Scrcpy Explained (How To Use Scrcpy For Android Screen Mirror)

 Scrcpy Explained (How To Use Scrcpy For Android Screen Mirror)

Scrcpy

Scrcpy is a github command line project written to connect android devices through debugging with computer wired and wirelessly. This command-line project was especially made for Android device targeting Android 8.0 (Oreo) and higher but after sometime it was released with support function to Android 5.0 (lollipop) too. Scrcpy is a free and open-source screen mirroring application that allows control of an Android device from a Windows, macOS or Linux desktop as well as laptop computer.

It Focuses on:

• Lightness (native, display only the device screen)
• Performance (30~60 frame per second)
• Quality (1920x1080 or above)
• Low Latency (35~70ms)
• Low startup time (~1 second to display the first image)
• Non-intrusiveness (nothing is left installed on the device

Requirements:

1. Android device with higher or equal to Lollipop (API 21) Android 5.0 device.
2. USB Cable to connect pc and android with adb server and scrcpy server
3. USB debugging enabled
4. Some extra permissions if higher than Android 5.0
5. Scrcpy file from Github for latest or supportive.
6. Windows, MacOS or Linux desktop or laptop computer.

This guide will focus on installation for windows pc generally. For Linux and MacOS check this out.

So How to start Scrcpy and Android? Lets get started!

• Go to download.zip location
• Extract compressed file (rar or zip)
• Go inside extracted file.
• Connect Android to that device with USB debugging enabled.

Now You will have two steps to choose to use Scrcpy.

Step 1:

• Right click mouse button and select open Command Prompt here
• OR in windows explorer address bar type cmd and hit enter
• After Command Prompt Starts Type These code:

1. adb devices (hit enter)
2. scrcpy

Step 2:

• Double click scrcpy.exe or scrcpy executable file

Remember:

You can use advance commands if you choose step 1. Step 2 will use default settings for scrcpy command

Here are some list of commands to use Scrcpy from step 1: 

Now To Use Scrcpy Wirelessly,

Root Method (if your device is rooted then this methods works directly)

 For Non Root Method

Skip no 2 and 3 from above and follow this;

1. Connect Android to computer with USB.
2. Enable USB Debugging
3. Follow above steps from step 5.

Remember:

Non-Root device will have to reuse same code for connecting next time also if ip address is different than first time. This applies to rooted devices too for different ip address in android.

So How easy was that huh! Comment below for queries and questions.