How to display & control your Android devices on Linux (Solus/Ubuntu/Manjaro...) Part 1?

In the last 3 years I was searching for an easy to use app or a useful tool to display and control my Android smartphone. Unfortunately, I spent a lot of time searching unsuccessfully - I think the problem was with my research method - until I found last week what I was looking for that made me forget my past suffering.

If you are interesting in displaying and controlling your Android device on Linux , you are on the right place as I will share with you in this tutorial my humble experience with the discovered application.

The application is scrcpy “copies a screen”: it provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over TCP/IP “Wirelessly”). It does not require any root access. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows and MacOS.

Steps: (important: watch the video above for more details)

• Install scrcpy : 
  

  • For solus users:

  sudo eopkg it scrcpy

  • For other distro users (Ubuntu/Manjaro...): 

  sudo snap install scrcpy

Display and control of Android devices connected on USB

1. Enable usb adb debugging on your device.
   P.S: On some devices, you also need to enable an additional option to control it using keyboard and mouse.
2. Plug an Android device, and execute: 

   scrcpy

   P.S: It accepts command-line arguments, listed by: scrcpy –help

Display and control of Android devices Wirelessly

1. Connect the device to the same Wi-Fi as your computer.
2. Get your device IP address (in Settings → About phone → Status).
3. Enable adb over TCP/IP on your device:  

   adb tcpip 5555

4. Unplug your device.
5. Connect to your device:  

   adb connect DEVICE_IP:5555 (replace DEVICE_IP)

6. Run scrcpy as usual.

          P.S:It may be useful to decrease the bit-rate and the definition:

scrcpy -b2M -m800

Did that tutorial help you ? let me know in the comment section below.