ADB Remote Control

ADB Remote Control allows you to control your adb-connected device from your PC. It enables clicks and drags with the mouse and normal keyboard inputs.

To show the image of the phone's screen, a screenshot is taken regularly. The rate can be configured (see Config).

This project was inspired by adbcontrol and Adb-Remote-Screen, none of which were easy enough for me to adapt to my needs. It was completely written from scratch.

How to Run

Download the latest release jar.

From the command line run java -jar adb-remote-control.jar

Compiling

Go into the src/ directory and execute javac de/oberien/adbremotecontrol/Main.java. To build the .jar file, after compiling, execute jar -cvfe adb-remote-control.jar de.oberien.adbremotecontrol.Main **/*.class. Depending on your shell, you might need to set the correct glob options.

Functionality

Mouse:

• Left mouse button click for tapping on android
• Left mouse button drag for swiping on android
• Right mouse button click for long-tap on android
• Right mouse button drag for draganddrop on android

Keyboard:

• All ASCII characters from (including) 32 to (excluding) 127 are sent as text. These are all printable ascii characters including lowercase, uppercase, numbers and normal special chars.
• Return (Enter) is sent.
• Pressing Esc emulates a Back key event.
• Pressing Insert emulates the android Home key.
• Pressing Menu emulates a Power key press.
• The following keys work as expected during text input:
  • Backspace and Del
  • Up, Down, Left and Right
  • Home/Pos1 and End
  • Page Up and Page Down
• Ctrl+d emulates 500 Backspace presses and can be used to quickly erase a large text.
• Ctrl+v pastes the clipboard as text.

Config

If needed you can create a config file called config.properties. The format of the file is imageFormat=png.
Currently the following keys are supported:

• adbPath: The path to the adb binary. Defaults to just calling adb without a path.
• timeout: The time between having received a screenshot and taking the next one in ms. Defaults to 1 ms.
• imageFormat: png or jpg. JPG ist faster, but might be of worse quality. Defaults to jpg.

Building

To manually build and run this project, go into the src directory and execute

javac de/oberien/adbremotecontrol/Main.java
java de.oberien.adbremotecontrol.Main 

Troubleshooting

Signal

In Signal screenshots are disabled by default. This means that while having Signal open, the displayed image of the phone won't change. Follow this tutorial to enable screenshots and therefore make ADB Remote Control work with Signal.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.