Scrcpy: Display and control your Android devices connected over USB or TCP/IP (github.com)

Can you share more about using scrcpy to install APKs that are unavailable for the device via Play?

And does not require a rooted phone

> Install apks .. on things like chromecasts

Once an apk is on a Chromecast, how does one launch it? I've loaded APKs onto a Fire Stick, but that OS actually has a launcher. For a Chromecast, would I be limited to launching via adb and apps that launch themselves by being cast to? That would still be useful, like for example SmartTubeNext is one of the apps I put on my Fire Stick (highly recommended) and in addition to launching via the GUI, it auto-launches when cast to. Would be great to move it to the Chromecast because it's the only reason I have a Fire Stick...

How do you exclude (split tunneling config) the wireless part required for scrcpy, when using a VPN app? The IP of my wireless debugging option shows as the one handed out via the tunnel interface, not the one from my wifi network, and I can't find a way to make this an exclusion, as I make other apps, in the split tunneling option of the VPN app.

How does that work - what do you do in the games from your computer for example? Just curious.

It has built-in Chromecast functionality too.

In case you know, is there a quality difference? I generally find the Chromecast to be very low fps, is this better?

VNC server/client?

Checkout rustdesk, open source vnc with Android client

Deskreen

weylus?

Chrome Remote Desktop works

Not using this tool, but actually to use this tool. My nexus device had a cracked screen like yours and I ended up running an android emulator to find where to blindly click to finally allow adb

You can use mouse with usb otg.

The first thing I do whenever I get a new phone (or OS update on an old phone) is enable USB debugging, plug it into my computer, and then click trust this device. It's insurance for the time when the phone screen inevitably dies, because then I can plug it back in and immediately drive it using scrcpy. It's saved me twice so far.

It's worth learning how to use TalkBack anyway because of the insight it gives you into how accessibility tooling works, and also it's perfect for this use-case.

if you have access to your phones files (or the phone backs up photos automatically ) you could try to use screenshots to guide you, or screenshare

You can use QuickTime on MacOS to see your iPhone as a video. Not sure other platforms.

Yes, it is built into iOS - swipe down from the top right corner and chose mirror screen, this will mirror your screen on a compatible device (I only tested with a MacBook).

Wow you went to Antarctica? Why?

    Overall Antarctica Cruise Cost [1]: 

    Low Budget     $9,340
    Mid-Range     $13,010
    Luxury        $26,100

Many years ago, my Samsung S3's wifi chip broke. I had to resort to mobile data for everything. Luckily I was able to use gnirehtet to download apps/updates for some time until I was able to buy a new phone :)

I bought Vysor when it was the only option but since moved to Scrcpy because it is simpler to use and had better stability. I remember that Vysor had more features but also had some issues with activating the license on some computers.

EDIT: I forgot to say both did the same thing: mirror the device on the PC.

Used to use Vysor, switched to scrcpy. First, this is free, so that's a big up in its win column. I had trouble with stability in Visor that I never had with scrcpy. Plus, it's open source. There's no comparison to me.

So scrcpy over wifi??

I think my Wireguard VPN already does this, sans root? I enable my VPN and my hotspot connected laptop is now routing its traffic via my house.

Or am I missing what you're looking for?

Try this https://github.com/pyamsoft/tetherfi It will route all hotspot traffic through your phone and vpn. Works even without root

For what it's worth: LineageOS (and probably other ROMs too) has a setting ("Allow clients to use VPNs") for this in the tethering settings screen. With root and four or five lines of bash script you can replicate this behaviour according to various StackExchange answers.

I'm not sure if this is a setting that comes from LineageOS or from upstream AOSP, but at least the feature is there as a starting point.

Edit: looks like it's a LineageOS feature: https://review.lineageos.org/c/LineageOS/android_frameworks_...

That's a surprisingly great idea. A mobile phone can be used as a server, and for their capabilities, they are cheaper than Raspberry Pi when with some issues especially. Out of curiosity I just found an offer for a used Pixel 6 Pro for 70 EUR, supposedly only broken screen and the rest is working, where it has 12GB RAM with CPU Octa-core (copypasting: 2x2.80 GHz Cortex-X1 & 2x2.25 GHz Cortex-A76 & 4x1.80 GHz Cortex-A55), that's a fairly good offer.

Do I assume you already have adb/dev settings enabled?

That is not the same though. I use this as a daily driver and I don't need to dedicate a display or keyboard for it, just use the ones I use for everything else and have the phone just as a normal window on my desktop.

Also lots of phones are unable to output video at all. Such as all Google pixel/nexus devices ever made (unless I missed one).

Pretty sure the market share of usb-c Displays is still very low. Also, most people (source needed) use laptops nowadays.

That does depend on the hardware though -- I don't think any of the phones in my household support USB C DP or HDMI alt modes, and none of the displays are DisplayLink, so while they might manage to transfer power and possibly even connect peripherals there's no common ground for transferring video.

Samsung Dex does this but it only works on some devices.

I do that with two tablets and a laptop. On the notebook I run some vnc server with an X built-in, then some x or vnc tool that links the different X instances running as if they are other monitors, so you only have to move your mouse to some lateral to get focus on the other X. Then on the tablets just use some generic VNC client.

There are multiple options for ever one of the three programs os this setup, but it takes some work to make all run well together. I can check the exact binaries that I'm using or send the scripts, if there's someone interested.

Edit: to make it work well enough with wifi, I had to make some tricks to deal with the tablet's wifi powersave behavior. On usb it works perfectly though.