This is a gem of an app that turns your android phone into a Bluetooth mouse and keyboard for other devices.
Edit:
What makes this app different from other “remote control” apps? Most of them need a “server” or “companion” app to be installed on your other device. This app doesn’t. It just needs pairing via Bluetooth.
I use it to control an Android tv box. As you know typing with on-screen keyboards on tv screens is an absolute pain.
With this app you can type anything on your smartphone and send it to any text field on your other device. You can also add cistom keys and key combinations. Note the CTRL+A shortcut key i have added for select all in the screenshot for example.
It can also work as a mouse with customizable buttons.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.appground.blek
This looks neat except for the keylogging potential. I’d want something like this to be open source before I can use it seriously.
Sauce code?
Paid app :(
My tv is my second monitor. I have used this app almost daily for an entire year. It’s pretty good. The custom layout needs some work. Either that or I’m too dumb (it’s probably that).
There are a slew of Android TV remote apps that do all this and more, like including home/back buttons, integrated search etc. They also pair easier. The first party Google TV app covers this smoother than a BT keyboard/mouse app.
Most of them need a server app to be installed on the other machine. This app needs no server or companion apps.
The official one doesn’t. I’ve used a couple others that didn’t.
I guess that requires your phone and Google TV to be connected to the same wifi network. This only needs bluetooth. It also has advanced features such as a pc keyboard, customized shortcuts and a lot more!
The first party one has been merged right into the Google TV app.
Ahh, that’s where that went… I couldn’t find it in my apps and figured I’d removed it.
I’ve used it before, it doesn’t work at all even on multiple devices. But hey, that’s just me. Maybe the app has improved now.
Despite all my attempts, I can’t seem to get it to connect to my Windows laptop as a virtual mouse and keyboard.
I had to remove a previous saved connection from the pc-side.
Already tried re-pairing from scratch, no bueno.
Instant buy! Thanks a lot for it
I used for years Unified Remote, but this app stopped in time. So I switched to KDE Connect, but this was very redundant with Join (my other app to connect my device).
This one… It’s perfect! And no server required opens up more and more use cases :)
Yeah I think this is a must-have app. Glad you found it useful!
Wow it actually works with Chromecast Ultra. It works with my Linux desktop too, previously I use kdeconnect for that.