A Selection of Best Android UPnP Client Apps

You undoubtedly must have thought about a way to use your Adroid phone as a remote control for your UPnP enabled media renderer or media server. If so you are sure to appreciate and choose an app most convenient to you among the three Android UPnP client applications presented here.

Here are some general features of what an Adroid UPnP Client app can do for you. This application gives you access to control from your Android phone over UpnP enabled medea as well as allows to render it and stream photos, videos or music from a UPnP enabled media server. All of these Clients connect to media renderers and/or to the most popular UPnP media servers as well as to some of less popular setups.

Plug Player ($4.99) app offers an enjoyably streamlined and quick interface to maintain access and control from your phone over your renderers and UPnP/DLNA servers. In general PlugPlayer covers all basic features offered by Android UPnP client also having the fastest file browsing feature than any other variety of Android UPnP client. PlugPlayerӳ another useful feature is that of control of an Android phone from another one provided both have PlugPlayer installed. For instance if you attach one Android phone to a set of external speakers and your UPnP media server you can regulate its volume through another Android phone carrying PlugPlayer app. This will save you the effort of doing such things as volume regulation manually by walking to the device and performing the desired changes there, even if your stereo system is already connected to another media renderer. All this requires installation of no other additional software but the media server one you have already installed.

AndroMote android application (available free) performs all the basic set of tasks regarding your UPnP enabled media server. In addition it allows connecting via a Wi-Fi network and scanning your Wi-Fi network as well.

UPnPlay app, another free version of Android UPnP client, will be of use only if you are going to stream music from your UPnP media server. For anything else it has very limited capabilities. But what basic functions Android UPnP client should allow, the UPnPlay performs reliably.

GUI feature is the leas developed with all the three varieties of the Android UPnP client app. But the market of this application is in the process of development, offerings new features and improvements of the existing ones every now and then.