How to Mirror Your Android Screen to PC or Mac
**How to Mirror Your Android Screen to PC, Mac, or Linux Using Scrcpy**
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### Enabling USB Debugging on Your Android Phone
To mirror your Android screen to your computer, you’ll need to enable USB debugging. Here’s how:
1. **Open Settings**: On your Android phone, go to the **Settings** app.
2. **Navigate to About Phone**: Scroll down until you find **About Phone** and tap it.
3. **Find Build Number**: Continue scrolling down until you see the **Build Number**. Tap on this number repeatedly (usually 7 times) until you see a message that says, "You are now a developer." This enables developer mode.
Once done, go back to the main settings menu.
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### Enabling Developer Options and USB Debugging
1. **Go Back to Settings**: Return to your phone’s **Settings** app.
2. **Locate Developer Options**: Scroll down to find **Developer Options**. If you can’t see it immediately, try searching for it in the settings menu (it’s usually under **System**).
3. **Enable USB Debugging**: Inside **Developer Options**, toggle on **USB debugging**. This allows your phone to communicate with your computer via USB.
After enabling these settings, you’re ready to move forward.
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### Downloading and Extracting Scrcpy
Scrcpy is an open-source tool that enables screen mirroring and recording from Android to PC. Here’s how to set it up:
1. **Download the Software**: Visit the [official scrcpy GitHub page](https://github.com/alephsecurity/scrcpy) to download the software for your operating system (Windows, Mac, or Linux). For this guide, we’ll focus on Windows.
2. **Choose Your Version**: On the download page, select the appropriate version of scrcpy for your OS (e.g., 64-bit for Windows 11).
3. **Extract the Files**: Once downloaded, extract the files using an extraction tool like 7-Zip.
The extracted folder will contain everything you need to run scrcpy.
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### Allowing USB Debugging on Your Phone
After connecting your phone to your computer:
1. **Connect Your Phone**: Use a Type-C cable to connect your Android phone to your computer.
2. **Authorize USB Debugging**: On your phone, you’ll receive a prompt asking you to allow USB debugging. Tap **Allow** and consider checking the box for “Always allow from this computer” for convenience.
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### Mirroring Your Android Screen
1. **Run Scrcpy**: Open the folder where you extracted scrcpy and run the file named `scr_cpy_no_console_vbs.exe`.
2. **Authorize on Phone**: You’ll receive another prompt on your phone asking to allow screen mirroring. Tap **Allow**.
3. **Adjust Display Settings**: The screen will appear in a new window on your desktop. You can resize it for better visibility.
Now, you’re successfully mirroring your Android screen!
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### Capturing Gameplay and Recording
Scrcpy offers advanced features like gameplay recording. Here’s how to record your screen:
1. **Open the Command Prompt**: Use the batch file named `open_in_cmd.bat` in the scrcpy folder to open a command prompt.
2. **Access Commands**: Type `scrcpy --help` and press Enter to view all available commands.
3. **Record Your Gameplay**: To record, use the command:
```
scrcpy -R "output.mp4"
```
Replace `"output.mp4"` with your desired file name.
For example:
```
scrcpy -R "downhill-gameplay.mp4"
```
Once you start recording, any actions on your phone will be captured in the output file.
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### Why Mirror Your Android Screen?
There are numerous reasons to mirror your Android screen:
- **Screen Sharing**: Share media or content with a larger audience without uploading files.
- **Recording Gameplay**: Capture and share gameplay videos easily.
- **Productivity**: Use your phone’s features on a bigger screen for easier productivity.
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### Additional Tips
- **Wireless Mirroring**: While this guide focuses on wired connection, scrcpy can also work wirelessly. If you’re interested in wireless setup, let us know in the comments!
- **Open Source Benefits**: Since scrcpy is open source, you can inspect and modify its code for your needs.
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### Conclusion
Mirroring your Android screen to a PC or Mac using scrcpy is an efficient and free method to enhance your mobile experience. Whether you’re recording gameplay or simply extending your phone’s functionality, scrcpy offers powerful features with minimal setup.
