Question Mirror any Android app that is in background or when the device is on sleep

[akilahalawatha]

Dear all,

Let me first explain my requirement.

Basic requirement
We have an Android device (Say sender device) and a bunch of apps that are installed on it. On the sender device we are using app1. We need to display the same app on another Android device (Say receiver device) and use it from there. Here are the limitations.

1. We can install only one app on the receiver device. All the apps that we want to use on receiver device cannot be installed on it. We will be installing a sender app on the sender device and a receiver app on receiver device.
2. We cannot do code changes on any app that we want to display on the receiver device. We should be able to display and use a generic app.
3. We must display and use app1 from the receiver device when the sender device is in sleep mode.
4. We must display and use app1 from receiver device when app1 is in the background in sender (What we have on the foreground of sender is another app).

Current solution
We are using Screen Mirroring. No difference from any screen mirroring app that is used in Android ecosystem. So, when app1 is on the foreground and sender is not on sleep we are good. The issue we have is we cannot do the mirroring while the sender device is on sleep and app1 is on the background in sender device.

Questions
Here are the questions.

1. Is it possible to achieve this when the sender is in sleep mode?
2. Is it possible to achieve this when app1 is in the background?
3. Are there any other alternatives to the current method Screen Mirroring?

 

[SpookDroid]

Sounds like you need a VNC solution. Not sure if one exists for Android devices (they abound for PCs and Enterprise versions of Windows already come with one installed), but if they do, it basically allows one client phone to use the server phone's apps and interface remotely. Those apps would already have the code in them to set the service as active while the server is 'asleep' so it can 'wake up' when a remote request from a client is received.

You can try to do a search in Google Play for "Remote Desktop" or "VNC" apps.

 

[akilahalawatha]

Sounds like you need a VNC solution. Not sure if one exists for Android devices (they abound for PCs and Enterprise versions of Windows already come with one installed), but if they do, it basically allows one client phone to use the server phone's apps and interface remotely. Those apps would already have the code in them to set the service as active while the server is 'asleep' so it can 'wake up' when a remote request from a client is received.

You can try to do a search in Google Play for "Remote Desktop" or "VNC" apps.

Thanks for your suggestion. When trying and researching on VNC and Remote Desktop solutions, we were not able to cater for our sleep and background behaviors. We need to
1. Continue mirroring while sender is on sleep
2. Mirror an app that is in the background of the sender