Mirror your android screen on your Linux easily_weixin

Have you ever thought of mirroring your screen to your linux device ?

Yes i had

thought of having the feel of android emulator ?

yes i love with when i see people using android emulator , and i also wanna have that feelings too , seeing my android screen at one side of my laptop

Now the problem is i use linux

yeah i love the act of casting my phone screen to my laptop , but i use Linux , can linux do that ?

Yes sure , Linux can do that

Now lets get started

Requirements :

Android device 5.0 ( Lollypop) upward
USB cable

lets kick start our mission

first of all you need to install things which will make the screen casting run

scrcpy
ADB ( Android Debug Bridge )

INSTALLATION

now we need to install the two dependencies we mentioned above

installing scrcpy

scrcpy is the tool we will be using ,now we need to install it

install it using snap

if you use ubuntu 18 upward , dont worry you already have snap installed , and if you felt like you dont , you cann kindly install it with this command below ,

copy and paste this to your terminal
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install snapd

now after the installation we need to install the main tool we will be using , which is scrcpy

INSTALLING SCRPY

the scrcpy is the tool we will be using to mirror or android screen to the our laptop , but it needs a package which is Android Developement Bridge

now to install scrcpy copy this code to your terminal
sudo snap install scrcpy

then press enter to install it , after installation is finished , now lets install adb

INSTALLING ADB

to install adb copy this line of code to your terminal

`sudo apt install adb`

now after installation is finished , lets mirror our screen to our linux device

NOW TO DO THAT

Your android device must be on USB debug mode

now to do that , go to settings > developers option > turn on USB debug mode

but if you are just doing this for the first time . go to your phone settings

click on About phone
scroll down ward then continue tapping on Build number till you see you are now a developer

settings > About phone > Build number

so now after that go back to your settings again and you will see developers option now turn it on then turn on USB debug mode

NOW DO THIS

connect your Android device to your laptop with a USB cable
open your Linux terminal
type scrcpy while your phone is connected to your device with USB

now you will see a pop up box on your android device , just click the check box that says ' always allow for this device ' then click ok

now type scrcpy again

boom your android screen will now be mirrored on your laptop