How to display and control your Android device on laptop ?

If you are a software developer, just use scrcpy command line tool to display and control your android smartphone or tablet on a laptop.

This application provides display and control of Android devices connected on USB (or over TCP/IP). It does not require any root access.

Install scrcpy on Linux 🔗

To install scrcpy, just use snap package manager like this sudo snap install scrcpy.

Choose your Linux distribution to get more information about installation.

• Ubuntu
• Elementary OS
• Linux Mint
• Debian
• Kubuntu
• Fedora
• Arch Linux
• Red Hat Entreprise Linux
• CentOS
• KDE Neon
• Raspberry Pi
• OpenSUSE
• Manjaro

Install scrcpy on Mac OS X 🔗

Use package manager to install scrcpy on Mac OS such as HomeBrew. Install it like this.

brew install scrcpy

Install scrcpy on Windows 🔗

Download the scrcpy program and install it on your Windows 7/8.1/10/11 as you like.

Using scrcpy to display Android device and control it 🔗

First of all, you need to activate developer options in your settings. Then enable USB debugging feature inside developer options settings.

Then use a USB cable to attach your smartphone / tablet with your laptop, and type scrcpy in terminal. Your smartphone will show up on your laptop and you can see it and control it.

If it doesn’t work 🔗

If your laptop does not have Android tools or adb tools, install them. To install adb tools on Linux run this command on any Debian-based distro: sudo apt install adb. To install adb tools on Mac OS, run this command brew install android-platform-tools.

Other scrcpy alternatives 🔗

• Linux : use Anbox emulator/simulator or Genymotion emulator .
• Mac OS : use BlueStacks or Genymotion emulator .
• Windows : use GameLoop or BlueStacks or Genymotion emulator .