For the beyond couple of years, Google has been chipping away at a “Superior Together” drive to make the experience of claiming an Android telephone and Chromebook more consistent. Combinations today incorporate a noticeable Phone Hub, Instant Tethering, and Smart (Un)Lock. As we detailed in February, the most recent component in this family is codenamed “Eche,” and we currently discover significantly more with regards to the Android side of things. Google Pixel telephones seem to be the principal gadgets that can “Push” and mirror applications to Chromebooks.
In this “APK Insight” post, we’ve decompiled the most recent rendition of an application that Google transferred to the Play Store. At the point when we decompile these documents (called APKs, on account of Android applications), we’re ready to see different lines of code inside that indicate conceivable future components. Remember that Google might possibly at any point transport these elements, and our understanding of what they are might be defective. We’ll attempt to empower those that are nearer to being done, nonetheless, to show you what they’ll look like on the off chance that that they do dispatch. In view of that, read on.
Since (at any rate) Android 12 Developer Preview 1 in February, Google has been chipping away at “Push.” That is a button that you will ultimately see (as we empowered today) in the Android 12 Recents screen, and is made conceivable by a new com.google.pixel.exo — which shows first-party selectiveness — application/foundation administration.
After tapping, you’ll be given a rundown of gadgets:
Choose device
No gadgets found to push content.
We accept that rundown will search out Chromebooks, with the previously mentioned Eche taking care of the Chromebook side. “Exo” turns out to be the Display worker utilized by Chrome OS for both ARC (Android applications) and Crostini (Linux).
From Google Play Services, where “exo” is expressly referred to, we discover that you will actually want to “Utilize your telephone’s applications straightforwardly on %1$s [named Chromebook] when no doubt about it.” This is the first occasion when we’re becoming aware of this neighborhood prerequisite that will apparently require the two gadgets to be on a similar organization for an immediate transfer association.
Link to %1$s
Use your telephone’s applications straightforwardly on %1$s when you’re at home
As an update, my partner Kyle Bradshaw sorted out in February that Eche — which signifies “throw” or “cast” in Spanish — will let you ” mirror your phone’s screen onto Chrome OS, allowing you to see and use your phone’s apps directly from your Chromebook.”
Viably, Eche is an application identified with a video feed being communicated over WebRTC — a similar tech utilized by various realtime video applications including Google Duo — alongside another “information” to be sent to and fro between two gadgets.
Taking this all together, Exo and Eche will allow you to utilize applications on your Pixel telephone—with many Better Together elements getting going as Made by Google special features — on a Chromebook. The work process appears to include opening the Recents performing various tasks menu on Android 12 and afterward tapping Push. You’ll then, at that point get a warning on your Chromebook to acknowledge and will see that application in another window.
Also, one more approach to trigger a stream will be from your Chromebook in a development of the current capacity to get telephone notices. Eche/Exo will permit you to tap the reflected notice and have that application open straightforwardly on a note pad. You’ll have the option to see, answer, and so on while never getting your Pixel out.
In the background, the Android application is being streamed so you’re basically managing an intuitive video feed on Chrome OS for a steam/remote order model that is ambiguously like Stadia.
That is the substance of this impending component, and it leaves many open inquiries. This is dubiously like Handoff in the Apple biological system where you can be working on a record on your iPhone and afterward be provoked to open it on an iMac. On iOS, iPad OS, and macOS, the local application must be introduced across taking an interest gadgets.
Google is by all accounts utilizing direct gadget to-gadget video real time as another option, however that is odd considering Android applications being accessible on most current Chrome OS gadgets. In principle, it would be substantially more productive for Google to simply have the Pixel telephone send over the present status of an application and have Chromebooks utilize that Push information to duplicate. It would bode well if a speculative Google Doc being worked on your Pixel gadget just opened up docs.google.com on the web.
All things considered, that would require a ton of designers to conceivably adjust their applications.To Exo/Eche’s credit, the stream over a neighborhood Wi-Fi organization could be quicker than having to initially introduce the comparing application on the Chrome OS Play Store and doesn’t need extra application improvement.
