Feature Request: Separate Dual Screen

[DeathWishJOKER]

Would it be possible to add external monitor compatibility to have a bottom screen used on an android device and a top screen shown on an external monitor the android device is connected to? Dual screen support would be greatly appreciated especially since MelonDS is the only way to access retroachievements for these games.

[R3D-C0M3T]

This would be a nice step towards feature pairity with Drastic. Azahar very recently implemented this for 3DS, maybe their code could be used as a reference.

[iameduardod]

Thoughts @rafaelvcaetano ?

[R3D-C0M3T]

Seems someone has created a fork & implemented very fleshed out dual screen support, maybe this could be upstreamed? https://github.com/SapphireRhodonite/melonDS-android/tree/Dual-Screen

[melchizadek28]

Would love to see this as well

[rafaelvcaetano]

This is definitely a planned feature that has been requested a lot of times, so I do want to add it. Right now, I'm focused on trying to identify the source of crashes some users have been reporting. But since this feature has been getting such many requests, I'll try to add it after I fix the crashes.

[bmscmoreira]

Yes, +1, very much needed. There is fork already with this in place, maybe it could be merged?

[grofit]

Sorry to bump but from what I can tell the External Screen support has been merged in as of early October, I read that you wanted to do some refactoring to ensure its brought in-line with your other paradigms/patterns.

Is this something that is likely to be released in a new beta/full release soon or is this a while off yet? No worries if it is a while off, just I think a lot of dual screen owners are looking at that Dual Screen PR merged in hoping we get an official release with it, but if there is too much other work in-play to make a release viable no problems and thanks again to everyone involved in this project.

[rafaelvcaetano]

I'm still working on it. It's getting closer, but there's still some stuff left to do,s specially user experience because currently it's very convoluted and hard to use. You can try what already exists through the nightly builds.