Allow remote control of the phone

[phorcys420]

scrcpy allows this using ADB.
But it is also doable via AnyDesk (and probably others too) by allowing control via the accessibility settings.

Alongside with allowing control, this would also remove the need for user consent.
If the user does not add it to the accessibility allow list, then tell them a warning every time someone wants to connect to their phone/open the app and connect into view-only for the time being/to assist the user if he can't enable it.

[Cerothen]

I would also love to have the android app extended to be an always on service with remote control. It would make things like supporting my elderly grandparents that do not live close by. It would also let me add androidTV devices.

It would also be very useful for anyone deploying a fleet of android devices for work purposes.

[phorcys420]

I agree with that !
I'll try to set-up a dev environment for #16 and if that works then I'll look into this.

Resource that might be useful : Create your own accessibility service

[jurecifilho]

A year has passed on this topic and it has remained dormant, any updates on it? How can we remote control the MC on Android devices and not just view it. I installed the MC, linked my cell phone, but I can't control it within the MC. :(

[Cerothen]

I'm sure it's a low priority these days, both developers for meshcentral indicated that they were part of the layoffs from Intel and have since found other employment. This has the unfortunate side effect for us that they have much less time to develop features.

We should appreciate what we have recieved so far and if capable contribute pull requests to the project

[marclaporte]

Related discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/MeshCentral/comments/hyodfk/android_support/

[marclaporte]

I'll try to set-up a dev environment for #16 and if that works then I'll look into this.

@phorcys420 what did you discover?

[marclaporte]

A year has passed on this topic and it has remained dormant

@jurecifilho MeshCentral is an Open Source community project. What can you do to help?

[marclaporte]

Related project: https://github.com/openstf/stf/

[phorcys420]

I'll try to set-up a dev environment for #16 and if that works then I'll look into this.

@phorcys420 what did you discover?

hey, I toyed around with it a bit but I left the company where I used to use MeshCentral so I lost interest.
The following project might help : https://github.com/bk138/droidVNC-NG

[marclaporte]

This is a duplicate of #7

[neonleo]

I would also like to have this, but I believe it is very complicate to implement due to android permission and accessibility, as well as different android OS (e.g. Samsung) will having their own security framework (e.g. Samsung KNOX)