aSPICE: Secure SPICE 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

Need aSPICE on iOS or Mac OS X? Now available at
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/aspice-pro/id1560593107

Please support my work and GPL open-source software by buying the donation version of this program called aSPICE Pro! Please report issues to me with the “Send email" button in Google Play before writing a review.

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

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

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

If you have questions, you can also ask on the forum instead of in a review:
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

If your mouse pointer is not in sync with where you tap, you can use "Simulated Touchpad" input mode, or better, you can add an "EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet" to your virtual machine (when it's powered off) and then power it on. To add the Tablet:
- If configuring through virt-manager, Go to the View->Details section, and select Add Hardware->Input->EvTouch USB Graphics Tablet.
- If running your virtual machine on the command-line, you need an option similar to: "-device usb-tablet,id=input0"

aSPICE is a secure, SSH capable, open source SPICE protocol client that makes use of the LGPL licensed native libspice library. Its features include:

- Control any SPICE-enabled qemu virtrual machine with ANY guest OS.
- Master password support in aSPICE Pro
- MFA/2FA SSH authentication in aSPICE Pro
- USB Redirection in aSPICE Pro
- Audio support
- Multi-touch control over the remote mouse. One finger tap left-clicks, two-finger tap right-clicks, and three-finger tap middle-clicks
- Sound support (option in Advanced Settings on main screen)
- Right and middle-dragging if you don't lift the first finger that tapped
- Scrolling with a two-finger drag
- Pinch-zooming
- 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 use D-pad for arrows, and to rotate D-pad for some bluetooth keyboards
- 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
- Available on-device help on available input modes
- Tested with Hackerskeyboard
- Import/Export of settings
- Samsung DEX, Alt-Tab, Start Button capture
- Ctrl+Space capture

Planned features:
- Clipboard integration for copy/pasting from your device

Instructions for Linux by Red Hat:
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/SPICE

Instructions for Linux by Ubuntu's Canonical:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/60591/how-to-use-spice

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

Ratings and reviews

The app is upsell spam, it arbitrarily refuses connections to popular VM hosts and displays a popup to force you to buy the pro version.

App developer doesn't understand what the word donation means. A required payment to unlock features(especially ones core to app functionality)is not a donation, it's a straight up paywall. If you want donations, set up donations and make the app free(not build from source). if you want a paywall for funding, just admit that's what it is.

I only needed one thing: to open a Spice client connection to my Proxmox VE virtual machine. This looked like the tool for the job, but as soon as I try to connect from my Proxmox app, I'm hit with "This requires Pro functionality!" message and I apparently have no way to connect until I pony up the cash. I get that you wanna get paid for your work, but let the customers try out the product to be sure it meets their needs before you lock down and force them to pay. Waste of time even installing.

What’s new

v6.3.5
- Updated UI for adding new connections
- Implemented a connection sorting widget
- Fix for background of Send Text dialog
- Extra Keys and Send Text translucency
- Extra Keys and Send Text height reduced
- Send Text textbox in landscape mode not fullscreen anymore
- Fix for Simulated Touchpad bottom pan with Extra Keys up
v6.3.3
- Faster detection of IPV6 addresses vs IPV4 addresses with host:port format
- Improved clipboard handling
v6.3.0
- New On-screen Modifier, F-keys, Control char