One window on Windows that drives every Android device plugged into it, over plain adb. Mirroring, internet sharing in both directions, files, apps, messages, radios and users — without leaving the keyboard.

No agent is installed on the phone. Everything goes through the standard Android Debug Bridge, so the phone only ever does what USB debugging already allows.

Two windows, one tool

AndroidDC comes with two windows over the same features, and you pick whichever you like:

Window	Start it with	What it looks like
Classic	androiddc.vbs	The original: tabs, dense, every control in view
Nova	androiddc-nova.vbs	A newer design: a side navigation, a device card with battery, signal and screen, cards per task, and an activity log - see nova/

Each window has a button that closes it and opens the other: Open Nova window on the classic Device tab, Classic window at the bottom of Nova's side navigation. They share the same adb, scrcpy and gnirehtet, and keep their settings apart.

Both can start with Windows, minimized, and both run the same rules per phone: plug a chosen phone in and AndroidDC does what you picked for it - share the phone's internet with the PC, mirror the screen, turn Wi-Fi off, open an app, and more. Classic: Advanced > Automation; Nova: the Automation page. While it runs, AndroidDC has an icon by the clock: click it to hide the window or show it again. Minimizing hides it there too. Its menu, and the log at startup, list the rules you have set.

What is in it

Tab	What it does
Device	Details of the selected phone, live screenshot with click-to-tap, quick toggles (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, location, rotation, torch, battery saver, haptics, show taps, stay awake, developer options), call / SMS / USSD, and one-click mirroring
Tethering	PC → phone with gnirehtet (reverse tethering), and phone → PC over USB or a proxy
Advanced	Five pages: every scrcpy option (codec, bit rate, fps, virtual display, OTG, input modes), more of them (recording format and time limit, orientation, window placement, shortcut keys), the adb tools (wireless pairing, mDNS discovery, bug report, private DNS, IME, hotspot), a Root / recovery page that shows what your device cannot do and says why, and Automation (start with Windows, and what each phone does when it is plugged in)
Apps	What is installed, by name as well as package, launch, force stop, uninstall, open in its own scrcpy window, and install .apk or a split .xapk / .apks / .apkm
Contacts / SMS	Read, add, edit, delete, call, send
Cam / Mic	Front and rear camera as a video source with zoom, and the phone microphone or output streamed or recorded on the PC, with the codec, encoder and bit rate read from the phone
Files	Browse, search, sort, rename, upload, download, move, compress, extract, preview pictures and text without saving them, free space of the current volume
Running	Live process list with memory and state, stop anything
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth / NFC	Radios on and off, scan, join or forget a network, paired devices
Users	Multi-user: list, switch, add, remove, turn the user switcher on or off
Shell	A live adb shell, and a logcat viewer with a level, a filter and save

Several devices can be connected at once; most actions apply to everything selected in the device list. Every list also carries its own actions on the right mouse button.

Getting started

1. Turn on USB debugging on the phone and plug it in (or pair it over Wi-Fi).
2. Clone this repository.
3. Run get-upstream.ps1 once. It downloads scrcpy and gnirehtet from their official GitHub releases, checks each archive against SHA256 and unpacks it here. The binaries are deliberately not committed — they belong to their own projects.
4. Double-click androiddc.vbs for the classic window, or androiddc-nova.vbs for Nova.
5. Optional: double-click start-menu.vbs to put both in the Start menu, with the AndroidDC icon. They appear under All apps; right-click one there and choose Pin to Start to keep it on the first page. start-menu-remove.vbs takes them out again.

If a tool turns out to be missing at startup, AndroidDC offers to fetch it for you and waits until the download is finished before opening.

# everything
.\get-upstream.ps1

# only what is not already here
.\get-upstream.ps1 -OnlyMissing

# one package, a specific version, somewhere else
.\get-upstream.ps1 -GetScrcpy -ScrcpyVersion 4.1 -Destination D:\tools\androiddc

Requirements

• Windows 10 or 11, Windows PowerShell 5.1 (ships with Windows) or PowerShell 7
• An Android device with USB debugging enabled
• Nothing else — no Python, no Node, no install

Files

File	What it is
androiddc.ps1	The classic window. One PowerShell script, WinForms user interface
androiddc.vbs	Starts the classic window without a console — double-click it
androiddc-nova.vbs	Starts the Nova window without a console — or double-click this one
start-menu.vbs	Adds both windows to the Start menu, with the AndroidDC icon
start-menu-remove.vbs	Takes them out of the Start menu again
nova/	The Nova window: WPF in PowerShell, one file per page, its theme, fonts and tests
shared/	What both windows load: starting with Windows and the rules per phone
get-upstream.ps1	Downloads and verifies scrcpy and gnirehtet
get-upstream.bat	Double-click wrapper for the above
gnirehtet-share.ps1	Reverse tethering from the command line, without the window
docs/	The full documentation
assets/	Logo, icon and the window icon
INDEX.md	What every file in the folder is
CHANGELOG.md	What each release changed
tests/	Tests that run the real window, with or without a phone

Settings live in %APPDATA%\AndroidDC\settings.json for the classic window and nova-settings.json next to it for Nova, outside the repository. The rules per phone are automation.json in the same folder, read and written by both.

Known limits

These are Android's rules, not bugs:

• gnirehtet carries TCP and UDP only. Ping never works through the tunnel — that is ICMP, which it does not forward. Use a real request to test a connection.
• scrcpy --otg restarts the adb server, which drops an active reverse tunnel. AndroidDC warns first and rebuilds the tunnel afterwards.
• Renaming a user needs MANAGE_USERS, a system permission adb does not hold. Adding, removing and switching users all work.
• Android exposes no adb command that pairs or connects a Bluetooth device. The radio and the paired list are all that can be reached.
• There is no adb command that sends an SMS; the message is composed in the phone's own SMS app and sent from there.
• The phone has tar, gzip and unzip but no zip, so archives are made as .tar.gz.
• adb root, remount, sideload and their neighbours need a userdebug build or recovery. They are listed on their own page, marked against your device, rather than hidden.
• A screen capture costs roughly 1.4 s. For anything live, use the scrcpy mirror.

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. The classic window is one PowerShell file; Nova has its own rules in nova/CONTRACT.md. For the classic window:

• keep the layout functions the single place that positions controls — no absolute coordinates scattered through event handlers;
• keep adb work off the UI thread (Invoke-OffThread, the shared runspace) so the window never freezes;
• never hardcode a folder — everything is resolved from $PSScriptRoot;
• say what a device actually reports. If Android refuses something, the log should say so rather than pretend it worked.

Documentation

Full documentation lives in docs/:

Page	What is in it
Getting started	Install, first run, connecting a phone over USB or Wi-Fi
User guide	Every tab and every button, one by one
Shortcuts	Keyboard and mouse, including the screen pane
Command line	get-upstream.ps1 and gnirehtet-share.ps1 reference
What it runs on your phone	Every adb command the program can issue, and why
Limits	What Android does not allow, and what that means here
Troubleshooting	Symptoms, causes, fixes
Architecture	How the script is put together, for contributors

License

Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE.

scrcpy and gnirehtet are separate projects by Genymobile, also Apache-2.0. AndroidDC downloads their official releases; it does not redistribute them.

Nova's typefaces, DM Sans and Space Grotesk in nova/fonts/, are from Google Fonts under the SIL Open Font License 1.1; their license files are next to them.