Install AndroidBuddy on Nvidia Jetson

AndroidBuddy

Share your keyboard, mouse, screen, internet connection, files, and more with your Android phone.

AndroidBuddy is useful for:

  • Reducing eye strain and improving posture by using the phone on a larger screen.
  • Moving big videos to your computer to delete them from the phone
  • Sharing your fast ethernet connection with the phone (save data costs, can be much faster than WiFi)
  • Responding to texts with a full size keyboard
  • Copying and pasting links and other text between computer and phone
  • Using the phone's internet connection. If your computer cannot find the WiFi network, or you want to use the phone's mobile data, this works even if Mobile Hotspot is not part of your cell plan.

To run: Menu > Accessories > AndroidBuddy
To run in a temrinal: ~/.local/share/androidbuddy/main.sh

NOTE: To use AndroidBuddy, your Android phone must be connected to your computer with a USB cable. If you know adb and scrcpy and want to help add Bluetooth support, contact Botspot.

Fortunately, AndroidBuddy is very easy to install on your Nvidia Jetson in just two steps.

  1. Install Pi-Apps - the best app installer for Nvidia Jetson.
  2. Use Pi-Apps to install AndroidBuddy.

Compatibility

For the best chance of this working, we recommend using the latest version of Nvidia Jetpack for your specific Jetson (Jetson Xavier, or Jetson Orin).
AndroidBuddy will run on L4T Ubuntu ARM64.

Install Pi-Apps

Pi-Apps is a free tool that makes it incredibly easy to install the most useful programs on your Nvidia Jetson with just a few clicks.

Open a terminal and run this command to install Pi-Apps:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Botspot/pi-apps/master/install | bash

Feel free to check out the Pi-Apps source code here: https://github.com/Botspot/pi-apps

Install AndroidBuddy

Now that you have Pi-Apps installed, it is time to install AndroidBuddy.
First launch Pi-Apps from your start menu:

Then click on the Tools category.

Now scroll down to find AndroidBuddy in the list.

Just click Install and Pi-Apps will install AndroidBuddy for you!

Pi-Apps is a free and open source tool made by Botspot, theofficialgman, and other contributors. Find out more at https://pi-apps.io