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As shown in the video above, clicking any of these opens cross-device streaming for the appropriate app to let you type out a full reply.Īfter a bit more digging, we believe that this web app is just how those on Windows, Mac, or Linux devices will experience Pixel’s cross-device streaming, while things will be a bit different on Chrome OS.įor now, Chrome OS’s version of the Pixel’s cross-device app streaming seems to be a bit less fully featured than the web-based version. Meanwhile, along the right side of the screen-mirroring app, you’re offered a feed of your phone’s current notifications. In effect, your entire phone is accessible through Pixel’s cross-device streaming. With this menu, you can launch any app on your phone, not just the messaging apps. To that end, Google has included an option to use a “tablet” screen instead of a phone-shaped one.Īt the bottom left, there’s a menu button that, when clicked, reveals the full list of apps installed on your phone. As this is a virtual display, it can theoretically be of any size. In the top-right corner, there are buttons to send feedback, stop the app/video feed, go back a page, and resize the display. Surrounding the app’s stream, there are a handful of controls for the cross-device streaming experience. This means you can have an app open on your laptop/desktop without disrupting any apps running on your phone’s main screen. This second display is where your messaging apps will appear. Your Pixel generates an entirely separate virtual display, which is streamed to your laptop or desktop, rather than simply mirroring your phone’s portrait screen. Here, check out Android’s phone app mirroring in action:Īnother thing we didn’t expect is exactly how this feature works. Once opened, you can then interact with the app just as if it were natively open on your laptop/desktop, including clicking, tapping, and typing - perfect for using your favorite messaging apps. The experience - which features a gorgeous multicolor background - is able to open an app on your phone and livestream it through your browser. Despite our initial suspicion (and Google’s own announcement) that this would be a Chrome OS exclusive feature, we were also able to get this web app up and running on a Windows 11 device.
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With these apps, our Dylan Roussel was able to enable cross-device streaming between a Pixel phone on Android 13 and a special web app.
Each one appears to be dedicated to connecting your Pixel to other devices.
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This, we speculated, would match the functionality of Microsoft’s Your Phone app for select Samsung and Surface phones.Īt CES 2022, Google announced that later this year you will be able to access any chat app on your phone directly from your Chromebook “without needing to install them again.” Last week, Google publicly released the first Android 13 Developer Preview build for Pixel phones, and in it there are two “Cross Device” service apps. Just over a year ago, we offered an in-depth analysis of “Eche,” an expansion of Phone Hub that we suspected would allow you to click an incoming notification from your phone and see a live feed of that app running on your phone. On Chrome OS, this is a bit more deeply integrated with the system, appearing in the Settings app, and allowing notifications while the app is closed.
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Over the years, Google has created quite a few ways for Android phones (especially Pixel phones) and desktops/laptops (especially Chromebooks) to be “Better Together.” The most recent example is Phone Hub, which offers easy access to your phone’s notifications, quick settings, and more from the bottom corner of a Chromebook’s screen.Īnother example is Messages for Web, which allows you to connect your Windows/Mac/Chrome OS device to your phone to get notifications for your incoming messages and reply to them in the web app. Google has been preparing a way to stream apps and notifications from your Pixel phone to your Chromebook or PC, and 9to5Google has enabled this feature to provide an exclusive first look at it.
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