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App to use Android phone as keyboard for Android tablet via bluetooth or wifi

TheyCallMeBT

Android Enthusiast
I'm wondering if there exists any app that will let me use my phone as a keyboard for a tablet (I haven't bought a tablet yet). I'm specifically going to use the tablet as a teleprompter for my video production business. There's at least one teleprompter app that has bluetooth keyboard functionality so you can use it to control speed and jump up/ down in the script. Not having to lug around a keyboard in addition to everything else required for the shoot would be nice if it could be accomplished through my GNex.

I happened across an app that Archos has to do this (and more) with their tablets. For what I can tell, it works in more than just the media player app. But their tablets seem a bit... eh, crappy.. so I doubt I'd buy one just for that feature.

Links about the Archos:

ARCHOS

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.archos.remote&hl=en

I'll add that with the Archos app, you have to have both devices on the same wifi network. Tethering the tablet to the phone does not work. This would be a problem because any given client may not have a wifi network, and even if they did, it would be unprofessional to ask for their password on the shoot or to depend on them having it. So it would either need to work via bluetooth, tethering to the phone, or through a web proxy.

It's hard to search specifically for this because everything is either to help connect a bluetooth keyboard to the device OR control a computer keyboard from the device. So I'll depend on the human search engine! Thanks!
 
For those interested, I got much better results by searching [ "android to android" keyboard ] in Google. I found two likely workable options.

An2An Keyboard
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.locnet.an2an

You install the same app on both devices. It goes through Bluetooth or wifi.

AND

DroidMote (it is separated by client and server apps)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Videomap

This one is wifi only. I'm not sure if tethering the tablet to the phone will allow it to work or not. This is the more used app between the two.
 
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