Airdroid allows you to send messages from a computer through your phone, work with files and contacts on Android, view photos, video and listen to music stored on the phone from a computer and not only. In addition, the developer provides additional applications with some useful features that will also be considered in the article. If you are interested in other similar utilities, I recommend familiarizing yourself with your applications your phone for Windows 10 and Airmore (analog ARDROID), and if you only need to send and read SMS, you can use the official way to work with Android messages on your Google computer.
ARDROID Application Set and what they need
All Android applications from the developer Airdroid can be found in the Play Market. Applications include:- AirDroid remote access and files - You need to install on the phone that we plan to manage from a laptop, computer or other phone. Official page: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airdroid
- Airmirror - Allows you to connect from one phone to another phone (which installed AIRDROID), as well as support users with the following application. The application in Play Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airmirror
- AirDroid Remote Support - an application that can establish a user to get fast support and help with solving problems on Android from another user, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sand.airsos
- AirDroid Business - Business version of Airdroid, will not be considered within this article.
If you are interested only in the ability to access your phone from a computer or laptop, it is enough to install the Airdroid application to your phone, additional applications will not be required. But further in the review will also briefly reviewed by AirMirror and Airdroid Remote Support.
On your computer, you can use one of the following connection options:
- Airdroid Web - Airdroid web version, works in a browser, in Russian.
- ARDROID program for Windows 10, 8.1 or Windows 7 is available for download on the official website of the developer https://www.airdroid.com/ru/
Using Airdroid for remote access to Android phone or tablet
Before proceeding, several nuances: with Airdroid, you can work with registration and without it, on the Internet and on the local network (in this case, the phone and computer must be connected to one Wi-Fi network).
Connection in the presence of registration does not represent difficulties: it is enough to use the same account in the application on the phone and in the program on the computer (or on the site https://web.airdroid.com/). But, if you have a registration, you will connect to the phone via the Internet, and not in the home network, there is a limitation of free traffic: 200 MB per month: to work with messages and notifications it is enough, and for something more serious may turn out to be Not enough. I recommend using the option with registration - It works more stable, when connected in one network there is no traffic restrictions.
Without registration, only connectivity within the local network is available, but without traffic restrictions. Wherein:
- In order to use Airdroid on the phone without registration, after starting at the top on the right, click "Skip".
- If you plan to use Airdroid Web without registration, to connect in the Airdroid application on the phone, open the Transfer tab - "My devices" on the phone, and then click on the QR-code scan button to the right of the ARDROID Web item. On your computer, open the site https://web.airdroid.com/ and scan the code displayed there. The second connection method: on the phone click on the Airdroid Web item, and on the computer, enter the IP address in the browser on the phone screen (displayed in the form of numbers).
- If you want to enable Russian in Airdroid Web, pay attention to the letter "A" in the top menu bar, click on it and select the desired language.
- If the ARDROID program is used on the computer and you need to connect to the phone without registration, then in the program on the computer, click the "Fast Transmission" button instead of entering. And on the phone, go to the Transfer tab - "Nearby". After that, the search for mobile devices with AIRDROID on the local network will be automatically launched.
After connecting, depending on the connection method, you will see one of two interface options to access the phone and other actions. In the AirDroid Web - the semblance of the desktop, as in the screenshot below.
The Airtroid program for the computer is the following interface, switching between different actions in which is performed using the left buttons. The integration of notifications with Windows 10 is running, dragging the files from the computer to the location on the phone and other features.
Some default actions may not work until you provide the appropriate permissions in the Airdroid application on the phone (which in the first time you will continue to request).
Most of the available actions in both options are clear without explanation and work immediately after you provide the necessary permissions on the phone.
However, for the control functions of your phone from a computer (click on the screen, recording the phone screen from a computer, a set of text on the phone using a computer keyboard, remote access to the phone camera, including online) you need either ROOT access on the phone, or Perform actions on the "Management" screen in the Airdroid program for Windows. Would need:
- Enable USB debug on your phone, connect the phone to the computer cable and allow the USB debug from this computer (a request appears on the Android screen).
- In the ARDROID program on the computer (the web version does not fit) go to the Management tab, click on the Non-Root item and execute the instructions offered on this screen.
I will not describe all available actions in detail: I think it will be relatively easy to understand with them. As a rule, most users find useful things such as sending messages and work with files on the Android phone from a computer (files, photos, videos, music and others can be downloaded to the phone or download from the phone).
Additionally, I recommend to look into the "Tools" section in the Airdroid application on the Android phone, where there are useful features, such as Android screen entry.
Other developer applications
At the beginning of the article, several more applications from Airdroid developer were mentioned, briefly about them:
- Using the application Airmirror You can connect from one of your Android device to other devices on the same platform (to which AIRDROID application is installed). For full-fledged work, it is required that on the remote device or there was root access, or the operations on access to functions without root were performed, as described at the end of the previous section.
- Also, the AirMirror application allows you to easily connect to the phones of other users who will install the application AirDroid Remote Support And communicate the connection code. You can see the screen of the remote device, to be able to communicate with the text and voice chat. You cannot manage the remote device, but if you press or execute gestures in any places of the displayed remote Android screen, a remote user on the screen will also display the locations and your gestures to repeat them.
Summing up, I consider the option of work with the Android phone from a computer via Airdroid one of the most convenient, and subject to work within the same home network any restrictions of traffic or other you will not meet. The tool itself appeared for a very long time (if not the first one, then one of the first such applications) and has an excellent reputation. You may also be interested in the material of unusual ways to use the Android phone or tablet.