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Re: PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi

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Maria Sophia wrote:
> There are three ways to connect your phone to your PC to control it from
> the PC (& which can makes the phone as tall & as wide as your monitor is).

One very nice feature of this PC to Android setup is for automatic archival 
of APKs on the PC & automatic installation from the PC to Android.

Here's the flow that I use for universal APKs (one package for all phones).

1. I often download an APK using the PC web browser & save to a USB drive.
2. Most sites will provide a universal APK (such as F-Droid or Github).
3. From the file explorer, when you slide the APK on top of the Android
   mirror image, it automatically runs "adb install" to install that APK.
   <https://i.postimg.cc/wvsbcNBz/scrcpy05.jpg>

Note the quick efficiency as you never need to physically copy the APK.
It's automatically archived, and installation is as simple as sliding it.

However.... Google is getting more & more like Apple... in that... 

The google play repo is serving almost exclusively the PITA split APKs.

Apparently, Google wants you to use their bundletool to install split APKs
 <https://github.com/google/bundletool/releases>
 <https://github.com/google/bundletool/releases/download/1.18.3/bundletool-all-1.18.3.jar>
  Name: bundletool-all-1.18.3.jar
  Size: 32520401 bytes (31 MiB)
  SHA256: A099CFA1543F55593BC2ED16A70A7C67FE54B1747BB7301F37FDFD6D91028E29

 bundletool install-apks --apks=myapp.apks

While you can unzip a split APK and stream over adb to install it
  adb install-multiple base.apk config*.apk
what's simpler in most cases is just sliding it over the same way.

However, since it's a split APK, it goes into /sdcard/Downloads and, 
from there, you can use SAI or Muntashirakon App Manager to install.

Note: I haven't used all the methods above because I use a simple approach.

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PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-09 21:02 -0600
  Re: PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-10 20:01 -0600
    Re: PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-11 20:34 -0600
    Re: PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2026-05-12 13:00 +0100
      Re: PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-12 09:15 -0600
  Re: PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi Roger Mills <mills37.fslife@gmail.com> - 2026-05-12 12:09 +0100
    Re: PSA: How to mirror Android onto your PC using scrcpy & adb over Wi-Fi Maria Sophia <mariasophia@comprehension.com> - 2026-05-12 09:03 -0600

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