The IT service provider wanted to avoid unnecessary trips to customers and perform tasks such as installing software remotely. Rossmanith GmbH released the first version of TeamViewer software in 2005, at that time still based on the VNC project. TeamViewer is the core product of developer TeamViewer AG. It has been installed on more than two billion devices. TeamViewer is proprietary software, but does not require registration and is free of charge for non-commercial use. It was first released in 2005, and its functionality has expanded step by step. TeamViewer is a German remote access and remote control computer software, allowing maintenance of computers and other devices.

Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS/ iPadOS Technically, Samsung basically gave Teamviewer a bunch of special pseudo-root-level certificates and signatures so the app can work seamlessly for everyone (by having draw-over-other-apps and make-interactions-on-users-behalf access via the Accessibility APIs presumably).15.29.4 / 26 April 2022 12 months ago ( ) ġ5.29.96 / 26 April 2022 12 months ago ( ) ġ5.29.1 / 4 May 2022 11 months ago ( )

As a background, Samsung got this working to counter Amazon's Kindle Fire's new feature called Mayday. It basically installs this Samsung specific addon from the Play Store. This Teamviewer press release shows how it's done. Notably, Google itself is absent (So no remote control on Pixel series, just screensharing) Update 2019 June: Now it supports a slew of different Android OEMs beyond Samsung. The only Android devices it does manage to pull this off is on Samsung devices Teamviewer does NOT support taking screenshots or remote control without root.

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