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Android: Enable Tailscale when enabling Tailscale VPN from Android settings #818

@arunsathiya

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@arunsathiya

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Often, I don't use the VPN app's GUI to enable/disable the VPN connection, rather, use the VPN option under Android settings to do that.

For some extra context, it is expected that when I choose "Always-on" option, it automatically enables the VPN on the app's GUI as well. This saves me one extra step, where I have to open the app's GUI to enable it as well. This works well with other consumer VPN apps like Cloudflare Warp and NordVPN. On Tailscale, the toggle remains disabled and it shows "Stopped"

Describe the solution you'd like

When VPN is enabled from Android settings, enable the Tailscale process as well, thus switching the toggle on Tailscape app to look "enabled".

Describe alternatives you've considered

Not applicable, right now, I activate VPN from Android settings and then open Tailscale GUI to enable the toggle as well.

Additional context

My reason behind using the Android VPN settings to enable/disable Tailscale, instead of the Tailscale GUI is that, I need to use "Always-on" and sometimes "Block internet access without VPN" settings, which is only available on Android settings and not on the VPN app's GUI.

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