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Android P may allow your phone to work as a Bluetooth keyboard or mouse

Samsung's latest DeX dock allows the Galaxy S9 to be used as a trackpad, a feature that Huawei already supported in its own PC mode and Microsoft in its Continuum before that. Android P may bring official support for this and even add the option of using the phone as a keyboard. A patch for this was committed back in December 2016, but has been disabled. Using a phone as a trackpad is pretty okay, though the typing experience won't be great. Still, simplifying the controls to something like joystick sounds nice - e.g. an extra controller for your console. Alternatively, it could be...



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