If you have questions or need additional guides, feel free to leave a comment below. We’d love to help!
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in system just have a little quick look down here it should be down here there it is developer options click on there and what we need to enable is we need to enable this feature down here which is to do your USB it's called USB debugging so make sure you enable that feature just toggle it on now we've got that feature on we can click OK here to allow USB debugging with that now enabled we can back out of this and we now need to plug in our cable which is our type c connector here on this particular phone this is an Android phone which is the Google pixel Pro so I'm going to go ahead and get my cable and we're going to plug it into the bottom of the phone and then plug that into our computer now you can do this wirelessly as well with the software that I'm going to show you I'm going to do it this way for quickness but if you want to see the other way doing it wirelessly let me know in the comment section below because this software is open source and it's absolutely awesome you can do quite a lot with it it's this software here the name is called scrcpy but it stands for screen copy and you can record the screen you can display your screen you can capture gameplay from your phone on your computer screen you can do lots of stuff with this if you want to see some more videos on this then let me know in the comments section below there's literally zero latency on this you can really get a good screen capture on here so let's go ahead and we can download the application which is for Linux Windows and Mac OS I'm going to be choosing Windows here once we click on this it will give us an option to download 64-bit or 32-bit version I'm on a 64-bit operating system here which is Windows 11. so I'm going to go ahead and download this version here and you would just follow along if you're on other versions as well this is the actual software here I'm going to extract this into the same folder here so let's go ahead and extract all you will need some extraction software I use 7-Zip on my computer and now we've got that extracted you should now see the folder here we can now take a look inside now we don't need to install any software so what we can do here is go down to where it says scr cpy Dash no console Dash VBS so this one here when we click on this it's going to give us a notification on our phone and once we get that notification we need to allow it and it should say allow USB a debugging so we're going to allow this here and you can always put always allow this to go through and we're going to click allow here and we can now head back to the desktop and there we are we might need to click on that one more time because we've allowed it so let's go ahead and click on it one more time here and you should see your phone display up on your screen here it will go full screen and I'm just going to resize this down a little bit so we can see it a little bit more clearer so now you can see we are easily mirroring our Android to our desktop or laptop without any sort of routing that we need to do on our system it's working flawlessly here there's no lag and it really is an easy way of doing it so why would you want to mirror your Android phone screen to your PC well there's plenty of reasons why you might want to do it maybe you want to share your media to a larger screen without uploading it or perhaps you need to quickly record the screen or display your screen you can do that right here on a larger screen so I'm going to download this game and get it installed and we will give this a go and you can see here I can play this full screen rather than looking at a small screen on my phone I can also capture this screen if I wanted to with the same software and I'll show you how to do it this game here is an absolute awesome game it really is now this game is not easy it's called downhill and it's quite a good time waster but if you've never played it before then give it a download and have a play with it because it's absolutely awesome it really is it's not as easy as it looks and the courses get harder and harder and of course you need to go faster which makes it more dangerous to play obviously so now we're going to try and capture that screen so we need to open up a terminal here using the open up terminal here batch file which is actually in the folder here so this will open up a prompt window and from here we need to give this a command and I'll show you the command so you can get access to all of the commands that are inside here it's the help command so what we need to do is type scr c p y and then you want to do a space Dash Dash and then do help and then push enter and this will give you a long list of stuff that you can actually do and there's a lot now this is open source so you can read all the code and you can see everything here there's not hiding any sort of malicious code in here it's completely open source and free to use and I think it's absolutely awesome it really is so what we're going to do is we're going to record the screen now you can record full screen but we're just going to record this gameplay here and I'll show you how to do that we're going to type scr uh cpy and in space Dash R and in space and in the name of the file we're going to call it downhill because that's the name of the game dot MP4 and then once you push enter that will start the capture and start recording the screen so let's go ahead and do that and you'll see it starting to record once I push enter so I've left the uh prompt Box open and we're now