On 12/20/2020 12:57 AM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Sun, 20 Dec 2020 00:28:10 -0700, AJL
wrote:

On 12/19/2020 11:07 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 20:35:41 -0700, AJL
wrote:

On 12/14/2020 6:40 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 15:13:53 -0700, AJL
wrote:

On 12/14/2020 1:39 PM, micky wrote:
In alt.home.repair, on Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:34:17 -0700,
AJL wrote:

there's also another way where Windows connects with
your phone and runs the Android apps there but you're
using your laptop screen instead of the phone. You
would need your phone to be nearby.

I tried a couple of those, when iirc looking for a way to
type into the phone without using the phone.

The one that came up first I could never get to work. I
forget its name. I deduced, perhaps incorrectly, that
I needed something called adb----, and I dl'd a file from
somewhere I had not heard of, and unzipped it, and before
I knew it I had a virus. it kept bring up screens I did
not want in the browser. Now I recall that was when I
first got Vista, and I had disabled UAC. Now I don't do
that.


It's not the fault of the phone, etc. that I got the
virus, and I was able to track it down and squash it.

After looking it up I see that what I meant was the Windows
"Your Phone" app. What I mentioned is apparently an added
new feature (beta?) to an old app and only available for
certain phones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your_Phone

Well this page calls Your Phone Companion a legacy app that
has been replaced by Your Phone, but the Android app store
only has Your Phone Companion, not Your Phone (which I guess
is for iphones.)

You need the Windows 'Your Phone' app on your PC *and* the
Android 'Your Phone Companion' app on your phone. They talk to
each other. I just installed them and the connection seems to
be working fine. The Android apps installed on my phone now
also run fine using the PC screen. BUT they run in a small
vertical phone like window that can't be expanded

Well, it worked. It semes to require logging in every time,
unlike myphoneexplorer,

Mine didn't. Dunno why.

Maybe it didnt' really, or maybe it's because I turn my phone off in
between. I only want to link the two once in a while so it's not a
problem.


It's likely because you turn your phone off then. My LT and phone
apparently continue talking to each other when sleeping because there
are texts waiting for me in the morning when I wake the LT.


but it also displaye my photos and pretty big too.

Guess it depends on the screen. My LT has a 12" screen and since my
phone is a + model they both end up looking about the same size.

My phone will display either a whole bunch of little ones, or one
picture at a time full screen, but this displayed 6 iirc at a time, 2
columns, 3 rows. Very convenient.

MyPhoneExploer makes it easy to copy the pictures to the PC and use
whatever I want to display them, but it's more steps.


I use Google Drive for photos. Whether I want to bore people with
pictures on my LT, phone, TV, or one of my tablets, they're always
available and synced. Likewise I can add a photo (or any file or folder)
from any one device and it's automatically synced to all my other devices.

Google does have a special app for photos that does the same thing
(likely better) but I've been using my photo (and video) file system
since before Google and didn't want to change or be locked into one app.


OTOH, the other thing I really want is if I have to send long texts.
MyPhoneExplorer does a good job, but who knows, this might be
better.

I needed 5 of them and I could copy each one to the clipboard. So
far size was not a problem. Thanks.

Glad it worked out for you.

So IMO my full screen BlueStacks Android emulator is far
superior at running Android apps on a PC. YMMV.

https://www.bluestacks.com/ I'm a little afraid of her machine
gun.

:-) Yep, the BlueStacks Android emulator has some scary games. But
fortunately it also works well (full screen) for my favorite
Android news apps that don't have anything equivalent in Windows.

I haven't installed it yet. Those machine guns you know, but maybe
Sunday.

Well the WYPR app has all the NPR program archives in one place.


I downloaded WYPR to give it a try. Works great full screen. Will keep
it. Thanks.


I could use that. (I'm surprised all the NPR stations don't use the
same app, with the call letters changed, but I dont' thin they do.)


The NPR app (by NPR) unfortunately doesn't run full screen in BlueStacks.