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Display and control your Android device

80 mentions on Hacker News by 56 people: 31 stories, 49 comments · first 2018-03-08 · latest 2026-10-06

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  1. …a bit odd (licensing issues) and I ended up switching to scrcpy which is free and also very good: https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
  2. scrcpy - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
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    Display and Control Your Android Device from Desktop (Linux/Win/macOS)
    story by tylerjwilk00 · 2021-01-07 · 0 comments
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    Scrcpy: Display and control your Android device
    story by Kelamir · 2020-12-30 · 0 comments
  5. You can use scrcpy ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy ) to bypass the policy if you really need to have a screenshot. All you need is to have a Linux laptop at hand, debug mode enabled, and a USB cable plugged in. Super simple stuff…
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    Display and control your Android device
    story by quyleanh · 2020-11-05 · 0 comments
  7. Maybe scrcpy is enough for you. https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy If opening a browser tab is all you need any tab syncing app / service will do. I use kdeconnect / gsconnect so I don't have to rely on a 3rd party service, Google and…
    comment by pmontra · 2020-09-20 · in Show HN: Control Chromecasts from Linux
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    View and control your Android device from your computer
    story by arpa · 2020-08-31 · 0 comments
  9. Use scrcpy - https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy The Windows thing is only for Samsung's latest phones.
  10. Take a look at scrcpyfor anyone wanting to do this in other situations, https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
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    Show HN: Display and control of Android devices (no root required)
    story by sgroppino · 2020-06-14 · 0 comments
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    Display and control Android devices connected on USB or TCP/IP
    story by emme · 2020-04-13 · 0 comments
  13. …this with scrcpy[1] to take advantage of my fast desktop keyboard when I'm sitting down. [1] https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
  14. …via Zoom video, audio, screen-share + bi-directional android tablet control (via ADB debugging & https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy )
  15. I consider [0] to be well written and fairly low fat. 0 https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy
    comment by fredsanford · 2020-02-14 · in To become a good C programmer (2011)
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    Scrcpy v1.9 (screen-mirroring app) released
    story by rom1v · 2019-06-13 · 0 comments
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    Scrcpy v1.9 (Android screen-mirroring app) released
    story by rom1v · 2019-06-12 · 0 comments
  18. Thanks to the initial work submitted by igorinov via a pull request ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/292 ), scrcpy now provides an option to record the device screen to a video file: scrcpy --record file.mp4 The device is…
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    Show HN: Record your Android screen with "scrcpy --record file.mp4"
    story by rom1v · 2018-11-13 · 1 comment
  20. Thanks to the initial work submitted by igorinov via a pull request ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/pull/292 ), scrcpy now provides an option to record the device screen to a video file: scrcpy --record file.mp4 The device is…
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    Show HN: Record your Android screen with “scrcpy --record file.mp4”
    story by rom1v · 2018-11-12 · 1 comment
  22. scrcpy : https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy This application provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over TCP/IP). It does not require any root access. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS. Did Microsoft…
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    Scrcpy: Display and control of Android devices connected on USB
    story by ingve · 2018-04-30 · 13 comments
  24. …That way, the Android device is totally "duplicated" on the computer. Checkout the "audio" branch ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/commits/audio ), build, and execute: scrcpy --forward-audio I would appreciate some feedbacks on…
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    Show HN: Forward audio from Android device to computer
    story by rom1v · 2018-03-26 · 1 comment
  26. …(insufficient permissions)" error on Windows (yes, this feature does not work on Windows yet): https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/issues/14#issuecomment-... Thank you for your time :)
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    Show HN: Add audio forwarding to scrcpy (a tool to display Android devices)
    story by rom1v · 2018-03-24 · 1 comment
  28. …that block screenshots. For example, when I open my banking apps, I just see a black screen. See https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/issues/36
  29. …laptop, after a new "git clone", the whole build takes 18s for me. If I use the prebuilt server ( https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy#prebuilt-server ), so that it only compiles the client, it takes 0.8s.
  30. Could simply link to their github https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/