The viewer streams the phone's screen and sends your touch straight back. Almost everything works as it does on the phone in your hand; here is what is different, and where the few controls live.
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Tap, swipe and hold
All go through as real gestures. Swipe up from the bottom for Home, swipe up and hold for Recents, swipe in from an edge for Back; or use the three-button navigation if the phone is set to it, exactly as on any Android device.
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Find the controls button
A small round button floats over the stream. Tap it for rotate, screenshot, clipboard and the way out. You can pin it to an edge, move it to the other side, or hide it and reveal it with the back gesture; those choices are under Account, in Preferences, and follow you to every device you sign in on.
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Type
Tap a text field on the phone and your own keyboard opens. On Android it matches the field, so a password field stays hidden and a search field gets a search key. Accents, other scripts and emoji go through the phone's clipboard, which replaces whatever was on it.
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Rotate
From the controls button, Rotate turns the phone a quarter turn at a time. Apps that lock to portrait ignore it, as they would on a handset.
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Copy and paste both ways
Copy text on the phone and it is waiting on your side; put text on the phone's clipboard from the controls button and paste it into any app there. Moving files, screenshots and clipboard text covers files too.
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Leave
Back opens the controls first and leaves the phone on the second press, so a stray gesture does not drop you out. Change it to leave at once under Preferences if you prefer. The phone keeps running either way.
The latency pill in the corner shows the round trip to the phone. Under 100 ms feels local; if it reads Poor, Picking stream quality and fixing a laggy stream is the next read.
For the full list of what the viewer can do, see Opening and controlling your phone.
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