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ACCESSING REMOTE ANDROID MOBILE CONTENTS

S. S. Damawale1

Assistant Professor , CSE Department, N.K.Orchid College of Engineering & Technology, Solapur, Maharashtra,
India.
[email protected]

Abstract

Now a days everyone is using a mobile phone and it is not only used for calling purpose. Today all mobile Users are using
android phone and can store images, videos, files, contacts etc. Mobile phones now a day are not only for calling purpose but also
for important work like banking, corporate, education etc. In case, if user forgets mobile at home and wants some important data
from it remotely from one place to another place. For this there are several android applications available for smart phones today
that can help one to get it. This paper is presenting an android app for the same Accessing Remote Android Mobile Contents.
This app will take user requirement as input and retrieve it. This application requires internet connection first, if it is connected it
will open login prompt. In which user has to provide unique user id and password which is decided during installation of app.
Once the user is validated by remote mobile phone, user will see a menu on his/her screen. User has to select menu option form
that and send it to remote phone. User will receive data (contacts) from remote mobile.

Keywords: Android, Remote Mobile, Local Mobile, Eclipse.

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I . INTRODUCTION

In todays faster life mobile phone essential part of human

life. Mobile phones now a day are not only used by
corporate peoples, but also it is useful for students, doctors,
service mans, engineers for their day to day activities.
The use of mobile phone now a days is not limited up
speaking only, it is used for many purposes like recording,
video making, transmitting information, connecting phone
to computer. Mobile phone is playing an vital role.
Suppose you forgot your phone at home and you want some
data from your mobile phone urgently like contacts, text
documents. In such cases you would need some application
which will provide facility to access the contents of mobile
remotely. Today there is an application for every other
things so why not to have an application which will let you
access the contents of mobile phone remotely.
Accessing Remote Android Mobile Contents is an
application that works on android based smart phones. To
use this application the user should be authenticated. After
authentication he/she has to select option from list
depending upon which type of information he/she wants.

II. EXISTING SYSTEM

The phoneaway application which is used by users to access

their own mobile phone contents remotely. To use
phoneaway application the application should be installed in
users own mobile phone. The phoneaway is available on
google freely.

When user install the phoneaway application in own mobile,

user have to register another mobile number. That number is
useful to get all the information from users own mobile.
The use of phoneaway application is used to find and search
contacts which are in users own mobile. User can locate
their mobile phone when it lost.
After installing, phoneaway application runs in the
background in users own mobile phone. After installing the
application in users Smartphone User have to register an
another mobile number in the application, that mobile
number is used to access information from users own mobile
phone, and only one alternative number can be registered.

III. METHODOLOGY

This section describes the system architecture. Figure1

shows the design architecture, which shows the flow of
application.
First part is user interface; the user interface shows the first
part. i.e graphical user interface where user can interact.
There are different components to show the interface, which
include authentication, connectivity etc.
The local mobile indicates the phone on user side (any
random phone) which user can operate, that user can choose
to do the connectivity to remote phone. Using 3G internet
service the local mobile can connect with remote mobile
anywhere. Both the androids mobiles should be register with
this application to use the service. Suppose remote mobile is
at home and you are at another location.

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had given during installation of application. After filing all

the required inputs now user has to click on the Login
button in order to traverse to the next screen. When the user
click on login button The IP address of that mobile
automatically binds to the edit text of Ip Address and one
specific format of SMS will be sent to the mobile which is at
home which will cost 1 Rs. After receiving the SMS, the
application automatically starts on the mobile which is at
home i.e. remote mobile. Then it tokenize the SMS and
authenticate the SMS contents with the file contents which
we have taken during installation. When authentication is
successful it automatically turn on the data connection if it is
off and connection is established using IP address in SMS.
Once the connection is established it sends a message as
CONNECTED to the local mobile. after receiving the
message CONNECTED. Here user has to select either
CONTACTS or FILES. When user selects on CONTACTS.
It displays a screen where user have to enter something to
retrieve from remote mobile. Here user have to give the
name of the person whose number he wants. After clicking
on send button this name is send to the remote mobile
which is at home. After few seconds, name with contact
number is display in the list view.

