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Run phone on monitor with keyboard and mouse

  1. plugin in phone to machine with cable
  2. terminal @ scrcpy
  3. use phone on monitor with keyboard + mouse!!


Install SCRCPY with homebrew

I had already installed android studio on this machine – helps to take care of some parts

scrcpy

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

Install command:

brew install scrcpy

Display and control your Android device

https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy

License: Apache-2.0

/api/formula/scrcpy.json (JSON API)

/api/bottle/scrcpy.json (Bottle JSON API)

Formula code on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for macOS releases:

Intel Big Sur ✅
Catalina ✅
Mojave ✅
Apple Silicon Big Sur ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 1.19

Depends on:

ffmpeg 4.4 Play, record, convert, and stream audio and video
sdl2 2.0.16 Low-level access to audio, keyboard, mouse, joystick, and graphics

Depends on when building from source:

meson 0.59.1 Fast and user friendly build system
ninja 1.10.2 Small build system for use with gyp or CMake
pkg-config 0.29.2 Manage compile and link flags for libraries
At runtime, adb must be accessible from your PATH.

You can install adb from Homebrew Cask:
brew install –cask android-platform-tools

NOTES::


 brew install --cask homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8

You may want to add to your profile:

   'export ANDROID_NDK_HOME="/usr/local/share/android-ndk"'



Warning: Homebrew's "sbin" was not found in your PATH but you have installed

formulae that put executables in /usr/local/sbin.

Consider setting your PATH for example like so:

  echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/sbin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc




==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r22b-darwin-x86_64.zip
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Installing Cask android-ndk
==> Linking Binary 'ndk_exec.sh' to '/usr/local/bin/ndk-build'
==> Linking Binary 'ndk_exec.sh' to '/usr/local/bin/ndk-depends'
==> Linking Binary 'ndk_exec.sh' to '/usr/local/bin/ndk-gdb'
==> Linking Binary 'ndk_exec.sh' to '/usr/local/bin/ndk-stack'
==> Linking Binary 'ndk_exec.sh' to '/usr/local/bin/ndk-which'
🍺  android-ndk was successfully installed!
~ ❯



==> Caveats
android-sdk requires Java 8. You can install it with:
  brew install --cask homebrew/cask-versions/adoptopenjdk8

android-sdk has been officially discontinued upstream.
It may stop working correctly (or at all) in recent versions of macOS.

==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/android/repository/sdk-tools-darwin-4333796.zip
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Installing Cask android-sdk
==> Linking Binary 'android' to '/usr/local/bin/android'
==> Linking Binary 'emulator' to '/usr/local/bin/emulator'
==> Linking Binary 'emulator-check' to '/usr/local/bin/emulator-check'
==> Linking Binary 'mksdcard' to '/usr/local/bin/mksdcard'
==> Linking Binary 'monitor' to '/usr/local/bin/monitor'
==> Linking Binary 'apkanalyzer' to '/usr/local/bin/apkanalyzer'
==> Linking Binary 'archquery' to '/usr/local/bin/archquery'
==> Linking Binary 'avdmanager' to '/usr/local/bin/avdmanager'
==> Linking Binary 'jobb' to '/usr/local/bin/jobb'
==> Linking Binary 'lint' to '/usr/local/bin/lint'
==> Linking Binary 'monkeyrunner' to '/usr/local/bin/monkeyrunner'
==> Linking Binary 'screenshot2' to '/usr/local/bin/screenshot2'
==> Linking Binary 'sdkmanager' to '/usr/local/bin/sdkmanager'
==> Linking Binary 'uiautomatorviewer' to '/usr/local/bin/uiautomatorviewer'
🍺  android-sdk was successfully installed!
~ ❯ brew install android-ndk                                                      2m 8s 12:10:06 AM
❯ brew install android-ndk
==> Caveats
You may want to add to your profile:
   'export ANDROID_NDK_HOME="/usr/local/share/android-ndk"'

==> Downloading https://dl.google.com/android/repository/android-ndk-r22b-darwin-x86_64.zip
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Installing Cask android-ndk

 

ndroid_instructions.md
Here is a high level overview for what you need to do to get most of an Android environment setup and maintained.

Prerequisites (for Homebrew at a minimum, lots of other tools need these too):

  • XCode is installed (via the App Store)
  • XCode command line tools are installed (xcode-select --install will prompt up a dialog)
  • Java

Install Homebrew:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/go/install)"

Make sure the doctor is happy (do what it tells you):

brew doctor

Use Homebrew to install Android dev tools:

brew install ant
brew install maven
brew install gradle
brew install android-sdk
brew install android-ndk

Install all of the Android SDK components (you will be prompted to agree to license info and then this will take a while to run):

android update sdk --no-ui

ERROR::::::::::::::::::::



The "android" command is deprecated.
For manual SDK, AVD, and project management, please use Android Studio.
For command-line tools, use tools/bin/sdkmanager and tools/bin/avdmanager
*************************************************************************
"android" SDK commands can be translated to sdkmanager commands on a best-effort basis.
Continue? (This prompt can be suppressed with the --use-sdk-wrapper command-line argument
or by setting the USE_SDK_WRAPPER environment variable) [y/N]: /Users/spiffy/Library/Android/sdk/tools/android: line 118: ${trysdkresponse,,}: bad substitution
Invalid or unsupported command "update sdk --no-ui"

Supported commands are:
android list target
android list avd
android list device
android create avd
android move avd
android delete avd
android list sdk
android update sdk
~ ❯

Install HAXM for blazing fast emulators. Check out the “Configuring VM Acceleration on Mac” section here: http://developer.android.com/tools/devices/emulator.html

Update your environment variables:

export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/opt/ant
export MAVEN_HOME=/usr/local/opt/maven
export GRADLE_HOME=/usr/local/opt/gradle
export ANDROID_HOME=/usr/local/opt/android-sdk
export ANDROID_NDK_HOME=/usr/local/opt/android-ndk

Update your paths (bonus points to a better solution to the hardcoded build tools version):

export PATH=$ANT_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$MAVEN_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$GRADLE_HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools:$PATH
export PATH=$ANDROID_HOME/build-tools/19.1.0:$PATH

Periodically run these commands again to ensure you’re staying up to date:

brew update
android update sdk --no-ui
  • Note: It looks like there might be an issue with brew update and the android-sdk formula.

Install Eclipse, IntelliJ, Android Studio, or your other favorite IDE.

If everything goes smoothly on a moderate network connection you can expect this process to take 2-4 hours.

 

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