Hi everyone, Michael here. Today, we are going to look at how you can control and mirror your
Android phone from your Windows, PC, Mac, or Linux. Best of all, it's completely free,
requires no installation, and you can connect through USB cable or over Wi-Fi with no lag.
Let's go ahead and take a look at how this works. Here I am on my phone. The first thing I will
want to do to set up screen copy is scroll down to settings. It might not be down here for you,
but it is your blue and white gear icon. Click on that. Then scroll down again to the bottom where
it says about phone. It'll tell you whatever model phone you have. Click on that. Once again, some
more scrolling all the way down to the bottom, once more, and you will find build number. You
will click on this seven times. It might feel a little clunky at first, but once you've completed
clicking on it seven times, a notification will pop up that says developer options enabled. Once
that's done, nothing on this screen will change. You'll want to go back to the previous screen and
search for developer options. I've already typed it in once before, so it's here in my history. I
will click on this. I will scroll down again just a little bit more until I see the debugging menu,
and I want to enable USB debugging. By default, this toggle is set to off, but I have turned it
on. I want your phone to look just like this with the toggle turned on. Once you have done all of
these settings, make sure that your PC and your phone are on the same network, and then plug in
the USB connector to your phone that is connected to your computer. Now that your phone is all
configured, we want to download something called SCRCPY, which is short for screen copy. You can
get it at GitHub at the card up here or down below in the description. Here we are on the Screen Copy
GitHub page where we are going to download this open-source software that allows us to control
and mirror our Android devices using our PC. I'm going to scroll past all of this extra information
until I get down to the portion that says get the app. I'm running a Windows PC right now.
I'll click Windows. There are two different versions. I'm going to choose Windows 64-bit.
That's the most common, and it's important to note that although I am downloading something, I'm not
actually installing anything. I'm just going to be running a file. Now that I've downloaded the file,
it should appear in your downloads area. I would like you to find the folder, which is a zip,
right-click it, click Extract All. This should open an entirely new folder for you. Go inside of
there, and we're looking for the noconsole.vbs file here, and we're going to double-click on
that. Next, on your Android phone, after you've clicked this, check for a prompt that will ask
you to allow your phone to be connected to your PC. Once you've clicked that, you may need to come
back here and click this noconsole.vbs a second time. And just like we talked about earlier,
I am now able to see my Android phone on my large PC monitor. I can use this mouse to select icons,
click into things. I can use the keyboard to type. For example, I want to search for cookies. I can
also do things like play games. Here, I'm going to choose one of my favorites, Designer City 2. Here
I am inside of one of my favorite games, Designer City 2, one of the things I use to pass the time
quite a bit. What's amazing is I can hear all the sound effects and the music from the game. I'm
using my mouse right now to scroll around. I can zoom in using the arrow keys and zoom out as well.
It's really a cool feature. Once I've spent enough time playing my game and I no longer
want my Android connected to my PC, I can close out the window up at the top right by clicking
Close. The nice thing is there's nothing behind on my computer except for the files we downloaded
earlier. There's been nothing installed. This is all open source. You could always reconnect
your phone to your PC by simply clicking on this noconsole.vbs. Screen Copy has a host of features
such as screen recording, shortcuts, and adjusting the bit rate. Let's take a deeper look at how
those things work right now. Here we are back in the File Explorer. Next, I want to open a file
called open-a-terminal-here.bat. This lands us in a command terminal. Don't feel too overwhelmed.
It's not all that daunting. I will show you how to use this. We will first type in scrcpy, then
with a space --help. Then we will execute that by clicking Enter on our keyboard. Boy, that gives us
a lot of text on the screen. Don't worry, don't be overwhelmed. All this is showing us is the myriad
types of options and shortcuts that are available to use through your keyboard, so you don't have
to do it on your phone. At the top here, we have options. The way to use these is to use the double
dash here at the end, append it to an scrcpy command, and hit Enter. You can do things like
change the codec that you're using or the bit rate value. Additionally, a little bit lower,
there is a full list of shortcuts you can use. Here, we can easily switch to full screen mode.
The MOD here actually represents the Alt key on my keyboard. One of the coolest things we
can do is actually record our screen, and I will show you how to do that right now.
To enter in a new argument, I'm going to go back down
to the bottom of the command terminal and type in scrcpy for screen copy, the product we're using,
then space, then -r for record, that's the argument to record. Next, I will name it gameplay,
and what I mean by it is the file that I'm creating, so this will be the name of the
recording, and then the type of file that it will be, which will be an MP4. I will hit Enter. Here I
am back on my phone, and because I used that -r argument in the command terminal, I'm actually
recording all of the movements I'm making here on my screen. Once I'm finished with recording,
I will click the red X up here at the top to close everything out. Back in the command terminal,
I can see that everything has completed recording. Here in File Explorer, I can see the MP4 file.
Wired gives you the best possible performance, but if you want to move around and have freedom, you
can also use Wi-Fi. Here we are once again in the File Explorer. To enable Wi-Fi, we are again going
to click on Open a Terminal Here.bat. Here we are in the command terminal. We are going to use one
of those helpful arguments we saw in the help list earlier. The one we want to use is SCRCPY space
dash dash TCP IP. This shows us the IP address of our phone. We're going to run that. Now that it's
identified the IP address of my phone, I'm going to want to look at my phone where there's a prompt
that says Allow. I will click Allow. Then I will disconnect my phone from the USB cable. I will
want to rerun the command or the argument we just ran. You can actually press up on your keyboard.
It will bring back the last command you used, and you can press Enter. And just like that, we can
see our phone through Wi-Fi. And there you have it, an easy solution to allow you to mirror and
control your Android device from your computer. I hope it worked out well for you. Please let me
know how it went down below in the comments, and I do look forward to seeing you in the next video.