This is a "fork" of a project by Marian Schedenig
Link to original source: http://marian.schedenig.name/2014/07/03/remote-control-your-android-phone-through-adb/
The tool does the following:
- Repeatedly grab a screenshot from the phone and display it in a Window
- Capture keyboard events and forward them to the phone
- Capture mouse clicks and drags and forward them to the phone
Before you first start it, make sure you have adb installed and modify the config file.
| Config-Key | Description |
|---|---|
| adbCommand | the full path to the adb tool as a shell command. Linux users note that Java doesn’t like the ~ character in file paths to access the home directory. |
| screenshotDelay | the delay (in milliseconds) between displaying a screenshot and grabbing the next one. Note that the actual grabbing process will probably take considerably longer than this delay, so the update rate will be slower. |
| localImageFilePath | the location on local drive where screenshot file is stored |
| phoneImageFilePath | the location on the phone where the screenshot file is stored before downloading it. |
Once the configuration is done, simply run the tool like this:
java -jar adbcontrol.jar
In the window, you can single click to send a tap event or click-drag to send a swipe event to the phone. Pressing a number or letter key (or anything else that produces an ASCII character between 33 and 127) will send that key press to the phone. Additionally, the following keys are forwarded:
- Enter
- Escape – as the Back key on Android
- Home
- Backspace
- Cursor keys