Among the many slew of bulletins at Google I/O, the tech large revealed that it has enabled app streaming through Phone Hub in ChromeOS Beta. The characteristic lets you use completely different apps out of your Android telephone proper in a devoted window in your Chromebook. As soon as Telephone Hub is enabled, you are able to do issues like verify your telephone notifications, discover open tabs, and stream apps out of your cell Chrome browser in your Chromebook.
In its support page for the characteristic, Google notes that app streaming is appropriate with the “Pixel 4A and better that runs Android model 13 or later.” As for non-Pixel telephones, app streaming is just appropriate the Xiaomi 12T, 12T Professional, 13, and 13 Professional additionally operating Android 13 or later.
You may stream apps by clicking a messaging app notification or looking the Hub’s “Current Apps” part after you’ve opened an app in your cell gadget. You can too launch an app stream by way of “All Apps,” which you’ll be able to entry by way of the Current Apps checklist in Telephone Hub.
“Now you can full fast duties like replying to a dialog, checking on the standing of a rideshare or supply, and modifying your procuring checklist by streaming your Android telephone’s apps in your Chromebook,” Google wrote in a blog post. “To make use of App Streaming, ensure that Telephone Hub is enabled in your Chromebook.”
You should use your Chromebook’s trackpad to zoom out and in on an app in the identical method you’ll on the telephone’s touchscreen. In case your Chromebook has contact help, you should utilize the contact display screen to work together with the streamed app.
Google additionally notes that each your telephone and Chromebook should share the identical Wi-Fi community and the 2 gadgets should be shut to one another. You can too “use Immediate Tethering to place each gadgets on the identical native space community in case your present community atmosphere doesn’t help app streaming.” App streaming is likely to be terminated should you grow to be inactive, your cell gadget is simply too far-off out of your Chromebook or if there are connection errors.
The performance is a welcome one, as it could allow you to keep away from having to modify between gadgets when finishing sure duties. Chromebook Android app streaming is out there on the ChromeOS beta channel.
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