capturing the screen as we're playing this game and uh basically you should see a full recording of what we're doing here so I'm going to record my gameplay here and I'll show you when it's done and it's quite a difficult game it really is but it's a really enjoyable game to play so it's called downhill two I think this one but what we're going to do is we'll get to the end and I'll show you exactly where the file is it actually goes in the same directory of the actual program so let's go ahead and close this off so when I close the gameplay here it will stop the capture and you should see here in the command prompt here it's actually copied all of that data there and it shows you the screen resolution and everything else that we've recorded and you should see now that it's put it in that directory after we've finished here so now that's done let's go to that folder and you should see a file called downhill.mp4 and that's the one we've just created so I can push play here and there we go it's recorded the screenplay it's not recorded the desktop itself it's actually captured the screen of the game itself so it looks pretty cool and uh as you can see pretty awesome and I do like the way this works so if you want to record some gameplay it does record audio as well I've muted the audio because it's some sort of music on there so I've recorded just the actual gameplay here and showing you uh but yeah pretty awesome so if you're looking to display your screen on your PC or laptop whether it would be a Windows PC or Linux PC or Mac OS this will work perfectly fine anyway that is going to be about it if you want to see more on this then let me know in the comment section below I'll be happy to make those videos for you tell me know what you want to see and I'll be happy to make that content for you there but it's completely open source it doesn't install on your PC you can delete that folder afterwards if you want to and it'll all be gone and all you need to do is disconnect your actual phone if you want to do this wirelessly you can do as well if you want to see that video then let me know in the comments section I'll be happy to make that video my name has been Brian from brytekcomputers.co.uk quick shout out to all my YouTube members I really do appreciate the support I shall catch you in the very next video or I will see you on the Discord server for a chat thanks again for watching bye for now thank youonce you guys got another video here for you on how to mirror your Android screen to your PC or Mac or even Linux a lot of people ask me this question all the time and it's pretty straightforward and simple sometimes you might want to view your Android phone screen on your computer to do this what you need to do is open up your phone and go into your settings and then go all the way down to it says about phone once you do this click on there and then what we want to do is go all the way down the bottom until you see right down the bottom here you should see a build number you want to tap on this a few times until you see you are now a developer once you've got that done you want to go back so I'm going to go back here and then once we get into the actual settings here we're going to go down and we're looking for developer options here let me go ahead and find developer options you can search for it if you want to it should be listed down here somewhere in system just have a little quick look down here it should be down here there it is developer options click on there and what we need to enable is we need to enable this feature down here which is to do your USB it's called USB debugging so make sure you enable that feature just toggle it on now we've got that feature on we can click OK here to allow USB debugging with that now enabled we can back out of this and we now need to plug in our cable which is our type c connector here on this particular phone this is an Android phone which is the Google pixel Pro so I'm going to go ahead and get my cable and we're going to plug it into the bottom of the phone and then plug that into our computer now you can do this wirelessly as well with the software that I'm going to show you I'm going to do it this way for quickness but if you want to see the other way doing it wirelessly let me know in the comment section below because this software is open source and it's absolutely awesome you can do quite a lot with it it's this software here the name is called scrcpy but it stands for screen copy and you can record the screen you can display your screen you can capture gameplay from your phone on your computer screen you can do lots of stuff with this if you want to see some more videos on this then let me know in the comments section below there's literally zero latency on this you can really get a good screen capture on here so let's go ahead and we can download the application which is for Linux Windows and Mac OS I'm going to be choosing Windows here once we click on this it will give us an option to download 64-bit or 32-bit version I'm on a 64-bit operating system here which is Windows 11. so I'm going to go ahead and download this version here and you would just follow along if you're on other versions as well this is the actual software here I'm going to extract this into the same folder here so let's go ahead and extract all you will need some extraction software I use 7-Zip on my computer and now we've got that extracted you should now see the folder here we can now take a look inside now we don't need to install any software so what we can do here is go down to where it says scr cpy Dash no console Dash VBS so this one here when we click on this