Guess what the new feature in Android phone set is; now you can remotely control your android from your PC too. If you are a gadget geek like me, you must have thought of controlling your android phone via your pc right? It seems like it that our dream has finally come true. Thanks to the developers that they have come up with this brilliant idea. Just a few things are required in order to control android from PC.
It is really difficult and distracting to check one’s phone while working on PC. It tends to be more irritating if one picks up the phone and finds that the call is not at all important. Same can be said for text messages. It is during these times that the application that has now been developed comes in handy. There are some free applications available for controlling one’s android from PC. One can do so by using web browser. These applications allow the android phone users to remotely control android from PC. These applications also let the users do a bunch of thing with their android phones other than just receiving calls and texts. The users can call, can send texts, can access and use the camera, can get access to the contacts, manage the files of their phones and can also view their phone screens in a remote way. To use these applications, one just needs to run the application. Then, he or she has to look for local web server on the phone screen and access the application’s web interface (desktop) by inputting the local server in the web browser. One can also use these applications to control android from PC by using USB cables and by connecting the phone to the PC. However, one needs to install and use keep the application running on the phone.
The situation now to control Android from PC
However, as most of such applications are still in the initial stage and only the beta versions are available. Therefore, one might face bugs while using those applications. Using these applications will help a person to view their phone’s screen on the desktop and this can help to put Android notifications and to use so like on monitor caller ID. It will also help the users to take screencasts and screenshots too. One can even use his or her mouse and keyboard to control android from PC if the phone is rooted.
There are also tutorials available in the internet for making such programs. For doing so, the interested individuals are required to have an Android device, a PC, USB sync cable, have the Android SDK for Android OS and other software. One can develop this in using a Mac OS X, Linux based Pc and even Windows 7 machines. By configuring the Android SDK, one can start with the process. The Android phone will have to be connected to the PC via USB sync cable. One needs to place the Android SDK windows files on C drives root. One will also need the JRE (JDK) 6 software and it should also be downloaded for completing the process. The attached java file then can be run by unzipping the folder and voila, the process is completed.