Google introduced at CES 2022 that it’s engaged on a characteristic, allegedly referred to as “Eche”, that may enable Android telephone customers stream/ mirror apps and notifications immediately on Chromebooks. Whereas Google didn’t reveal any particulars in regards to the characteristic, its working has been demonstrated in a brand new report. A video clip shared within the report explains the working by taking an instance of the Twitter app. The characteristic has reportedly been examined on a Google Pixel smartphone working Android 13 Developer Preview construct, and it was discovered that this “Chrome OS unique characteristic” works on Home windows 11 as properly.
As per the small print shared within the report by 9to5Google, the characteristic appears much like Microsoft’s Your Telephone app that enables Android customers to entry their messages and notifications immediately on Home windows PC fashions. In reality, Google already has “Phone Hub” that enables customers to entry an Android telephone’s options on a Chromebook display. The distinction, nevertheless, is presumed to be the deeper integration of this characteristic with Chrome OS.
People at 9to5Google declare that they had been capable of take a look at a Google Telephone Hub-like characteristic, reportedly referred to as Eche, on a Google Pixel smartphone. That is stated to be a “System Internet App,” which implies it’s a built-in Chrome OS app created utilizing Internet applied sciences, and customers might not should obtain or set up every other app individually to make this work.
At CES 2022, Google announced that Chromebook customers will get the power within the devoted Telephone Hub part to view and reply to messages they get on their Android telephones immediately from the bigger display of their computing machine. Nonetheless, Eche reportedly permits customers to answer to messages, examine incoming notifications, and see a dwell feed of apps put in on a Pixel telephone.
9to5Google experiences that they had been capable of finding two “Cross Gadget” service apps in Android 13 Developer Preview build for Pixel telephones. These service apps allowed for cross-device streaming between a Pixel telephone on Android 13 and a particular Internet app, in response to the report, including that this “Chrome OS unique characteristic” additionally ran on a Home windows 11 machine.
The characteristic features a multicolour background and customers can work together with the app “as if it had been natively open in your laptop computer/desktop”. Moreover, it doesn’t merely mirror a display however generates a completely separate digital show, the report says. Moreover, the characteristic doesn’t disrupt the functioning when an app was opened both on the laptop computer or on the telephone’s essential display, 9to5Google experiences.
As per a brief clip shared by the publication, the display of the characteristic has buttons to ship suggestions, cease the app/ video feed, return a web page, and resize the show within the top-right nook. Together with these buttons, there are alternatives to make use of pill display mode and telephone mode. The underside left has a menu button that exhibits the total listing of apps put in on the linked telephone. There’s a rectangular field on the proper facet that exhibits a feed of the linked telephone’s present notifications, as per the report.