Multiple Displays – Part 4

In the previous article we got our app (which shows the characteristics of our displays) backwardly compatibile, but it still lacks the ability to handle connection and disconnection of an external display while the MainActivity is running. In this article we’ll add the ability to do precisely that.

Multiple Displays – Part 2

In the previous article we put together a simple utility which shows the display characteristics, and showed this working on various devices. However the main point of this series is to cover the use of multiple displays, os in this part we’ll begin looking at that functionality.

Multiple Displays – Part 1

At the time of writing, Android 4.2 has just been released and this contains an interesting new feature which enables us to independently control multiple displays. In this series of articles we’ll look at the new APIs and see how we can control different displays independently.