by 2019, it will be widely accepted by ALL app developers as an essential to develop with this experience in mind.

Maybe in 2018, Google might just accept that Chrome OS has no place now that Android is where it's at for a full mobile and desktop experience, and maybe then, they will fully integrate their own Unified Computing experience into Android, Although I wouldn't be too surprised if we hear some news/comments from them before that discussing the possibility of UC with the Android platform!

But so far Samsung Dex is the only product which can deliver an effective UC product which can enable me to connect/disconnect my phone to a dock and resume what I was doing in the other experience, such as showing all of the same tabs in my browser so I can continue to read what ever I was reading on the device in the other experience. This can also prove to be useful when working on word documents to allow you to resume editing your documents!

One other area that I've found this really effective is the ability to make/receive a phone call and read whatever info you need from another app back to the person on the other end of the phone, which can be very useful when you need to quote acoount numbers or something similar! Although you can do this in phone mode technically, it just was a little too much effort to acheive that, where as in Dex/desktop mode, there is no need to adjust anything, either you are likely to have the details open in a window on screen, or you can quickly launch the app from the start menu without hiding the phone app to still interact with that, which can also be VERY useful when you need to enter numbers into a keypad for example... damn you wouldn't believe how annoying I have previously found that in phone mode when switching between apps to get the numbers and then switch back to the phone to enter some then switch back to get more of the number, etc, etc...

This is a breath of fresh air in so many ways, with the quick access to communication solutions of many kinds, and the stable internet connection as the Galaxy S8 has proven quite effective at automatically switching between WiFi and cellular data when one isn't performing very well, but also offering a download booster to combine the speeds of both when they are both working very well!

My old Windows devices are just too limited when compared to this... My desktop is a custom built high-end 'Gaming spec' computer, but for most daily tasks, I have found this to be more effective!