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Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse?

From Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11, alt.comp.microsoft.windows
Subject Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse?
Date 2022-04-17 01:13 +0100
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Joel wrote:

> Intriguing, but I really don't have a use for operating my phone from
> my computer.  My phone has its uses when I'm at home, but they are all
> separate from the computer.

While I wrote a tutorial each for every free Windows Android emulator, today
I wrote a tutorial for mirroring Android on Windows - where what I would
like to learn from others is _how_ they accomplish the same mirroring tasks?
 C:\> adb devices
 C:\> scrcpy 

This has some _huge_ advantages that are a bonus that I'm just learning now!
That's why I'm asking others here what you use to mirror Android on the PC.

I only tried scrcpy because I needed to screenshot what was locked to
screenshotting by Android app policy, so obviously that's at least one use.

Everything that needs to be typed is clearly more efficient when you have
your PC mouse and keyboard, but what's also a bonus is you can easily save a
video of what's going on the Android phone while you're using it.
 C:\> scrcpy --record foo.mp4

Yet another _fantastic_ advantage is your 6.5 inch phone display becomes a
huge 20 inches tall by 9 inches wide (my real calculations!) on your screen.

This is instantly a boon to tired old eyes, which is most of Usenet by now.

I'm not sure of other uses, but I've had my phone tethered to my PC for a
couple of hours now where I'm constantly quite easily responding to text
messages by typing on the keyboard, which is clearly another huge advantage
of the method (for people who are tethered to a computer, anyway).

You can be on _both_ the Windows PC and the Android phone at the same time!
C:\> adb pull /system/etc/hosts .\hosts.txt

And, if I use a WebDAV server on Android (versus FTP or HTTP or SMB
servers), I can read and write _directly_ to/from Android over USB.
(As WebDAV mounts the entire Android phone as a drive letter on Windows.)

You can even pull up individual (public) pages of _any_ Android app:
C:\> adb shell am start -n com.google.android.gms/.ads.settings.AdsSettingsActivity
 (That will reset your Android Advertising-ID from Windows for example.)

Given all this comes simply by unpacking a zip file containing two FOSS
executables (adb & scrcopy), I was wondering how _other_ people do the same
thing (and I want to include that information in my nascent tutorial also).
-- 
Usenet is a world-wide team sport where purposefully helpful kind-hearted
adults help each other and learn by pooling our individual capabilities.

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What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-17 00:33 +0100
  Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2022-04-16 19:41 -0400
    Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-17 01:13 +0100
      Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2022-04-16 20:23 -0400
        Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2022-04-17 15:26 +0100
          Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-17 23:32 +0100
            Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Peter Johnson <peter@parksidewood.nospam> - 2022-04-18 12:35 +0100
              Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-18 20:27 +0100
          Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-18 02:55 +0100
            Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-18 07:43 +0100
              Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-18 20:31 +0100
                Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-19 06:11 +0100
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          Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-20 23:12 +0100
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  Re: What do you use to mirror & control your Android phone on Windows using the keyboard & mouse? Andy Burnelli <spam@nospam.com> - 2022-04-22 05:21 +0100
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