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

Functionality

• 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 Home will be forwarded.
• Backspace will delete the last character.
• Ctrl+d emulates 500 Backspace presses and can be used to quickly erase a large text.
• Up, Down, Left and Right are working as expected.

Config

If needed you can create a config file called config.properties. Currently the following keys are supported:

• adbPath: The path to the adb binary.
• timeout: The time between having received a screenshot and taking the next one.

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.