BURCANGIJO: You Can Use Your Android device As Second Monitor For Your PC Or MAC

Monday, March 6, 2017

You Can Use Your Android device As Second Monitor For Your PC Or MAC

Have you ever wondered what it would look like to Use your android device as second monitor to your PC? Maybe you actually thought its impossible? It is not and today I am going to guide you through on how to go about that. This will help you monitor some activity on your PC.

A computer consists of a single screen for display which is required for us to view all our activities we performed, primary users would not have the need to connect more monitor to their computer. An advanced technical task may require one to have an extra monitor been attached to your PC to manage the difficult task getting the monitor screens will be much expensive. In this post, we are going to show you how to use your Android as a second monitor to your PC or Mac which will reduce the cost of getting a monitor screen

Steps to Use an Android device as a Second Monitor for your PC

Required:

Android device

Your PC

iDisplay.apk(download)

iDisplay driver(download)

Your brain(download link not available... Lol)

Download the iDisplay on Android device and also download the iDisplay driver on the computer. Double click on the iDisplay driver you downloaded follow the instruction.
After following the above instruction, yo should have the driver installed automatically.
Now restart your computer
Check your system tray if the driver is installed or not.
Click on the iDisplay installed on your tablet or Android device to launch, it will not require any settings from the beginning it will just searching for the computer WiFi signal. You are advised to turn on your Computer WiFi. Once the wifi signal is found by Android app, just go ahead and connect it to the options. You will get a pop-up message on the screen of your PC, just hit that away by clicking on Always Allow, hit the another warning too and you shall be ready for the process.
After the above is done, you will find your connected Android device showing the same screen with your computer monitor.
You can now set up settings for display resolution, color, etc. directly through the setup display of your Windows.

Disconnecting is just easy, do that from the iDisplay icon in the action center of the app!

I believe you can do a lot with this tutorial. share the post with friends on social media

Available link for download