Friday, March 29, 2013

Android device screencast on my computer

I have an android app that communicates with a server.
Wanted to present a demo of integration of the app with my servers.

For
Used the following tool to cast the device's screen on my PC. Was farely easy.

https://code.google.com/p/androidscreencast/

Needed to enable developer options on the device(Jelly Bean) for the same.
Developer options are not visible by default. To expose them tap SEVEN times on
Settings->About Phone ->Build Number
as suggested by: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1989777

However couldn't control the device by KB/MOUSE. Didn't have time to look into it further.