Christopher Howard

I just kind of accidentally walked into a unique idea for using an Android phone to control a Max patch on a computer. I was experimenting with Steam and the app Steam Link for a recent game I got (Wingspan - actually a lot of fun, well worth checking out) when I realized that you can switch away from Steam on the computer and the desktop is still mirrored on the phone. You can click and type and interact with anything as usual, including opening a patch and being able to interact with it as if you're using a mouse.

I know MiraWeb allows for other information from the phone to be received by Max which doesn't happen here, but this method doesn't have any of the object limitations that MiraWeb has - anything you can click on your computer you can click with your phone. I haven't fully tested CPU load/how efficient everything would run with a more complex patch, so I don't know how useful this will be for people, but I figured I'd share this fun tidbit nonetheless.

I know MiraWeb allows for other information from the phone to be received by Max which doesn't happen here, but this method doesn't have any of the object limitations that MiraWeb has - anything you can click on your computer you can click with your phone.  I haven't fully tested CPU load/how efficient everything would run with a more complex patch, so I don't know how useful this will be for people, but I figured I'd share this fun tidbit nonetheless.

I just kind of accidentally walked into a unique idea for using an Android phone to control a Max patch on a computer. I was experimenting w

Using Steam Link in lieu of MiraWeb on Android