News, Tutorials, Howtos for Ubuntu Linux
Scrcpy, the popular application for mirroring / controlling Android screen on your computer, released new 5.0 version yesterday.
The new version of this free open-source application finally added hardware decoding support, which uses your computer’s GPU to accelerate the video playback.
Scrcpy, the app to mirror and control your Android screen on Windows, Linux, and macOS computers, released new 4.1 version.
The new version of this free open-source application added VP8 and VP9 video encoding support, primarily intended as a fallback when H.264, H.265, and AV1 encoding are not available.
Scrcpy, the popular tool to mirror and control Android screen on your computer or laptop, released new major 4.0 version a few days ago.
The new version of this free open-source application ported from SDL2 to SDL3, added flex display, and many other exciting new features.
Waydroid, the free open-source software for running full Android OS and Android apps in Linux, released new 1.6.2 version yesterday.
The new version of this container-based software added Vulkan support for Intel GPUs that use xe kernel driver, fixed few issues, and improved the command line interface.
Waydroid, the software for running Android OS and Android apps on Linux Desktop, released new 1.6.0 version few days ago.
As you may know, Waydroid is a free open-source Python written application that uses a container-based approach to boot a full Android system (LineageOS by default) on regular Linux system.
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Packet, free open-source Android Quick Share app for Linux, updated with GNOME Files (aka Nautilus) context menu option support!
For those who don’t know about Packet, it’s new Linux file transferring application written in Rust programming language, and uses GTK4 + LibAwaita for its modern interface designed for GNOME.
Scrcpy, the popular Android screen mirroring and controlling app, release new 3.3 version few days ago.
As you may know, Scrcpy is a free open-source application that can mirror and control your Android screen on Linux, Windows, and MacOS Desktop either wirelessly or using USB cable.
It uses Android Debug Bridge (adb) to communicate with Android device. Nothing needs to be installed on Android, you only need to enable USB debugging mode (no security issue and performance lost).
Scrcpy, the popular free open-source Android screen mirroring and controlling app, released version 3.0 then 3.0.1 and 3.0.2 with quick fixes few days ago.
Besides mirroring Android screen on your computer desktop, the new release can now start a virtual Android display on your desktop.
Scrcpy, Android screen mirroring and controlling app, released version 2.7 few days ago.
Scrcpy is a popular free and open-source application for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It can mirror the Android screen on PC, and allows to control the device with keyboard and mouse.
With the new 2.7 release, user can now use game controllers (e.g., PS4/PS5, or XBox gamepad), which are connected into the computer, to play Android games.
Scrcpy on Ubuntu
Scrcpy, the free open-source Android screen mirroring app, released version 2.6 (then 2.6.1 with quick fix) a few days ago.
Scrcpy is an app works on Linux, Windows, and macOS, allowing users to remote access and control their Android screen from PC/laptop, either wirelessly through TCP/IP in same network or wired with USB cable.
It uses Android Debug Bridge (adb) to communicate with Android device. Nothing needs to be installed on Android side, but it needs to enable developer mode for USB debugging option which is required by adb.
