Using Android as a Secondary Display with Windows 10 App
As I sit here in front of my laptop, I can see that I've got my website open on the main screen. But what's really interesting is that I can use this laptop to display content from another device. For example, I'm going to use one of my favorite YouTube channels and see how it works as a secondary display.
I've got my tablet right here next to me, and I can plug it in via USB. Now, I want to show you what happens when I start this app. This is the Android application that's running on my tablet, showing the image that's on the screen. As you can see, it's working just fine. The audio is coming through just right now, and the touch support is also working well. You can see all the brightness and everything that's controlled on the tablet still going through the tablet itself, of course. This is because the app is running in Android mode.
I'm just going to swipe down from the top of the screen here, as you normally would with an Android device. And if I want to tweak the brightness of the screen, I can do that just like normal. The touch response on my tablet is also very good, and I just wanted to demonstrate that. It's actually quite impressive, considering what I'm used to using for things like Miracast.
Now, let me try something a bit more specific. I'll click here on one of the videos, bring up this one right here. And you can see how the internet loading is working just fine. The video comes in quickly and smoothly, without any noticeable lag or choppiness to the display. This is really impressive, considering what I was expecting.
But wait, let me try something else. If I turn down the power on my tablet - this is low power mode, which is designed to save battery life when you're plugged into a USB port. As you can see, it's starting to look a bit choppier now. The refresh rate seems to be slower, and there's even a little bit of delay between when I click the screen and when the response comes through. This is because the app is trying to save power by reducing the performance of the display.
Now, let me flip it back over to high performance mode again. Ah, that makes all the difference! The video is still coming in smoothly and quickly, without any lag or choppiness at all. The touch response is also very good now - just like when I was using it in normal mode. It's impressive how much of a difference it makes by switching back to high performance.
But that's not all - I can also use this app to duplicate the display from my laptop onto my tablet. To do that, I need to go into Windows 10 settings. I'll click on Display and then select "Extend" from the dropdown menu. This will allow me to take a portion of my screen and move it over to my tablet.
Now, let's see what happens when I try this. Ah, look - my website is now duplicated onto the tablet! I can move it around just like normal on my laptop. And if I want to switch back to using my tablet as the main display, I can simply toggle this feature off again.
One thing that struck me while testing this app was how much lower the input lag is compared to when I'm using Miracast or another secondary display solution. This is because Android doesn't have the same limitations as some of those other solutions - it's designed specifically for use with touchscreens, and that shows in the performance.
Overall, I'm very impressed with this app. It's a great way to turn my tablet into a secondary display, especially if you're always on the go and don't want to lug around an external monitor. And even though the latency is lower than I expected - it's still not perfect, but it's much better than some of the other solutions out there.
As someone who travels with their tablet all the time, this app has been a game-changer for me. It allows me to use my laptop as a secondary display when I need to, which is really convenient. And even though there are some limitations - like power mode, which can make the display look a bit choppier - overall, I think this app is well worth checking out if you're in the market for something like it.