IV. DETAILS OF PROPOSED SYSTEM

This section describes all detail system of the application, all

designing of the application. Following are the different
designing diagrams of the application.
Fig.1. System Architecture
If you want some data urgently which is in your android
mobile then this application will help you. Here the mobile
number as username and password for authentication and IP
address to establish connection between two mobiles. The
user has to give the same mobile number and password as he

A. Data Flow Diagrams

Data flow diagram means which takes input, process that

input and represent output. Data flow diagram is view of
system i.e. how data flow in system.

Fig. 2. Data Flow Diagram

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The figure shows the system data flow. It shows the user
first take any other random mobile i.e. local mobile. User
first send message for connection, so for user authentication
there is login id and password, if user is not authentic then it
returns to login stage to get correct user-id and password. If
is correct the connection is established with random mobile.
After login user can request to remote mobile to fetch some
data, then it displays display menu for ex. Contacts. The
remote mobile respond as per request.

2. Sequence Diagram

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B. UML DIAGRAMS

A UML diagram is the pictorial representation of a

elements, it state as a connected graph of vertices and arcs.

1. Use Case Diagram [6]

[2] Use case diagram shows requirements of system. These

requirements are design requirements.
Here the user can send a message to remote mobile for
connectivity, where it checks user validation, if validation is
correct then through display menu user can send request to
retrieve some data from remote mobile.

Fig. 3. Use Case Diagram

Sequence diagram is one which shows how messages

transfer between classes. Figure 4 shows the sequence
diagram which shows classes User, Connection, Remote
mobile. User send message to remote mobile to establish
connection by login details. If login successful through
display menu user can select menu and user can send
message to remote mobile to fetch content. Remote mobile
search requested content and send response.

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3. State Diagram

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Fig. 4. Sequence Diagram

In the first step the connection is established. If the

connection is established flow goes to next state where user
will provide username and password. The provided
username and password will be sent to remote phone for

validation. Once user is authenticated he will see the menu

on screen from which he has to select the menu item and
send to the remote mobile. Then goes in state retrieve data
from remote mobile.

Fig. 5. State Diagram

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V. RESULTS

Fig. 6. Screenshot of Login

Figure 6 shows the login screen, this login screen mainly
consists of inputs that user has to give for login .Here the
mobile number as username and password for authentication
and IP address to establish connection between two mobiles.
The user has to give the same mobile number and password
as he had given during installation of application. After
feeling all the required inputs now user has to click on the
Login button in order to traverse to the next screen. When
the user click on login button the IP address of that mobile
automatically binds to the edit text of Ip Address and one
specific format of SMS will be sent to the mobile which is at
home which will cost 1 Rs. After receiving the SMS, the
application automatically starts on the mobile which is at
home i.e. remote mobile. Then it tokenize the SMS and
authenticate the SMS contents with the file contents which
we have taken during installation. When authentication is
successful it automatically turn on the data connection if it is
off and connection is established using IP address in SMS.
Once the connection is established it sends a message as
CONNECTED to the local mobile.

Fig. 7. Screenshot of Setting IP Address

Figure 7 shows ServerSocketNew screenshot, this screen
will be displayed after receiving the message
CONNECTED. Here user has to select either
CONTACTS or FILES. When user selects on CONTACTS
screenshot, it displays next screen.

Fig. 8. Screenshot of Accessing Contact

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Figure 8 shows the third screen of the application. This
screen will be displayed when user click on CONTACTS.
Here user has to give the name of the person whose number
he wants. After clicking on send button this name is send
to the remote mobile which is at home. After few seconds,
name with contact number is display in the list view.

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As almost every other person uses a smart phone so here is a

really smart application which a user can take along with
him to any place and can get the data urgently.

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Fig. 9. Screenshot for Different Categories

Figure 9 shows the fourth screen of the application. This
screen will be displayed when user click on FILES. This
screen displays the four types of buttons name as From
Download, From Gallery, From ImportantData and From
Anywhere from where user can access the files. When user
clicks on From Download then user gets all the file names
from download folder of remote mobile. All the file names
are display in the list view. From the list view user has to
select the name of file. This procedure is same for From
Gallery and From Important Data buttons. When user click
on From Anywhere button then user has to know the entire
path of file which he wants.

VI. CONCLUSION

Now-a-days most of the people are doing their work using

smart phones, because smart phones are providing all
facilities of PC. The problem arises when the user forgets
phone at home, and they want some data urgently from their
phone. Hence the proposed system will come into picture
where the user will have an application where he can
retrieve data from his phone using any other smart phone. In
this application user will have unique id and password for
accessing their phone.

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