RemoteDroid gets multitouch gestures
Thanks to Nicolas Frenay, RemoteDroid now has some cool multitouch gestures. You can now use two fingers to scroll, just like a macbook, as well as clicking the onscreen mouse buttons, and dragging using the touchpad, just like you always wanted. He’s using reflection to find out if your phone supports multitouch, which means that 1.6 devices aren’t left totally out in the cold, and I don’t have to worry about maintaining two different branches.
One note for Nexus One users, the Nexus One apparently has some pretty serious multitouch problems, making click and drag a bit wonky. I’d advise sticking to tap-to-click and hold for dragging items around.
Another change is that I’ve removed the trackball as mouse functionality. Now clicking the trackball acts as a CTRL key, and moving the trackball acts as a scrollwhell, making it more like ConnectBot, and making the user experience a little bit more consistent.
Lastly, I’ve added better support for the soft keyboard. All keys, except for the ones that don’t have direct analogues on your regular keyboard now work. (long-press keys still aren’t supported) In the future, because of differing physical keyboard layouts between devices, I’m going to try to get RemoteDroid to recognize which device you’re using, and change what it sends depending on that, but for now, at least the soft keyboard should be pretty consistent.
dirtprof Said,
March 4, 2010 @ 11:49 pm
Thank you for this great app! I’m commenting using my new G1 remote on my mythbuntu entertainment center. I just wish I’d found this earlier, as it does just what I want it to. Again, thanks, and great work!
Michael Said,
March 10, 2010 @ 11:29 pm
This does not work on my Eris…I typed the address in and nothing happened…
Brian Said,
March 12, 2010 @ 8:02 am
@ key doesn’t seem to work on moto droid (useful for logins).
werner bürstel Said,
March 13, 2010 @ 2:21 pm
cool app, thanks!
setup is very easy! 5 seconds and youre ready to go – great! i also like the fact it supports both landscape and potrait mode.
i see some room for improvement here: the multitouch-zoom feature works the wrong way. usually you should you slide your fingers apart to zoom in and slide them together to zoom out. its also does not feel very fluid on my configuration (Motorola Milestone/Droid 2.0.1, Win7 x64 Ultimate)
keep up the great work!
nstop Said,
March 13, 2010 @ 3:44 pm
Hi — RemoteDroid support droid Jen here to reply to a couple of questions:
@Michael – Have you downloaded the server app and launched that on the computer you want to control first? If not, you can download it right here on this site, and it’s required to use the app. For more help, check the Support page.
@Brian – Josh, the developer of the app, has tested it on the Droid and says that the @ key works on the soft keyboard, but not the hardware keyboard.
admin Said,
March 13, 2010 @ 3:49 pm
@werner, multitouch zoom hasn’t been implemented, only multitouch scroll has. It’s used like scrolling on a MacBook, put two fingers on the mouse area, and move them both up and down to scroll.
damnman Said,
April 14, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
best app for droid…great job, both w netbook and with livingroom comp/tv…thanks
Robert Said,
May 17, 2010 @ 10:00 am
Hey, great app! I really like it a lot. Before I found it, I used a “real remote” to operate my computer (XP Pro) from my bed, but now with the droid/Milestone and Remotedroid, it has become a lot easier and reliable.
I was wondering whether it would be possible to include some more keyboard” features like German Umlaute, etc. May be the keyboard part of the app could behave like the keyboard on my phone (kinda hard because of the amount of phones? Solve by option to chose phone on server side?)…
What I would really like would be to minimize the server window to the system tray, so it is running in the background, without having the window up/in the task bar…
Thanks, and once again: Great work!!!
Patrick Said,
May 24, 2010 @ 2:12 pm
Awsome app!!
Just what i was looking for, using it to control my HTPC
My only, tiny, suggestion is that you add the possibility to run the server as a service on windows(7).
Thanks again, and superb that its opensource, im gonna keep my eyes on this one for updates etc.