AirDroid - No wires, No worries... mostly

[kylebellamy]

To say I was eagerly anticipating my S3 would be an understatement. As I am sure most of you know.

But when I plugged it into my MacBook Pro, ready to start loading it up with music and other fun things, I suddenly realized I wasn't seeing the drive I was used to popping up for me to fill. A little research later and I find that they made a good thing way more difficult for all of us. I'm sure this is for a good reason but...

Anyway, research and reading brought me to AirDroid and it is the app that solves my problems nicely. I would have used this on my old phone had I known how easy it is to use.

The thing that I like most is the interface you pull up on your browser.


Each of the icons you see pulls up a nice interface with options, clickable bits and lots of generally useful items. For instance, the Contacts one gives you a nice list with the option to edit them.

Click Photos and and see all the image you have on your phone aside from the ones you've hidden from your significant other.


Also very useful is the Apps browser that lets you see what you have and work with it as well as installing apps from files on your computer.


You can check out the memory usage of the phone and SD card, add memos and other things I have not fully explored.

Oh and the screenshot tool is brilliant! Takes a very good shot with nice clarity. You have to time your shots though as AirDroid keeps asking and getting permission to have superuser permissions so it keeps pooping up right when you think it's not going to.


One note: I have noticed a few times that clicking yields no results but that is that seems to be a connection issue or a slowing of the software on the phone so click and wait or you will have a bunch of windows open all of the sudden.

All in all it is a great solution with a nice visual interface and a responsive, useful options. And it's platform independent which makes it really versatile.

[Goose306]

Air Droid is solid for a cable-less solution. Definitely one of my favorite apps.

BTW, your sentence right above the Minecraft picture says pooping. I think you meant popping lol

Tapped from my jelly-beaned d2vzw

[kylebellamy]

I may have meant pooping... well... thank you. lol

[Eric]

just tried it out, seems way too cool, BUT...., if you keep all your files on your ext_sd it doesnt recognize them. seems it only reads the internal sd. did i miss a setting ? (i hope )

[kylebellamy]

Good question, will have to check.

[Goose306]

BTW you can disable the Superuser toast notification for when an app that is approved for root requests access. You will still get the normal notifications (for new apps) but that gets rid of that toast notification in your picture.

[brucebanner77]

If I dont have internet on my lap top can I still use this app? I have it, haven't used it yet. Were I am now, I have a lap top but no internet connection. If I can't, how can I "mirror" my phone on to my laptop?

Tippy Tappin on Tapatalk with Sammy's S3

[M@31]

Airdroid is a saviour!

[kylebellamy]

As far as I can tell, this needs a router to work so I don't think it will work without internet. You have to have the phone and computer running on the same home network.

Does your laptop have bluetooth? There are apps for the phone that will make it work via bluetooth although the interface is not as robust or slick as this one.

[kylebellamy]

Just found this info on the AirDroid website that you can manage files on the internal SD card only at this point. They are working on a solution for it. I just created a folder and move things from there as needed. From the site FAQs:

I cannot see my files stored in SD card.

AirDroid currently only support internal SD card, and some external ones are not yet supported.