Entirely possible they disabled it because people were plugging it in and because lack of support it caused issues. No one knows until they start doing some testing and trial and error but no one's doing that and are just focusing on theories. Would be a lot more helpful and beneficial for people to start doing trial and error and experimentation instead of coming up with things like "Google just wants to sell Chromebooks" or whatever kind of weird stuff.
flawedworld - I would like to experiment with this mode in developer options. I am looking into picking up a HDMI to C cable. Would my P6 Pro support a cable that uses 'DP Alt Mode'? Any advice is appreciated since I don't want to buy a cable if it's unsupported.
Would it be possible for the GOS devs to remove that kernel restriction to test this? Most of us don't have the worked out routine environment to do this without a major hassle.
flawedworld has anyone in the GOS community got this working to any degree?
chock-a-block From what I understand, it's far more limited than Samsung DEX. I believe that option allows you to only mirror the phone screen to another screen.
The Pixel 8 series might come with a desktop mode. If that is true and GOS supports it as well, this would be an easy sell for me.
Use scrcpy, vysor, anlink, or airdroid
As far as I can tell, Google did not announce a desktop mode with Pixel 8. Does anyone know if there is any further evidence of this feature in Android 14?
dgzeij Interesting, thanks for pointing me towards that
Is the mouse working on screen?
It is on P8P. External mouse is working. You can see the cursor on the monitor. It seems that phone must be in the landscape position to be able to move mouse cursor to monitor "area".
Noticed mouse cursor when connecting monitor just to duplicate phone screen on monitor. Then enabled "Force desktop mode" After few restarts monitor was active.
It may happen that "Smooth display" must be turned on.
