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Android companion to driver station

Not sure if this is correctly filed, I am a labview guy and so don't frequent this part of the forum, please move if in the wrong place.

I am interested in writing a companion app for the driver station. Basically, from the programming perspective, I'd like to have all these extra buttons and read outs on the DS, but I don't really need them there all the time. I'd love it if there was a way to connect to android over USB, and run an app there to show the data.

My question is how should I go about connecting to the PC from the tablet using preferably only USB. I have seen examples of using ADB to port forward from the PC localhost and just talk TCP from the tablet to the PC, but I have to imagine that there is a more elegant solution. Any suggestions are appreciated.
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