The invention belongs to the technical field of network remote video monitoring, and relates to a method for remotely monitoring videos and controlling a cloud platform through an Android phone. The method solves the problems that in the prior art, the portability is poor, monitored images are not smooth, and the remote video monitoring cannot be widely applied. The method comprises the following steps that firstly, the Android phone is initialized, embedded software A is installed at the client side Android phone, and an access account number and a password of a corresponding monitoring terminal web camera are input into the a welcome page of the embedded software A; secondly, the embedded software A receives, analyzes and plays data of a video shot by the monitoring terminal web camera; thirdly, the web camera cloud platform is remotely controlled by touching a web camera cloud platform motion control button in a home page of the embedded software A to enable the web camera cloud platform to move; fourthly, the alarm function of the monitoring terminal web camera is set and started through the embedded software A, alarm information is monitored, and a mailbox is automatically logged into and the alarm information is displayed after the alarm information is received.