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mongol on Dec 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: 49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse ...

I also looked into this but was disappointed when I found that android support for USB HID only goes in one direction. You can attach a keyboard to your phone, but your phone cannot act like one. There are so many useful usecases for a phone like a keyboard it is too bad...

lawl on Dec 14, 2019 [–]

Yeah, this is why you either need to disable the android usb driver and use default linux ones (enabling which, broke the compile for the vendor kernel on my device)

Or patch the android stuff to add HID support: https://github.com/pelya/android-keyboard-gadget

mongol on Dec 14, 2019 | [–]

Yes but that rules out making a popular app out of it.

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