Current limitations

Updated at

22.12.2017

Limitations

  • The length of the forwarded messages gets cropped after 1018 characters due to a limitation in Android
  • If someone sends you a video / image / voice message this will not be forwarded. Instead there will be a placeholder with the name of the filetype.
  • Emoticons are currently not encoded correctly so they end up showing as a '?'. This hopefully will be fixed in a future release.

That's not possible at the moment

  • Answering messages
  • Get images / videos (see limitations)
  • Remote control the VM in a comfortable way to answer messages / get posted content like videos, images and voice messages

More information about the VM remote control issues

When using the implemented VM remote control solution you will get two mouse pointers which are "relative" to each other. So you sometimes have to leave the screen over the edges to "reposition" the pointer. The issue with the relative mouse pointer unfortunately seems to be not solveable at the moment as it's an Android issue. :(

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Server

  • I spent hours trying different remote control solutions for both VNC and RDP. None of the following server apps worked like they should:
    • droid VNC server
      • Not updated anymore
      • Only old releases available
    • VMLite VNC Server
      • Not free
      • You will need a Google account connected to your device
      • Nobody knows what the company can control on your VM as it's closed source and not really trustworthy
    • alpha vnc lite
      • Not free
      • Seemed to be a good solution because it uses accessibility features but I ended up with several crashes and a black screen
    • RemoDroid
      • Good idea for a remote control solution but I couldn't control my VM from my android device and the browser remote control didn't work like it should either.
      • Sometimes slow but maybe this will be the solution for me in the future.
    • Tools like TeamViewer are not the solution I'm looking for and furthermore they are no alternative to me as its closed source software - but I think it would work. So probably this could be your solution for this problem :-)

Client

  • On the client side everything was fine as there are plenty different apps and tools available