Turn your smartphone or tablet into a trackpad [How To]

A nifty trick I stumbled upon recently allows me to use my SwiftKey keyboard with Swipe and predictive text as well as dictation by Google Voice on my Ubuntu PC! That’s not all. I can also use my tablet touch screen as a trackpad with multi-finger gestures and scrolling on my PC!

How does it work? You’ll be pleasantly surprised to know that this is really easy to set up! The only catch is that you need a wifi hotspot setup so that your PC and your Android device can connect to the same wifi network. If you don’t have a wifi hotspot setup, you can use another smartphone to set up a wifi hotspot and then connect your PC and Android device to that wifi hotspot.

Try it now!

1. Head over to the Play Store on your Android device and install the Wifi Mouse app
2. Download the mouse server for your OS (it is available for Mac, Windows and Linux). I have tested the Windows (7) and Ubuntu (13,10) versions of the server. Both work great!
3. Make sure your devices are connected to the Wifi network.
4. Run the mouse server on your PC and start the Wifi Mouse app on your Android device Follow any on-screen instructions.
5. Enjoy!

Thanks to Nectarine for the great software! If you like it, please buy the paid version to support the developers.