I hope you found this article informative and helpful. If you have any questions or comments about using Android as a secondary display with Windows 10, feel free to let me know in the comments section below. Thanks for watching!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI ran welcome back to another video so today's video going to be showing you an application here that you can use to turn your tablet so an Android 6 or above one or an iPad into an external touchscreen monitor via USB so if you happen to be like me you travel with both a laptop and a tablet this is something handy to have without having to bring along one of those portable external monitors so to get up and running first we're going to need to download the PC program to mon se so head over to easy and light comm you can see the address right there in the top download the PC program at the time of this video there doesn't seem to be any Apple support here at the moment and then later on I will install the app so get this downloaded it's about so you can see 138 two megabytes install it and then you need to connect up the tablet you're going to use via USB and then of course you are also going to need the application on your tablet so here I'm using an Android tablet so I need to get the Android version it's going to cost nine euros forty nine or ten US dollars now if you look down in the taskbar here you will see we've got two Mon SC they're running in the background so when you connect up a tablet it will automatically to tick that and start duplicating the display over or set it up as an extended display if you right-click it you've got different settings here which are very important so you can control the resolution you're going to see on your tablet this gaming mode and the performance mode now I find it's best to set the performance mode on to high performance that will give you the best lettin see so this is one of the ways you could use it of course so if I happen to be traveling with my me paired 4 then I can use it as an extended display or a duplicate display now I believe that most people would use it as an extended one you could duplicate it if you wanted to but most use case scenarios I would say would be like this so I'm looking at some content right here on my main screen of the laptop you can see I've got my website open and right here I could be looking at one of my favorite tick YouTube channels and you can see that works just fine now the audio is coming through right now on the laptop here and the touch support is working so all the brightness and everything that's controlled on the tablet still goes through the tablet of course with Android in this case as you can see here so if I swipe down from the top because remember this is actually just an Android application running showing the image that's on here and by the way USB debugging you make sure you have this on otherwise I don't think it is going to work so I can go along here and I can tweak the brightness of the screen as you normally would and the touch response I just wanted to demonstrate that so it is very good I didn't expect the latency to be as good as it currently is right now because I will just click here on one of my videos for example just bring up this one right here okay that's my internet loading that and then but you can see that it is actually really quite good I thought that it would have quite a bit of delay I guess because I'm so used to using things like miracast and I've noticed that when it's on the normal mode you then get a little bit of choppiness to the display as I'll demonstrate as you can see now see how that has a little bit of delay there I think it's more the refresh rate that that it is because the input seems to be fine it just doesn't seem now to be refreshing as fast and if I put it on to low power you can't see me doing this on my PC because of the camera but now on to low power you see it flash their notes that change and you can see now that that well you can see it is a lot choppier so that's trying to save power on my tablet actually with the amplification so it's not using so much I will flip it over to full power again so high performance so it flashes and now look you can see that to me is good that's groaning now there's this very smooth so just go out of this actually just hit the back there the accuracy would touch here's is the same as the touch digitizer here on my tablet too as well as you can see as mentioned I'm running it as an external display at the moment so I could take my website here or Excel spreadsheet whatever and move that over onto the tablet you can see that that is very quickly just did that move it right back here now and put it back onto my main laptop so if I wanted to run it just as a duplicate display then some to Windows 10 settings as you can see I'm doing click this and keep the changes and now you can see there it is duplicating the display so let's take a look again at the input lag so I move this around you can see there's a milliseconds delay there between my laptop and then the display itself but it really is good alright so overall I think this is handy to have this application for those of you that don't want to lug around a secondary portable monitor which can be a lot bigger and you might be always traveling with your tablet anyway for example you've got an iPad pro the twelve point nine inch version so a large screen you always travel with you happen to have a Windows laptop that is because on Apple there's no support at the time of this video at the moment I hope that is going to change in the future then you can use it as a touch secondary monitor which is very handy as I've shown you the latency turned out to be much better than I expected I expected it to be a little bit laggy now there's only leggy on the low sitting and the normal setting is a little bit as well but especially on the low now low of course is to save your tablet's battery because you're plugged in with USB and if you're on a high screen brightness on the high performance you slowly and eventually you are losing battery power so that's one thing you really want to start out with your tablet fully charged if you can and you can still use it and as I showed still control the screen brightness and use it as a normal tablet let's just launch the app plug it in as long as you've got it installed and then it works which is great so like me I always travel with the tablet normally I can now use it as a secondary monitor thank you so