It’s been more than a year since Koushik Dutta parted ways with the Cyanogen team. He’s been keeping busy, though, and has a new app that makes it easy to control your Android device from the comfort of a desktop PC.
Koush’s app is called Vysor, and it’s refreshingly simple to get running. You’ll first need to grab the Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store. Once that’s done, just plug your phone in to a USB port, launch ADB on your PC, and then click the extension in Chrome. It’ll connect to your phone automatically.
There are already plenty of ways to take control an Android device from your PC’s desktop, of course. Samsung users can fire up the SideSync. Anyone with a rooted device can use AirMirror, and there are also apps like Teamviewer that provide remote access.
What makes Vysor interesting, though, is that it doesn’t just let you control your phone or tablet from inside a Chrome window. It’s that you can also share access to a device with anyone else who’s running the Vysor app. That means you can use it to remotely troubleshoot your mom’s phone instead of having to talk her through the process blind — or to support clients and co-workers.
Koush calls this feature Vysor Share, and he looks at it as a way to simplify the application testing process. Next up is Vysor Server, which will allow Koush (and other developers and dev teams) to access numerous test devices without having to physically pass them around. The devices — and devs — can be located anywhere in the world and shared as easily as pasting a link into a Hangouts window
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