Scrcpy is an awesome tool, but I never found a use for it in my workflow (built a couple of small, unpublished Android apps)
What do you use it for that makes it better than just picking up your device?
What do you use it for that makes it better than just picking up your device?
A combination of Google Assistant, Talkback, USB-C-to-USB-A-Adapter and Keyboard, a Bluetooth keyboard, scrcpy, Anydesk and a new Pixel phone for practicing helped get some data off the device and even do a migration to the new phone. Needed all of the above and a lot of trial and error and time!!
But I just have scrcpy up in a window on one of my screens/workspace constantly. The keyboard shortcuts work quite well and I don't have to break my flow just to do something on my phone. Clipboard is synced as well.
If I get a notification I can check what it is about without taking my hands of my keyboard etc.
I'm sure it sounds a bit convoluted, and each usecase (meetings, notifications etc.) have other better/more-native solutions but the experience all in all is a game-changer.
To the point where "just picking up your device" is too much of a bother. Why not do it through scrcpy instead? Quicker, proper keyboard etc. and the mouse works really well. To the point where I kind of miss right-click is "back" when I'm outside the scrcpy window.
So it is both for going back and "quitting" applications.
On the desktop it wouldn't even work in the browser, because I work by tabbing new pages and closing tabs rather than navigating back.
So to be fair, I don't want it om my desktop. Because I really don't want my applications to mimic the behavior they do on phones, that would be horrible. But the end result is really nice for the weird usecase of running a phone inside a desktop.