{"id":119983,"date":"2025-05-21T14:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119983\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T14:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T14:17:09","slug":"google-teases-an-android-desktop-mode-made-with-samsungs-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/119983\/","title":{"rendered":"Google teases an Android desktop mode, made with Samsung\u2019s help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Google is working with Samsung to bring a desktop mode to Android. During Google I\/O\u2019s developer keynote, engineering manager Florina Muntenescu <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/live\/GjvgtwSOCao?si=AoweLDWrR3haKZg9&amp;t=1250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said the company is<\/a> \u201cbuilding on the foundation\u201d of Samsung\u2019s DeX platform \u201cto bring enhanced windowing capabilities in Android 16,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2025\/05\/20\/android-16-desktop-mode-samsung-dex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spotted earlier by 9to5Google<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2017\/5\/2\/15495036\/samsung-dex-station-galaxy-s8-review-desktop-dock\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samsung first launched DeX in 2017<\/a>, a feature that automatically adjusts your phone\u2019s interface and apps when connected to a larger display, allowing you to use your phone like a desktop device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">A demo during the presentation revealed a Samsung DeX-like layout, with apps like Gmail, Chrome, YouTube, and Google Photos centered in the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. It also showed how Android 16\u2019s adaptive apps can move and stretch across the screen. The time sits at the top-left corner of the screen, with the Wi-Fi signal and battery on the right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Google is working with Samsung to bring a desktop mode to Android. During Google I\/O\u2019s developer keynote, engineering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":119984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3159],"tags":[2061,867,49669,547,12,542,326,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-119983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-android","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-i-o-2025","11":"tag-mobile","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-samsung","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-technology","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114546255104453821","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}