Unusual ways to use Android phone and tablet

Most Android owners of devices use them standard: for calls and messages, including in messengers, as a camera, to view sites and videos, and as an appendage to social networks. However, this is not everything that your smartphone or tablet is capable of.

In this review - somewhat unusual (in any case for novice users) of the use of the Android device. Perhaps among them will be what will be useful for you.

That can Android device from what you did not guesses

I will start with the easiest and less "secret" options (which many, but not everyone, are known) and continue to be more specific applications of phones and tablets.

Here is a list of what you can do with your Android, but, quite likely, do not:

1. Watch TV on Android is something that many use, and, at the same time, many do not recognize about such an opportunity. And it can be very comfortable.

   

2. Transmit an Android image to a TV on Wi-Fi - can sometimes be useful. Support the wireless broadcast most of the smartphones and almost all modern TVs with Wi-Fi.
3. Use the phone as a remote control for TV - there are already fewer people. And there is such an opportunity for most modern TVs with Wi-Fi and other ways to connect to the network exist. No IR receiver is required: the attachment application was downloaded, connected, began to use without searching the original doors.

   

4. Android phone as a webcam computer
5. Use Android as a computer clock or Windows laptop, Mac OS or Linux
6. Turn Android smartphone to car DVR
7. Download all Wikipedia on Android phone and read it offline - suddenly come in handy?
8. Search friends and relatives on the map
9. To track the location of the child with the help of parental control functions - this opportunity, I think there are also known many, but it is worth reminding.
10. Connect your smartphone to a computer or Windows 10 laptop using the application your phone and have access to photos, calls, messages and a computer screen.
11. Make from the Android IP camera - is there an unnecessary phone that has long been dusting in the table box? Use it as a surveillance camera, it's easy enough to configure and works fine.
12. Use Android as a graphic tablet for drawing on a computer or laptop, including a pen and taking into account Pressing force.
13. Make a tablet on Android the second monitor for the computer - at the same time it is not about the usual image broadcast from the screen, but it is use as a second monitor that is visible in Windows, Mac OS or Linux with all possible parameters (for example, to display different contents on two monitors).
14. Driving Android from a computer and on the contrary - to control a computer with Android. There are many tools for these purposes, with different features: from simple file transfer before sending SMS and communication in messengers through the phone from the computer. According to the specified links, several options are described.
15. Distribute the Internet by Wi-Fi from the phone on laptops, tablets and other devices.
16. Create a bootable flash drive for a computer directly on the phone.
17. Use Android as a gamepad, a mouse or keyboard for a computer - for example, for games or to manage PowerPoint presentations.
18. Some smartphone models can be used as a computer by connecting to the monitor. For example, it looks like this samsung dex.

It seems that this is all what I wrote on the site and what I managed to remember. Can you offer additional interesting use options? I will be glad to read about them in the comments.