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Google is working on a new desktop mode for Android phones called Desktop View
Desktop View will be a full-fledged desktop mode experience for Android phones, and you’ll soon be able to test it
- Google is working on a new developer option for Android 16 that will let you enable Android’s desktop experience features.
- This new option enables Android’s Desktop View on the device itself as well as on secondary displays.
- We don’t know what the final version of Desktop View will look like on secondary displays as it’s still in development.
The best Android phones are more than powerful enough to be the sole computer for most people, but most of them lack the software features that people are looking for in workstations. While Samsung and Motorola phones offer a PC-like experience when connected to an external display, Pixel phones and other Android devices lack a desktop mode. Fortunately, Google is testing a new Desktop View feature in Android 16 that could bring a better desktop mode experience to more phones and tablets.
While Android already has a desktop mode feature, very few, if any, users utilize it due to its barebones nature. It is also buried within Android’s Developer Options, intended only for developers testing app behavior in freeform windows. This lack of a true desktop mode experience likely explains why most Google Pixel phones haven’t supported display output until recently.
