Scrcpy is a free and open supply utility that permits you to mirror the show of an Android machine on a Home windows, Mac, or Linux laptop so that you could work together along with your cell apps in your laptop computer or desktop.
Up till lately that meant no matter was in your cellphone’s display screen would present up in your PC display screen. However the developer lately added a digital show choice that permits you to mirror a digital display screen quite than no matter’s at the moment in your Android machine’s show. This allows you to, amongst different issues, work together with one app in your PC and one other in your cellphone.
The digital show debuted in scrcpy v3.0, which was launched in November. However there have been a couple of small updates since then, and the most recent model at time of publication is scrcpy v3.1, which improves on the digital show function by including assist for conserving apps working on a digital show energetic in your cell machine even after you shut the digital show in your PC. It does this by transferring the app out of your digital show to your main show, and helps stop knowledge loss should you lose the connection between your cellphone and PC.
The newest model additionally brings higher assist for gamepads, improved assist for AV1 video encoding and decoding, and different bug fixes and efficiency enhancements.
Word that whereas the largest change in scrcpy variations 3.0 or later is assist for digital shows, they’re not enabled by default. You’ll have so as to add them manually. For instance, beginning scrcpy with the command “scrcpy –new-display” will begin the app on a PC with a digital Android show set to the identical decision and pixel density as your Android machine.
You may also set the decision and pixel density manually. Listed here are some examples of how to do this:
scrcpy –new-display=1920×1080
scrcpy –new-display=1920×1080/420 # pressure 420 dpi
scrcpy –new-display # use the principle show measurement and density
scrcpy –new-display=/240 # use the principle show measurement and 240 dpi
You could find extra particulars within the scrcpy v3.0 release notes, though I’d suggest putting in the latest release if you wish to attempt the appliance your self.
Along with permitting you to reflect your Android machine’s show (or digital show) on a pc, scrcpy permits you to crate display screen recordings, copy and paste between your units, seize video out of your digital camera on a PC (as an alternative of mirroring your machine’s show), and even use your Android machine’s digital camera as a webcam (though this function at the moment solely works on Linux).
You could find extra info on the scrcpy GitHub page.
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