DroidDesk dey allow you connect and control real Android phone straight from your web browser.
For this guide, you go learn how to use the DroidDesk Web App, send text and files, manage your connection, create browser profiles, import cookies, set proxies, and use the virtual camera.
If you prefer to use special desktop app, check our separate DroidDesk Desktop Client Guide.
Watch the Full DroidDesk Web App Tutorial
For this video, you go learn how to:
- Connect to remote Android phone through your browser
- Control the device from far
- Adjust screen size and use full-screen mode
- Send text from your computer go the phone
- Upload and download files
- Restart RustDesk or reboot the device
- See connection statistics
- Create DroidDesk Browser profiles
- Import and export cookies
- Set HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies
- Set language, timezone, and location preferences
- Save and open browser profiles again
- Use the DroidDesk virtual camera
Wetin Be DroidDesk Web App?
The DroidDesk Web App dey allow you control Android smartphone wey you rent straight from your browser.
You no need separate desktop remote-control app for the basic web connection.
DroidDesk dey connect you to real physical Android phone, no be normal Android emulator or virtual machine.
So e good for people wey dey find cloud phone, Android cloud phone, Android phone rental, or real device cloud wey dey use physical smartphones.
How to Connect to Your Cloud Phone
After you rent phone, open the device page for your DroidDesk dashboard.
You go see the phone model, location, and the rental time wey remain.
Click Connect to start the browser connection.
DroidDesk go collect the current connection details and open the remote phone screen.
Once the device image show and the connection dey active, you fit start work.
How to Control the Android Phone
Mouse click dey work like tap for the Android screen.
Click-and-drag dey work like finger swipe.
You fit also use the Android navigation buttons for Back, Home, and Recent Apps.
You fit resize the phone display, open am for full screen, or open am for separate browser tab.
How to Send Text to the Phone
DroidDesk dey allow you send text from your computer enter the active text field for the phone.
First, select the field wey you need for the Android screen.
Then paste your text for the Send Text to Phone box and click Send Text.
The text go enter the field wey get focus now.
Recent text dey save for small time so you fit use am again quick quick.
How to Upload and Download Files
The Files section dey allow you move files between your computer and the remote Android phone.
You fit check folders for the device, upload files, and download files back to your computer.
File transfer must dey on for RustDesk for the phone.
For now, files dey move one by one, and one file no fit pass fifty megabytes.
Extra Device Controls
The device page get some useful control options.
Restart RustDesk dey restart the remote-access app for the phone.
Reboot Device dey restart the Android phone itself.
While e dey reboot, the remote connection go cut for small time.
You fit also turn on connection statistics to see frame rate, connection speed, and latency.
DroidDesk Browser Profiles
DroidDesk Browser Profiles dey give you separate browser environment wey get im own saved browser data.
One profile fit get cookies, proxy settings, language, timezone, location preferences, and other browser settings.
Browser profile no dey make full copy of the Android phone and e no dey save data from other apps.
How to Import Cookies
If you already get your own cookies, you fit import dem enter DroidDesk Browser profile.
DroidDesk dey check the file format before import and e fit catch common format mistakes.
But if check pass, e no mean say the website session still dey active.
You fit also export cookies later if you need am.
How to Set Proxy
To use proxy no compulsory.
DroidDesk Browser support HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies.
You fit type the proxy details yourself or use the quick-paste option.
Before you save the profile, you fit test the proxy connection.
If you no need proxy, just leave am off.
Language, Timezone, and Location
Browser profiles fit also get environment settings like:
- System language
- Timezone
- Location preferences
These settings dey save as part of the browser profile wey you select.
How to Link DroidDesk Browser to Phone
Before you start browser profile, DroidDesk Browser must link to the phone wey you rent.
Open DroidDesk Browser for the phone and select Link Device.
Four-digit code go show.
Put this code for your DroidDesk dashboard.
Once the link confirm, the phone go show for the list of devices wey dey available.
How to Open Browser Profile
Select the profile wey you wan use and click Open on Phone.
If you never select device, DroidDesk go ask you to choose one.
Then the browser go open with the saved data and settings of the profile wey you select.
How to Save and Close Profile
When you finish work with browser profile, go back to the profile list and click Save and Close.
Wait until DroidDesk confirm say the profile don save well.
To just close the browser tab or minimize the app for the phone no reach to make sure say the latest data don save.
Once e don save, you fit open the profile again later for the same device or another device wey fit work with am.
You fit also export cookies or export the whole profile.
Virtual Camera
The DroidDesk virtual camera dey allow you give image or video source to website wey dey ask for browser camera access.
Sources wey dey available fit include:
- Images wey you upload
- Videos wey you upload
- Your computer camera
- OBS Virtual Camera
Select the source, preview am, choose the phone wey get active browser profile, and click Enable Camera.
Then open the website wey you want for DroidDesk Browser and allow am to use the camera.
You fit adjust the image scale and position if you need.
When you finish, turn off the virtual camera.
The virtual camera dey work inside DroidDesk Browser and e no dey replace the camera for other Android apps.
Web App vs Desktop Client
DroidDesk support two main ways to control Android phone wey you rent.
The Web App dey allow you connect straight from your browser and e get extra tools like file management, browser profiles, cookies, proxy settings, and virtual camera.
The Desktop Client dey use RustDesk and e good if you prefer special remote-control app.
Both ways dey connect you to real physical Android device.
Questions Wey People Dey Ask
DroidDesk na cloud phone?
DroidDesk dey give cloud-style remote access to real physical Android smartphones.
I fit use DroidDesk straight for my browser?
Yes. The DroidDesk Web App dey allow you connect and control the phone through web browser wey dem support.
DroidDesk na Android emulator?
No. DroidDesk dey give access to real physical Android devices.
I fit use my own proxy?
Yes. You fit set HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies inside DroidDesk Browser profiles.
I fit import my own cookies?
Yes. Browser profiles support cookie import and export.
I fit use virtual camera?
Yes. DroidDesk Browser support image, video, computer camera, and OBS Virtual Camera sources for websites wey dem support.
I fit use the same browser profile for another phone?
After the profile don save well, you fit open am again for another DroidDesk device wey fit work with am.
I need the desktop client?
No. You fit use the web interface alone for browser remote control.
Start to Use Real Android Cloud Phone
DroidDesk dey give you remote access to real Android smartphones without say you go buy, ship, and maintain physical devices by yourself.
Choose device, location, connection type, and rental period wey fit your work.
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