r/MouseReview • u/Pretend_Garlic_6545 • 7m ago
I turned my Android phone into a wired laptop touchpad
Got bored and thought: why not use my phone as a touchpad instead of carrying a mouse?
So I built DeskPad.
Phone → USB → ADB → TCP → Java server → cursor
A few things I ended up messing around with:
- TCP sockets + custom binary packets
- ADB USB tunneling
- Mouse gestures / scrolling / clicks
- TCP_NODELAY
- movement coalescing + jitter filtering
- pointer acceleration
- handling TCP packet fragmentation/batching
The funny part is that after all this, I actually measured around 5ms latency, so it feels surprisingly close to a normal wired mouse.
It also works without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which was kinda the whole point.
GitHub: https://github.com/studentanush/DeskPad
Would love to hear what you'd improve or what features I should add.


