New Tool: PocketRemote (Android remote client for NVDA)

[wencong luo]

Hi all,

I’m Cary from China (GitHub: Cary-rowen). Some of you might know me as an active contributor to NVDA.

I wanted to share an Android app I’ve been developing recently called PocketRemote. It allows you to control your NVDA-powered PC straight from an Android phone. Personally, I love using it in the park with a portable keyboard and my phone to control my computer back home—it's been a lot of fun.

The app isn't open-source just yet, but I promise there is no background data collection; it only requests the necessary accessibility permissions required to function.
While I’d love to get it listed on Google Play, I currently don't meet the requirements for closed testing.

If anyone here would be willing to help me out with the closed beta testing, I would really appreciate it! To learn more about the app, you can check out the introduction page here:

https://dl.nvdacn.com/PocketRemote/en.html

Best, 

Cary

[Oriol Gómez]

Hi,

Very nice tool, I unfortunately don't use Android.

I have developed something similar for command line, iOS, Mac and windows. It's on gitHub.

Why did i develop another add-on for windows, it's because i needed an ssh bridge for certain environments.

Check out the readme in gitHub, it tells you what you need to know.

https://github.com/ogomez92/nvdr

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[Antonio Cezar Antunes Ribeiro]

Hello. NVDA Remot to Android: <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.github.escolarprogramming.app.NVDARemote>... Thanks.

[Snehashish Mahato.]

Hi Cary,

The project looks very interesting, and if you have created a separate group for closed testers, I would like to join that as well.

Apparently, while installing the app, Play Protect was preventing me from doing that, so I was forced to turn it off. Most likely, as long as it isn’t published on the Play Store, Google will keep nagging us like this.

Regarding the connection, everything was pretty much fine, except TalkBack kept constantly saying ‘Full stop’.

Just out of sheer curiosity: in our case, remote assistance is needed to get someone to configure a screen reader or to get sighted assistance from someone far away. In the case of the latter, it becomes highly problematic without a screen-sharing protocol. So, could you think of something like this for Android, and perhaps research in your free time how easy or difficult it would be to implement a screen-sharing protocol in NVDA?

Keep growing,

Snehashish.