aRDP: Secure RDP Client

Iordan Iordanov (Undatech)

About this app

Connect to your computers from anywhere without network configuration! Sign up for the free Morpheusly Beta by visiting www.morpheusly.com to Download and Get Started

Welcome to the best open-source RDP client in the world!

Need aRDP on iOS or Mac OS X? Now available at
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/ardp-pro/id1620745523

Please support my work and GPL open-source software by buying the donation version of this program called aRDP Pro!

Release notes
https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/blob/master/bVNC/CHANGELOG-aRDP

Older versions
https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/releases

Report bugs
https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients/issues

If you have questions, please ask on the forum instead of in a review for everybody's benefit
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bvnc-ardp-aspice-opaque-remote-desktop-clients

Check out bVNC, my VNC Viewer as well
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iiordanov.freebVNC

See below for setup instructions on enabling RDP on Windows.

aRDP is a secure, SSH capable, open source Remote Desktop Protocol client that uses the excellent FreeRDP library and parts of aFreeRDP. Its features include:

- Remote desktop control of computers running any version of Windows except Windows 10 Home. Install a VNC server for Windows 10 Home and use bVNC
- RDP File support in Pro version
- Full Ubuntu 22.04+ support
- Remote desktop control of Linux computers with xrdp installed.
- Master password in aRDP Pro
- MFA/2FA SSH authentication in aRDP Pro
- Sound redirection in in aRDP Pro
- RDP Gateway Support
- SDcard redirection
- Console mode
- Fine control over remote desktop session styling
- Multi-touch control over the remote mouse. One finger tap left-clicks, two-finger tap right-clicks, and three-finger tap middle-clicks
- Right and middle-dragging if you don't lift the first finger that tapped
- Scrolling with a two-finger drag
- Pinch-zooming
- Force Landscape, Immersive Mode, Keep Screen Awake options in Main Menu
- Dynamic resolution changes, allowing you to reconfigure your desktop while connected, and control over virtual machines from BIOS to OS
- Full rotation support. Use the central lock rotation on your device to disable rotation
- Multi-language support
- Full mouse support on Android 4.0+
- Full desktop visibility even with soft keyboard extended
- SSH tunneling for added security or to reach machines behind a firewall.
- UI Optimizations for different screen sizes (for tablets and smartphones)
- Samsung multi-window support
- SSH public/private (pubkey) support
- Importing encrypted/unencrypted RSA keys in PEM format, unencrypted DSA keys in PKCS#8 format
- Automatic connection session saving
- Zoomable, Fit to Screen, and One to One scaling modes
- Two Direct, one Simulated Touchpad, and one Single-handed input modes
- Long-tap to get a choice of clicks, drag modes, scroll, and zoom in single-handed input mode
- Stowable on-screen Ctrl/Alt/Tab/Super and arrow keys
- Sending ESC key using the "Back" button of your device
- Ability to rotate and use D-pad for arrows
- Minimum zoom fits screen, and snaps to 1:1 while zooming
- FlexT9 and hardware keyboard support
- Available on-device help on creating a new connection in the Menu when setting up connections
- Available on-device help on available input modes in the Menu when connected
- Tested with Hackerskeyboard. Using it is recommended (get hackers keyboard from Google Play).
- Export/Import of settings
- Samsung DEX, Alt-Tab, Start Button capture
- Ctrl+Space capture
- Clipboard integration for copy/pasting from your device
- Audio support

Enabling Remote Desktop on Windows:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-desktop-services/clients/remote-desktop-allow-access

Enabling RDP on Linux:
- Install xrdp package

Code:
https://github.com/iiordanov/remote-desktop-clients

Ratings and reviews

Works but not without flaws. Mouse move movement using phone touch screen isn't as smooth, even when turning off rdp options. Its okay but feels a bit slow and tight when moving, even with simulate touchpad mode. Also, does not show both of my monitors. Doesn't tell you one used either. Monitor selected also does not fill the screen to it's full resolution, despite selecting scaling options or custom resolution. Decent. Hope issues get resolved

I liked the apps scaling. Had to disable unicode input to get nested rdp sessions keyboard working. 4 stars, only cause the "simulated" mouse mode is not the greatest. using 2 fingers to scroll, scrolls in a too big of a chunk and it's hard to scroll down just a tad scroll. Need to be able to adjust the sensitivity of that. The mouse right click (2 finger hold?) doesn't always work and holding to grab a window and drag is finicky. official MS RDP app works better for the simulated mouse

Works pretty well even on the free version. A small nitpick is pulling the phone keyboard can obstruct where the typing will happen; maybe scale the view so it never ends up behind it?

What’s new

v6.2.8
- Fix yes/no and alert dialogs crash on older Androids
- Changed glyph cache default to false
v6.2.6
- Localized the app into most supported languages
- Ensured all strings are present in existing localizations
- Improved messaging
v6.2.5
- Vastly lowered bandwidth usage for Windows hosts and Gfx H264 codec
v6.2.3
- Launch app into separate task started via URI intent
v6.2.2
- UI Refresh
- Light/Dark mode theme while not connected
- Bugfixes
v6.2.1
- Updated translations
v6.2.0
- Mainten