VirtualControl

VirtualControl Free App

Rated 3.57/5 (56) —  Free Android application by informatica@sapienza

About VirtualControl

If you want to present your report to the conference, or you need to easily control your multimedia collection, or you need to control your PC with the comfort of your sofa, this is the application made for you.
VirtualControl allow you to remote control your PC as you would with a wireless mouse and keyboard. A graphical interface reproduce a virtual touchpad and enable you to do all operation supported by a real touchpad: move pointer, left click, right click, drag and drop (left press + moving). In addition the tapping is supported as in a real touchpad and every pression over the touchpad give you a vibration feedback that help you in entering the command. The Interface give an easy way to use the Android software keyboard by a button integrated in the virtual touchpad. All the 94 ASCII characters are supported included SPACE, RETURN and BACKSPACE. You can show and hide the keyboard as you want and rotate the device to ease the command inserting, all without give up the touchpad that continues to receive your command in the part of the screen not filled by the keyboard.

HOW DOES IT WORK:
To communicate with your PC VirtualControl allow you to use the WiFi network or the Bluetooth as you like. Are you at work and you haven't a WiFi network ? If you have got a Bluetooth device in your computer you can easily use that. Do you haven't a Bluetooth device ? Doesn't matter is sufficient to connect your PC to a LAN with a Wi-Fi access point to witch your Android device will be connected.

CONNECTION AND SCANNING:
Do you want to connect your device to a computer of which the IP address is well know ?
No problem. With VirtualControl you don't need to manually insert an IP address, indeed the automatic scanning system enable you to easily scan all the PC connected to the LAN and allow you to connect and disconnect your device to one of this discovered computer. If you can't renounce to a manually IP inserting a button allow you to this adding the computer IP address to the list. In the same manner you can easily connect your Android device by mean Bluetooth, just doing a scanning that give you a list of name and Bluetooth address of the discoverable computers. The scanning is filtered for computer so this avoid useless device in the list like phone, printer, headset... ans so on.

DOWNLOAD MANAGER:
To work, VirtualControl need a small program named VirtualControlPanel. How you can easily obtain this without downloading it from internet ? Simple, using the DownloadManager provided with the application. VirtualControl is already packaged with this program and you will send easily to the computer of which the control is needed. This is done by Bluetooth or WiFi connection, in the latter case all you need is a Browser by which you can connect to an address associated to your Android device and download VirtualControlPanel as if you are doing this with internet connection but without it !

SUPPORTED OPERATING SYSTEMS:
- All operating system from Windows XP SP2 to later.
- All Linux operating system with kernel 2.6.x and Qt4 libraries

SUPPORTED BLUETOOTH DEVICES:
- Windows: All devices compatibles with Microsoft Bluetooth Stack. So are unsupported the devices that work with BlueSoleil or need Broadcom driver, Toshiba driver or other.
- Linux: All devices compatibles with the BlueZ version installed.

How to Download / Install

Download and install VirtualControl version 1.3 on your Android device!
Downloaded 10,000+ times, content rating: Not rated
Android package: virtualcontroldevice.pkg, download VirtualControl.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
- Improved pointer movement precision
- Fixed the crash for device with android 4.x.x
- Added  a way to lock the screen in portrait or landscape mode in the Virtual HID menu
- Added  a way to disable/enable the vibration feedback to the input command in the Virtual HID menu
- Added entry in the trayicon menu to hide the panel window for the program VirtualControlPanel
- Fixed the problem related the corrupted windows zip if send by the wifi.
More downloads  VirtualControl reached 10 000 - 50 000 downloads
More downloads  VirtualControl reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
More downloads  VirtualControl reached 5 000 - 10 000 downloads
More downloads  VirtualControl reached 1 000 - 5 000 downloads

What are users saying about VirtualControl

C70%
by C####:

This is a simple mouse and keyboard app which is exactly what I wanted. Its like the old Gmote app. And I can connect via wifi or bluetooth. Just got the app so 4 stars for not finding any bugs yet, pending.

L70%
by L####:

Think good

T70%
by T####:

Although this app MIGHT work, the sending of the APK file is impossible! When it loads the screen for sending, it is H*U*G*E and I can't select Bluetooth, mail or similar, I can only select Dropbox and Drive (becuase other options are off the screen) and even when I select a possible option, it fails to upload the APK. Even if you try installing the apk trough web browser and use it via WIFI, the controls are extremely robust and unpleasant to work with. Uninstalling...

C70%
by C####:

Poor instructions cant get help will not download a functional file. Usless if I cant install the drivers

R70%
by R####:

This app duplicates some older apps, Gmote and RemoteDroid. I have tried these two on a desktop machine with dual monitors and both have the same bug - the cursor just slides up and down one side of the screen. This app, to its credit, doesn't have the bug. Gmote showed that you could have more than just mouse/keyboard control though. It would start a media player on the server machine and stream music and video to your device if you wanted. This is broken for my desktop's software as well. It would be a dream come true if the VirtualControl devs could make this happen also (particularly VLC for Linux).

C70%
by C####:

Can't get right click to work in some clients witch I find weird. But works good for a windows 8 tablet!

J70%
by J####:

Good

C70%
by C####:

I like this app I can use mobile as mouse. Thanks

C70%
by C####:

will not send that VPC_whatever.zip file over bluetooth instead sends downloadmanager.apk

M70%
by M####:

We need to make it easyer

M70%
by M####:

Poor instructions cant get help will not download a functional file. Usless if I cant install the drivers

D70%
by D####:

This app duplicates some older apps, Gmote and RemoteDroid. I have tried these two on a desktop machine with dual monitors and both have the same bug - the cursor just slides up and down one side of the screen. This app, to its credit, doesn't have the bug. Gmote showed that you could have more than just mouse/keyboard control though. It would start a media player on the server machine and stream music and video to your device if you wanted. This is broken for my desktop's software as well. It would be a dream come true if the VirtualControl devs could make this happen also (particularly VLC for Linux).

M70%
by M####:

Can't get right click to work in some clients witch I find weird. But works good for a windows 8 tablet!

W70%
by W####:

Good

M70%
by M####:

I like this app I can use mobile as mouse. Thanks

M70%
by M####:

will not send that VPC_whatever.zip file over bluetooth instead sends downloadmanager.apk

K70%
by K####:

We need to make it easyer


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