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scrcpy — Display and control your Android device on a desktop. More information: <https://github.com/Genymobi

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Problem

How to use the scrcpy command: Display and control your Android device on a desktop. More information: <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy>.

Solution

scrcpy — Display and control your Android device on a desktop. More information: <https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy>.

Display a mirror of a connected device:

scrcpy

Turn the device screen off and prevent it from sleeping while mirroring:

scrcpy {{[-S|--turn-screen-off]}} {{[-w|--stay-awake]}}

Display a mirror of a specific device based on its ID or IP address (find it under the adb devices command):

scrcpy {{[-s|--serial]}} {{0123456789abcdef|192.168.0.1:5555}}

Start display in fullscreen mode:

scrcpy {{[-f|--fullscreen]}}

Show touches on physical device:

scrcpy {{[-t|--show-touches]}}

Record display screen:

scrcpy {{[-r|--record]}} {{path/to/file.mp4}}

Specify the target directory for pushing files to device by drag and drop (non-APK):

scrcpy --push-target {{path/to/directory}}

Code Snippets

Display a mirror of a connected device

scrcpy

Turn the device screen off and prevent it from sleeping while mirroring

scrcpy {{[-S|--turn-screen-off]}} {{[-w|--stay-awake]}}

Display a mirror of a specific device based on its ID or IP address (find it under the `adb devices` command)

scrcpy {{[-s|--serial]}} {{0123456789abcdef|192.168.0.1:5555}}

Start display in fullscreen mode

scrcpy {{[-f|--fullscreen]}}

Show touches on physical device

scrcpy {{[-t|--show-touches]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/scrcpy

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