I am developing on a Remote Machine (connected via Windows Remote Desktop Connection). I am using Eclipse as my IDE for Android Development. I am connecting my android device via usb to my local machine but I want to be able to deploy my app directly(from my remote machine) on the device and debug it. I have seen a few questions regarding the same problem but haven't yet found a clear solution to the same. I have enabled all Local resources on the local machine to show up on the remote desktop too, however this does not work. I guess there is some kind of setting I need to do with adb but can't exactly understand what. The device does not show up when I do an "adb devices" on my command line(of the remote desktop). Please let me know your views. Is this possible at all, the device I am using is not rooted, neither can I root it as it is company property. I couldn't figure out how to use adb connect exactly, but I guess that could be a possible solution. If yes, would someone tell me how exactly to use the command.
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I need to connect android(and ios) phones to my pc via proxy so that they use the host files on my PC.
I have to test some website features on mobile browsers/apps. I use different host-files in my pc to hit different servers.(Eg, local vm, staging, production). I want to use my Android (and ios) devices to connect to my pc and use those hostfiles to hit the different servers.
For example, if My hostfile on my pc is pointing to staging servers, then i want the phone to point to that also. Also I have a vpn on my pc which needs to be connected for me to access staging.
What is the best way for me to do this? Any help is greatly welcome!
PS: i know Mac users have a software called squidman which allows them to do this
PPS: I know freeproxy might do this for pc but not sure how to set it up to work properly.
Check this out , maybe it helps you
http://www.apkfullapps.com/2012/07/wifi-file-explorer-pro-v180-apk-app.html#.UV5kM5NQFJ4
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Cant figure out where else to ask this but you all seem to be the brightest group of computer users I know.
I may be dreaming on this technology and I cant find much form web searches here is my thought please let me know if it or something similar would work.
Have a thumb drive running an OS (Ubuntu, or Windows 7,8 whatever) that is plugged into a USB input on a cable or WiFi modem. So technically this thumb drive is always on or I can somehow access it to turn it on. Now the tricky part. I would like to access this windows or Ubuntu via my android table or my note 2 and use it as though it is my desktop (as needed). I see I can use apps like "Jump" to access a freestanding computer with internet connection but wondering if I can take it a step further and just have everything housed on the thumb drive.
I ask this because I recently lost my tablet due to display issues. I am interested in alternatives before I go buy another full on computer.
thanks in advance for the assistance.
It sounds like you are asking for two separate things, booting from a USB drive, and accessing that computer via a tablet. For the first, you can use a program such as Unetbootin, to create a bootable linux distro onto a USB drive. With that, you should be able to have a fully functional linux distro on a USB stick. For the windows equivalent, you could try WintoFlash. As for the second part of your question, if you enable SSH on your computer, you should be able to SSH tunnel into your computer from any other device that has SSH. As android devices already allow themselves to be SSH'ed into, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to use it to access your computer remotely.
syung said:
It sounds like you are asking for two separate things, booting from a USB drive, and accessing that computer via a tablet. For the first, you can use a program such as Unetbootin, to create a bootable linux distro onto a USB drive. With that, you should be able to have a fully functional linux distro on a USB stick. For the windows equivalent, you could try WintoFlash. As for the second part of your question, if you enable SSH on your computer, you should be able to SSH tunnel into your computer from any other device that has SSH. As android devices already allow themselves to be SSH'ed into, I don't see why you wouldn't be able to use it to access your computer remotely.
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Thanks for the info! Yes you are correct I am trying to do both those things, however I am trying to do it without the need of a physical PC. I kind of want this boot able thumb drive or whatever to be my PC that I can access whenever needed. I am thinking this is kind of like a virtual server but I dont know how those are housed. i have heard there are cable modems with a USB drive on them to allow them to act as a server if I could just access my boot-able windows or Ubuntu thumb drive that is in the cable modem that would be what I'm wanting.
Does it have to be a USB device? If not, you could look into using a Rasberry Pi to do just that. If you want to have your own virtual server, you would need some sort of physical PC or other device, although if you only want to have a box that just constantly hosts VM's, you could look into running your own ESXi server. with ESXi, you could just turn on the box and any computer on the network should be able to use the VM's that are being hosted on the server. However, you do need the VM tools to do it so I do not know if you can use an Android Tablet, unless you figure out a way to SSH into the VM without using the tools or porting the tools over to Android.
syung said:
Does it have to be a USB device? If not, you could look into using a Rasberry Pi to do just that. If you want to have your own virtual server, you would need some sort of physical PC or other device, although if you only want to have a box that just constantly hosts VM's, you could look into running your own ESXi server. with ESXi, you could just turn on the box and any computer on the network should be able to use the VM's that are being hosted on the server. However, you do need the VM tools to do it so I do not know if you can use an Android Tablet, unless you figure out a way to SSH into the VM without using the tools or porting the tools over to Android.
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Well it can be anything really just prefer not to go through having a "box" if I can skip all the steps and just access it to run the OS. That raspberry Pi looks pretty cool wonder if there is something similar out there to run a windows OS. Looking at it if I rooted my phone apparently i coudl run Ubuntu on the phone
yes, basically you would just run a virtualbox on your phone and SSH into it as a localhost. It works the same way for SSHing into an actual box. The problem is that you wanted windows OS, and windows 7 uses at least 20 gb in storage just for the OS alone, therefore it would be impractical to run it from your phone. If you want windows at some point you will need to have a box even if it is just running as a server.
Hello,
Is there anyone able to run AirDroid on Androidx86? I have an Android VM but it doesn't seem to have network/wifi adapter but android is able to connect to internet. So AirDroid doesn't start and give the connection address.
Let me explain my situation detailed, maybe there is something else I can do to achieve my goal.
I have a few custom applications, they don't have any Windows/Linux/MAC versions. I need to run them on my PC (can be either Windows or Linux). I will need to copy/paste text bidirectionally, Androidx86 can not handle copy/paste as it runs on VirtualBox and there is no VBox Tools for android.
I found AirDroid today and at first I was very happy since I have been looking for such a way for weeks, and for me this solution is quite important.
Thanks.
Looking for a way to setup a rooted android device as a dedicated cloud server to allow on the fly storage for phones and computers, is there any way to use a android tv box or android device of any kind as a cloud server to access it over any network away from home with my phone or laptops etc for example? The idea being use a usb external hdd on my ouya that's rooted and access it online somewhere or anywhere using any mobile device or computer trying all manner of ftp apps, but they allways seem to expect you to use a pc to access the ftp address any I try to join via a browser just fail to open to view files, I would have thought it's easily possible and the whole plan is to have a cheap electricity cost android device as the cloud server. Maybe provide others access to set folders to save stuff and access stuff to. I asked tonido cloud if their app supports android as the server not just access as a client it but it doesn't else would have set it up. Meanwhile I'll keep trying apps and looking back here to see if anyone can come up with something thanks in advance.