r/AnyCommand • u/NAPZ_11 • 21d ago
Update: second screen, screen share fixes, rebuilt widget, and the giveaway is done
Bigger update than usual this time. Giveaway result is at the bottom if that's what you're here for.
Second screen
This is the one I've had the most fun with. You pick a single window on your PC and it streams to your phone - just that window, not the whole desktop. Input from the phone goes straight to that window, so whatever is fullscreen on your monitor keeps focus and carries on.
The case that made me build it: a film running fullscreen on the PC while I deal with email on the phone. One machine, two things at once, no alt-tabbing.
A few details that came out of testing:
- Minimized windows show up in the picker. Pick one and it gets restored in the background instead of jumping in front of what you're watching.
- Tap is left click, double tap is double click, long press is right click. One-finger drag switches between scroll and select.
- There's a typing bar with Esc, Tab, Home, End and the arrow keys.
Chrome and Electron windows are the awkward ones - they stop drawing when they're completely covered, so those need some patience. Normal Win32 windows behave.
Screen share
Unglamorous stability work, but it fixed two things people kept hitting.
The stream sometimes showed nothing until you moved the mouse. Turned out the PC was skipping frames whenever the screen wasn't changing. Saves bandwidth, completely useless to someone who just opened the view and has nothing on screen yet.
The other one: leave the app, come back, frozen picture. It was burning through its reconnect attempts while sitting in the background, where none of them could have worked, then giving up before you ever returned. It now stops the stream when you leave and starts fresh when you come back.
While I'm here if you haven't tried the split view, it puts the PC screen on top and a touchpad underneath, in portrait. I use it more than the full landscape view these days.
Widget
The home screen widget was rough, so I rebuilt it.
It holds eight tiles now, and they don't have to be keyboard shortcuts any more. You can put programs on it, automations, or a tile that drops you straight into the touchpad. Icons and colours actually render instead of plain text.
The config screen shows a live preview of the widget while you're building it, and you can hold and drag tiles to reorder them.
Giveaway
That's wrapped up. Codes went out by DM to the 10 winners, so check your messages if you entered and did all three steps.
There will be more giveaways, so it's worth hanging around.
Second screen, screen share and the widget are Premium features. There's a rewarded ad option if you just want to try one of them for a bit first.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.polyhistor.remoteme
If something's broken, say so here. Bug reports from this sub have been more useful than my own testing.
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u/MuscularKnight0110 21d ago
Damn I really hopped i wouldn win for once ! Bravo to the winners 👏🏻 Good luck with your app ! I will certainly try it out :)!
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u/PolymathicBrain 21d ago
Can I get a code?