Let me state a problem.
I charge my phone here in the studio but then I always do my work outside, where my computer
station is.
That means when I get a notification, I have to physically come into this room and check
my phone just for the notifications.
That's a little inconvenient, to say the least, but I'm not sure how many of you can relate
to that.
So, let me state a more common issue.
You come into work, you're on your phone texting a buddy, and you put down your phone, and
you start working on the computer but they text you back.
Now, you're already accustommed to typing on the computer keyboard, and switching back
to the phone keyboard to type away with your fingers seems a little inconvenient.
I found a solution for both of our problems, using this app called Airdroid.
Now, first of all I know a lot of these app videos are actually sponsored, but let me
tell you now that this app video is not sponsored.
I found Airdroid on my own, I don't even have premium.
Although, if you want to sponsor me, hit me up!
So, if you've had a similar issue to mine, you may have heard of an app called Vysor.
I've personally read a few articles about Vysor, but the issue with Vysor is you have
to pay for it.
Airdroid on the other hand, for what I want to use it for, it is free. Obviously, Airdroid
is for Android phones, and you can use it with a Windows computer, or a Mac computer,
and even Linux machines, I think, if you're running the web version.
So, setting up Airdroid is very simple.
Essentially, you have to download the app from the play store, and then sign up for
an account and log in.
Then, on your computer side, whether you're doing it via the web browser or the downloadable
client, you will be prompted to log into the same account you created on your phone.
Once you're in, you're essentially connected to your phone.
What's nice is, if your phone and your computer are on the same internet connection, it'll
become a local connection, meaning you won't have to use up any of your bandwidth to interact
with your phone.
Also, speeds are faster this way.
Here are some things you can do, using Airdroid for your phone.
You can transfer files form your computer to your phone.
Or from your phone to your computer.
You can transfer your clipboard from your phon eto your computer, or your computer to
your phone.
So that means if you copied something from your computer, and you want to paste it into
your phone, you can actually transfer it over to your phone's clipboard, and paste it that
way, and it might be faster.
You can mange your text messages using your computer, so no longer do you have to pick
up your phone and type your text message to whoever you're texting, you can just do it
from the computer using your keyboard.
You can manage your phone's notifications from your computer, so you don't have
to look down at it every time you hear it make a noise.
You can record your phone's screen from the app itself or from the computer side which
I find would be very useful, especially if you want to make YouTube videos!
I know there are a lot of Clash of CLans channels and Clash Royalem and just mobile gaming channels
in general.
Using Airdroid, you can get your own channel started! If you're recording via the desktop
client, you will get no sound, so I do not recommend doing that, but recording via the
phone app...
You can chose from a variety of settings, I'd probably recommend a lower quality because
it's lagging even on my Nexus 6P when I record at 1080p, but you do get audio.
The issue is, it also records whatever is outside.
That might be an issue for you, but it can't record sound internally.
So what happens is, it uses the micriphone, and whatever noise comes out of your speaker,
also goes into the microphone, so you get your phone's noise, and you can also commentate
over it, if that's what you want to do.
Unfortunately, you can't make a video that just doesn't have external noise; it doesn't
work that way.
Watermarking is very limited, there's a small widget, it's not even a watermark; it's a
widget that you can drag around the screen.
Just leave it in a corner, it tells you how long you've been recording for and your recording
status.
I wish it wasn't in the way, but it's kind of useful.
Last but not least, obviously my favourite feature is the screen mirroring feature.
What this allows you to do is pretty much put your phone onto your computer screen.
So you can preview your phone screen, you can interact with it by clicking around, it'll
behave as if you were putting a finger on the phone's screen.
There's also a mode that allows you to use your computer's keyboard on your phone while
you're using your phone.
So you can be tapping around, and then when you have to type something, just put your
phone down and use your computer's keyboard, and it'll go straight to your phone.
Pretty useful.
Getting this one set up takes a little more work.
What you have to do is, you have to plug your phone into the machine that you want to be
controlling it from, enable USB debugging on the phone, pair your device, and then you
can unplug your phone and never have to do that again.
Except, I found that I had to do it again from time to time.
After I downloaded the desktop client, I never had to do it again.
So I think I would recommend the desktop client if you want to use the screen mirroring feature
often, but it is missing a few features.
The desktop client does not allow you to transfer files from the phone to your computer.
To do that, you have to use the web client.
Honestly, the web client just has more features, so if you could use that, I'd recommend sticking
to that instead of using the desktop client.
It's also more compatible, there's no desktop client for Linux machines, but if you can
get Chrome running, you can probably use Airdroid on it.
There isn't very much I dislike about this app.
I mean, I haven't been using it for the longest time, but it's a pretty straight forward app.
I think maybe if the screen mirroring performance could be improved a little bit, that would
be amazing.
I mean, the quality isn't that great, but then there's a little bit of lag.
Honestly, that isn't too big of an issue because you're not going to be using screen mirroring
for gaming on your phone from your computer.
What it's meant to do is let you interact with your notifications without actually being
there in front of your phone.
So there you have it, that's Airdroid.
If your phone interacts with your computer often, then I would highly recommend this
app.
That is it for this video, thank you for watching, and I'll see you in the next one!
I'm heading out to the mall now, I really should have done this yesterday but I fell
asleep, so I'm doing it now.
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