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Remote

Introducing Valence

An on-screen trackpad and keyboard allow a computer to be remote controlled.
Valence supports mDNS service discovery (aka Bonjour or Avahi) to locate participating VNC servers on the local network.

In my spare cycles recently, I've been tinkering with developing Android code to control home theater components. As someone who has been passionately involved with the consumer electronics industry over the past ten years, my personal home theater system includes quite a collection of disparate devices that defy even the most feature-rich universal remote controls. What the world needs is an open, extensible Android remote control application that can be rapidly updated to support new devices as they are released.