How To Set Up and Use TeamViewer For Android – The Best App for Remote Control and Meetings

teamviewer-android-apps You may be aware of the TeamViewer applications for computers. TeamViewer started as applications for desktop and are available for the Android platform as well. We’re talking about Team Viewer for Remote Control and Team Viewer for Meetings. The TeamViewer team has done a excellent job developing these applications. Both are essential applications if you conduct business meetings in both professional and personal capacity and also for the times that you’re out and on the move but needs to access your own or someone else’s PC.

Team Viewer Apps for Android – Introduction

Team Viewer for Remote Control is a pretty useful Android app that lets you remotely control your computer while you’re on the road using your Android device. Using the app, you can also access the computers of you friends and family, especially when they have computer problems and you’re the only one who can help them. With this app, you can help them where ever you are for as long as your Android device is connected to the internet. The app also comes useful whenever you need to edit a file residing on your home computer or when you want to use a software installed at home.

Team Viewer for Meetings on the other hand comes in handy whenever you need to join a virtual meeting. With this app, you can now attend any web conferences via your Android device.

Even if you don’t have a particular need for any of these two apps right now, at some point in time you’ll find them useful and so both apps are worth downloading and installing on your Android device. Both are free apps anyway and requires a small amount of storage so you might as well get them now. The good thing about these two Android app is that both are very easy to get started with. Read on to find out how to setup and use these two apps.

How to Set Up and Use Team Viewer for Remote Control:

First thing that you need to do is to grab the Team Viewer desktop app and install it on your computer. Then fire up the Team Viewer for Remote app and you’ll be greeted by the following screen. Partner in the “Connect to Partner” button refers to your computer. Team Viewer ID and Password are sourced from the Team Viewer desktop app.
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When installing the desktop app, you’ll be given two options – whether to install the app on your computer or run the app without installing the necessary files. Either way will work and be supported by the Android app.
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Next, you may now run the server software to get the screen above, with the generated unique ID and random password. Those are the information that you need to log in to the Team Viewer Android app.

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Enter the partner’s ID and establish the connection.

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Once your Android device and computer have been successfully partnered, you can now start controlling your computer via your Android device. To do so, you can use the following gestures

drag with one finger to move the mouse partner
perform single-finger taps for clocks
drag and drop or resize/move windows by holding finger for about a second before moving it
drag with double tap and hold
zoom in/out using pinch gesture
scroll with both fingers up and down

That’s it. You’d be amazed at how fluid your computer reacts with the gestures you perform on your Android devices. Considering that the connection is established wirelessly, the app worked smoothly . The app runs fast even if your Android device is on 3G network. In case you need a remote access to a computer at any point of time, TeamViewer is the app for the job.

How to Use Team Viewer for Meetings to Join Web Conferences

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When it comes to using Team Viewer for Meetings, the process is simpler than Team Viewer for Remote Control. As soon as you fire up the Android app, you just need to enter the Meeting ID to be provided by the meeting host. Once you’re in a virtual meeting you can use the integrated point-function to get the attention of the presenter to any point that you want to point out. You can also discuss with other participants of the view VoIP conferences. Can’t get easier than this.

Conclusion

Obviously, we will recommend Team Viewer if you need a reliable way of controlling your computer and to join a virtual meeting, even if you are on the move. Team Viewer for Remote Control and Team Viewer for Meetings are two useful Android apps that definitely deserves a space on your Android smartphones. Of course, we should not forget the Team Viewer Desktop apps that are needed to make these Android apps work.