it's going to give us a notification on our phone and once we get that notification we need to allow it and it should say allow USB a debugging so we're going to allow this here and you can always put always allow this to go through and we're going to click allow here and we can now head back to the desktop and there we are we might need to click on that one more time because we've allowed it so let's go ahead and click on it one more time here and you should see your phone display up on your screen here it will go full screen and I'm just going to resize this down a little bit so we can see it a little bit more clearer so now you can see we are easily mirroring our Android to our desktop or laptop without any sort of routing that we need to do on our system it's working flawlessly here there's no lag and it really is an easy way of doing it so why would you want to mirror your Android phone screen to your PC well there's plenty of reasons why you might want to do it maybe you want to share your media to a larger screen without uploading it or perhaps you need to quickly record the screen or display your screen you can do that right here on a larger screen so I'm going to download this game and get it installed and we will give this a go and you can see here I can play this full screen rather than looking at a small screen on my phone I can also capture this screen if I wanted to with the same software and I'll show you how to do it this game here is an absolute awesome game it really is now this game is not easy it's called downhill and it's quite a good time waster but if you've never played it before then give it a download and have a play with it because it's absolutely awesome it really is it's not as easy as it looks and the courses get harder and harder and of course you need to go faster which makes it more dangerous to play obviously so now we're going to try and capture that screen so we need to open up a terminal here using the open up terminal here batch file which is actually in the folder here so this will open up a prompt window and from here we need to give this a command and I'll show you the command so you can get access to all of the commands that are inside here it's the help command so what we need to do is type scr c p y and then you want to do a space Dash Dash and then do help and then push enter and this will give you a long list of stuff that you can actually do and there's a lot now this is open source so you can read all the code and you can see everything here there's not hiding any sort of malicious code in here it's completely open source and free to use and I think it's absolutely awesome it really is so what we're going to do is we're going to record the screen now you can record full screen but we're just going to record this gameplay here and I'll show you how to do that we're going to type scr uh cpy and in space Dash R and in space and in the name of the file we're going to call it downhill because that's the name of the game dot MP4 and then once you push enter that will start the capture and start recording the screen so let's go ahead and do that and you'll see it starting to record once I push enter so I've left the uh prompt Box open and we're now capturing the screen as we're playing this game and uh basically you should see a full recording of what we're doing here so I'm going to record my gameplay here and I'll show you when it's done and it's quite a difficult game it really is but it's a really enjoyable game to play so it's called downhill two I think this one but what we're going to do is we'll get to the end and I'll show you exactly where the file is it actually goes in the same directory of the actual program so let's go ahead and close this off so when I close the gameplay here it will stop the capture and you should see here in the command prompt here it's actually copied all of that data there and it shows you the screen resolution and everything else that we've recorded and you should see now that it's put it in that directory after we've finished here so now that's done let's go to that folder and you should see a file called downhill.mp4 and that's the one we've just created so I can push play here and there we go it's recorded the screenplay it's not recorded the desktop itself it's actually captured the screen of the game itself so it looks pretty cool and uh as you can see pretty awesome and I do like the way this works so if you want to record some gameplay it does record audio as well I've muted the audio because it's some sort of music on there so I've recorded just the actual gameplay here and showing you uh but yeah pretty awesome so if you're looking to display your screen on your PC or laptop whether it would be a Windows PC or Linux PC or Mac OS this will work perfectly fine anyway that is going to be about it if you want to see more on this then let me know in the comment section below I'll be happy to make those videos for you tell me know what you want to see and I'll be happy to make that content for you there but it's completely open source it doesn't install on your PC you can delete that folder afterwards if you want to and it'll all be gone and all you need to do is disconnect your actual phone if you want to do this wirelessly you can do as well if you want to see that video then let me know in the comments section I'll be happy to make that video my name has been Brian from brytekcomputers.co.uk quick shout out to all my YouTube members I really do appreciate the support I shall catch you in the very next video or I will see you on the Discord server for a chat thanks again for watching bye for now thank you\n"