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Android Notifier for MacOS
Android Notifier is a free utility which enables you to receive desktop alerts on both Windows and Mac via WiFi or Bluetooth from your Android device for new calls, missed calls, SMS messages, voicemails and battery status.
In this article I shall run through how to configure the utility on Mac OS. The exact same setup procedure can be used for Windows, simply ignore the parts about Growl!
Alerts can either be delivered using the default system messaging system, or the Growl notification system.
A desktop client will need to be downloaded and installed, available in both 32 and 64-bit versions, from the Google code web site here - http://code.google.com/p/android-notifier/
Extract the package and drag the application to your Applications folder:
When launched, an icon will be added to the Menu bar:
In the Preferences you can specify which connections you wish to monitor: Bluetooth or WiFi or both:
A client will also need to be installed on the Android device. This is available free of charge from the Android Market, simply do a search for the Android Notifier:
In the client you can specify what connection method to use:
as well as specific IP address information if connecting via WiFi:
On the desktop, to receive messages only from a specific device, in the Preferences select the option to Add a device. On the device select the option to send a test notification:
The device will now be paired:
On the Android device you can now select which areas you want to receive alerts about.
By default the notifier will use the Mac's default system messaging:
If you want to use Growl to gain more control over the placement and look and feel of alerts, within the Notifier preferences select the option to use the Growl notification transport.
Within the Growl Preferences pane in System Preferences on the Mac, enable the option to allow network notifications and enable remote application registration:
On the Applications tab, configure the Android Notifier options:
and enable the alerts you want to receive:
Alerts will now be displayed using Growl:
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