much for watching this particular video hear from me and I do hope to catch you back in the channel for more videos up and coming bye for nowI ran welcome back to another video so today's video going to be showing you an application here that you can use to turn your tablet so an Android 6 or above one or an iPad into an external touchscreen monitor via USB so if you happen to be like me you travel with both a laptop and a tablet this is something handy to have without having to bring along one of those portable external monitors so to get up and running first we're going to need to download the PC program to mon se so head over to easy and light comm you can see the address right there in the top download the PC program at the time of this video there doesn't seem to be any Apple support here at the moment and then later on I will install the app so get this downloaded it's about so you can see 138 two megabytes install it and then you need to connect up the tablet you're going to use via USB and then of course you are also going to need the application on your tablet so here I'm using an Android tablet so I need to get the Android version it's going to cost nine euros forty nine or ten US dollars now if you look down in the taskbar here you will see we've got two Mon SC they're running in the background so when you connect up a tablet it will automatically to tick that and start duplicating the display over or set it up as an extended display if you right-click it you've got different settings here which are very important so you can control the resolution you're going to see on your tablet this gaming mode and the performance mode now I find it's best to set the performance mode on to high performance that will give you the best lettin see so this is one of the ways you could use it of course so if I happen to be traveling with my me paired 4 then I can use it as an extended display or a duplicate display now I believe that most people would use it as an extended one you could duplicate it if you wanted to but most use case scenarios I would say would be like this so I'm looking at some content right here on my main screen of the laptop you can see I've got my website open and right here I could be looking at one of my favorite tick YouTube channels and you can see that works just fine now the audio is coming through right now on the laptop here and the touch support is working so all the brightness and everything that's controlled on the tablet still goes through the tablet of course with Android in this case as you can see here so if I swipe down from the top because remember this is actually just an Android application running showing the image that's on here and by the way USB debugging you make sure you have this on otherwise I don't think it is going to work so I can go along here and I can tweak the brightness of the screen as you normally would and the touch response I just wanted to demonstrate that so it is very good I didn't expect the latency to be as good as it currently is right now because I will just click here on one of my videos for example just bring up this one right here okay that's my internet loading that and then but you can see that it is actually really quite good I thought that it would have quite a bit of delay I guess because I'm so used to using things like miracast and I've noticed that when it's on the normal mode you then get a little bit of choppiness to the display as I'll demonstrate as you can see now see how that has a little bit of delay there I think it's more the refresh rate that that it is because the input seems to be fine it just doesn't seem now to be refreshing as fast and if I put it on to low power you can't see me doing this on my PC because of the camera but now on to low power you see it flash their notes that change and you can see now that that well you can see it is a lot choppier so that's trying to save power on my tablet actually with the amplification so it's not using so much I will flip it over to full power again so high performance so it flashes and now look you can see that to me is good that's groaning now there's this very smooth so just go out of this actually just hit the back there the accuracy would touch here's is the same as the touch digitizer here on my tablet too as well as you can see as mentioned I'm running it as an external display at the moment so I could take my website here or Excel spreadsheet whatever and move that over onto the tablet you can see that that is very quickly just did that move it right back here now and put it back onto my main laptop so if I wanted to run it just as a duplicate display then some to Windows 10 settings as you can see I'm doing click this and keep the changes and now you can see there it is duplicating the display so let's take a look again at the input lag so I move this around you can see there's a milliseconds delay there between my laptop and then the display itself but it really is good alright so overall I think this is handy to have this application for those of you that don't want to lug around a secondary portable monitor which can be a lot bigger and you might be always traveling with your tablet anyway for example you've got an iPad pro the twelve point nine inch version so a large screen you always travel with you happen to have a Windows laptop that is because on Apple there's no support at the time of this video at the moment I hope that is going to change in the future then you can use it as a touch secondary monitor which is very handy as I've shown you the latency turned out to be much better than I expected I expected it to be a little bit laggy now there's only leggy on the low sitting and the normal setting is a little bit as well but especially on the low now low of course is to save your tablet's battery because you're plugged in with USB and if you're on a high screen brightness on the high performance you slowly and eventually you are losing battery power so that's one thing you really want to start out with your tablet fully charged if you can and you can still use it and as I showed still control the screen brightness and use it as a normal tablet let's just launch the app plug it in as long as you've got it installed and then it works which is great so like me I always travel with the tablet normally I can now use it as a secondary monitor thank you so much for watching this particular video hear from me and I do hope to catch you back in the channel for more videos up and coming bye for now\n"
