KDE Connect on Linux - Android Tablet as Second Screen

[Peter Wibberley]

Hi Simon, 

Thank you for your email.  

It will be a steep learning curve (although I did do a fair amount of programming a few decades ago) but happy to give it a go.  What sort of timescales are you working to?  

Thanks and regards

Peter
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Subject: Re: KDE Connect on Linux - Android Tablet as Second Screen
Date: Tuesday, 28 July 2026, 00:01:10 British Summer Time
From: Simon Redman <simon at ergotech.com>
To: p.wibberley at btinternet.com, kdeconnect at kde.org, Peter Wibberley <p.wibberley at btinternet.com>


A community member recently opened a MR to add this functionality

https://invent.kde.org/network/kdeconnect-android/-/merge_requests/673

If you're able to review it, it would be helpful. A review of the code would be nice, but even just downloading the .apk from the pipeline, install it, give it a test run, and report on anything which worked well and anything which confused you or didn't work, would be helpful. 

Thanks, 
Simon



On July 27, 2026 4:12:37 PM EDT, Peter Wibberley <p.wibberley at btinternet.com> wrote:
I ask as I can't believe nobody has thought of this before: has anyone considered adding the facility to KDE Connect on Linux to connect to an Android tablet and use it as a second screen?  


I note that https://userbase.kde.org/KDEConnect says that a missing feature on Android is "Virtual Display".  Does this mean that someone's thought about it and there's a problem with implementing it?   


I know next to nothing about this sort of thing but might be prepared to give it a go if I thought there was the remotest chance of success.  


Thanks and regards


Peter 

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