One of my most wanted Android features has been a way to control basic functionality of the device via a web browser, such as messaging, file access and photo viewing. I came across an app the other day called AirDroid that looked like a good solution.
AirDroid offers a huge choice of features, including those mentioned and some other useful additions incuding phone details (battery status, disk usage etc), contact info, URL sending, clipboard access and screenshots (with root). All features are accessed in a well designed web view, with it's own window management that makes most actions much quicker than doing them on the phone.
There's a few downsides though. One is that you need to be over the same wifi connection, so truly remote access or use whilst on 3G is not an option. You also need to enter a code generated on the phone every time you access the web view, which gets annoying and means you need your phone in-hand every time you want to access it.
Another app that doesn't suffer from either of these issues is MightyText, which is is a fantastically handy way of reading and sending text messaged from a web browser wherever you are. As the name suggests though, texting is all it does.
It'd be great to see Google make their own solution to this, combining the functionality of AirDroid with the accessibility of MightyText. For now though, both are excellent apps and worth trying out. Any other suggestions for apps that can do this?
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