Saying Hello

[David Baron]

On Sunday, 07 April, 2013 12:31:27 PM Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Saturday, April 6, 2013 22:01:54 Matthew McKeen wrote:
> > I was thinking of taking on the task of integrating Android into the
> > desktop. I don't know about all of you, but every time that I have to
> > look away from my computer screen when my phone plays its notification
> > ping is really a nuisance, and it would be nice if notifications,
> > battery information, or even media playback on an attached Android
> > device could be controlled from the desktop.  This implementation is
> > actually not as hard as it sounds based on some preliminary research of
> > the Android accessory API, but I believe it will require a service to be
> > running on the Android device itself in order to communicate with the
> > desktop.
>  
> As an Android phone user, I would personally find this very handy and a
> great compliment to the mpt support in 4.10.

There are two of them around (not updated in a while, however):
AndroidScreenCast -- has jnlp on line or can download
Monkeyengine

Need to have android bridge tool adb installed to use them, available on most 
distros by now.