My tablet was gathering dust until a productivity app gave it another lease on life

My tablet was gathering dust until a productivity app gave it another lease on life

https://www.androidpolice.com/i-gave-my-tablet-a-second-lease-of-life-with-this-one-simple-app/

Publish Date: 2026-07-16 08:30:00

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I don’t use my Android tablet as much as I should. Despite reporting on Android hardware for sites like Android Police, my tablet of choice is an iPad. I know, I know, it’s my only Apple device, I swear.

I always like to have an Android tablet on the go for testing purposes, and at the moment it’s the Xiaomi Pad 8. But it spends a lot of time gathering dust when I’m not using it.

Or it did. Recently I found another way to use it to solve a personal problem. For the last few weeks, the Xiaomi Pad has seen daily use as a second screen for my laptop.

Plenty of Android Police writers have tried using a tablet instead of a computer.

We’ve written about how replacing a Windows laptop with an Android tablet was painless, troubles that arose when ditching a laptop for a tablet, and how one writer replaced their desktop monitor with an Android slate.

But I wanted to try something different; my slate wasn’t replacing a laptop, but adding to it.

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