So you want to get the screen of your Android phone to display on your computer (and then onto a projector or take a screen-shot etc.)?!?!The follow steps (based on the ones here http://bit.ly/9y5adU) will show you how although there is a small warning that if you are using this for a presentational is there is a lag and the refresh rate needs some work but there are options you can pass in to try to correct this if needed.
It may also be worth noting that if you are seeing bugs / errors on your phone, sending them an image of the issue may be helpful.The Process:
The following will work if you can get you emulator to work on your machine - just Google how to do that :) - Please note that you don't actually use the emulator, it just sets up the adb bridge (software that connects your phone to your computer) , SDK (Software Development Kit) and USB drivers.
- Download source from http://github.com/commonsguy/droidex
- Copy the files DroidEx.jar and args4j-2.0.16.jar into a directory - just to make life simple
- Plug your phone into your computer - you may to enable debugging on your phone (On the device, go to the home screen, press MENU, select Applications > Development, then enable USB debugging).
- From that directory run the following command (note change the C:\SIT\Android\SDK path to be the path to your SDK)
java -cp DroidEx.jar;%CLASSATH%;args4j-2.0.16.jar;
C:\SIT\Android\SDK\tools\lib\ddmlib.jar com.commonsware.droidex.DroidEx(also to note - this is for a Windows machine but it should work for any platform with some minor modifications).
If you have troubles, drop us a message - more than happy to help Android developers :)
Cheers,
The team.
2 comments:
It appears that droidex.jar is the old way to achieve this and Droid@Screen is the newer method.
More information http://blog.ribomation.com/2010/01/droidscreen/ and the JAR is available from http://lib.ribomation.com/files/droidAtScreen-0.3.jar with the source code available at https://github.com/ribomation/
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