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[APP] Microsoft Remote Desktop

Microsoft Remote Desktop is a free Android App on Google Play. "With the Microsoft Remote Desktop app, you can connect to a remote PC and your work resources from almost anywhere." This thread is to provide information about that app. These posts are supported by the Learning Never Ends team who have no connection with Microsoft.
The thread was prompted by portal article Microsoft Releases (Free) Remote Desktop Client for Android posted October 18, 2013 By Will Verduzco
The RDS (Remote Desktop Services) app was announced in a press release dated Oct. 07, 2013 "Microsoft is introducing the Microsoft Remote Desktop app, available for download in application stores later this month, to provide easy access to PCs and virtual desktops on a variety of devices and platforms, including Windows, Windows RT, iOS, OS X and Android."
On 18 Oct 2013 MS blogged that "Today is the GA for the Cloud OS! ... we have released Remote Desktop Services (RDS) apps into all these stores as well... Windows, Apple and Android."

PC Setup / Requirements
PC Setup
In order to control a remote desktop, the host device has to be set up. This can only be done on Pro versions of Windows 7 or higher. Unfortunately it does not work on Windows Home
Win 7 Pro
Start Menu > Computer(Right-Click) > Properties > Remote Settings >
Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure)

Android App Setup
Android Setup
See screenshots attached below. Choose a memorable name for the remote desktop ("Desktop" in the screenshots) and enter the IP address e.g. 192.168.1.101 on a Linksys network. When prompted, input a username and password for the remote desktop.

Using Remote Desktop
Using Remote Desktop
When connected, your PC desktop is displayed full screen on your Android (Samsung Galaxy Note II in screen shots). Navigation, Name and keyboard icon are shown.
Pressing Navigation icon posts it to zoomed in screen. Dragging the icon around allows you to scroll the desktop.
Clicking on the name you gave to your remote desktop ("Desktop" in the attached screenshots) toggles overlay row of keys at the bottom of the screen.
Pressing on the keyboard icon toggles your Android keyboard or app keyboard with function keys as shown.
On Samsung Galaxy Note II, the pen can be used - for example, hovering over a list of threads in XDA forum shows brief description of content. In effect your Android device can be used as a touchscreen for your Windows PC.

Alternative Apps
Alternative Apps
There are a number of alternative apps to Microsoft Remote Desktop. These include:
TeamViewer for Remote Control [Free & Paid]
Alternative Apps will be added as they are suggested below.

FAQ Frequently Asked Questions
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions for Microsoft Remote Desktop (RDS).
Q. Wake on LAN (WoL) supported?
A. No WoL in RDS but use app such as Fing

Works on my Samsung Galaxy Note II with Windows Ultimate 7 as shown in my screen shots above.
Cheers
Tom
My Note 2 to you

Remote Access To Android Desktop From Windows?

I'm using TeamViewer QuickSupport on my two Samsung devices, but it seems to need a device-specific add-in to work on other devices.
The device in question is a CubieTruck as in http://tinyurl.com/mjzejs4.
Actually the TeamViewer product almost works. Connects to the device, gives stats about the device, allows file transfers... but when it comes time to connect to the desktop it mis-interprets the device's "OK" to "Refused".
Does anybody know of another product that allows a Windows session to connect to an Android desktop?
Seems like there are plenty of products that go the other way... but Windows ==> Android?

[Q] Cloud Computing

Hi All,
Question 1:
I have developed Android App for school for which I have use the following technologies and I am new to Android development.
UI - Android
Back end - MYSql and Java.
Used REST API to communicate.
1) I am confused how to implement the above in Cloud Environment. Can some help me to implement this in cloud environment. In future I want support to iOS and Windows
2) How to make my communication secured (do i need to encrypt).
3) Whether I have use wrong technologies and it is not possible to implement this cloud environment.
4) How to implement push notification
For all the above any standard open source SDKs available which i can use? If available what are the different SDKs available and which is the best one to use.
If the above information is not clear, please let me know.
Regards,
DEVMAHA

