Remote support touch events on Chrome OS devices.


Many Chrome OS devices for instance,chrome book now support Android apps and Google play store. Android apps designed for phones and tablets can be optimized for Chromebooks.

There are various applications such as SureMDM, Teamviewer, Anydesk to remotely access android devices and perform touch events on them with the help of their corresponding android client apps such as SureMDM Nix, Teamviewer QuickSupport and Anydesk Remote control respectively.

We are able to remotely view Chrome OS devices with the above mentioned android apps but not able to perform touch events.The API used to perform touch events in all these android apps is mentioned in the link below.

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/accessibilityservice/AccessibilityService#dispatchGesture(android.accessibilityservice.GestureDescription,%20android.accessibilityservice.AccessibilityService.GestureResultCallback,%20android.os.Handler).This API is executing successfully but touch events are not working in the Chrome OS devices.

There is a remote desktop software called chrome remote desktop developed by Google that allows a user to remotely control another computer.To remotely access and perform touch events on Chrome OS devices such as  Chrome book, follow the below mentioned steps.

  1. Open https://remotedesktop.google.com/support in Chrome book. Screen below will be visible.
  1. Click on Download in the above screen and add Chrome Remote Desktop extension to chrome as shown in the screen below
  1. After adding the extension by clicking on Add extension as shown in the screenshot below
  1. Generate access code
  1. Share the access code to the user who wants to remote into the chromebook
  1. That user can use this one time access code to connect to this chromebook
  1. Provide the access to the user by clicking on share 

Conclusion: Using android remote support apps ,we can remotely view Chrome OS devices but cannot perform touch events.But we can remotely access Chrome OS devices and perform touch events on them using a chrome extension named chrome remote desktop.

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