PocketDroid - A PC Remote Control
Chaitali Navasare, Deepa Nagdev, Jai Shree · 2012
In today's era, electronic devices and PC's are the inevitable parts ones' life. An important aspect of the technology is to remotely monitor these devices. We already have many Remote Control applications which provides an ease to control and monitor devices easily and quickly. This paper presents an application named PocketDroid, using which user can connect to any computer having Server Application running on it. It is basically an Android based Mobile Application for controlling a Target PC. User can have full access of the Target PC, provided its IP address is known. PocketDroid surrounds the Client and Server application. In which, the Server application has been implemented in JAVA and Client application in Android. As both JAVA and Android are open source platform thus they allows the development of new ideas and tests them with a set of open standards. One can use PocketDroid to share files between PC and android device, start and stop the applications installed on the Target PC, shutdown the Target PC and much more. This application also contributes for IT Administrators to remotely control any computer present in the network, allowing them to troubleshoot and solve problems faster.