Android phone powered Desktop

Android devices are so powerful today, and the hardware is becoming so powerful that I don't think that the software is utilising that.
We already have much of the technology in devices of today to enable a desktop environment to be streamed from our phones.
Display output: Chromecast (wireless display), MHL (Wired display & charger), etc.
Input methods: Bluetooth Keyboard & mouse, Accelerometer (to emulate mouse input), etc.
UI: Separate Launcher for the desktop UI.
With Microsoft bringing Windows 10 later this year as one OS for both the Phone & Desktop, surely that will allow them to work better in sync with one another, but that will still require a separate desktop computer and phone to create this kind of experience.
But Google now has the chance to simply output a separate UI from the same device that can display a phone UI all at the same time.
If we look at past launches of major Android builds then this coming Google I/O would be the perfect time to announce something like this, since they say that they usually deliver one major build that focuses on UI, and then one that focuses on major feature integration.
And not only would this allow for us to take our desktop with us everywhere in our pocket and connect wirelessly to any compatible display but also it could enable people in poorer economies to buy one device which could give them better access to the internet with a portable display integrated into the device, and also they could connect to the larger displays to browse the web or work on office documents with apps such as 'Google Docs'.
This could really be useful for people who wish to use their device in the work place too.
With Android mobile now offering multiple user profiles on their phones, surely they could create one profile for work, with all of their work apps available in both their phone and desktop UI's, but also a personal profile with all of their media applications & games available when out of work.
The desktop tower may still be useful for a few years to enable support for legacy applications whilst we are waiting for those applications to be ported over to Android/Android Desktop, but that shouldn't take too long considering how quickly we are see'ing apps becoming available to Android offering the kind of services that many of us desire, and if the developers only need to create one application back end for both the Desktop mode & phone mode, then it will be much quicker to bring apps to market with a small bit of time required to make a UI which can be scaled between the phone & desktop mode well.
There are multiple projects trying to create this very experience, but if it was a major part of the Android OS then finally people will get the experience that many people are waiting for, you only have to look at the comments on the developer pages of these projects to see that many people want this kind of experience.
With 64-bit now supported in Android too there is less of a reason to hold back this kind of experience.

I agree totally. Is this the only thread on this subject? Was going to setup Chromecast for video and Bluetooth for keyboard, mouse and audio. Doing this on a Jiayu S3A which is very powerful. Would like one place to discuss what works and what doesn't. Launcher options also need to be discussed.

An app, web.android.com, like web.whatsapp.com?

Dear Members,
Imagine: An Android Black Box without any screen but only USB Power+Data and Wi-Fi ports to be connected with a Lap- /Desk- top computer and the combo used as a Superphone
I have been planning for a long time to use internet — like the thread I had posted in Unix StackExchange in
unix.stackexchange.com/questions/86380/reading-sim-data-via-file-managers-using-usb-datamodem, around September 2013.
There I had posted the links of an idea: If Mobile-> Internet access Modem, why not datacard->mobile, posted in both Knoppix and Debian forums, around March 2013.
A killer of an idea came to me while I began using web.whatsapp.com
I have been doing research on the alternatives of the Android OS available on the web. These two links are sufficient for what I am going to present:
beebom.com/android-alternative/
itsfoss.com/open-source-alternatives-android/
Won't it be easier if, rather than to build free and Open-source alternatives to Android, Android itself is enhanced for its use with a computer, keyboard and mouse, using an app like the Whatsapp Digital Optical Code scanner, to have the display and button- and touchscreen- controls transferred to our lap- / desk- top computers, like we can in Whatsapp via web.whatsapp.com?
In Linux there already are ways to remotely control a desktop via appropriate permissions with a GUI interface.
This way, Google remains happy, while we too remain free from restrictive policies.
There are many emulators already available on the Open Source Linux systems, like QEMU, VirtualBox, and so on, not to mention the proprietary VMWare.
The app needs to have two parts:
(1) A rudimentary functionality of a Transceiver/Emulator, to slip right between the Hardware and the Android OS, creating a "What You Ask Is What You Get" one to one virtual communicator, and side by side, relaying the signals to the main app.
(2) A virtualisation of the user input signals and transceiving the same with the Android OS.
The main application having all the remaining functionalities to connect the Android OS with the Lap- / Desk- top via Wi-Fi, internet and its in-built optical scanner.
Of course, the App needs to have a cloud application to store all the data of the users on the cloud securely via SSL security like Whatsapp.
The App could earn its profits from the revenue structure Google has erected to have the app paid via advertisements. Interested users like us would also be more than willing to pay for the app, I believe.
In the end, again, a device could as well be developed to combine an Android SmartPhone Black-Box (without screen) Hot-plugged with a standard lap- / desk- top and forming a seamless combination of the two into one super-unit via Free and Open Source Software.
To conclude, I seek this opportunity to inform that I am a very empowering closet-entrepreneur, but I have my own limitations because of my inability to accept certain existing structures. So rather than forming an entrepreneurship venture, I like freely to share information. FOSI instead of FOSS, I for Ideas.